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.

Gordo

Scott Boras Will Reportedly Pay Salaries Of Released Minor League Clients

Super-agent Scott Boras will reportedly pay the expected 2020 salaries of his minor league clients who have been or will be released, Jon Heyman reports on Twitter.

CBS Sports

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.

Fox Sports Midwest

Pandemic Can't & Won't Stop MLB Players & Owners From Taking The Low Road

We’ve got billionaires and millionaires pointing fingers while the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic ticks past 100,000 lives lost.

BenFred

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.

Fox Sports Midwest

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.

Gordo

Scott Boras Urges MLB Players To Reject Owners' Latest 2020 Season Proposal

On Monday afternoon, six weeks after MLB owners and players negotiated an agreement to handle salary for the coronavirus-suspended 2020 season, MLB owners proposed new terms. USA Today reported that in light of what owners say will be heavy financial losses from games played in empty ballparks, they would ask the players to forgo their salaries and instead split all revenue 50–50, that they would play 82 games and that they would expand the playoffs to 14 teams.

Sports Illustrated

We Have To Bring Baseball Back

In some of America’s darkest moments, the country has turned to Major League Baseball to bring hope and normalcy back to everyday life.

NY Times

Better Than You Remember: J.D. Drew

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, why we should hang on to him. Send me your suggestions at will.leitch@mlb.com

St. Louis Official Site

MLB, Union Discuss Playing All Games In Arizona

Putting all 30 teams in the Phoenix area this season and playing in empty ballparks was among the ideas discussed Monday by Major League Baseball and the players’ association.

AP

What Will Happen If The Major Leagues Coincide With The LVBP?

What will happen if the MLB season finally takes place and coincides with the LVBP? What will happen to Caribbean baseball, to winter ball in general, if the proposals to extend the MLB schedule until November or December come true?  (Translated)

El Emergente

Cardinals Capsules, Vol.8: Adam Wainwright Does It All In First-Career MLB Start

Welcome back to Cards Capsules, the series in which we take a look back at memorable Cardinals games from the last 20 years in St. Louis baseball history. Without any baseball to watch in the present due to the spread of coronavirus, what better way to fill the time, eh?

KMOV

Scott Boras: MLB Players Already In Best 'Isolation' Situation

Scott Boras, baseball’s most renowned player representative, argued that major leaguers would be best served staying and working out at teams’ spring training sites rather than traveling home.

NY Post

Craig Mish On Marcell Ozuna: 'The Cardinals Are A Fallback Option'

"It would be really surprising to me for Ozuna to return to the Cardinals on a one or two year deal."

KSDK

How Andy Benes Got A Second Chance With Cardinals

Andy Benes and the Cardinals were separated, not estranged, and when the opportunity came to rekindle the relationship they made it happen.

RetroSimba

How Cardinals Stretched To Keep Matt Holliday

The Cardinals liked what they saw from Matt Holliday in the short term and decided to pay the price to keep him for the long term.

RetroSimba

As Winter Picks Up Pace With Scott Boras' Bonanza, Cardinals Still See A Payoff For The 'Patience'; Having A Ball; Minor Moves

Whether it was a rumored appearance at the downtown San Diego barbecue joint featured in “Top Gun,” a spotting in the wild of the lobby bar at the Winter Meetings hotel, appointments in front office suites around baseball, or standing before a backdrop branded with the Boras Corp. logo, superagent Scott Boras seemed to be everywhere this week.

Post-Dispatch

Market Is Begging Cardinals To Bolster Rotation With A Lefty

The “hottest” rumor about the Cardinals on the final day of the Winter Meetings said everything you needed to know.

BenFred

The Cardinals Are Window Shoppers In Baseball's Free Agent Marketplace

Evidently, baseball’s winter spender freeze is thawing. Actually a few wildly aggressive teams, and especially agent Scott Boras, are taking a blow torch to the ice cap … which isn’t to be confused with MLB’s de facto salary cap.

101 ESPN

For Mike Shildt, Building Cardinal' Lineup Depth Is More Important Than The Cleanup Spot

When the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in Las Vegas for the 2018 Winter Meetings, the eight players who would comprise their 2019 everyday lineup were set and under contract.

Belleville News Democrat