The Best No.1 Draft Pick In Every Team's History

As the June 10-11 MLB Draft approaches, it's a great time to look back at the best first-round selections in each club's history. With the help of each of the 30 MLB.com beat writers, here's a look at a list that includes All-Stars, MVP Award winners, Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers who began their professional journey when they heard their name called in the first round of the MLB Draft.

St. Louis Official Site

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

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

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

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.

St. Louis Official Site

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

The New Fantasy Baseball? Having Fun With Plans To Start The Season!

The “Arizona Plan” didn’t fly very well when MLB tried to gauge public reaction by floating a potential plan for starting the 2020 season. This hot air balloon was intriguing for a little while but got shot down by agitated media.

101 ESPN

Cardinals Close Spring Facility To Official Workouts, Will Reconvene At Some Undetermined Time For 'Camp 2'

Weeks before spring training came to an abrupt halt and plunged the Cardinals and Major League Baseball into a great unknown, manager Mike Shildt would use the word “fluid” to describe how he saw the lineup or how the team would structure its pitching competition for the final weeks. He wanted his players to be open to adapting, not fixed or rigid.

Post-Dispatch

Video: Max Scherzer Spoke About The Ailment On His Right Side 3-10-2020

Max Scherzer spoke about the ailment on his right side. #Nationals pic.twitter.com/dm6ROlom6c

— Jessica Camerato (@JessicaCamerato) March 10, 2020

Veteran Cardinals Will Determine 2020 Direction, For Better Or Worse

Adam Wainwright was discussing the millionth Grapefruit League start of his career when he was asked how his ongoing search for the last little bit of life on his pitches compares to where he was at the midpoint of previous camps.

BenFred

Max Scherzer On Adversity In Spring: 'I Welcome It'

Max Scherzer’s second start of Spring Training didn’t go as smoothly as his debut -- and he’s glad.

Washington Official Site

Max Scherzer After Sharp Spring Debut: 'This Is What's Fun'

Max Scherzer was determined to be on the mound for the Nationals’ Spring Training opener on Saturday night.

Washington Official Site

Video: Matthew Liberature On His Mental Approach 2-14-2020

Matthew Liberatore aims to emulate the mental approach of Aroldis Chapman, Max Scherzer, Marcus Stroman and Gerrit Cole: "I think what really separates the guys who are great and the guys who are good is the mental side of the game and the between-the-ears stuff." #STLCards pic.twitter.com/z6XuqCc3Vn

— FOX Sports Midwest (@FSMidwest) February 14, 2020

Video: Nolan Gorman On Matthew Liberatore 2-13-2020

Top #STLCards IF prospect Nolan Gorman says P Matthew Liberatore, his childhood buddy and now his teammate, emulates Chapman and Scherzer: “Those guys intimidate the hitter before they even get up to the box. So it’s kind of like you’re already winning.” #SpringTraining2020 pic.twitter.com/rQVlrQlv9I

— FOX Sports Midwest (@FSMidwest) February 13, 2020

Carlos Martinez Epitomizes Contextual Value, & Other Business School Buzzwords

In recent years, moving a middling starter to relief and discovering a stud has become something of a baseball trope. Spare Andrew Miller or Drew Pomeranz on your hands? Chuck them in the bullpen and they’ll improve. Wade Davis doesn’t thrill you as a starter? Let him relieve and he’ll add velo and win you a World Series.

Fangraphs

Matthew Liberatore Wants To Be The "Biggest, Baddest Dude Out There" When He Takes The Mound

Once the initial excitement of being traded to the Cardinals settled down last week, Matthew Liberatore’s thoughts drifted back to early last summer, and a telephone conversation with Nolan Gorman, his best friend.

STL Sports Page

MLB Has Reportedly Considered Interesting DH Solution

Here's a fun idea.

KMOX

It Will Be Christmas Cardinals Again On FOX Sports Midwest

A Cardinals Christmas marathon has become a tradition at Fox Sports Midwest, and on Wednesday it is set to show condensed versions of five key Redbirds games from last season. It will be the ninth consecutive year of FSM’s holiday Birds Bash.

Post-Dispatch

Annual Cardinals Marathon Airs Christmas Day On FOX Sports Midwest

FOX Sports Midwest will replay five of the most memorable Cardinals games of 2019 in its ninth annual Cardinals Christmas Marathon on Wednesday, Dec. 25.

Fox Sports Midwest

Max Scherzer Cleared After MRI Following World Series

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