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AP Sports WriterFormer Braves C Biff Pocoroba dies at 66; All-Star in 1978By PAUL NEWBERRYATLANTA (AP) Former Atlanta catcher Biff Pocoroba, who played in the 1978 All-Star Game and was a backup on the Braves team that won an improbable NL West title in 1982, has died at...

AP Baseball WriterRoss Stripling pitches ... financial advice during pandemicBy RONALD BLUMRoss Stripling has spent much of the last two months working on an island -- the one in the kitchen of his Houston home.With baseball halted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander returned to his...

AP Baseball WriterRoss Stripling pitches ... financial advice during pandemicBy RONALD BLUMRoss Stripling has spent much of the last two months working on an island -- the one in the kitchen of his Houston home.With baseball halted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander returned to his...

AP Baseball WriterRoss Stripling pitches ... financial advice during pandemicBy RONALD BLUMRoss Stripling has spent much of the last two months working on an island -- the one in the kitchen of his Houston home.With baseball halted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander returned to his...

AP Baseball WriterPlayers call MLB economic proposal `extremely disappointing'By RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) A rookie at the major league minimum would keep about 47% of his original salary this year while multimillionaire stars Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole would lose more than 77% under a sliding-scale proposal by...

AP Sports WriterA's to place scouts on furlough, end minor league payBy JOSH DUBOWThe Oakland Athletics are placing their scouts and a significant number of other front office employees on furlough, suspending pay for minor leaguers and cutting the salaries of other executives as part of a cost-cutting move...

AP Baseball WriterPlayers call MLB economic proposal `extremely disappointing'By RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) A rookie at the major league minimum would keep about 47% of his original salary this year while multimillionaire stars Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole would lose more than 77% under a sliding-scale proposal by...

AP Baseball WriterPlayers call MLB economic proposal `extremely disappointing'By RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) A rookie at the major league minimum would make a higher percentage of his salary than multimillionaire stars like Mike Trout or Gerrit Cole under a six-tier, sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players...

AP Sports WriterA's to place scouts on furlough, end minor league payBy JOSH DUBOWThe Oakland Athletics are placing their scouts and a significant number of other front office employees on furlough, suspending pay for minor leaguers and cutting the salaries of other executives as part of a cost-cutting move...

AP Baseball WriterPlayers call MLB economic proposal `extremely disappointing'By RONALD BLUMNEW YORK (AP) A rookie at the major league minimum would make a higher percentage of his salary than multimillionaire stars like Mike Trout or Gerrit Cole under a sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players found...

Ex-Pirates infielder Kang banned 1 year by Korean leagueSEOUL, South Korea (AP) The Korean Baseball Organization has suspended ex-Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang for a year and ordered him to perform 300 hours of community service over a series drunk driving cases.South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported...

Ex-Pirates infielder Kang banned 1 year by Korean leagueSEOUL, South Korea (AP) The Korean Baseball Organization has suspended ex-Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang for a year and ordered him to perform 300 hours of community service over a series drunk driving cases.South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported...