“Financial success has come uncoupled from baseball success. Five franchises have payrolls that are not even halfway to the $206 million luxury tax limit—minor-league teams charging major-league prices, and collecting major-league revenues.” Go and read Tommy Craggs on baseball’s busted economics, you.

Super agent Scott Boras has some ideas about how to get baseball teams spending money again, and one of them is the “October World (Wild) Card Eight,” which honestly sounds kind of fun. He explains it all to the Daily News.

Former MLB pitcher John Wetteland has been charged with “sex abuse of child continuous victim under 14” in Texas, according to Denton County court records. He was booked into jail and released on bond yesterday. No other information about the case was immediately available.