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Sources: A's to undergo furloughs, salary cuts
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020 21:42
The Oakland Athletics, feeling the financial crunch of a 2020 season that has yet to get off the ground, have implemented a system of furloughs and salary reductions that will impact the majority of their baseball-operations department, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.Professional scouts will be furloughed next week and amateur scouts will be furloughed shortly after the June 10-11 draft.…
Sources: Players balk at MLB's pay-cut proposal
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020 23:11
Major League Baseball drew the ire of the players' union Tuesday with an economic proposal that called for a significant cut in salaries that would affect all players and particularly the game's highest paid, sources familiar with the proposal told ESPN.The long-awaited plan, the first volley in an expected back-and-forth that will determine whether baseball returns in 2020, proposed a…
Kiley McDaniel's 2020 MLB mock draft 2.0
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020 08:44
With the June 10 MLB draft two weeks away, team preferences and talent tiers are coming into focus, so it made sense to use the long weekend to pump some sources and put out another mock draft before we enter the final phase of preparations. I have a solid feel for where the top half-dozen or so picks stand right…
Key takeaways from MLB's initial economic proposal to restart 2020 season
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:22
Team owners in Major League Baseball have reportedly made their long-anticipated initial proposal to the MLB Players Association about what the players could make during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. Working from what details have come out from sources, we look at the key takeaways from what we're hearing about the proposal so far.What would make a sliding scale be more…
Ex-Pirate Kang suspended by KBO for past DUIs
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Monday, 25 May 2020 11:52
Former Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang was suspended for one year by the Korea Baseball Organization on Monday for multiple drunken driving offenses.Kang, 33, also was ordered to complete 300 hours of community service during Monday's hearing, which he did not attend because he is in the United States. Attorney Kim Sun-woong represented Kang, telling the Yonhap News Agency…
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