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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
What the MLB deal with players means for 2020 season and beyond — Following round-the-clock negotiations since the coronavirus outbreak postponed the beginning of the season, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association struck a deal Friday that outlined how the sport would proceed in the coming months.
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Jeff Wilson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
MLB cuts costs by shrinking draft, but prospects, college baseball facing uncertainty — Major League Baseball is now playing a waiting game. — The owners and the MLB Players Association have mapped a plan for the 2020 MLB season, and, most importantly to them, how everyone in their circle is going to make the most money possible.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB, MLBPA agree to deal on stoppage — Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association struck a deal on critical salary and service-time issues Thursday night, allowing the sides to prepare together for a season delayed indefinitely by the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.
The Athletic:
Priorities, not perfection: Baseball's deal addresses service time, cash flow — Economic disputes in a $10.7 billion industry seem rather inconsequential in this time of pain and suffering, but MLB players and owners still had to figure out how they would proceed with the disrupted 2020 season.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Agent Scott Boras believes MLB's new agreement will greatly damage future draft classes — Major League Baseball and its players agreed to make the best out of the COVID-19 pandemic, compromising to play the most games possible — even playing into November — providing the deadly virus subsides to enable a baseball season.
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ESPN:
MLB, MLBPA agree on stipulations for return of 2020 season — Major League Baseball owners have approved a plan to address salary and service-time issues amid the indefinite delay to the start of the regular season, according to ESPN and multiple reports. — The owners completed …
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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Sources: MLB draft likely to be in July, may be shortened
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Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
MLB, MLBPA Reach Agreement On Service Time, Salaries, Draft
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
MLB, MLBPA Agree On Framework Of 2020 Draft
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David Waldstein / New York Times:
Coronavirus Protective Masks to Be Made From M.L.B. Uniform Material — The deal will send masks to health professionals in the Northeast with the distinctive pinstripes of the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. — Had the baseball season not been postponed because of the coronavirus …
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Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Mets pitcher Michael Wacha learns to embrace technology with help from his dad … For Michael Wacha and his offseason transformation, it all started with videos, mechanics and his dad. — Wacha, 28, signed as a free agent with the Mets in December on a one-year, $3 million deal.
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Jordan Moreau / Variety:
John Callahan, ‘All My Children’ Soap Opera Star, Dies at 66 — John Callahan, a soap opera star on “All My Children,” died on Saturday morning after suffering a stroke at his Palm Springs, Calif., home on Friday. He was 66. — “Your bigger than life, gregarious personality will leave a hole in our hearts forever.
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Daniel Kaplan / The Athletic:
New York Mets sale efforts still ongoing despite the pandemic — Major League Baseball's season is suspended, but one pre-pandemic baseball event is still at least formally ongoing: the sale of the New York Mets. — On Feb. 10, the Mets announced Steve Cohen's $2.6 billion agreement to buy …
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Associated Press:
Ex-Astros slugger Jimmy Wynn, nicknamed ‘Toy Cannon,’ dies at 78 — Jimmy Wynn, the diminutive Houston Astros slugger whose monster shots in the 1960s and '70s earned him the popular nickname “The Toy Cannon,” has died. He was 78. — The Astros said Wynn, a three-time All-Star outfielder …
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John Hutchinson / The Sun:
NO BALL GAMES MLB London Series latest sporting event axed due to coronavirus after London Stadium talks with organisers — The decision was taken this morning by organisers of the London Stadium event as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. — UK baseball fans were looking forward …
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Strat-O-Matic:
2020 Season Simulation — Welcome to the Strat-O-Matic 2020 Season Simulation. — Come back every day at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT to see updated results from our simulation. — Defending Champion Nationals Among Opening Day Winners In Strat-O-Matic 2020 Season Simulation
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