Baseball

New York – 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 allowing players to earn about 75 percent of their prorated salaries. Players have refused cuts beyond […]

Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. – Baseball players in their final year of high school will be presented with dirt from Koshien Stadium as a memento after two national tournaments at the ballpark were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Hanshin Tigers and the stadium operator said Monday. The Tigers, who […]

Chicago – 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 of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud […]

Players accused teams of « depriving America of baseball games” as part of a money fight set off by the coronavirus pandemic and raised the possibility baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred might push ahead with a shortened season over the union’s objection. Bruce Meyer, the union’s chief negotiator, sent a letter to […]

New York – Baseball players reaffirmed their stance for full prorated pay, leaving a huge gap with teams that could scuttle plans to start the coronavirus-delayed season around the Fourth of July and may leave owners focusing on a schedule as short as 50 games. More than 100 players, including […]

New York – If Major League Baseball and its players take the field for a coronanvirus-delayed 2020 season, it will be after acrimonious negotiations that resemble their labor war of a generation ago. MLB rejected the players’ proposal for a 114-game regular season with no additional salary cuts, and will […]

Two Yomiuri Giants players have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Central League team announced Wednesday, casting a shadow over Nippon Professional Baseball’s plan to start the 2020 season on June 19. Giants shortstop Hayato Sakamoto and catcher Takumi Oshiro are the first pro baseball players in Japan known […]

The Yomiuri Giants canceled their scheduled practice game against the Seibu Lions on Wednesday, with a team source saying the decision was made after a player was believed to have contracted the coronavirus. If confirmed, the Giants player will be the first professional baseball player in Japan known to have […]

In the back-and-and-forth negotiations between Major League Baseball players and owners, intended to get the 2020 season started during the coronavirus pandemic, the latest counterproposal from owners is for a micro season in the neighborhood of 50 games, ESPN reported Monday. The owners originally proposed an 82-game regular season to […]

Nippon Professional Baseball’s two leagues announced on Monday part of their revised 2020 schedules, including an opening day matchup on June 19 between the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers at Tokyo Dome. With the season shortened to 120 games following a nearly three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the […]