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With Father’s Day upon us, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are discussing a holiday-appropriate gift for their remaining fans: Ties. An industry source confirmed a report by USA Today that, in their recent discussions to restart the 2020 season, the owners and players have agreed to contemplate calling games as ties after …

MLB ordered all 30 spring training camps closed for a deep cleaning and disinfecting and that all personnel who want to continue unofficial workouts when the sites reopen will have to undergo a COVID-19 screening. The league was reacting to both the rising number of cases in Arizona and Florida — the states that house …

The distance between 60 and 70, apparently, is a world apart in the twisted universe of Major League Baseball. The MLB Players Association announced Friday night that it received word from its partners/enemies on the other side of the aisle that there would be no more going back and forth on the amount of regular-season …

With three spring training sites closing Friday due to coronavirus-related issues, MLB was strongly considering shutting all 30 facilities again to cleanse them and then establish a testing protocol when players return, The Post has learned. The Phillies and Blue Jays in Western Florida and the Giants in Arizona closed their camps in response to …

The Yankees’ plan to hold a second spring training ahead of a shortened season was to use George M. Steinbrenner Field and the nearby minor league complex for the workouts in Tampa, where there are already are about 20 players working out. However, that plan could be altered because of the recent Florida spike in …

In case anyone needed a reminder that the labor dispute between Major League Baseball and the Players Association is just one thing that could erase the 2020 baseball season, the Phillies confirmed they are dealing with a coronavirus outbreak at their spring training facility in Clearwater, Fla. The outbreak, first reported by NBC Sports Philadelphia, …

Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the 13 minutes in which professional baseball players enjoyed prosperity in the court of public opinion. If you blinked you missed it all, kind of like Kevin Maas’ career as Yankee Clipper 2.0. It isn’t that the MLBPA was wrong to counter the owners’ 60-game schedule Thursday with one 10 …

The third person in a room with Tony Clark and Rob Manfred shouldn’t be a UFC referee, it should be a court stenographer. As we have learned with these two sides, they are never going to agree to agree even on what they supposedly have agreed upon. One man’s framework is another’s proposal. The difference …

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Everyone seems to have an opinion on the stalled contract negotiations between MLB owners and players that are delaying the start of the 2020 season. But one point of view struck a nerve with Brewers star Christian Yelich. Earlier in the week, players began sharing the same message of solidarity as others called out the …