I have been optimistic that Major League Baseball would eventually reach an agreement with the MLB Players Association to play a shortened 2020 regular season, followed by a postseason similar to the college baseball world series playoff format. Sure, MLB made a ridiculous first proposal to the Players Association, and the players responded, as expected, […]

At a time when our country – and the entire world – needs the return of baseball more than at any other time in its storied 151-year history, doing so took a major step in the wrong direction on Wednesday, when Major League Baseball rejected a counterproposal from the MLB Players Association that called for […]

Monday should have been the 60th game of the 2020 regular season for the Dodgers; an afternoon getaway day game against the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia just north of Atlanta. Instead, the two teams, along with the 28 other Major League Baseball teams, remain in COVID-19-induced limbo, as federal, state, and […]

Late Sunday evening and six days after Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred submitted a return-to-play proposal to the Major League Baseball Players Association, ESPN.com’s Jeff Passon reported on Twitter that a ‘source’ had revealed the MLBPA’s counterproposal. This from Passan: The MLBPA delivered a proposal to MLB on Sunday afternoon, a source familiar with […]