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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB to cancel another week of games if deal not reached by Tuesday night — Major League Baseball plans to cancel another week of regular-season games if it can't agree to a new collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Players Association by Tuesday night, adding another layer …
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Ken Rosenthal / MLB - The Athletic:
MLB willing to increase luxury tax if players move in other areas, people with knowledge of league's thinking said — Major League Baseball is willing to increase the first competitive-balance tax threshold from $220 million if the Players Association makes moves in other areas, people with knowledge of the league's thinking say.
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Ken Rosenthal / MLB - The Athletic:
How was baseball's luxury tax supposed to work? Rob Manfred, Gene Orza weigh in — A club executive was on the line, voicing an objection. Media members, he said, were unfairly characterizing a critical element of baseball's labor negotiations. Nowhere in any previous collective-bargaining agreement …
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The Athletic:
MLB points to Tuesday as deadline for 162-game schedule, full pay, service time: Sources — Major League Baseball is pointing to a new deadline for players, sources told The Athletic: If a deal is not reached by Tuesday, then MLB has told the union the owners are likely to be unwilling to play …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: New MLBPA proposal includes $5M reduction in pre-arbitration pool — The MLB Players Association gave a written collective bargaining agreement proposal to Major League Baseball on Sunday. It included a $5 million reduction to the union's last offer in a pre-arbitration bonus pool …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB gives the players union a Tuesday night deadline to accept a new deal as talks gain urgency
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
‘We are deadlocked’: MLB could cancel another week of games soon as talks show little progress
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Four MLB owners opposed increasing the luxury tax at all: reports
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Dan Wiederer / Chicago Tribune:
What happens to the NFC North — and the Chicago Bears — if QB Aaron Rodgers leaves the Green Bay Packers? — During Super Bowl week last month in Los Angeles, Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur scheduled an important business lunch. Over the course of three seasons …
Prospects Live:
2022 Preseason Top 100 Prospects List — Introduction — Our Top 100 prospect list is finally here! This is a culmination of efforts forged by over 20 different individuals here at Prospects Live. We began our offseason report writing in early October with the aim to grade …
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The Athletic:
LeBron, the Lakers and their road back to ‘winning time’: Why Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson still matter, plus what's next — LOS ANGELES — When LeBron James was sending all those unsettling messages the Lakers' way over All-Star weekend in Cleveland — the ones that left so many wondering …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: MLB eyes pitch clocks of 14 seconds with empty bases, 19 seconds with runners on — Major League Baseball wants to institute a 14-second pitch clock with the bases empty and a 19-second timer with runners on, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Kim returns to South Korea on record-setting contract with KBO's Landers — JUPITER, Fla. — After coming to the Cardinals eager to try his left hand in the majors and encountering two seasons of jostling roles under the cloud of a pandemic, Kwang Hyun Kim returned to the KBO and immediately set a record.
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Peter King / ProFootballTalk:
FMIA: A Peek Inside The Journal Of Aidan Hutchinson, And What We Learned At NFL Scouting Combine — INDIANAPOLIS — “I don't know why I did it,” Aidan Hutchinson said Saturday night after his NFL Scouting Combine workout, sitting in his room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, a few long spirals from Lucas Oil Stadium.
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Bradford Doolittle / ESPN:
91 games (and counting?): How MLB's cancellations could rock the playoff races — Ninety-one games. So far. — That's the number of games that have been lopped off the schedule after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's news conference last week. We can only hope that the number doesn't go up.
