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MLB lockout: League, owners make new proposal; players said to be underwhelmed

Rob Manfred promised a “good proposal” Saturday, as Major League Baseball returned to the bargaining table opposite the MLB Players Association. The general reaction from players who were locked out by the commissioner on Dec. 2: Not good enough.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Report: MLB Lawyer Argues Minor Leaguers Should Not Be Paid During Spring Training

A Major League Baseball lawyer argued against paying minor league players in spring training during a federal court hearing on Friday.

Sports Illustrated

Rob Manfred’s latest tactic to justify the MLB lockout is his most laughable

Will the investment bank that analyzed MLB team values please stand up?

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred: Missing regular-season games would be ‘disastrous’

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.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Bianchi: Welcome to Orlando, MLB owners: Now help us land the Tampa Bay Rays

Dear Major League Baseball owners and Commissioner Rob Manfred:

Orlando Sentinel

Jury selected in trial of former Angels employee charged in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

Jurors in the trial of a Major League Baseball executive accused of providing a controlled substance that caused the death of a Los Angeles Angels player in Southlake will likely hear from a witness to whom prosecutors offered immunity in order to testify.

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Mets’ Max Scherzer says players ‘ready to go’ whenever new agreement with MLB is made

Max Scherzer, like so many others who play, watch, or care about Major League Baseball, is ready to go.

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MLB ends drug testing for duration of lockout

Major League Baseball has stopped testing players for steroids for the first time in nearly 20 years due to the expiration of the sport’s drug agreement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Liverpool owners FSG could lose millions as John Henry prepares for more in US row

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

Liverpool Echo

How a Labor Lawyer Sees MLB’s Latest Lockout Tactic

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…

Sports Illustrated

MLB players union rejects owners’ request for federal mediator, urges league to meet at the table

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.

Tribune News Service

MLB spring training likely to be delayed after latest negotiation roadblock

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

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB requests federal mediation to help resolve lockout

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 Philadelphia Inquirer

WAR Is Not the Solution for Baseball’s Labor Woes

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…

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Gene Clines, part of Pirates' 1971 World Series winner and MLB's first all-minority lineup, dies at 75

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.

Orlando Sentinel

Mike Bianchi: Time is right for Orlando to make a run at Tampa Bay Rays

Only a couple hours after Major League Baseball killed the Tampa Bay Rays’ kooky, controversial plan to split their home schedule with the city of Montreal, my phone rang last week.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: Barry Bonds didn’t make the Hall of Fame. Get over it.

LOS ANGELES — Neither his name nor his greatest accomplishment are hidden. On the official website of Major League Baseball, he is immortalized as owner of the sport’s most cherished record, atop the all-time home run list: Barry Bonds, 762.

Tribune News Service

MLB, players’ union schedule second meeting amid labor negotiations: reports

In today’s Major League Baseball labor negotiation news: there is no deal, but there is another meeting.

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Jim Souhan: How about a robot arbitrator to settle MLB’s dispute?

While the NFL dominated the sports landscape the past two weekends, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association continued to dawdle and damage their own popularity.

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Analysis: How might Orioles’ changes at Camden Yards affect number of home runs? Here’s what we found.

BALTIMORE — Of the changes that have happened throughout the Orioles organization over the past handful of years, perhaps none is as certain to be long-lasting as the team’s decision to alter the left-field dimensions at Camden Yards. But for several reasons — “everything from the ball that Major League…

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Why did the Rays’ Montreal plan get rejected?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — About the only thing Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg could think Thursday was that Major League Baseball didn’t want to be the first league having a team split its home games between two markets.

Tribune News Service

MLB kills Rays’ split-city plan with Montreal

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays’ proposed plan to split seasons in Montreal has been killed by Major League Baseball officials, creating even more uncertainty about the team’s long-term future in Tampa Bay.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Scott Lauber: MLB lockout: When must a deal be struck to avoid a delayed spring training or regular season?

PHILADELPHIA — Never mind the six weeks of radio silence from Major League Baseball, or the lead balloon proposed by the owners last Thursday, or the saber-rattling that is sure to ensue once collective bargaining picks up for real over the next few weeks. Baseball fans, especially those with midwinter…

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Arizona Retirement: Nine Things You Must Know

The Grand Canyon State offers so much more than that gorgeous hole in the ground. Check out whether you'd like to spend your golden years in this southwestern state.

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