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 …

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.

How Major League Baseball can save itself beyond 2021  —  This is the how baseball's destructive standoff needs to end: The owners, with greater wealth and with the lasting stewardship of the game, need to emerge from their bargaining bunker and extend themselves into the middle ground with an offer of a significant concession.

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.

New challenges as Yankees prepare for MLB Draft  —  Ten years ago, Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees' longtime vice president of domestic amateur scouting, laid out his general philosophy entering a draft.  —  “You can't go into the draft targeting needs in baseball or you end up overdrafting …

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 …

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.”

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.

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.

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.