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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USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Sun-Times, MLB Baseball News …, Arizona Sports, The Good Phight and NBCSports.com
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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 …
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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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Purple Row, MLB Baseball News … 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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Bless You Boys, New York Daily News, Purple Row, Pinstripe Alley, Los Angeles Times, MLB Baseball News … and Gaslamp Ball
J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
MLB Instructs Teams To Find Taxi Squad Sites Ahead Of Potential Season
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MLB Baseball News …, Sports Illustrated and Talking Chop
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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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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Over the Monster and Pinstripe Alley
Baseball America:
2020 MLB Undrafted Free Agent Tracker: Agreements For All 30 Teams — The shortest June draft in MLB history has concluded after just five rounds, meaning a bevy of qualified draft-eligible players remain. We are tracking all agreements made below. — Remember, players can sign for up to $20,000 …
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Lookout Landing, Fish Stripes, MLB Trade Rumors and Phillies Nation
Tim Healey / Newsday:
Undrafted free agency a whole new ballgame for Mets — Pushed by the pandemic, MLB owners drastically altered the MLB Draft, a critical source of talent for every team, so they could pinch proverbial pennies. The draft came and went, five rounds Wednesday and Thursday nights …
Josh Norris / Baseball America:
MLB Teams Get Creative With College Money To Lure UDFAs — The coronavirus pandemic changed many things about this year's draft. Most notably, it shortened it from 40 rounds to just five. All but $100,000 of players' signing bonuses were deferred over the next two years as well …
Discussion:
Lone Star Ball
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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True Blue LA, MLB Trade Rumors, NBCSports.com, Halos Heaven, Talking Chop and Lone Star Ball
