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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB mulls shorter season, full prorated salaries for players  —  Unable to yet reach a return-to-play agreement, Major League Baseball has discussed playing a shorter schedule in which it would pay members of the MLB Players Association their full prorated salaries, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Fewer games?  Salary deferrals?  Where MLB players and owners could find middle ground on 2020 season  —  Is all of the recent acrimony between MLB players and owners real or the byproduct of the early stages of the 2020 season's negotiations playing out in the public spotlight?
The Athletic:
After heated meeting on player pay, MLB threatens 50-game schedule  —  No proposal, no further negotiations scheduled, clock ticking.  —  While Major League Baseball is considering playing 50-odd games in 2020 unless the players agree to further reduce their pay, it is not yet planning …
Michael Silverman Globe / The Boston Globe:
MLB owners and players agree on divisional structure but much territory needs to be covered  —  Much territory still has to be covered before Major League Baseball owners and players agree on what a pandemic-shortened 2020 baseball season will look like.  —  The sides agree that travel …
Discussion: theScore.com
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLBPA proposes 114-game season in counterproposal  —  The Major League Baseball Players Association delivered a return-to-play proposal to MLB on Sunday that includes a 114-game season, deferred salaries in the event of a canceled postseason and the option for all players to opt …
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Cubs' Tom Ricketts says most revenue goes right back into team  —  Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts pushed back on the perception that baseball teams are cash cows, telling ESPN on Tuesday that yearly revenues are mostly put right back into the team.  —  “Here's something I hope baseball fans understand,” Ricketts said.
Baseball America:
Sources: MLB Considering Expanded Arizona, Florida Fall League  —  Although the possibility of a traditional minor league season grows slimmer by the day, there is good reason to believe every team's prospects will get a chance to gain a large number of reps at some point this summer.
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Brittany Ghiroli / The Athletic:
Nationals make cuts, drop minor-league pay
Evan Petzold / Detroit Free Press:
What happened inside Jim Joyce's brain the night Armando Galarraga lost his perfect game  —  Massachusetts Institute of Technology neuroscience professor Earl Miller slowly nodded his head.  A video of a baseball game from June 2, 2010, flashed across his computer screen …
Discussion: Bless You Boys
The Athletic:
A conversation: Retired African American MLB players on race, baseball, America  —  Even the biggest African American baseball stars rarely speak out on sensitive matters during their playing careers.  The sport's culture discourages individuality in any form, and a player who publicly addresses racism …
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Updated 2020 MLB draft rankings: The latest on the top 150 players  —  It's just about a week from MLB draft day, and that means the picture on how this year's prospects stack up is really starting to come into focus.  Below you'll find my ranking of the top 150 players for the shortened five-round MLB draft starting June 10.
Discussion: Camden Chat and Talking Chop
David Schoenfield / ESPN:
First basemen never go No. 1 in the MLB draft: Here's why Spencer Torkelson is about to change that  —  In this most abnormal of springs, the Detroit Tigers may make an abnormal pick with the first selection in the 2020 MLB draft: a first baseman.  —  Arizona State slugger Spencer Torkelson …
Discussion: AZ Snake Pit
Tim Kurkjian / ESPN:
Tim Kurkjian's Baseball Fix: The legendary reach of Randy Johnson  —  You love baseball.  Tim Kurkjian loves baseball.  So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history.  —  ON THIS DATE IN 1990, Randy Johnson threw his first no-hitter.
Discussion: baseballmusings.com
 
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