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Exclusive: MLB proposes medical and safety protocols to players in 67-page document — No exchanges of lineup cards. New baseballs any time a ball is put in play and touched by multiple players. Players wearing masks except while on the field, standing six feet apart during the singing …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB safety proposal includes thorough testing, social distancing, no spitting — Major League Baseball's ambitious return-to-play plans include processing upward of 10,000 COVID-19 tests per week, overhauling stadiums and in-game settings to encourage social distancing …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
The immensity of MLB's plan to return through a daunting health-and-safety protocol — What's most striking about Major League Baseball's 67-page health-and-safety protocol outlining an attempt to return amid the coronavirus pandemic isn't its little, snicker-worthy details …
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Associated Press:
Report: MLB projects loss of $640,000 per game without fans — NEW YORK — Major League Baseball told players their prorated salaries would contribute to an average loss of $640,000 for each game over an 82-game season in empty ballparks, according to a presentation from the commissioner's office …
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Paul Takahashi / Houston Chronicle:
Woman, 5-year-old boy drown in north Houston pool — A woman and a 5-year-old boy drowned Saturday afternoon in the backyard pool of former LA Dodger Carl Crawford's home. — Houston Police and Fire departments were called about 2:40 p.m. on reports of a drowning at a home on the 1400 block of Mansfield in north Houston.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB sends union, players ‘daunting’ health protocols on how to play game safely in a pandemic — Get ready, because if a Major League Baseball season is played this summer, it will look like nothing we've ever seen in the sport's history. — Gone will be the traditional exchange of lineup cards.
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Associated Press:
Ex-Mets manager Art Howe released from hospital after contracting coronavirus — HOUSTON — Former Mets manager Art Howe was released from a Houston hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the coronavirus. — “Relief, back in my own bedroom.
Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
Will your MLB team play at home? A team-by-team look at likelihood as league navigates COVID-19 — Major League Baseball's proposed 82-game season, played in home ballparks beginning in July, almost certainly won't come off exactly as it hopes, thanks to the many factors that can waylay a season played amid a pandemic.
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ESPN:
2020 MLB draft to be held remotely on June 10-11 — Major League Baseball plans to hold the 2020 MLB Draft remotely, according to a memo obtained by ESPN's Jeff Passan on Friday. — As of now, teams are not allowed to have draft rooms and will do all drafting via video conference.
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Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com:
The best players to never win MVP — Awards are arbitrary and, often, products not just of great talent, but also great timing. — For some legends, those two elements never quite align. They get snubbed, beaten outright or simply have careers that were more about accumulation than accreditation.
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Maddie Lee / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
New Cubs organist serenades Wrigleyville, gives fans sense of normalcy — By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's — Gabriel Dixson was lounging outside of his apartment building across the street from Wrigley Field on Friday evening, when organ music began billowing out of the ballpark.
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The Athletic:
With no fans, revenue sharing among rich and poor teams will be unlikely in 2020 — Forget, for a moment, how Major League Baseball clubs will make the dollars work with the players. The league needs to make the dollars work with its owners, too. — In 1996, baseball introduced revenue sharing …
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Chandler Rome / Houston Chronicle:
MLB will press on if player tests positive during season — Before telling a national television audience that owners stand to lose nearly $4 billion without a 2020 season, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred expressed “great confidence” an agreement between MLB and its players union …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Repeated coronavirus testing key to MLB reopening, says commissioner Rob Manfred
Repeated coronavirus testing key to MLB reopening, says commissioner Rob Manfred
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