These teams’ offseasons will make them MLB lightning rods
(New York Post Mets)

Labor tension, particularly in professional sports, can create strange bedfellows. Back in 2002, when Bud Selig pushed hard for (and eventually gained) revenue-sharing and luxury-tax concessions from the large-market clubs to aid the small-market clubs - concessions the Players Association had to approve via collective bargaining - the union found itself in the odd position...