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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB discussing plan to start season in late June, playing in home stadiums with realigned league — Maybe it's a dream scenario. — Maybe it's premature to get excited. — Then again, maybe it just might work. — Major League Baseball officials have become cautiously optimistic …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Passan's 20 questions: There will be MLB in 2020. It's just a matter of when, where and how — The MLB season should have turned one month old Sunday. Rather than lament that, let's instead fill the emptiness with a discussion about when the season will start. — Yes, will.
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Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
An inside look at the possibilities, and risks, of an MLB restart — Pick an idea for the 2020 season, virtually any idea, and baseball is considering it, modeling it, trying to figure out exactly how it will work if tests for COVID-19 are sufficiently available and government and medical officials offer the requisite approval.
Trey Mancini / The Players' Tribune:
I Am So Lucky — I've always loved spring training. — It's one of my favorite times of year. It just has a slower pace, a softer edge. It's friendly. And it's all about baseball — and I love baseball. — But this year it was a little bit tougher, more of a grind to get through every day.
Jared Diamond / Wall Street Journal:
MLB Teams to Announce Updated Ticket Policies, Paving Way For Refunds — Games had been officially listed as postponed rather canceled, but the league office is now providing clubs with new guidance — In a normal world, Major League Baseball would be about a month into the season …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
MLB allowing teams to offer refunds for games lost to coronavirus — Major League Baseball is allowing teams to offer refunds to fans for games currently not being played because of the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, games were considered postponed, instead of canceled …
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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
MLB reverses ticket policy, clearing way for teams to offer refunds to fans — With more than 400 major league games already called off because of the coronavirus outbreak, the league Tuesday reversed a policy that had restricted fans from widespread refunds on tickets to those games.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony expected to be postponed, as Cooperstown weeps — The streets in the quaint village are empty, the charming stores and restaurants are shuttered, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum remains closed. — This was supposed to be the most glorious …
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David Schoenfield / ESPN:
One wild record you probably didn't know for all 30 MLB teams — So here's the way this started. I absolutely was not spending even more uncounted hours tooling around Baseball-Reference.com for random nuggets of baseball information, and I absolutely did not totally geek out when I discovered …
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Jim Salisbury / NBCSports.com:
Source: Super-agent Scott Boras snags top Phillies prospect Alec Bohm — High-powered baseball agent Scott Boras has added another high-profile Phillie to his stable of clients. — Third baseman Alec Bohm has signed on with Boras, according to a source. Bohm, the Phillies' top position …
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Yonhap News Agency:
ESPN nearing deal to broadcast S. Korean baseball games: source — The U.S. sports media giant ESPN is nearing a deal to broadcast South Korean baseball games to its American audience this season, an industry source told Yonhap News Agency on Monday. — The source, who requested anonymity …
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Jeff Wilson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
What is the Texas Rangers' response to uncertainty of 2020 MLB season? Staying ready — All signs are starting to point to some version of the 2020 MLB season being conducted. — Signs are also pointing to who (30 teams) and why (money). The where, when and how, though, remain unknown.
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