<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Latest buzz is that they’ll ratify today, move Opening Day to April 5, and play all 162 games by scheduling 9-inning doubleheaders.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That means free agency and trades could kick off tonight and players start reporting as early as tomorrow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So no worries!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2022, at 1:33 PM, Doug Shabelman <<a href="mailto:doug.shabelman@burnsent.com" class="">doug.shabelman@burnsent.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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of those players have values vastly in excess of their salary in a rotation draft. This has happened in the past, but never in the sort of numbers that exist now. As a result, the current thinking is that we will exclude those players from the auction and
the rotation draft. A sample: Freddie Freeman, Trevor Story, Kris Bryant, Nick Castellanos, Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Seager, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler, Jonathan Villar, Tommy Pham, Eddie Rosario, Josh Harrison, Nelson Cruz, Carlos Correa, Clayton Kershaw, Carlos
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contours are not yet determined; we are assembling a list to determine the best path. If we have an auction for those players, they will be tradeable. If we have a draft for those players, then they will not be tradeable. Whether auction or draft, the thinking
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