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MLB News & Notes: 2021 Rules, Aaron Boone and Jon Lester Have Surgery

No Expanded Postseason, DH For 2021

According to recent reports, MLB and the Player’s Association cannot come to an agreement on expanding the postseason or having a universal designated hitter in 2021.

The sides have considered talks “dead” now and will move forward with National League pitchers hitting and the typical ten-team playoff format we have all been familiar with since 2012.

The league offered the Player’s Association a trade of the universal DH for an expanded postseason in January, but the MLBPA turned down the offer. The current collective bargaining agreement comes to an end on Dec. 1.

Most believe the MLBPA is standing pat on the current contract in order to use the offers by the owners as leverage in next winter’s CBA negotiations.

The MLBPA wants the universal DH to keep pitchers from getting hurt while hitting and also creating new jobs for designated hitters in the National League. The owners want expanded postseason for the financial gain they would get with ticket sales and tv deals if their teams made the postseason field.

We will have to wait until at least December 1 to see if any of these talks come to fruition in the new CBA. It will be an exciting but anxious negotiation as some believe the players are headed to a strike.

Yankees Manager Taking Medical Leave

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone is taking a medical leave of absence from the team after having heart surgery today to install a pacemaker.

The 47-year-old manager had open-heart surgery in 2009 to correct a defect that was discovered while he was playing in college.

He had not been feeling well and had some headaches and shortness of breath lately and went in for a check-up. The results came back rather normal, with the exception of a low heart rate which requires the installation of a pacemaker to correct.

The Yankees have had tremendous success under Boone since he took the team over as manager in 2018. They have won a whopping 236 games, a division title, and appeared in the playoffs each season with him at the helm.

Carlos Mendoza, the Yankees’ current bench coach, will serve as acting manager during Boone’s absence. There is currently no timetable for when Boone may return to his role as manager this season.

Nationals’ Lester To Have Thyroid Removed

The Washington Nationals‘ newest member of their rotation, Jon Lester, is having surgery to remove his thyroid gland in the coming days.

He was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2006 and beat that with radiation, and was able to return the following season. He had been feeling fatigued and just not well in the past few weeks, and the doctors have deemed his thyroid to be the root of the problem.

Surprisingly his recovery timetable isn’t that long. The Nationals expect him to return to camp in five to seven days. That seems rather remarkable for someone having their thyroid removed.

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