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AP Baseball WriterAP sources: MLB offers 76-game season, up to 75% of salariesBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball teams made a new offer to start the coronavirus-delayed season, proposing they guarantee 50% of players' prorated salaries over a 76-game regular season and increase the money to...

Epstein says Cubs planning to create diversity committeeCHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs are creating a diversity committee to help improve the organization's standards and practices.Owner Tom Ricketts and President of Business Operations Crane Kenney are leading the plans, according to President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein.The recent deaths...

AP Baseball WriterPlenty of top players were drafted after the fifth roundBy NOAH TRISTERThis year’s baseball draft has been shortened to five rounds, meaning the number of players picked will be significantly smaller than usual. That could leave several potential contributors among the large group of undrafted players.Although expectations...

AP Baseball WriterA look back at big hits, bad calls as MLB eyes new draft eraBy MIKE FITZPATRICKNEW YORK (AP) Baseball’s amateur draft is about to enter the next phase of its ongoing development - same as all those young prospects picked every year.Even before the coronavirus pandemic,...

AP Baseball WriterDetails of MLB proposal to baseball players' associationBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Details of the proposal made Monday by Major League Baseball to the Major League Baseball Players Association, as obtained by The Associated Press:Season: 76 games per team, starting about July 10 and ending on...

AP Baseball WriterAP sources: MLB offers 76-game year, up to 16 playoff teamsBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball made another try to start the coronavirus-delayed season in early July, proposing a 76-game regular season, expanding the playoffs from 10 teams to as many as 16 and...

AP Baseball WriterAP sources: MLB offers 76-game year, up to 16 playoff teamsBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball made another try to start the coronavirus-delayed season in early July, proposing a 76-game regular season, expanding the playoffs from 10 teams to as many as 16 and...

AP Baseball WriterAP sources: MLB offers 76-game year, up to 16 playoff teamsBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball made another try to start the coronavirus-delayed season in early July, proposing a 76-game regular season, expanding the playoffs from 10 teams up to 16 and allowing players...

AP Baseball WriterAP sources: MLB offers 76-game year, up to 16 playoff teamsBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball teams have proposed a 76-game regular season and up to 16 playoff clubs in a coronavirus-delayed year with players making about 75 percent of their prorated salaries if...

AP Baseball WriterAP Exclusive: MLB plan saves big-spending teams $100M eachBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers would each save more than $100 million on player salaries as part of management’s proposal to start the coronavirus-delayed season than they would...

AP Baseball WriterAP Exclusive: MLB plan saves big-spending teams $100M eachBy RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers would each save more than $100 million on player salaries as part of management’s proposal to start the coronavirus-delayed season than they would...

A's owner John Fisher to pay club's minor leaguers after allOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher has decided to pay his team's minor league players after all, saying he made a mistake.Club spokeswoman Catherine Aker confirmed Fisher's plans Friday, when the San Francisco Chronicle first reported...