Top News:
Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
A's owner John Fisher reverses course, apologizes: team will pay minor-leaguers — After a significant backlash greeted his decision to end stipends to minor-leaguers, A's owner John Fisher is reversing course, he said in a conversation with The Chronicle on Friday.
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Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
A's President Dave Kaval: Team close to gaining Coliseum use; short season ‘makes sense’; stadium update — Dave Kaval, the A's president, broke months of silence by the team's top executives Thursday to discuss the possibility of getting baseball under way with a greatly reduced schedule.
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NBCSports.com and Sports Illustrated
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Inside MLB's financials fight — and the numbers to solve it — There are simple solutions for baseball's return. They're right there, waiting for owners and players to embrace before the parties unleash more damage on the sport. — Already they have taken what could have been a triumphant return …
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Andy Martino / SNY:
Next week will tell if 2020 MLB season starts in early or late July — MLB might make another offer after all — First the good news: MLB players will report to spring training even if the owners impose an approximately 50 game schedule. Because of this, people on all sides …
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NBCSports.com, Sports Illustrated and MLB Baseball News …
Ashley Sanders / Sports Illustrated:
2020 OOTP sim: A five-run eighth inning surges the White Sox to victory — CHICAGO — It's a new day, which means it's new game and a new series. After a short three-game, but disappointing road trip to Kansas City, the Chicago White Sox are back home against the Detroit Tigers to start their six-game, seven-day homestand.
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MLB Baseball News … and Bless You Boys
Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Sources: MLB inclined to allow local governments to decide if fans are allowed at potential games — On Wednesday, Texas ruled its teams could now allow attendance up to 50% of stadium capacity. — Call it home state advantage. — As Major League Baseball and its Players Association wobble towards …
Matt Gelb / The Athletic:
A costly year for Seranthony Domínguez, who returns to U.S. for delayed surgery — A year ago Friday, Seranthony Domínguez threw a 97 mph fastball off the inside corner of the plate. “Boy, that was a close pitch,” Tom McCarthy said on the TV broadcast. “Ball four.”
Discussion:
MLB Trade Rumors and Phillies Nation
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Athletic lays off 8% of staff, implements company-wide pay cut — The Athletic is laying off nearly 8% of staff, 46 people, according to an internal memo obtained by Axios. — Why it matters: It's the latest media company that's been been forced to take drastic measures to survive the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
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New York Post and The Hill
Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Mike King will be the first young pitcher the Yankees call on — TAMPA — Mike King was anxious to build off his 2019 season. It wasn't a great season for the Yankees' young right-hander, who suffered an injury in spring training and was limited to just 12 games.
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Pinstripe Alley
Baseball America:
Minor League Transactions — Correction: In the original post, the Red Sox's RHP Colten Brewer, RHP Chris Mazza, LHP Josh Osich, LHP Jeffrey Springs, the Mets' RHP Franklyn Kilome, RHP Paul Sewald, the Rays' LHP Anthony Banda and the Nationals' RHP Kyle Finnegan were listed as released when they actually had been optioned.
Discussion:
MLB Trade Rumors
The Athletic:
Sides deadlocked after MLB rejects latest Players Association proposal — Major League Baseball on Wednesday rejected the Players Association's proposal of a 114-game season and told the union it would not send a counter, again leaving the parties deadlocked in their quest to begin the 2020 season.
