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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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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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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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Marly Rivera / ESPN:
MLB managers on how they're helping team, family deal with pandemic — Dealing with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is not only changing the fabric of Major League Baseball, but it's also redefining the role of major league managers. This global public health crisis has led to a shift …
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Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
Transaction Retrospection: Jose Quintana/Eloy Jimenez Trade — Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Eloy Jiménez's MLB debut. With that in mind, it's an interesting time to look back at the blockbuster crosstown deal that brought the 23-year-old slugger to the South Side.
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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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Jason Mastrodonato / Boston Herald:
A final interview with Rafael Devers before MLB shut down — Devers revealed his biggest obstacle — It's the sunshine and hint of warmth that remind us what we're missing. — In the early spring, we expect baseball. We expect hot dogs on the grill and peanut shells beneath our feet.
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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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