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10:10 PM ET, April 29, 2020

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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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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.
Discussion: Sportsnet.ca, Fox News and NESN.com
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Passan's 20 questions: There will be MLB in 2020. It's just a matter of when, where and how
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
Discussion: Mercury News and NESN.com
MLB Baseball News, Scores, Standings …:
MLB teams offer ticket refunds, credit for games not played
Paul Hoynes / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland Indians will roll out ticket refund plan for 2020 season this week
Baseball Hall of Fame:
2020 National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend Canceled  —  (COOPERSTOWN, NY) - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced today that its Board of Directors has voted unanimously to cancel 2020 Hall of Fame Induction Weekend events as a result of health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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 …
Associated Press:   Baseball Hall of Fame postpones July induction ceremony until 2021
Mark Buckton / The Taiwan Times:
TTT Interview: Manny Ramirez “baseball royalty”  —  Manny Ramirez is a baseball superstar.  —  In an MLB career that lasted from 1993 when he made his debut for the Cleveland Indians, to 2011, when he was plying his trade at the Tampa Bay Rays, Manny Ramirez was known around the world for his hard-hitting performances at the plate.
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.
Marly Rivera / ESPN:
Yadier Molina now open to new team if Cardinals not option  —  In January, Yadier Molina was resolute.  —  With his three-year, $60 million contract set to expire after the 2020 season, Molina, who turns 38 in July, had decided he wanted to play several more years — but only in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform.
New York Times:
Some Sports May Have to Skip This Year, Fauci Says  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the leading U.S. infectious disease expert, said widespread testing with speedy results would be needed if sports leagues are to safely restart their seasons.  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the leading public health expert …
The Athletic:
A's still undecided on paying employees, discussing extensive layoffs, sources say  —  Maybe it means nothing that the Oakland Athletics are the only major-league club yet to determine whether they will pay employees through May 31.  Or maybe it means the A's are preparing to make deeper cuts than other teams.
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 …
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Andre Dawson's post-Hall of Fame career as a funeral director presents challenges amid coronavirus  —  Baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson has spent 12 years in the funeral business, dealing with death and heartbreak, but nothing prepared him for the pandemic that would sweep the world and alter everyone's way of life.
 
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Marc Topkin / Tampa Bay Times:
Rays to furlough some staff, cut pay of others
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