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MLB leaders offer 60-game schedule, full prorated player pay

Manfred, Clark met Wednesday morning

DATE: Jun 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Don’t let MLB owners cry poor. They can afford to do what’s right for baseball.

It’s time for a basic lesson in baseball arithmetic and the incredible, shameless greed of major league owners. The bosses are - again - on the verge of bashing their sport to maximize their...

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Commissioner Rob Manfred says baseball season in jeopardy

NEW YORK – Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players’ union on how to split up money in a...

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Playing for free, salary drop, 2022 lockout possible for MLB

NEW YORK – Jeremy Jeffress, Jordan Montgomery, Kevin Plawecki could be playing for free this season, earning salaries lower than what they already received as advances. Mookie Bet...

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Baseball players tell MLB to order return

Futile talks bring end to negotiation

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

MLB offers players 80% of prorated salaries, 72-game season

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball and its players are moving closer – to a deal or to Commissioner Rob Manfred ordering a shortened season without an agreement. MLB offered players...

DATE: Jun 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Baseball plans game at Field of Dreams, but will they come?

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Spurred by a voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come,” the Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner dutifully carved a baseball field out of his cornfield and th...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Baseball owners, given a chance to get out of a jam, keep balking

Welcome back, golf! Hoorah! I see Justin Rose and Bryson DeChambeau on a leader board! But where the hell is baseball, devil take ‘em? Good ol’ golf - say hello to stellar ratings...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tigers draft Arizona State slugger Torkelson with No. 1 pick

Rockies go with Veen with first pick

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Manfred says ‘100%’ chance of MLB season

New proposal from league expected soon

DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

MLB players cut to 89 games, want prorated money

NEW YORK – Baseball players moved toward what teams want in a deal to restart the pandemic-delayed season but remained far apart economically in their latest proposal, adamant they receive f...

DATE: Jun 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports