Baseball
Manfred now less confident about 2020 season
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Monday, 15 June 2020 16:40
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN on Monday he's "not confident" there will be a 2020 baseball season and that "as long as there's no dialogue" with the MLB Players Association, "that real risk is going to continue."In a conversation with Mike Greenberg for ESPN's "The Return of Sports" special, Manfred walked back comments made to ESPN last…
Source: MLB tells teams scouting can resume
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Monday, 15 June 2020 11:17
Major League Baseball informed clubs on Monday that they can resume scouting activities, ending the ban that was instituted on March 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a source told ESPN.There is a limit of three scouts per MLB club for each event, as a way for clubs to ramp up scouting activity.Although pro baseball has not resumed, amateur baseball…
Joe Torre: 1998 Yankees never got the recognition they deserved
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Monday, 15 June 2020 09:39
A FEW WEEKS AGO, Joe Torre was on the phone with a friend. They were discussing whether Major League Baseball could stage a season this year in spite of the global pandemic and worrying about the damage missing so many games might do to the sport."It could be like before, when the game was sinking a little bit," the friend…
Just how ridiculous is MLB's ongoing money fight?
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Monday, 15 June 2020 11:20
Here are some truths about Major League Baseball right now.The league and players have spent the past two months bickering, not listening to one another and prioritizing self over sport. Their only job was to figure out how to get the game back on the field as soon as possible. They failed.The public faith in baseball is at its lowest…
'Long Gone Summer' takeaways: McGwire's moonshots and Sosa's style
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Sunday, 14 June 2020 21:57
If anything, "Long Gone Summer" is a time capsule of a wonderful summer from 22 years ago, when baseball ruled the sports landscape -- perhaps the last time, except for a few weeks in October 2004 and October 2016, when the national pastime could make that claim without any arguments.Of course, we now know the events of that summer were…
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