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Commentary: To save the MLB season, give fans the deciding vote

In America, spring doesn’t truly begin until the first pitch on opening day. Unfortunately, the Major League Baseball lockout threatens to prolong winter. With players and owners struggling to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, a delayed start to the season seems likely.

Chicago Tribune

MLB cancels spring training games through March 4

The announcement came with the work stoppage in its 79th day, and a day after economic talks between the management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Benjamin Hochman: What will baseball be like if the lockout extends into some of the 2022 season?

ST. LOUIS — I’m reporting to you from the future. It’s Aug. 17, 2022 — so, six months from when you’re reading this. That Major League Baseball lockout you and other fans are enduring? Well, it happened — games were ultimately lost. The owners and players didn’t agree to a…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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MLB lockout: Players propose changes to arbitration system, but little progress made toward agreement

CLEARWATER, Fla. — After a meeting Thursday that was over faster than the average inning in a three-hour game, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association don’t appear to be any closer to an agreement that would enable the season to open on time.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

MLB labor negotiators meet for 15 minutes

On what was supposed to be the second day of spring training, negotiations aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s lockout resumed Thursday at the office of the players’ association.

Chicago Sun-Times

Atlanta Braves Launching MLB Stadium In The Metaverse: Here Are The Details And Why This Is Exciting

The reigning World Series champions are headed to the metaverse in a first for Major League Baseball.

Benzinga

ScottsMiracle-Gro's Subsidiary & The MLB Launch Baseball Field Refurbishment Grant Program

Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG) and Major League Baseball are accepting submissions for the 2022 Scotts Field Refurbishment Grant Program.

Benzinga

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Here's Why Today's Date Matters for the Major League Baseball Lockout

A long 105 days after the end of the 2021 World Series, the beginning of the 2022 season doesn’t look much closer.

Sports Illustrated

Deesha Thosar: As MLB spring training all but delayed, deadline to reach final stage in negotiations inches closer

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is walking right into the so-called “disastrous outcome” that nobody wants, but one that looks like it will happen anyway.

Tribune News Service

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?

USA Today Sports Media Group

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:

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Tribune News Service

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Liverpool Echo

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

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Sports Illustrated

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…

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Sports Illustrated

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…

Tribune News Service

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.

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