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2016 – MLB announced today that the baseball owners ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union, although there was a lone dissenter. According to sources, Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg cast the dissenting vote. The two sides reached a tentative agreement late Nov. 30, just three hours before the old labor agreement was set to expire. The new CBA extends through the 2021 season.
1998 – The Twins and Brewers swap outfielders, the Brewers receive Alex Ochoa and the Twins get Darrell Nicholas.
1960 – The 1960 MLB Expansion Draft was held to fill the rosters of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators. The Angels and the Senators (who later became the Texas Rangers) were the new franchises which would enter the league in the 1961 season. Each existing American League club had to make available for the draft seven players on their active roster on August 31, 1960, and eight others from their forty-man roster. The expansion clubs paid $75,000 for each of 28 players they drafted with a maximum of seven players drafted from each existing club, not including minor league selections. The clubs also had the option of drafting one non-roster player for $25,000 from each established franchise. The Twins lost 7 players in the draft. The new Washington Senators took pitchers Rudy Hernandez, Hector Maestri, Hal Woodeshick, and second baseman Johnny Schaive. The Senators also took minor league pitcher Joe McClain, The Los Angeles Angels selected pitcher Tex Clevenger, first baseman Julio Becquer and outfielder Faye Throneberry.