Eric Hosmer, the Royals' No. 1 pick, has been taken off the field, as Major League Baseball and the union prepped for their arbitration hearing about Pedro Alvarez's signing dispute. Some more thoughts on this matter: Major League Baseball has been extending deadlines and bending rules for years, presumably with the complicit knowledge of the union and the players' representatives and presumably without some round of collective bargaining. Heck, it was just a few years ago when the commissio ...

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