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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

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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.

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

Sports Illustrated

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.

Sports Illustrated

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…

Los Angeles Times

‘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.

Sports Illustrated

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.

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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?

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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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Deesha Thosar: Major League Baseball is picking up where it left off in 2020

NEW YORK — When you want to catch a thief, watch their hands, not their mouth.

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Dennis Young: N.Y. Gov. Hochul makes complete mess of statement on MLB lockout

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a curious statement about the MLB lockout late Wednesday night, invoking everything from the war in Ukraine to stadium and restaurant workers.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The rich men who control baseball show they don't care about fans, again

It's easy to say that in labor negotiations each side must give a little. That won't do in the case of Major League Baseball.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB, union negotiators try to figure out next step in labor talks

Negotiations broke off Tuesday after the ninth straight day of meetings in Jupiter, Florida, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that opening day and the first two series for each team this season had been canceled.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Top MLB prospect Druw Jones had the coolest response to HS crowd’s ‘overrated’ chants

That's how you quiet a crowd.

Tribune News Service

Jerry McDonald: Why is NFL king while MLB struggles? Look no further than this week.

If you want a stark example of how the NFL has lapped MLB when it comes to fan interest it would be hard to top the news this week.

Los Angeles Times

A continuing lockout, canceled games and a lot of anger. What's next for MLB?

LOS ANGELES — If negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement were akin to a benches-clearing brawl, players and owners would be bunched in front of the mound, their bullpens and dugouts having emptied, pointing fingers and hurling insults toward one another, with some needing to be restrained.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: A very serious look at how the next few months of negotiations between MLB and players could unfold

With the MLB owners’ lockout leading to the cancellation of the opening week of the 2022 season, anxious baseball fans are asking the same question: “What’s next?”

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