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NEW YORK | Baseball’s new labor contract consists of a lot more video replay, the likelihood for a longer All-Star break and a modest, but probably welcome perk for players: the chance to get a private room rather of a roommate during spring training.

The Linked Press obtained the document that contains many alterations, numerous beginning subsequent year. Amongst them:

•Allowing teams from the very same division to meet in the playoffs prior to the league championship series.

•A ban on players getting tattoos with corporate logos.

•The possibility of players wearing microphones for the duration of games.

Players have already ratified the hundreds of pages contained in Key League Baseball’s Memorandum of Understanding. Owners are scheduled to vote Thursday.

Significant League Baseball wants to expand replay to contain fair-or-foul calls, regardless of whether a fly ball or line drive was trapped and fan interference all around the ballpark. Umpires nonetheless need to give their approval, and it is uncertain whether the additional replay will be in location by opening day.

Video evaluation began in August 2008 but only to look at prospective property runs.

The All-Star break will be expanded to 4 days, rather than the conventional three-day gap. The five-year deal says beginning in 2013 that Main League Baseball “shall have the correct to elect to switch the All-Star game from Tuesday to Wednesday and the Property Run Derby from Monday to Tuesday.” Sixty-nine of 82 All-Star games have been played on Tuesday, according to STATS LLC.

Gone, too, are the days of roommates, one thing that dates back decades, to the days players rode the rails to Florida. Now, all players on 40-man rosters are assured of single rooms for the duration of spring training. They’ve had that perk during the standard season considering that 1997.

And for players thinking about selling advertisements on their bodies, Main League Baseball has thought ahead. The agreement says “no player may possibly have any visible markings or logos tattooed on his body” as component of the uniform regulations.

“Just trying to head some thing off at the pass,” said Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president for labor relations.

Also part of the deal: Any large-leaguer who desires to adjust uniform numbers without switching teams much better give eight months’ notice — by July 31 of the preceding year — unless he’s willing to acquire warehouses full of every replica jersey, jacket, T-shirt, mug and something else with a number that is anyplace in stock.

The deal also bans players and team officials from asking official scorers to reconsider decisions — clubs ought to instead send video to Main League Baseball to appeal calls — and increases punishments for slow-moving hitters and pitchers, raising pace-of-game fines up to $ ten,000 every single for the sixth violation and beyond.

CLARKSVILLE, Md. – Pointers Run Elementary School teacher Matt Noon contacted Jeremy Guthrie after Jeremy posted a statement on Twitter saying, “All I want for Christmas is….”  

Noon asked Guthrie to meet his 3rd grade class. So who shows up on Trotter Road in Clarksville Tuesday to go to the students and sign autographs? Guthrie of course, bringing holiday cheer and happiness to a classroom full of kids.

He will sign a two-year, $ 8.15 million deal with a 2014 solution worth $ 5 million, the source said.

It is the Orioles’ very first foray into the Japanese marketplace because signing Koji Uehara ahead of the 2009 season.

Wada might not finish up as the only pitcher from Japan’s Nippon Baseball League on the roster. The club is also seriously interested in Taiwanese lefty Chen Wei-Yin, who pitched for the Chunichi Dragons.

It would be unprecedented if the Orioles could land each ��� and possibly a bit of a longshot considering multiple Main League teams have inquired about every single pitcher.

The push into the Asian market place comes on the heels of news out of Korea that South Korean submariner Chong Tae-Hyon will not be joining the Orioles and rather has signed a 4-year, $ three.1 million deal to remain in the Korean Baseball Organization. The Orioles had supplied a two-year, $ 3.1 million deal and had Chong in for a physical.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette by no means confirmed that Chong passed his physical, saying only that the veteran correct-hander was weighing yet another choice in Korea. 

The club’s attention, however, has turned to Japan and specifically Wada, who according to a number of web sites will turn 31 in February.

A soft-tossing strike thrower typically compared to former Oriole Jamie Moyer, Wada pitched for Japan in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and the country’s World Baseball Classic team in 2዆ that won the inaugural title.

Listed at 5 feet 10, 170 pounds, Wada consistently throws his fastball in the mid-to-high 80s but he survives on a deceptive,Ń-quarters delivery and the capacity to throw many pitches for strikes. He also misses bats, earning him the nickname “Dr. K of Tokyo” even though in college. Throughout his career he has maintained a three-to-1 strikeout rate or better.

Last year he was 16-five with a 1.53 ERA in 184 2/three innings with the Hawks. He struck out 168 batters and walked 40. He became a totally free agent in November and did not require to be posted.

Chen, 26, also did not need to have to be posted because, as a Taiwan native, his length of contract in the NPB was negotiated when he signed. His fastball reaches in the low-to-mid 90s. He was 8-ten with a 2.68 ERA in 24 begins with the Chunichi Dragons whilst battling injuries.

The Baltimore Orioles have acquired 28-year old lefty starter/reliever Dana Eveland from the Dodgers for 24-year old righty swinging IF/OF Tyler Henson and 22-year old lefty starter/reliever Jarret Martin. Eveland pitched in 5 games (all begins) for the Dodgers last year and he was 3-two with a 3.03 ERA and a 1.15 WHIP. He has now pitched in 1Ǡ games (59 begins) in his first 7 years in the majors and he is 19-24 with 1 save, a 5.52 ERA and a 1.69 WHIP. The Orioles will give Eveland a chance to win a job in the starting rotation next spring. Tyler Henson came into last season as the Orioles’ #22 prospect. Henson played in 123 games in AAA-ball last year and he was 111 of 449 (.247 avg, .634 OPS) with 55 runs scored, 3 homers, 36 RBIs and 9 stolen bases. Jarret Martin pitched in 31 games (18 begins) in A-ball last year for the Orioles last year and he was five-12 with 1 save, a 4.96 ERA and a 1.55 WHIP.