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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 …

Matt Harvey headed back to the East Coast in March at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, traveling to his sister’s house in Rhode Island. But unlike any spring since he got drafted by the Mets in 2010, Harvey didn’t leave a spring training site. Rather, he had been throwing at his agent Scott …

They can’t do it. Right? There is no way — regardless of both the historic and current bad blood — that MLB and the Players Association are going to shut down the game this year over player compensation. That would be so shoot-yourself-in-the-brain, assure-the-negative-first-line-in-your obituary stupid that not even these two hostile sides can navigate …

If you have 1) reached a certain age; 2) followed baseball your entire conscious life; and 3) developed a strong moral fiber, you likely regard the 1981, 1994 and 1995 seasons with the same contempt that a James Bond aficionado holds for “Never Say Never Again.” The 2020 season, should it actually occur, will make …

A normal spring training is six weeks long to get pitchers ready for the grind of a six-month season, which is three weeks more than position players require. Now, with the prospect of a shortened spring training in June in front of games maybe beginning in July, Yankees team doctor Chris Ahmad has raised the …

MLB is expected to make its first formal proposal to the union on Tuesday on how it envisions a season could be played, featuring roughly an 80-game regular season and teams playing exclusively in their regions. The plan, which was detailed by three sources, still must be approved by MLB owners. But if so, what …

Part 14 of a series analyzing the New York Yankees Aaron Judge has become the face of the franchise for the Yankees, but what will that face ultimately represent? Will it be for the record-breaking home run total in his rookie season, the Judge’s Chambers in right field and helping lead the Yankees to three …

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 …

Kevin Malone hasn’t worked in baseball in nearly two decades. Since then, the former general manager has served in a ministry. He’s owned a Mercedes dealership. He’s been the executive producer of a movie. He’s founded an organization dedicated to eradicating human trafficking. Malone, 62, has been out of professional baseball longer than he was …

There’s one way Alex Verdugo could be considered a steal by the Red Sox, regardless of how he performs: if Mookie Betts never plays a game for the Dodgers. The blockbuster trade went down in February, with Betts, in his final year before free agency, and David Price expected to help chase a 2020 World …