The Start of the MLB Regular Season Is in Jeopardy It may be a mistake to think the baseball calendar will be the pressure point to force an agreement. Sports Illustrated · Feb 4, 2022
MLB Umpire Joe West Officially Retires After 45 Years Joe West is hanging it up after an eventful career. Sports Illustrated · Feb 4, 2022
Record-setting umpire Joe West officially retires from baseball Roberto Ortiz became the first Puerto Rican-born umpire to join the big league staff in a series of retirements and promotions announced Friday by MLB. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 4, 2022
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 · Feb 4, 2022
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 · Feb 4, 2022
Report: MLB Tells MLBPA It Won’t Counter After Previously Saying It Would Camps are scheduled to begin on Feb. 16 with the first games slated for Feb. 26. Sports Illustrated · Feb 4, 2022
Report: Defamation Lawsuit Against Angels, MLB Reinstated by Appeals Court Former Angels clubhouse manager Bubba Harkins was fired in 2020 for providing pitch-doctoring substances to pitchers. Sports Illustrated · Feb 3, 2022
Mariners remain No. 1 farm system in MLB according to Baseball America The Mariners' climb up from the bottom of Baseball America's overall farm system rankings was steady if not supersonic, taking almost four years to reach the highest possible point. Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2022
Orioles All-Star Cedric Mullins Reveals Crohn’s Disease Diagnosis He was the lone player in MLB to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases last season. Sports Illustrated · Feb 2, 2022
Evan Grant: With February rolling around, MLB negotiators need to get busy Here we go, about to roll into the third month of baseball’s lockout, which is when things turn from just a boring winter into something downright retched. Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2022
2022 Fantasy Baseball: Seattle Mariners Team Outlook Player profiles, stats and analysis for Seattle Mariners hitters and pitchers. Sports Illustrated · Jan 31, 2022
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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. Tribune News Service · Jan 27, 2022
Former Pirates player Gene Clines, part of MLB’s first all-minority lineup, dies at 75 Clines later played three seasons with the Cubs and served as a coach on the North Side. Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 27, 2022
Sports Illustrated · Jan 27, 2022 Minor League Player Advocacy Group Criticizes MLB Housing Plan MLB announced in 2021 it was starting initiatives to improve housing for certain minor-league players.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 27, 2022 2022 Fantasy Baseball: Los Angeles Angels Team Outlook Player profiles, stats and analysis for Los Angeles Angels hitters and pitchers.
Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2022 Jason Mackey: 10 questions to explain baseball's ongoing labor talks Between the Steelers' tumult, Pitt's ACC title, the Penguins' metronomic dominance and ownership change, existing frustration over MLB's flawed economic structure or the fact that we're talking about an argument between millionaires and billionaires during a global pandemic, it was easy to ignore baseball's lockout, if not flat-out preferred.
Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2022 Bill Madden: With help from Rob Manfred, David Ortiz gets free pass into Hall of Fame, while others are held to a higher standard NEW YORK — After wading through the muck of steroids cheats, drug dealer associations, lurid sexual harassment charges, and an alt-right extremist who once called for their lynching, the Baseball Writers Association Tuesday bid good riddance to Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Curt Schilling on their ballot, dealt…
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jan 26, 2022 MLB world reacts to the snubs of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens from Baseball Hall of Fame Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have been snubbed from Cooperstown.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 25, 2022 Report: MLB, MLBPA Agree to Raise Minimum Salaries, Still Apart on Specifics The two sides met on Tuesday, marking the second consecutive day of discussions between the parties.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 25, 2022 2022 Fantasy Baseball: Minnesota Twins Team Outlook Player profiles, stats and analysis for Minnesota Twins hitters and pitchers.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 25, 2022 Ben Frederickson: MLB and NFL are apples and oranges, but America's pastime should borrow these plays from America's most popular league One is a juggernaut on a heat-seeking missile’s path for more (of everything), and it is powered by an audience that cannot get enough. The rocket may crash one day, but it's not going to be tomorrow, so full speed ahead.
Tribune News Service · Jan 24, 2022 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.
Sports Illustrated · Jan 24, 2022 Report: MLBPA Withdraws Proposal to Shorten the Time to Free Agency Both sides plan to meet again Tuesday.
Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 24, 2022 MLB, MLBPA resume labor negotiations Locked-out players withdrew their proposal for more liberalized free agency and lowered their proposed decrease in revenue sharing Monday.