• Yankees’ Brian Cashman ‘optimistic’ there will be an MLB season

    Yankees’ Brian Cashman ‘optimistic’ there will be an MLB season

    During a fundraising Zoom session on Thursday, Brian Cashman was asked if he believed owners and players will agree on compensation and if there will be a season this year. “I don’t represent the players or the Players Association. There are a lot of hurdles everyone is trying to navigate and certainly finding common ground …
  • 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 …
  • MLB coronavirus protocols include limiting spitting, high fives

    MLB coronavirus protocols include limiting spitting, high fives

    MLB’s medical/safety protocols to return to play will include trying to discourage players from spitting, high-fiving and taking ride services such as Uber to the ballpark. MLB has discussed a variety of these issues with the Players Association, but as of Wednesday night had not officially presented the full medical/safety document to the union. Even …
  • MLB’s 82-game plan presents teams with new set of pitfalls

    MLB’s 82-game plan presents teams with new set of pitfalls

    A major league season is a lie detector test. You can fake a week, a month, perhaps even a few months. But 162 games reveal a club, exposes if it has both depth of players and character. A 7-9 NFL team can become 9-7 with a few bounces of a weirdly shaped ball going one …
  • 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 …
  • Mets, Yoenis Cespedes would get biggest NL boost from universal DH

    Mets, Yoenis Cespedes would get biggest NL boost from universal DH

    When the Mets played at Yankee Stadium on July 20, 2018, Asdrubal Cabrera was at second, Matt den Dekker was in center, Jose Bautista at third, Wilmer Flores at first and Devin Mesoraco behind the plate. The designated hitter was Yoenis Cespedes. This was the last time he played a major league game. You might …
  • 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 …
  • Clock is suddenly ticking on MLB’s 82-game season proposal

    Clock is suddenly ticking on MLB’s 82-game season proposal

    A virtual meeting was set for Tuesday afternoon at which MLB would present its proposal to top officials from the Players Association concerning how to return the game to the field. The expectation was that the meeting would begin at 2:30 p.m. with an MLB group led by commissioner Rob Manfred taking the union item …
  • MLB players’ excruciating restart dilemma may cause agita

    MLB players’ excruciating restart dilemma may cause agita

    Starting Tuesday, Major League Baseball and the Players Association will formally try to work out an agreement for a baseball season like no other. Within that high-stakes chess game, each side must work through internal differences of opinion to determine its policy. The players, in particular, must run a cost-benefit analysis like no other: How …
  • SI Yankees in serious trouble as politicians plead to save them

    SI Yankees in serious trouble as politicians plead to save them

    The Staten Island Yankees, their prized affiliation with the reigning AL East champions in serious jeopardy, received public support from local government officials on Monday in an attempt to survive the imminent downsizing of Minor League Baseball. Congressman Max Rose, whose district includes all of Staten Island as well as a piece of Brooklyn, and …