Since the offseason started, I’ve been using this weekly space to jump from one demarcation point to the next — as that’s what the first few months of the baseball offseason consist of before proceedings slow down into the new year.
Next up is the Winter Meetings, and while a big focus around here has been the Rule 5 Draft — which closes out that event every year — I wanted to focus today on a brand-new part of the proceedings this year, the draft lottery.
For those of you who didn’t follow along during the lockout, a draft lottery was implemented in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement at the behest of the players to try and reduce tanking.