September Roster Limits Should Be The Same As August

Baseball has this arcane rule where rosters can be expanded to as many as 40 players after Sept. 1. The purpose, many years ago, was to reward an organization’s top minor-league players with a September promotion so that said players could have an idea what to expect as they tried to make their major-league clubs next year.

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Mike Matheny & Managing In The Social Media Age

Mike Matheny is the first manager in Cardinals history to lead a team during the fully evolved era of social media. Every move, every decision, is scrutinized — and in real time. And should any baseball manager in 2015 have a strategy move blow up on his team the overreaction is instantaneous and emotional. It is frequently hostile and excessive.

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