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Baseball Brunch: Time for Draft Reform?

Every Sunday, MLB FanHouse empties out its notebook in Baseball Brunch.As the No. 1 overall pick in 1990, Chipper Jones signed with the Braves for $275,000.Even in today's dollars, that's about $450,000 -- or about 3 percent of Stephen Strasburg was guaranteed as this year's No. 1 pick.And Jones agreed to his deal the...

The Dugout: Jay Gibbons Speaks

The Dugout is a feature at FanHouse that brings the lives of Major League Baseball players directly to you...sort of. The official chatroom of the MLB keeps you up to date with all the recent happenings of your favorite players both on the field and off.Late night Dugout today. Things have been pretty crazy on my end...

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05/17/12 Selig: Oakland move might be considered Source: The Californian - Salinas CA Owners also approved having a 2-3 playoff format in this year's division series, deviating from the 2-2-1 that had been used since 1998.
05/14/12 Baseball Fires Arbitrator Who Overturned Braun Ban Source: The New York Times - New York NY Braun became the first major league baseball player known to have won an appeal of a drug suspension when he convinced Das that his urine samples taken in early October were mishandled by a drug collector.