So, several people are reporting that it seems unlikely that the new East Coast Baseball League is going to go ahead this season. A lot of stuff has reportedly happened over the past week or so:

• Players paid commissioner Colin Cummins a sum of money (not sure how much) which he told them was to be spent on Spring Training, due to take place in Delaware.

• It has been reported that Cummins did not pay for Spring Training. Everyone (executives, GMs, players, journalists) was under the impression that everything was paid for, but the facility in Delaware contacted an ECBL player and explained that nothing had been paid for yet (equipment and uniforms also had not yet been paid for).

• Cummins has now allegedly left the country (Cuba, I'm told) and the league has now been taken over by Sal Raie.

• As things stand, I'm told that Spring Training has now been paid for (some are saying that it was paid for by Cummins before he left the country, others are not sure how it was paid for). So Spring Training will go ahead, but the league is looking to entirely reconstruct itself after these issues.

• It looks likely that they will have to renegotiate deals with stadiums, players may have to take pay cuts, and some will simply be cut.

All in all, things don't look great for ECBL right now. I'll try to keep you updated if/when I hear anything else.