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

MLB Owners' Latest Proposal: Full Prorated Salaries, But Significantly Shorter Season

Another day, another negotiation between the MLB and the MLBPA. Except this time, there seems to be some progress made in closing in on a realistic solution.

KMOX

Mascots Wonder Why They're Banned From MLB

The Phillie Phanatic had stories of his favorite adventures — from the Galapagos Islands to the cobblestone streets of Philadelphia — read to him most weeks from his very best buds. The Philly furball was tucked in with a bedtime story from Bryce Harper. Andrew McCutchen and manager Joe Girardi stopped by as guest readers to entertain fans and unite the Phillies community.

Japan Times

Jack Flaherty Among MLB Stars To React To League's Latest Proposal

No 50-50 revenue split, no more issues... right?

KMOX

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

How About MLB Players Take The Season Off & We Let Baseball's Scrubs Play Instead?

Word is that some Major League Baseball stars aren’t sold on the idea of playing games in an uncertain environment for something less than half of their contracted salary amount.

Cheap Seats

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.

St. Louis Official Site

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.

KSDK

Predicting The MLB Team Of The 2020s

2020 has been a strange year thus far, but in an ideal world, our lives will eventually return to some sense of normalcy here in the United States. When that happens, hopefully it’ll mean the return of sports—and specifically to my interest, the return of baseball.

KMOV

Cardinals Capsules, Vol.13: Cardinals Storm Back To Beat Nationals In Game Five Of 2012 NLDS

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

Angels Considered Yasiel Puig, Who Turned Down One-Year Offer From NL Team

The Angels have considered Yasiel Puig, but not too seriously. Puig, who remains a free agent, is believed to have turned down a one-year, $10-million contract from a National League team.

LA Times

Why Yasiel Puig Finds Himself Stuck In The Middle

The theory of why the very best free agents in baseball get the money they do can be summed up succinctly by a Bill James quote from the 1988 Baseball Abstract: “Talent in baseball is not normally distributed. It is a pyramid. For every player who is 10 percent above the average player, there are probably twenty players who are 10 percent below average.”

Beyond The Boxscore

Bryce Harper Fully Invested In Future With Phillies

Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm leaned onto the railing in the Phillies dugout Monday at Spectrum Field in Clearwater, just a couple of former first-round Draft picks chatting during an early Grapefruit League game.

Philadelphia Official Site

Bryce Harper 'Pumped' For Phillies' 2020 Potential

A year ago at this time, Phillies managing partner John Middleton had not even boarded his private jet to fly to Las Vegas, Nev., to try to convince Bryce Harper to sign a record-setting contract with the Phils.

Philadelphia Official Site

Nolan Arenado Looking To Move Past Offseason Strife

Declining to say whether he pushed to be traded, Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado vowed to push past an offseason of friction between him and the front office.

Colorado Official Site

Dusty Baker To Be Astros Manager

The Houston Astros, a franchise in the crosshairs of Major League Baseball’s cheating scandal, is about to choose Dusty Baker to be their next manager, according to a person familiar with the hiring.

USA Today

Who Has Baseball's Best Farm? We Asked Execs

Baseball fans love to argue over who the best prospects in baseball are, which teams have the most young talent and how each organization’s farm system stacks up against the others. But what do baseball's decision-makers think?

MLB Official Site

Nolan Arenado Could Be The Missing Piece To A Cardinals' Championship Season

Ever since Albert Pujols left St. Louis for the west coast eight-plus years ago, the Cardinals have been looking for that missing superstar to supply the kind of success on the field as well as the prestige away from it that Pujols provided for 11 seasons.

KSDK

The Cardinals Should Strongly Consider Bringing Back Marcell Ozuna

It looks like the Major League Baseball free agent freeze outs of recent years has finally thawed, the St. Louis Cardinals are still turning a cold shoulder on slugging outfielder Marcell Ozuna.

Cheap Seats

Cardinals Should Resign Marcell Ozuna If He Will Take A Short-Term Deal

The Major League Baseball talent market has shifted dramatically in the past three days and it could create some opportunities for the St. Louis Cardinals if the front office is really interested in being “opportunistic.”

Cheap Seats