Introducing three new Athletics Nation writers!

We’re nearly 11 weeks into the MLB lockout, and in the meantime there is virtually no baseball news. Teams can’t make trades right now, nor do any transactions involving major leaguers.

Fortunately, Athletics Nation is not under the same restrictions, so we’ve signed three free agents to join our roster. Hopefully the league will follow suit soon!

Also, this is technically news. Let’s cover it!

We got lots of wonderful responses to the last couple calls for contractor applications, and I regret that I wasn’t able to personally respond to everybody who took the time to submit something. I will try to double back and do so, but if I don’t, then thank you for your interest and effort. This also…