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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Tony Paul / The Detroit News:
Tigers lose again on walk-off homer against White Sox — Chicago — It just keeps happening. Expect anything different? — Miguel Vargas hit a two-out, two-run home run off Drew Anderson in the 10th inning as the White Sox beat the Tigers, 4-3, at Rate Field on Friday night.
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Cole Weintraub / NBC Sports Philadelphia:
Phillies' rebound has failed to erase glaring roster flaw at one-third mark — One month under Don Mattingly has changed plenty, but the Phillies still need a real answer for their right-handed outfield bat problem. — SAN DIEGO — One month into the Don Mattingly Era, a lot has gone right for the Phillies.
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Matt Gelb / The Athletic:
Adolis García, Nick Castellanos and the Phillies' quest for a righty-hitting OF
Adolis García, Nick Castellanos and the Phillies' quest for a righty-hitting OF
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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.
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Chris McCosky / The Detroit News:
Tigers' Gleyber Torres, Kerry Carpenter to start rehab games — Detroit — Second baseman Gleyber Torres and outfielder Kerry Carpenter, two vital cogs in the Tigers' offense, are starting rehab assignments. — Both were scheduled to join Triple-A Toledo on Thursday.
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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. — Lou Lamoriello was tipped off to the greatness of Bobby Valentine as an athlete. So the former Islanders president/general manager recruited the just-turned-17-year-old …
The Athletic:
What are the biggest long-term concerns for the Mets? — NEW YORK — The New York Mets on Wednesday were dangerously close to falling to a new low under president of baseball operations David Stearns. — They held on to a 4-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds to avoid dropping to 12 games below .500.
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