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Ben Clemens / FanGraphs Baseball:
MLB and the MLBPA Have Made Their Opening Offers  —  It's May 29, roughly two full months into the regular season, which means, given the year, that it's time for everyone's favorite pastime: parsing competing proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement.  Wednesday, the MLBPA released its first proposal for a new agreement.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Breaking down initial MLB CBA proposals: Salary cap and more  —  Following the opening salvos in collective bargaining between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, one thing is clear: The gap between the sides is not just enormous.  It's fundamental.
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
MLB owners propose first salary cap since 1994 strike  —  Major League Baseball owners proposed a hard salary cap to players as part of the next CBA on Thursday, their first firm cap proposal since 1994.  —  Under the proposal, presented in a meeting with union officials …
Evan Drellich / The Athletic:
MLB's first offer to union includes initial look at details of hard salary cap  —  For a long time, it's been clear that Major League Baseball's owners would make a new push for a salary cap-and-floor system.  The mystery, though, has been what exactly the owners want the system to look like.
MiLB.com:
Gameday: Clippers 10, Mud Hens 3 Final Score (05/28/2026)  —  Follow baseball results with FREE box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Clippers vs. Mud Hens at Fifth Third Field
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Diamondbacks can't finish big rally, walked off by Mariners in 10th  —  SEATTLE — Geraldo Perdomo laced a home run into the right-field corner, dumped a double into left and lined a single past a diving second baseman.  It was his first three-hit game in more than a month, a sign, perhaps …
Keith Law / The Athletic:
Updated top 50 MLB prospects: Jesús Made takes the No. 1 spot  —  We've already seen a plethora of players from my preseason top 100 MLB prospect rankings reach or appear in the majors this year, including the top two prospects, five of the top 10, four of the next 10 and 18 from the top 50.
MLB.com:
Rox top prospect Holliday to have foot surgery, out for the season (source)  —  DENVER — Rockies No. 1 prospect — and MLB Pipeline's No. 17 prospect — Ethan Holliday will undergo surgery for a stress fracture in his left foot and miss the remainder of the season, a source told MLB.com on Friday.
Rich Haelig / The Good Phight:
Wroad block: Dodgers 4, Phillies 2  —  The Philadelphia Phillies (29-28) played their first game in Chavez Ravine since they were eliminated in the National League Divisional Series last October and fell 4-2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers (37-20) on Friday night.
Alex D'Agostino / Sports Illustrated:
Former Diamondbacks Reliever Makes Surprising Jump to Mexican League  —  One of Arizona's former relievers is taking a new opportunity, in a surprising new place.  —  One of the Arizona Diamondbacks' more positive bullpen contributors from the 2026 season is moving on to a somewhat-surprising new pitching opportunities.
Associated Press:
Ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine dons famous disguise again  —  NEW YORK — Bobby Valentine was just trying to keep things loose — and perhaps save his job — when he donned a makeshift disguise and returned to the New York Mets' dugout after being ejected from a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on June 9, 1999.
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Pat Brennan / Cincinnati.com:
The Reds are losing Graham Ashcraft to the 60-day IL.  Here's what we know … The Cincinnati Reds' pitching staff's ongoing battle to get healthy and stay healthy continued with the team's announcement that reliever Graham Ashcraft will go on the the 60-day injured list.
 
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Kevin Acee / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Padres Daily: Not great vs. the best; Buehler's quick work; in defense of Souza
Discussion: Yahoo Sports, Gaslamp Ball and MLB.com
Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
Yankees Notes: Bullpen, Lagrange, Catcher
Chris McCosky / The Detroit News:
Tigers' Gleyber Torres, Kerry Carpenter to start rehab games
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Andrew Gross / Newsday:
Nearly 60 years ago, Lou Lamoriello recruited Bobby Valentine to play on his baseball team. They remain friends to this day.
Jen McCaffrey / The Athletic:
The key to the Red Sox offense lately? Bench players Gasper, Sogard and Kiner-Falefa
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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Bob Horner was a baseball legend, family man and a hero of mine growing up
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