Mariners Moose Tracks, 2/2/22: CBA Updates, Tom Brady, and Brian Flores

It was a major day for NFL news, but there was some baseball news too.

By Anders Jorstad@AndersJorstad Feb 2, 2022, 7:00am PST

Good morning everybody! Here’s what’s happening (or not happening) around baseball.

In Mariners news...

The Arkansas Travelers announced their coaching staff for the 2022 season. The staff features some former Mariners.

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association met yesterday but — surprise, surprise — the two sides did not make a whole lot of progress. The players made very minimal changes to their latest proposal and are now seemingly waiting on the league to make concessions. A delay to spring training seems like a certainty at this point.
In other news, go vote for Michael Ajeto for the 2022 SABR Analytics Conference Award for Contemporary Baseball Commentary! You can vote twice if you vote separately at Fangraphs. And a third time if you vote at IBWAA.
Alex Chamberlain at Fangraphs broke down vertical approach angle for dummies.
On the first day of Black History Month, Minor League Baseball announced an initiative targeting Black communities in minor league cities.

After a weird back-and-forth with the media over the last few days, Tom Brady officially announced his retirement from football. Brady, 44, was coming off perhaps the greatest offensive season in his career.
In other football news, former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing the Denver Broncos and New York Giants over racist hiring practices. The allegations include text message receipts and a whole host of people involved.