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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Amid coronavirus pandemic, MLB owners will vote on historic revenue-sharing plan — Major League Baseball owners, with an abundance of optimism that baseball will be played this year, are scheduled to vote on a plan Monday that will require teams to share at least 48% of their revenue …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Few positive COVID-19 antibodies tests among MLB employees — Sixty of the 5,754 people in a study of the Major League Baseball employee population tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, a rate lower than what similar studies run in California found, the studies' authors said Sunday.
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MLB Baseball News …, Sports Illustrated and baseballmusings.com
Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Latest details on baseball's plan to return — Nothing is official. Major League Baseball will discuss its plans for the 2020 season in a conference call with owners on Monday. If the owners give their approval, the league will present its proposal to the players' union on Tuesday.
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MLB Trade Rumors, MLB Baseball News …, NBCSports.com, Associated Press, Red Reporter, New York Post, Talking Chop, AZ Snake Pit, Boston Herald, FanGraphs Baseball, Fish Stripes, Halos Heaven, Camden Chat, South Side Sox, Sports Illustrated, Purple Row, Federal Baseball, Bluebird Banter, Sportsnet.ca and Phillies Nation
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Health, fair compensation on players' minds, says MLBPA board members — If MLB players are going to put their health at risk if/when the season gets underway, they want to be paid their full, prorated salaries, according to several players who hold key leadership positions in the Major League Baseball Players Association.
Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start season in July — NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players' union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans …
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MLB Daily Dish, ProFootballTalk and Royals Review
Enrique Rojas / ESPN:
Sources: Cancellation of World Baseball Classic in 2021 imminent — Sources have told ESPN that the cancellation of the 2021 World Baseball Classic is imminent, with one source saying “it is not a priority right now.” — The tournament had been set for March 9-23, 2021, in the United States, Japan and Taiwan.
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Sports Illustrated, Fish Stripes and Bluebird Banter
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2020 MLB Mock Draft 1.0 — Now that we are within 30 days of the 2020 MLB draft and intel leaking out of pre-draft meetings and conversations with agents has reached a tipping point, it's time for my first stab at projecting the first round.
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Lookout Landing, Lone Star Ball, True Blue LA and Halos Heaven
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB shortens 2020 draft from 40 rounds to 5 — Major League Baseball will cut its 2020 draft to five rounds, as owners looking to save costs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic pushed for fewer rounds over the objection of front-office officials, sources told ESPN.
Mike Oz / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Jerry Stiller's death has a baseball star from the 1990s unexpectedly trending — died Monday at the age of 92 — and with it, a baseball player from the 1990s was unexpectedly trudged into Twitter's trending topics. — As any “Seinfeld” devotee knows, we're talking, of course, about Jay Buhner.
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Pinstripe Alley
Peter King / ProFootballTalk:
FMIA: Football in the Fall? Dr. Fauci: ‘The Virus Will Make Decision For Us’ — Toward the end of a 20-minute telephone interview Saturday evening with America's COVID-19 expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, I asked a question about testing, and about NFL teams playing football this fall.
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Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Fox News and Sports Illustrated
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Ex-Mets reliever Turk Wendell enjoying the good life on his Iowa farm: 'I've kind of been quarantined my whole life in the offseason' — At first, it was hard to hear what Turk Wendell was saying from atop his tractor. — On a mostly cloudy Thursday afternoon, the former Mets relief pitcher …
Gabriel Burns / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
What happened to the Braves' lost prospects from MLB's punishment? — Much has changed since November 2017, when MLB punished the Braves for a series of illegal activities in the international market. Since that offseason, the Braves are two-time division champs and boast one of the brightest outlooks in the majors.
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Bucs Dugout and Talking Chop
