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Great news, everyone! Turns out Major League Baseball’s owners and players do hold a commonality after all. Both can illustrate tone deafness like Hall of Famers. Herein lies the difference, however: When Blake Snell proclaims, “I gotta get my money,” we know how much money he wants to get. When Bill DeWitt declares, “The industry …

For the second time in three years, the Yankees used their first pick in Wednesday evening’s 2020 MLB Draft to take a catcher. With the 28th pick in a draft reduced from 40 rounds to five because of the coronavirus, the Yankees selected left-handed hitting Austin Wells from the University of Arizona and Las Vegas …

Pete Crow-Armstrong’s Houdini-like qualities endeared him to the Mets as much as any of the traditional tools. The 18-year-old center fielder can run, throw and projects as a top-of-the-order hitter, but also possesses an “it” factor that attracted him to the team’s talent evaluators. “All spring I called him the left-handed magician in center field,” …

The Red Sox vowed to crack down on racism at Fenway Park after former All-Star Torii Hunter claimed he was called the N-word there “100 times,” including by “little kids” whose parents failed to intervene. Hunter said it became so bad that he called for a no-trade clause in his contract that prevented the veteran …

Rob Manfred pulled a Joe Namath on Wednesday. With his sport dragged down by an ugly battle over dollars, the Major League Baseball commissioner assured the game’s remaining fans that they’ll get their fix soon enough. “We’re going to play baseball in 2020. One-hundred percent” Manfred told the MLB Network’s Tom Verducci, shortly before baseball’s …

The Mets may not be involved, but the interest in Matt Harvey appears to be gaining international momentum. Teams in the Korea Baseball Organization and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball are looking at Harvey, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Last week, Harvey’s representatives had reached out to KBO teams and now the interest may be …

“If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.” – Don Draper Those negotiating the restart of the baseball season define Mad Men. They are crazed in allegiance to their position and fury at each other. Plus, they are relentless sales people diligently advertising views of their accuracy and the other side’s …

They are moving inches. Feet are needed. Probably yards. So more and more it is looking as if the Major League Baseball regular season will be 50-ish games imposed by the commissioner. MLB made a second proposal to restart the season on Monday and the union countered 24 hours later. Neither side liked the other’s …

The biggest news on March 12 was MLB canceling spring training due to the coronavirus. However, college and high school schedules were also terminated, which meant the June draft was going to be dramatically altered in several ways. With few chances to watch players live, teams were going to resort to watching oceans of video …

They are our Little League Boys of Summer, robbed of the joy of playing the game they love and by COVID-19. The Elmora Troopers dreamed of reaching the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., where the 2019 team finished fourth and returned home to a celebratory Elizabeth, N.J., filled with memories that will last …