MLBPA Proposes 89-Game Season With Full Propated Salaries

Baseball players moved toward teams but remained far apart economically in their latest proposal for starting the pandemic-delayed season, adamant they receive full prorated salaries while offering to cut the regular season to 89 games.

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MLB Proposal Of Up To 16 Playoff Teams Is Generally Acceptable, Under The Circumstances

Maybe this might get Mike Trout back into the playoffs.

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MLB Proposes 76-Game Season, Playoff Expansion, Salary Cuts

Major League Baseball has made another try to start the coronavirus-delayed season in early July, proposing a 76-game regular season, expanding the playoffs from 10 teams to as many as 16 and allowing players to earn about 75% of their prorated salaries.

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It Seems Unlikely We'll Get To Watch The Cardinals Play Baseball This Year

It looks, after the latest fruitless exchange between Major League Baseball owners and players, it seems like we’re down to two options: a 48-game season or nothing.

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MLBPA Reaffirms Demand For Full Propated Salaries

Baseball players reaffirmed their stance for full prorated pay, leaving a huge gap with teams that could scuttle plans to start the coronavirus-delayed season around the Fourth of July and may leave owners focusing on a schedule as short as 50 games.

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Negotiating Labor Peace In Star-Driven Sports Is Difficult

Agent Scott Boras is having an outsized impact on the contentious return-to-play bargaining between the players and owners.

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MLBPA Proposes 114-Game Season With No Further Pay Cuts

Major League Baseball players proposed a 114-game regular season Sunday, up from 82 in management’s offer, but no additional pay cuts beyond the one they agreed to in March, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.

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Scott Boras Urges Clients Not To Bail Out Baseball Owners

Agent Scott Boras recommends his clients refuse Major League Baseball’s attempt to cut salaries during negotiations with the players’ association, claiming team financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic have their origin in management debt financing.

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Max Scherzer: Union Sees Further Salary Reductions For Players As Non-Starter

Baseball players appeared likely to propose more regular-season games this year while holding to their demand for full prorated salaries, people familiar with their deliberations told The Associated Press.

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Despite 'Daunting Obstacles' & 'Disappointing' Proposal From MLB, Andrew Miller Sees Route To Baseball In 2020

Despite a financial proposal from Major League Baseball’s owners that landed with a thud Tuesday and drew sentiments of disappointment and frustrations from players, a veteran union rep still sees a way past “daunting obstacles” to save a 2020 regular season.

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Baseball Owners, Players Must Set Aside Rhetoric, Forge Partnership

Owners and players must come together to move baseball forward through the pandemic crisis and the years-long rebuild to come.

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Players Call MLB's Financial Proposal 'Extremely Disappointing'

A rookie at the major league minimum would keep about 47% of his original salary this year while multimillionaire stars Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole would lose more than 77% under a sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players found “extremely disappointing.”

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Player Of The Century? So Far, It's Albert Pujols

Mike Trout was the Player of the Decade, without question, hands down, either as an MVP or MVP contender just about every single year. If he is blessed with good health, he may be discussed some day with Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle at his best and Hank Aaron as one of the greatest all-around players of all time, even without much of a postseason resume. So far he has played just three postseason games in his career, with one hit, a home run.

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Where Will Albert Pujols Finish On All-Time Home Run List?

Not having a full 162-game season in 2020 will undoubtedly affect how far Albert Pujols can climb up baseball's all-time home runs list. If there doesn't end up being a 2020 season at all - as opposed to a shortened season - that will be devastating for the 40-year-old.

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Better Than You Remember: Terry Pendleton

While we’re waiting for baseball to come back, we are making do. So once a week, inspired by the late Deadspin’s “Let’s Remember Some Guys” series, we will take a look at one player in baseball history, why he was great, why he mattered and why we should hang on to him. Send me your suggestions at will.leitch@mlb.com.

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Most Hyped Outfield Prospects Of The Past 20 Years

If you’re looking for some of the toolsiest players in baseball, look no further than the outfield. That’s true across the big leagues and on prospect rankings over the years.

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Albert Pujols Not Yet Ready To Talk Retirement

Albert Pujols, who celebrated his 40th birthday in January, has already cemented his place in the Hall of Fame. But a shortened or canceled 2020 season would significantly affect his ability to reach key milestones.

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This Is The Biggest Trash Talker On Every Team

Whether it be on the field after making a big play or in the clubhouse during a pregame ping-pong tournament (or even online in the MLB The Show Players League), every team seems to have that one player who likes to talk a little bit -- or, in some cases, a lot -- of trash.

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Jack Flaherty Is Exactly The Kind Of Star Baseball Is Looking For

It's no secret that baseball has had a hard time marketing their stars to a national audience over the past decade or so. Maybe longer than that. Any simple internet search could lead you to countless articles articulating the problem.

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MLB Discussing Three-State Plan With One Hub In Texas As Possible Solution To Start 2020 Season

With the spread of the novel coronavirus threatening Major League Baseball's 2020 season, the league and the union continue to seek ways to salvage the year as best they can. Predictably, that has entailed any number of proposals and contingency plans, including those that would see teams either all isolated in Arizona, or split between Arizona and Florida. On Monday, multiple league sources informed CBS Sports about a different idea that has been discussed in recent days.

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