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Apple, MLB announce 'Friday Night Baseball' package

Apple will enter the live sports coverage arena with “Friday Night Baseball.”

The Independent UK

MLB threatens to cancel more games if labor deal isn’t reached on Tuesday

Both sides met again on Tuesday, but no new progress has been announced.

Chicago Sun-Times

Phil Mickelson’s absence from the Players Championship is a beautiful thing

Phil Mickelson won't be at TPC Sawgrass this week and nobody should feel bad for him.

USA Today Sports Media Group

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Ranking North America’s best sports commissioners (and Rob Manfred)

MLB’s commissioner has attracted plenty of criticism after the recent lockout. But how well are his contemporaries doing their jobs?

The Guardian - US

Yankees President Talks Lockout, Urges Compromise: ‘We’re All on the Same Team’

Yankees team president Randy Levine gave a broad interview with ESPN on Monday, addressing MLB's current lockout and canceled games for the 2022 season.

Sports Illustrated

Dieter Kurtenbach: MLB's shift ban is the first good thing to come from the lockout

This Major League Baseball lockout has gone on far too long, it's poised to go on for weeks, perhaps months, yet, and I fear the collateral damage of it will relegate the sport to a second tier in American society.

Tribune News Service

MLB Fans Unhappy with Potential Ban of Defensive Shift

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

Sports Illustrated

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Is MLB banning the defensive shift really going to make a difference in baseball?

Does baseball really need this?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Why MLB owners want bigger bases, explained

This actually makes sense.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Paul Sullivan: Don’t let the Major League Baseball owners’ lockout spoil your spring, Chicago

Wrigleyville was humming on a sunny Saturday morning with the first real hint of a Chicago spring in the air.

Chicago Tribune

Report: MLB Targets Pitch Clock as Lockout Negotiations Continue Sunday

MLB is reportedly interested in implementing a pitch clock during games.

Sports Illustrated

Sideline Chatter: Last time we checked, five players was all you needed

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

Tribune News Service

Kevin Acee: MLB playing dangerous game by canceling games

SAN DIEGO — Jane Jones resides in a senior independent living facility in San Diego's Mission Hills neighborhood.

Tribune News Service

Michael Cunningham: Labor fight crowds out issues driving MLB’s decline

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…

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How MLB’s luxury tax became the sticking point between owners and players

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…

Tribune News Service

Four MLB owners opposed increasing the luxury tax at all: reports

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…

Tribune News Service

Major League Baseball Players Association launches $1 million fund for stadium workers as owners’ lockout drags on

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

Sports Illustrated

A Most Disappointing Week in Baseball

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…

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Baseball Should Expand the Playoffs to 14 Teams

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

Los Angeles Times

Continúa el cierre patronal: partidos cancelados y mucha rabia. ¿Qué le espera a la MLB?

El béisbol llegó a un punto de inflexión con la ruptura de las conversaciones del martes y la cancelación de la primera semana de partidos de la temporada regular, dejando a los jugadores, los propietarios, los aficionados y todos aquellos cuyo sustento depende de este deporte preguntándose: ¿Empezarán a volar…

Sports Illustrated

‘Since When Were Women Allowed’: Inside Their Push to Break Into Baseball

The male-dominated sport still has a long way to go to fix its representation problem.

Tribune News Service

SF Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow on MLB Commissioner Manfred: ‘He’s got to go’

Opening Day is officially canceled, but lead negotiators from Major League Baseball and the Players Association met again Thursday as the two sides continue to lay the groundwork for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Tribune News Service

Joe Starkey: Pirates' response to canceled games is ... quite something

MLB worked hard to prevent this situation.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Scott Lauber: Taking a swing at the factors that will determine when MLB will end its lockout and open the season

PHILADELPHIA — OK, what’s next?

Tribune News Service

Tim Tucker: How Braves’ revenue surge could affect payroll, Freddie Freeman

The disclosure last week of the Braves’ record-setting financial results left many fans asking: What does it all mean for the team’s player payroll and for a potential Freddie Freeman contract?

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