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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Amid coronavirus pandemic, MLB owners will vote on historic revenue-sharing plan — Major League Baseball owners, with an abundance of optimism that baseball will be played this year, are scheduled to vote on a plan Monday that will require teams to share at least 48% of their revenue …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Few positive COVID-19 antibodies tests among MLB employees — Sixty of the 5,754 people in a study of the Major League Baseball employee population tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, a rate lower than what similar studies run in California found, the studies' authors said Sunday.
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Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Latest details on baseball's plan to return — Nothing is official. Major League Baseball will discuss its plans for the 2020 season in a conference call with owners on Monday. If the owners give their approval, the league will present its proposal to the players' union on Tuesday.
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start season in July — NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players' union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans …
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Orange County Register, MLB Baseball News …, MLB Daily Dish, Royals Review, ProFootballTalk and The Hill
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Health, fair compensation on players' minds, says MLBPA board members — If MLB players are going to put their health at risk if/when the season gets underway, they want to be paid their full, prorated salaries, according to several players who hold key leadership positions in the Major League Baseball Players Association.
The Athletic:
MLB revenue-sharing plan is a non-starter for the Players Association — An economic system in which player compensation would come from 50 percent of league revenue in 2020 instead of the current salary structure is a non-starter for the Major League Baseball Players Association, union officials told The Athletic on Monday.
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MLB Trade Rumors and Talking Chop
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB owners approve historic revenue-sharing plan amid coronavirus pandemic — Major League Baseball owners approved a proposal Monday requiring teams to share 50% of their revenue with the Major League Baseball Players Association should plans to play this year proceed …
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Sports Illustrated
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: Owners approve MLB season proposal plan for July start as players' union preps to weigh in — Major League Baseball owners approved a proposal that commissioner Rob Manfred plans to present to players Tuesday on a return-to-play scenario that aims to have baseball back in home stadiums …
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New York Post, USA Today, South Side Sox and McCovey Chronicles
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2020 MLB Mock Draft 1.0 — Now that we are within 30 days of the 2020 MLB draft and intel leaking out of pre-draft meetings and conversations with agents has reached a tipping point, it's time for my first stab at projecting the first round.
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Detroit Free Press, Lone Star Ball, Lookout Landing, True Blue LA and Halos Heaven
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Enrique Rojas / ESPN:
Sources: Cancellation of World Baseball Classic in 2021 imminent — Sources have told ESPN that the cancellation of the 2021 World Baseball Classic is imminent, with one source saying “it is not a priority right now.” — The tournament had been set for March 9-23, 2021, in the United States, Japan and Taiwan.
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Sports Illustrated, Bleed Cubbie Blue, MLB Daily Dish, Fish Stripes and Bluebird Banter
Peter King / ProFootballTalk:
FMIA: Football in the Fall? Dr. Fauci: ‘The Virus Will Make Decision For Us’ — Toward the end of a 20-minute telephone interview Saturday evening with America's COVID-19 expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, I asked a question about testing, and about NFL teams playing football this fall.
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USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Fox News and Sports Illustrated
Mike Oz / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Jerry Stiller's death has a baseball star from the 1990s unexpectedly trending — died Monday at the age of 92 — and with it, a baseball player from the 1990s was unexpectedly trudged into Twitter's trending topics. — As any “Seinfeld” devotee knows, we're talking, of course, about Jay Buhner.
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Pinstripe Alley
