The Latest Breaking News from Major League Baseball

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With locked-out pitchers and catchers due to report to camps in a matter of days, and with owners and players far apart on most core economics issues in collective bargaining talks, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred declined Thursday to officially delay the opening of spring training.

Liverpool owners FSG facing loss of revenue if baseball crisis talks continue to falter

When Rob Manfred wrote his letter to “our Fans” on Dec. 2, he explained Major League Baseball’s decision to lock out the players as a tactic to “jumpstart the negotiations and get us to an agreement that will allow the season to start on time.” Then, the league went 43…

NEW YORK — Twenty-one hours after Major League Baseball requested federal mediation, rather than issuing its planned counteroffer, the Major League Baseball Players Association rejected the league’s request.

The players’ union rejected Major League Baseball’s request for a federal mediator to enter stalled labor negotiations.

As Major League Baseball’s lockout enters its third month, and with minimal progress in negotiations with the MLB Players Association, the league is requesting a federal mediator to assist in reaching an agreement, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation said Thursday, confirming an ESPN report.

The good news is that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association met twice this week on consecutive days. And that’s pretty much all the good news from the bargaining table we can cover at this time. There were a handful of interesting developments, some of which were more…

PITTSBURGH — Gene Clines spent 10 years in Major League Baseball as a player, then more than two decades on various coaching staffs during a storied career that included nine different organizations. Yet there's little doubt concerning the date and location of Clines' favorite memories.