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Bill Baer / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
MLB, MLBPA reach agreement on health and safety protocols — By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's — Joel Sherman of the New York Post is among those reporting that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have reached an agreement on health and safety protocol involved …
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Positive coronavirus tests create urgency in MLB's 2020 negotiations — Major League Baseball had 40 players and staff members test positive for COVID-19 in the past week, creating a sense of urgency in labor negotiations between the owners and players, according to two persons with direct knowledge of the situation.
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB targets 60-game season starting around July 24, assuming conditions met — Major League Baseball plans to hold a 60-game season that begins around July 24 but first needs players to sign off on a health-and-safety protocol and pledge to arrive at home stadiums by July 1 to prepare …
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ESPN:
Sources: MLBPA agrees to report July 1, still discussing health and safety protocols — The Major League Baseball Players Association has agreed to report to training camps by July 1 and play a 60-game season, but it is still discussing health and safety protocols with the league, sources confirmed to ESPN's Jeff Passan on Tuesday.
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Players vote down MLB's latest offer to play 60 games, sources say — The Major League Baseball Players Association executive board on Monday voted to reject MLB's 60-game offer with expanded playoffs, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers, putting commissioner Rob Manfred in position …
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Mike Oz / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Play ball! MLB sets late July for start of season
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Where things stand as MLB begins another week without 2020 season deal
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
MLB players consider owners' 60-game proposal with unwelcome third party interrupting talks — the virus
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
What MLB owners need to hear from Rob Manfred to save baseball
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Kyle Newman / Denver Post:
Charlie Blackmon, two other Rockies test positive for coronavirus following workouts at Coors Field — Rockies players Charlie Blackmon, Phillip Diehl and Ryan Castellani have all tested positive for coronavirus following recent workouts at Coors Field, major-league sources told The Denver Post.
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William Weinbaum / ESPN:
Minors teams sue insurers over coronavirus claims — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by 15 minor league baseball teams against five insurance companies alleges that “action and inaction by federal and state governments” contributed to “catastrophic financial losses” for ballclubs.
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David Schoenfield / ESPN:
Baseball's top 60 storylines for a 60-game MLB season — There is going to be a baseball season after all, one of 60 games, following a month of ugly public negotiations between the players and owners over how to navigate through the money of the shortened season.
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
A-Rod, J. Lo Reportedly Add Billionaire Mike Repole To Mets Bid — Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez have added some more clout to their bid to buy the Mets, bringing billionaire Mike Repole into their group, per ESPN's Darren Rovell (Twitter link). The 51-year-old Queens native co-founded …
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Tom Borowski / Sports Illustrated:
Happy birthday, Tim! — Earlier this spring, we published this article by our painter-in-residence, Tom Borowski. It's a terrific look back at a momentous time in the White Sox rebuild, and in Tim Anderson's career. It being Tim's 27th birthday and with the possibility of some TA baseball looming ahead …
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Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
Rays Sign First-Rounder Nick Bitsko — 5:15pm: The signing's now official, the Rays tweeted. — 3:45pm: The Rays will sign first-round right-hander Nick Bitsko, per Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com. He'll earn $3MM, an increase over the $2.83MM slot value of the 24th overall selection.
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Jeff Todd / MLB Trade Rumors:
White Sox Sign Garrett Crochet — The White Sox announced today that they have signed their first-round draft pick, southpaw Garrett Crochet. He will receive a $4,547,500 signing bonus. — That payday precisely matches the slot value allocated to the eleventh overall selection.
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