Cup of Coffee: November 30, 2022

Mattingly, Tony Clark, a good Nats signing, a weird Dodgers signing, sports economists, $30 million owner windfalls, Bagwell being silly, the World Cup, Biden and the rail workers, NBC and Dylan

Good morning! In today’s newsletter:

• The Blue Jays (almost) have a new bench coach;

• The MLBPA will have the same executive director for some time;

• The Nationals made a signing that, while not earth-shattering, shows that they’re trying to go from being crap to being halfway decent and that’s admirable;

• The Dodgers signed a guy who I hadn’t thought about in years;

• We learn what it means to be a respected sports economist;

• Each baseball owner just got a $30 million gift from Disney;

• Jeff Bagwell says something puzzling; and

• A former blogger is living the dream. No, not me.

In Other Stuff I talk about yesterday’s World Cup action, rail against Biden’s handling of, um, the rails, wonder what in the actual hell NBC is doing, and share four unrelated Bob Dylan items that have been knock, knock, knocking around my head this week.

Let’s get at ‘er, shall we?