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Baseball has managed to make us feel worse

It’s not a rosy spot for a sport to occupy: In the midst of a global pandemic and a tumultuous national conversation about race, baseball - with the green grass, the crack of the bat, the pe...

Union leaders’ vote and coronavirus threat loom over MLB’s pitch for a 60-game season

The Major League Baseball Players Association’s executive board could vote as early as Sunday on whether to accept the owners’ proposal for a 60-game schedule as the sport continues to navig...

Japan opens baseball season after 3-month pandemic delay

TOKYO – Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not — play ball. After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s second-most famous ba...

MLB owners and players are so busy yelling, they can’t hear their fans’ frustration

Fair warning: If you have no desire to read even more about the fractious relationship between Major League Baseball and the union that represents its players, stop immediately, right here. ...

Players counter with 70-game season, 10 more than MLB

2020 season remains uncertain despite recent progress

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

Manfred, Clark met Wednesday morning

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...

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...

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...

Baseball players tell MLB to order return

Futile talks bring end to negotiation

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...

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...