Giants mailbag: How will lockout impact top prospects? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
If you woke up early on Thursday morning and watched Rob Manfred’s press conference, you heard the preposterous claim that owning an MLB team is riskier and less lucrative than playing the stock market. You also heard that MLB will make a “good” offer to the Players Association on Saturday. We’ll soon know if that claim was preposterous, too.
There is hope that the sides get closer to a deal on Saturday, but not that much hope. The lockout has gone on more than 70 days at this point with very little progress, so you can be forgiven if you pushed baseball to the back corners of your mind.
At some point it’ll return, though, and there will be plenty of questions for the Giants to answer. Let’s get to a few of them now, with a mailbag of questions from my Instagram followers (some of which were edited for clarity):
How much has this Covid + lockout period affected Ramos, Bart and others’ MLB…