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MLB 2020 season update: Where things stand with MLBPA preparing to vote on 60-game season
Major League Baseball and the Players Association (MLBPA) have been negotiating for almost six weeks about a return-to-play plan for the 2020 season. It looks like the two sides could be approaching the finish line. The players are reportedly set to vote Sunday on accepting the league's offer of a 60-game season.
Talks have often been contentious -- especially over salary -- but there was a renewed sense of optimism on Wednesday. A meeting between commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA chief Tony Clark has raised hopes that the two sides are headed for a negotiated settlement.
While an agreement has not been finalized, there are some notable components of various proposals that the two sides seem likely to be used in a 2020 season. They include:
June 21: MLB tweaks offer; MLBPA waiting to vote
Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly reached out to MLBPA chief Tony Clark and offered players some 2021 concessions as part of the league's latest proposal on Sunday. The league is hoping the MLBPA accepts its offer of a 60-game season. Players are set to vote on the offer, but that vote could be pushed as their side tries to gather more information about MLB's coronavirus protocols.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...th-mlbpa-preparing-to-vote-on-60-game-season/
Major League Baseball and the Players Association (MLBPA) have been negotiating for almost six weeks about a return-to-play plan for the 2020 season. It looks like the two sides could be approaching the finish line. The players are reportedly set to vote Sunday on accepting the league's offer of a 60-game season.
Talks have often been contentious -- especially over salary -- but there was a renewed sense of optimism on Wednesday. A meeting between commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA chief Tony Clark has raised hopes that the two sides are headed for a negotiated settlement.
While an agreement has not been finalized, there are some notable components of various proposals that the two sides seem likely to be used in a 2020 season. They include:
- Extensive health and safety protocols for players and team personnel
- Larger rosters (potentially 30-man active rosters and a 20-player taxi squad)
- Universal designated hitter
- Regional schedule to reduce travel (ex: teams in the AL East would only play each other and teams in the NL East)
- Expanded playoffs (with reportedly as many as 16 teams)
June 21: MLB tweaks offer; MLBPA waiting to vote
Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly reached out to MLBPA chief Tony Clark and offered players some 2021 concessions as part of the league's latest proposal on Sunday. The league is hoping the MLBPA accepts its offer of a 60-game season. Players are set to vote on the offer, but that vote could be pushed as their side tries to gather more information about MLB's coronavirus protocols.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...th-mlbpa-preparing-to-vote-on-60-game-season/
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ScriptOhio
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MLB MVPs say time to pull Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name off plaques
Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.
The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
"Why is it on there?" said Larkin, the Black shortstop voted National League MVP in 1995 with the Cincinnati Reds.
"I was always aware of his name and what that meant to slowing the color line in Major League Baseball, of the racial injustice and inequality that Black players had to go through," the Hall of Famer said this week.
Hired in 1920 as the sport's first commissioner to help clean up rampant gambling, Landis and his legacy are "always a complicated story" that includes "documented racism," official MLB historian John Thorn said.
This much is true, in black and white, about the son of a Union Army doctor wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia during the Civil War: No Blacks played in the majors during his quarter-century tenure; Jackie Robinson broke the barrier in April 1947, about 2 ½ years after Landis died.
"Landis is a part of history, even though it was a dark history," Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said.
Fact is, few fans realize Landis' name is plastered all over the Most Valuable Player trophies. Most people just call it the MVP.
But there it is, prominently displayed on every American League and NL MVP plaque since 1944 -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, in shiny, gold letters literally twice as big as those of the winner.
With a sizable imprint of Landis' face, too.
To some MVPs, it's time for that 75-year run to end.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29387969/mvps-say-pull-landis-name-plaques
Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.
The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
"Why is it on there?" said Larkin, the Black shortstop voted National League MVP in 1995 with the Cincinnati Reds.
"I was always aware of his name and what that meant to slowing the color line in Major League Baseball, of the racial injustice and inequality that Black players had to go through," the Hall of Famer said this week.
Hired in 1920 as the sport's first commissioner to help clean up rampant gambling, Landis and his legacy are "always a complicated story" that includes "documented racism," official MLB historian John Thorn said.
This much is true, in black and white, about the son of a Union Army doctor wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia during the Civil War: No Blacks played in the majors during his quarter-century tenure; Jackie Robinson broke the barrier in April 1947, about 2 ½ years after Landis died.
"Landis is a part of history, even though it was a dark history," Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said.
Fact is, few fans realize Landis' name is plastered all over the Most Valuable Player trophies. Most people just call it the MVP.
But there it is, prominently displayed on every American League and NL MVP plaque since 1944 -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, in shiny, gold letters literally twice as big as those of the winner.
With a sizable imprint of Landis' face, too.
To some MVPs, it's time for that 75-year run to end.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29387969/mvps-say-pull-landis-name-plaques
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My neighbor’s son pitches for the Blue Jays and they are not sure where and when they are going to play as of yesterday afternoon. Earlier in the day they were supposed to report to Toronto but their families couldn’t go with them. In the span of 10 minutes the Canadian government changed their mind. Trent is now driving down to the Clearwater area for Spring Training. He is not sure where they will play if the government up there doesn’t let them cross the border.
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MLB MVPs say time to pull Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name off plaques
Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.
The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
"Why is it on there?" said Larkin, the Black shortstop voted National League MVP in 1995 with the Cincinnati Reds.
"I was always aware of his name and what that meant to slowing the color line in Major League Baseball, of the racial injustice and inequality that Black players had to go through," the Hall of Famer said this week.
Hired in 1920 as the sport's first commissioner to help clean up rampant gambling, Landis and his legacy are "always a complicated story" that includes "documented racism," official MLB historian John Thorn said.
This much is true, in black and white, about the son of a Union Army doctor wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia during the Civil War: No Blacks played in the majors during his quarter-century tenure; Jackie Robinson broke the barrier in April 1947, about 2 ½ years after Landis died.
"Landis is a part of history, even though it was a dark history," Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said.
Fact is, few fans realize Landis' name is plastered all over the Most Valuable Player trophies. Most people just call it the MVP.
But there it is, prominently displayed on every American League and NL MVP plaque since 1944 -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, in shiny, gold letters literally twice as big as those of the winner.
With a sizable imprint of Landis' face, too.
To some MVPs, it's time for that 75-year run to end.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29387969/mvps-say-pull-landis-name-plaques
"Negroes are not barred from organized baseball by the commissioner and never have been in the 21 years I have served. There is no rule in organized baseball prohibiting their participation and never has been to my knowledge. If Durocher, or if any other manager, or all of them, want to sign one, or twenty-five Negro players, it is all right with me. That is the business of the managers and the club owners. The business of the commissioner is to interpret the rules of baseball, and to enforce them." KM Landis
Was Landis lying? One historian will tell you yes while another tells you no. Landis does appear to have been an asshole who liked to abuse his authority, at minimum.
So if we are going to change it then let's honor another barrier-breaker, who faced his own share of abuse, who won the NL MVP award: Roberto Clemente.
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Pretty sure I read Shapiro said Jays will play home games in Buffalo if Toronto is unavailable and they will start Summer Training at their Florida site. But, if Toronto is timely opened for them during Summer Training the Jays will charter a plane and fly players and staff north to complete training.
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