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.”

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.

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 …

Some Teams Are Offering 2021 Contracts To Incoming Amateur Players  —  It's important to remember that the vast majority of ballplayers don't earn millions and likely never will.  Non-blue-chip minor leaguers and incoming professionals have long been disadvantaged relative to established big leaguers, and that's true all the more now.

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 …

‘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.

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 …

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 …

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?