Sources: MLB proposal includes pay cuts for highest-paid players  —  Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in baseball, with the lowest-paid players taking lesser cuts from their full prorated shares, in its first economic proposal to the MLB Players Association …

MLB owners sending latest plan to MLBPA that includes sliding pay scale for players  —  PHOENIX — Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association began negotiations Tuesday afternoon for the first time on key economic issues in an attempt to open the season by the weekend of July 4.

Players Association plans to propose longer season, insist on full prorated salaries  —  The Players Association plans to respond to Major League Baseball's request for additional pay cuts by insisting players receive their full prorated salaries and proposing a schedule of longer than 82 games …

As Deadline Looms, MLB Teams Formulate Plans To Pay Minor Leaguers  —  While Major League Baseball negotiates a return to play with the MLB Players Association, the clock is ticking on continued pay for minor league players.  —  Non 40-man roster players, with few exceptions …

Boras to clients in memo: Don't bail out baseball owners  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Agent Scott Boras recommends his clients refuse Major League Baseball's attempt to cut salaries during negotiations with the players' association, claiming team financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic have their origin in management debt financing.

Rosenthal and Drellich: MLB proposal made, players now have say over restart  —  One agent said Major League Baseball's proposal to the players union Tuesday was similar to the hard-line approach a team might take in salary arbitration.  —  A team tells a player he's so bad that he will need to take a pay cut.