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Management says a deal must be reached by the end of Monday’s negotiations to salvage a March 31 start to the regular season and a 162-game schedule.

Chicago Sun-Times

One potential question facing the Chicago Cubs once the MLB lockout ends: How will they use the DH spot?

An occasional rumble of an airplane flying over the back fields of the Chicago Cubs complex broke through the crack of bats and hum of instruction during minor-league minicamp.

Chicago Tribune

MLB: It's deadline day to save opening day, 162-game season

Major League Baseball negotiations to end the lockout are extending to the limit

The Independent UK

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Reports: MLB, Players’ Association Still Without Deal With One Day Until League’s Proposed Deadline

The two sides remained vague about what was discussed on the seventh consecutive day of meetings.

Sports Illustrated

MLB lockout talks recess, will resume Monday; deadline nears

The sides held a series of short and more frequent meetings that management considered productive. The talks stretched into Sunday night and are set to resume at 10 a.m.

Chicago Sun-Times

Michael Cunningham: The Negro leagues are major league, but MLB can’t claim them

ATLANTA — Larry Lester grew up watching the Kansas City Monarchs at the ballpark near his home in late 1950s and early ‘60s. The Negro leagues had declined by then because of MLB’s racial integration, but their legends were part of his community. Buck O’Neil’s wife, Ora, was one of…

Tribune News Service

MLB talks produce progress, anger as deadline approaches

Players were angered by the state of negotiations and would not commit to extending talks. After internal discussions, they agreed to meet for a seventh straight day Sunday.

Chicago Sun-Times

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MLB rejects players’ latest proposal, all but guaranteeing the season won’t start on time

Never mind whether Major League Baseball and the Players Association will come together on a collective bargaining agreement in time to avoid the cancellation of regular-season games.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Friction Grows as MLB CBA Talks Take a Step in the Wrong Direction

Both sides left so frustrated that the talks themselves are in jeopardy as Monday’s deadline looms.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Opening Day in Jeopardy as MLB and MLBPA Continue Tense Negotiations

After another day of tense negotiations, the MLBPA and MLB remain at a stalemate.

Sports Illustrated

MLB’s lockout — 87 days in and counting — is testing fans’ patience. Is baseball blowing it?

In this week’s "Polling Place" — your home for Sun-Times sports polls on Twitter — we posed three questions related to the lockout.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB faces potential lost games, ‘deep harm’ as lockout drags on

MLB has set Monday as the deadline to reach a labor deal and preserve a full season.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, union head Tony Clark meet, as more spring-training games get canceled

Welcome to Deal-or-“Disaster” Weekend — to use MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s word — for Major League Baseball.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Greg Cote: MLB players are on right side in labor dispute, but baseball has far bigger problem to fix

MIAMI — Major League Baseball slogs, regrettably, avoidably, toward the eighth season in its history to suffer a reduced schedule and shortened season.

Miami Herald

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Sports Illustrated

MLB, Players Union Nearing Agreement on Draft Order

The two sides are closing in on an agreement on the draft order and lottery talks as Monday’s deadline approaches.

Sports Illustrated

Rob Manfred’s Entire Argument About Owning a Baseball Team Is False

First off, apologies for sending this newsletter out later than usual. I was waiting to see what happened in today’s bargaining session. For the first time, the two sides made some noticeable progress. According to multiple reports, they are nearing an agreement on the draft order/lottery, though ...

Chicago Sun-Times

Commissioner Rob Manfred joins baseball labor negotiations

MLB and MLBPA representatives met for the fifth straight day during a week with no sign of significant progress.

Sports Illustrated

This Is MLB’s Most Important Weekend in Two Decades

What you need to know as MLB and the MLBPA try to make a deal before Monday’s deadline to start the season on time.

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SI:AM | Why Opening Day’s in Jeopardy

And, DeMar DeRozan picked up right where he left off.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Get the lockout over with this weekend, MLB. The game hangs in the balance.

Get. It. Done.

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Those who fear ‘baseball is dying’ amid MLB lockout are wrong. The game is thriving.

FORT WORTH, Texas — The next time someone says “Baseball is dying,” make sure you get the definition of death.

Sports Illustrated

MLBPA Makes Minor CBA Proposal Changes Ahead of Feb. 28 Deadline

MLB players and owners continue to make minimal progress towards a new CBA as the Feb. 28 deadline looms.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: MLB negotiations are moving at a snail’s pace — or worse, as slowly as a baseball game — and the clock is ticking

CHICAGO — It was 11 years ago in spring training that Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Silva gave beat writers a brief summary of his discussion with pitching coach Mark Riggins about the team’s decision to leave him off the roster.

The Independent UK

MLB 4 days from deadline to cancel games and shorten season

Another negotiating session produced only minor movement and no proposals on big-money issues, leaving Major League Baseball four days from management’s Monday night deadline for a deal to salvage opening day and a 162-game season

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Phillies' Ranger Suárez as the face of the MLB labor fight

PHILADELPHIA — It's easy to see the dollar signs and decimal points, the posturing and legalese, and dismiss the threat of a delayed opening to the Major League Baseball season as a food fight between billionaires and millionaires. Look again, though, and you will find that baseball's first labor conflict…

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