Top News:
Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
MLB lands billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports to broadcast playoffs — While MLB and the Players Association squabble over money and the 2020 season, the league has consummated a new billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports to keep a playoff package that includes one of the league championship series …
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Sports Illustrated, MLB Baseball News …, Chicago Sun-Times, Arizona Sports, NBCSports.com and The Good Phight
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ESPN:
Source: MLB reaches billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports to air playoff games — Major League Baseball has reached a billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports, giving the broadcast company continued rights to air playoff games, a source confirmed to ESPN. — The exact value and length of the new contract were not immediately known.
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Talking Chop
Sports Business Daily:
Sources: MLB, Turner Sports Close To Media-Rights Renewal — Major League Baseball has agreed to broad terms on a new rights deal with Turner Sports at around a 40% average annual increase, sources said. — Nothing has been signed formally, but this new deal will see Turner pay an average …
Discussion:
MLB Trade Rumors and Sports Illustrated
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB players reject latest offer, ask league to set 2020 season schedule — The Major League Baseball Players Association asked MLB to set a schedule for the 2020 season rather than counter the latest return-to-play proposal by the league, setting the stage for MLB to implement …
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MLB Baseball News …, Purple Row and NBCSports.com
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB return talks still at impasse as a mandated short season looms — Major League Baseball's latest economic return-to-play proposal left the MLB Players Association frustrated and increased the likelihood of commissioner Rob Manfred instituting a shortened season without input from the union …
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New York Daily News, Purple Row, Pinstripe Alley, Los Angeles Times and MLB Baseball News …
J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
MLB Instructs Teams To Find Taxi Squad Sites Ahead Of Potential Season — While Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association continue to trade proposals on how to bring baseball back in 2020, teams have already had to work on fixing the myriad logistical issues …
Discussion:
MLB Baseball News …, Sports Illustrated and Talking Chop
ESPN:
Sources: MLB owners expected to offer 70-75 games in proposal — Major League Baseball's owners are expected to send a new proposal to the players' union on Friday that includes a 2020 season lasting between 70 and 75 games, sources told ESPN's Karl Ravech.
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Royals Review and McCovey Chronicles
Evan Drellich / The Athletic:
Judge orders 2017 MLB letter to Yankees unsealed; plaintiffs say it details sign stealing — A New York judge ruled on Friday that a letter sent by Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred to the Yankees addressing the findings of a 2017 investigation into the team should be unsealed.
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MLB Trade Rumors, New Jersey Online, New York Post, Pinstripe Alley, USA Today, MLB Baseball News … and Sports Illustrated
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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Yankees expected to fight judge's order to have 2017 letter from MLB over team's own sign stealing unsealed — TAMPA — The Yankees are getting dragged into the Astros and Red Sox cheating scandals, this time through the courts. On Friday, a U.S. District Court ordered a letter to the Yankees …
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Pinstripe Alley
Chris Hilburn-Trenkle / Baseball America:
Cape League Surge Made Mariners Believers In Zach DeLoach's Bat — A year ago, it would have been hard to believe Zach DeLoach would be selected in the 2020 draft. — But after struggling in his first two years at Texas A&M, the junior outfielder exploded onto the scene during the Cape Cod League …
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Lookout Landing and U.S.S. Mariner
The Athletic:
MLB's latest proposal to players comes with sharply worded letter marking ill will — In a letter accompanying Major League Baseball's latest proposal to the Players Association, deputy commissioner Dan Halem addresses top union negotiator Bruce Meyer in a biting tone that reflects the continuing ill will between the parties.
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MLB Trade Rumors, NBCSports.com, True Blue LA, Halos Heaven, Talking Chop and Lone Star Ball
David Schoenfield / ESPN:
The 2020 MLB draft pick who could make the majors first on all 30 teams — One of the fun aspects of any MLB draft is trying to predict which players will be the first to reach the majors — and it's not always the players right at the top of the draft. This has become even harder …
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Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
Quick Hits: Harvey, Torkelson, Giants
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McCovey Chronicles, FanGraphs Baseball, NBCSports.com and MLB Baseball News …
Jessica Kleinschmidt / MLB Baseball News …:
2020 MLB Draft: A's select pitcher Jeff Criswell in second round — By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's — Thursday hosted the second day, and round, of the 2020 MLB Draft with the A's taking right-handed pitcher out of Michigan, Jeff Criswell at the No. 58 pick.
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NBCSports.com, Talking Chop, Brew Crew Ball, Twinkie Town and Phillies Nation
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Chris Halicke / Sports Illustrated:
MLB Draft Results: Texas Rangers Select RHP Tekoah Roby in Third Round
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Lone Star Ball
Vinnie Duber / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
2020 MLB Draft: Tracking White Sox selections on Day 2
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MLB Trade Rumors, NBCSports.com, South Side Sox and Brew Crew Ball
