MLB commissioner Rob Manfred now less confident about 2020 season  —  Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN on Monday he's “not confident” there will be a 2020 baseball season and that “as long as there's no dialogue” with the MLB Players Association, “that real risk is going to continue.”

MLB Pushes International Signing Period Start Back To Jan. 15  —  When it comes to baseball's calendar, July 2 is now Jan. 15.  —  The start of the international signing period has been officially moved back by more than six months, MLB informed Baseball America on Monday.

‘Long Gone Summer’ roundtable: How we remember Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and HR race of '98  —  What was your favorite memory of the 1998 home run race?  —  Jesse Rogers: The month of June was really unreal.  Sosa hit 20 home runs in the month, which was unheard of back then.  That month really began the race.

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 …

MLB tells teams scouting activities can resume, source says  —  Major League Baseball informed clubs on Monday that they can resume scouting activities, ending the ban that was instituted on March 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a source told ESPN.  —  There is a limit of three scouts per MLB club …

Former Cy Young winner Mike McCormick dies at age 81  —  By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's  —  CORNELIUS, N.C. (AP) — Longtime Giants pitcher Mike McCormick, who won the Cy Young Award in 1967, has died.  He was 81.  —  The Giants say McCormick died Saturday at his home …

Brandon Brooks tears Achilles, out for season, sources say  —  Months away from the start of the 2020 season and the Eagles have already been dealt a devastating blow.  —  Eagles right guard Brandon Brooks on Monday tore his left Achilles tendon while working out at the NovaCare Complex, according to sources.

In Latin America, big league clubs are exploiting prospects as young as 12, whistleblower told feds  —  Christian Red and Teri ThompsonSpecial to USA TODAY Sports  —  Time was running out for Rudy Santin.  —  The Cuban-born baseball lifer, renowned in his adopted home of the Dominican Republic …

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 …