Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal $: The Athletic: MLB and MLBPA will continue CBA negotiations on Tuesday. It is unlikely that an agreement will be reached, and spring training, which is supposed to start in a few weeks, is likely to be delayed. Here is an overview of the state of negotiations and why the two parties are still so far apart. (Hint: This is because the owners are negotiating for bad faith.)
Jay Jaffe | FanGraphs: Hall of Fame season will never end (mercifully or otherwise), so Jay Jaffe looked to the next five years of voting to get a preview of who could earn induction in the near future.
Manny Randhawa | MLB.com: For the first time since the exclusion began, an active player’s name appeared on MLB’s official website. That’s because Shohei Ohtani was announced as the cover athlete for MLB The Show 22. Really, who else could it have been? Trevor May?