• Blake Snell slams MLB coronavirus plan of reduced pay: ‘Risking my life’

    Blake Snell slams MLB coronavirus plan of reduced pay: ‘Risking my life’

    Take less money to play baseball in 2020? Blake Snell will see you in 2021. The Rays’ Cy Young Award winner made little secret about how he feels regarding a potential 50-50 revenue split that MLB owners are expected to propose to the union in order to resume its season, saying it’s “just not worth …
  • Mark Teixeira’s MLB proposal stance ‘just so stupid’: Dodgers’ Alex Wood

    Mark Teixeira’s MLB proposal stance ‘just so stupid’: Dodgers’ Alex Wood

    Alex Wood hasn’t lost his fastball, even two months after coronavirus suspended MLB’s season. The Dodgers pitcher reacted to Mark Teixeira’s suggestion that players should take less money than expected to play baseball this year, slamming him for the take on Twitter. “I refuse to judge someone I don’t really know off of one comment …
  • MLB doesn’t make economic proposal in lengthy union meeting

    MLB doesn’t make economic proposal in lengthy union meeting

    MLB did not make a formal economic proposal as part of its presentation Tuesday to the Players Association on how it sees restarting the season. The sides met for 90 minutes, broke, then continued for another hour, with MLB focusing heavily on the protocols for how it believes it could keep the players and support …
  • MLB will send formal return proposal to union on Tuesday

    MLB will send formal return proposal to union on Tuesday

    MLB owners agreed Monday to the proposal that will be officially sent to the Players Association with the hope of initiating a new round of negotiations as early as Tuesday that most optimistically would begin spring training in about a month and start the season in the first week of July. The 30 control people …
  • MLB ramping up plans for best-case July start to season

    MLB ramping up plans for best-case July start to season

    By the beginning of next week at the latest — perhaps even before this week is concluded — MLB is planning to present to the Players Association a proposal that will include what is currently the most optimistic hope: What would a season look like if spring training 2.0 began in June and the regular …
  • Salary structure likely point of contention if MLB goes fan-less

    Salary structure likely point of contention if MLB goes fan-less

    Earlier this week, in a conversation with a veteran player representative, I asked if the Commissioner’s Office and the Players Association would be the scorpion from The Scorpion and the Frog. In the fable, the scorpion convinces a frog to carry him across the river. The frog says no because you will sting me. The …
  • MLB season likely to start without fans in quest for most games

    MLB season likely to start without fans in quest for most games

    Two items are becoming more and more probable if there is going to be a major league season this year: 1. It is going to begin without crowds. 2. It is going to begin without a standard minor league feeder system. Central to the agreement that was reached last week between MLB and the Players …