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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
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.”
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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
Dr. Anthony Fauci says MLB should consider not playing into October — How long should baseball's short season extend? — The players say November. The owners say October. — But, if the sole factor is minimizing risk for the novel coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the major leagues …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Several Major League Baseball players and coaches have tested positive for COVID-19 — Major League Baseball informed the players union Monday that several major-league players and coaches have tested positive for COVID-19, believing it might be unsafe to start the season early even if they soon reach …
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David Lennon / Newsday:
Yankees president Randy Levine calls for MLB, players to resume talks — Yankees president Randy Levine refuses to accept “when and where” as the last words on baseball's return-to-play negotiations. For a season to happen, as Levine still insists it will, the standoff between Commissioner Rob Manfred …
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Bill Shaikin / Los Angeles Times:
MLB tells union it won't start season unless players waive right to grievance hearing — Five days after Commissioner Rob Manfred guaranteed there would be a 2020 season, Major League Baseball suggested it might cancel the season entirely. — In a letter to the players' union …
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Alex Didion / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Rob Manfred now ‘not confident’ that 2020 MLB season will be played — By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's — The likelihood of seeing the Giants or A's take the field in a 2020 MLB season continues to dwindle. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN's Mike Greenberg that he now …
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J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
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.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
With 2020 negotiations stalled, MLB ponders the next move
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Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Commissioner Rob Manfred says baseball season in jeopardy
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USA Today:
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 …
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Marc Weiszer / USA Today:
Bacarri Rambo, former Georgia All-American, arrested on rape charge — Former Georgia All-American safety Bacarri Rambo was arrested late Monday night on a charge of rape. — Athens-Clarke County Police responded to a rape call on Saturday at 1:17 a.m. The incident took place at 150 W. Broad Street …
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MLB Insiders / ESPN:
‘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.
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
How shortsighted greed is tearing baseball apart
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The Athletic:
MLB does not want to implement schedule, fears grievance from players — The owners threatened to implement a season. The players told them to go ahead, and effectively might have called the owners' bluff. — The risk to the owners in determining the length of the season and inviting …
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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 …
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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's MLB draft analysis: How all 30 teams fared — The 2020 MLB draft was held in unique circumstances — reduced to five rounds, conducted remotely, with spring scouting virtually nonexistent because of the coronavirus pandemic. — But in the end, the same old question must be answered: How did each team do?
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