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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLBPA to counter MLB proposal with more games, full prorated salaries  —  The Major League Baseball Players Association expects to counter MLB's economic proposal by the end of this week with a plan that includes more than 100 games and a guarantee of full prorated salaries for the 2020 season …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB proposal includes pay cuts for highest-paid players  —  Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in baseball, with the lowest-paid players taking lesser cuts from their full prorated shares, in its first economic proposal to the MLB Players Association …
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB owners sending latest plan to MLBPA that includes sliding pay scale for players  —  PHOENIX — Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association began negotiations Tuesday afternoon for the first time on key economic issues in an attempt to open the season by the weekend of July 4.
The Athletic:
Players Association plans to propose longer season, insist on full prorated salaries  —  The Players Association plans to respond to Major League Baseball's request for additional pay cuts by insisting players receive their full prorated salaries and proposing a schedule of longer than 82 games …
Kyle Glaser / Baseball America:
As Deadline Looms, MLB Teams Formulate Plans To Pay Minor Leaguers  —  While Major League Baseball negotiates a return to play with the MLB Players Association, the clock is ticking on continued pay for minor league players.  —  Non 40-man roster players, with few exceptions …
Ronald Blum / Associated Press:
Boras to clients in memo: Don't bail out baseball owners  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Agent Scott Boras recommends his clients refuse Major League Baseball's attempt to cut salaries during negotiations with the players' association, claiming team financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic have their origin in management debt financing.
The Athletic:
Rosenthal and Drellich: MLB proposal made, players now have say over restart  —  One agent said Major League Baseball's proposal to the players union Tuesday was similar to the hard-line approach a team might take in salary arbitration.  —  A team tells a player he's so bad that he will need to take a pay cut.
ESPN:
Inside Roy Halladay's struggle with pain, addiction  —  STEVE TRAX WAS in his office in Reston, Virginia, not far from Dulles International Airport when the phone rang.  It was mid-October 2013, around 11 a.m. The caller was Brandy Halladay, and she sounded distraught.  —  “He needs help.
Arash Markazi / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Phil Mickelson is ready to make ‘The Match’ an annual event  —  After the success Sunday of “The Match: Champions for Charity” golf exhibition in which Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady to help raise $20 million for COVID-19 relief, there are talks to make …
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Despite ‘daunting obstacles’ and ‘disappointing’ proposal from MLB, Cardinals vet Andrew Miller sees route to baseball in 2020  —  Despite a financial proposal from Major League Baseball's owners that landed with a thud Tuesday and drew sentiments of disappointment and frustrations from players …
Ramona Shelburne / ESPN:
Sources: Dodgers to implement salary cuts to avoid furloughs or layoffs  —  The Los Angeles Dodgers have informed their full-time employees that they will not impose furloughs or layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic, but instead will begin a system of tiered salary cuts beginning on June 1, sources told ESPN.
Bill Shanks / Sports Illustrated:
Reaction to the death of Biff Pocoroba  —  The Braves had a tweet about Pocoroba's death Wednesday afternoon  —  Here is a tweet from Pocoroba's former teammate, Dale Murphy  —  And the Baseball Hall of Fame sent out condolences  —  Pocoroba died Sunday at the age of 66.
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