The Latest Breaking News from MLB

Major League Baseball wants to ban the shift, and the MLBPA appears to be open to the ban.

Does baseball really need this?

Remember the Alamo — but you can add IUPUI, for good measure.

MLB franchise owners and players are figuring out how to divide a very large pot of money. There doesn’t seem to be much discussion about improving the product. Growing baseball revenue has become disconnected from growing the game. The former obviously depends on the latter, but making baseball better requires…

The Competitive Balance Tax (CBT), better known as the luxury tax, is a sticking point in the ongoing labor negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Players Association. The CBT is said to be the major hot-button topic blocking both parties from reaching a deal on a new Collective Bargaining…

NEW YORK — Four MLB owners — the Reds’ Bob Castellini, Tigers’ Chris Ilitch, Diamondbacks’ Ken Kendrick, and Angels’ Arte Moreno — objected to the league’s proposal to raise the competitive balance tax, making it clear that getting 23 owners and the union to agree to a deal will be…

NEW YORK — The players are stepping up and giving back to those unfairly affected by MLB’s lockout.

Now what? That’s the question I keep asking myself in the days since Rob Manfred canceled the first week of the regular season. We’re now in the third month of the lockout that he and the MLB owners implemented, and it’s difficult to know when exactly we’ll watch major-league games…

It’s a great way to make MLB more exciting and create more competition—on the field and in free agency.