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Because the criteria for what makes a Hall of Famer has become confusing in recent years, it is worth comparing baseball players not in the Hall with those who are. [...]

The team has three confirmed breakthrough cases, and may add three more positive cases in an outbreak that could affect multiple All-Stars. At 4:45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, Alex Rodriguez [...]

With just three weeks before pitchers and catcher report, a letter asked M.L.B. to delay spring training until the Covid-19 situation improved. Pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report in [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel The Baseball Writers' Association of America has voted to remove Kenesaw Mountain Landis's name from the most valuable player awards handed out annually by the organization, the [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques So, that was something. Can we never do it again, please? Major League Baseball's 60-game season has stumbled into its final weekend dazed but intact, like a [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin In a normal MLB season, Game 58 arrives in the first week of June. The weather has turned warmer, all-star balloting has begun, and teams have started [...]

Smoke and haze from wildfires filled Seattle's stadium on Monday. With air quality worsening on Tuesday, games between the Mariners and Giants were moved to San Francisco. A compressed schedule [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY It is a short season and appropriately enough it will be a short September, too. Major League Baseball's traditional month of reckoning will wrap on [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Aug. 09-- Aug. 9--The Pittsburgh Pirates' trip to St. Louis is in serious jeopardy after MLB postponed the Cardinals' weekend series against the Chicago Cubs because of [...]

Byline: Des Bieler MLB and its players' union agreed Thursday to expand this year's playoffs from 10 to 16 teams. The plan still needs to be ratified by team owners, [...]

Byline: GREGORY STRONG, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead The Blue Jays closed up shop in Toronto on Monday to begin a most unusual road trip: a 60-game regular season that won't [...]

Dombrowski brought World Series titles to the Marlins and the Red Sox, and now he's leading an effort to bring a major league club to a new market. Assume for [...]

Byline: MELISSA COUTO, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead The Toronto Blue Jays will be facing a unique situation when they open their summer training camp this weekend. As the [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga When the baseball season starts in just over three weeks - what a phrase to type, even timidly - put aside the old notion that all 30 [...]

Winning a title has been their focus since February, of course. As they return to training, they acknowledged it's gotten a little more complicated. Nearly 60 Yankees players and their [...]

Byline: RONALD BLUM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Lead Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule Tuesday night that will start July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as [...]

Nothing about the season Major League Baseball has sketched out will feel normal. But at least every team has a shot. There will be no asterisk for the 2020 baseball [...]

Byline: RONALD BLUM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Lead Major League Baseball plans to unilaterally issue a 60-game schedule for its shortest season since 1878 after the players' association [...]

After months of failed negotiations, M.L.B. announced it would impose a season on their own, with length to be determined, provided the players accept health and safety protocols. Major League [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman June 18-- Jun. 18--Baseball is on the brink of playing a shortened season, following a face-to-face meeting between MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and MLB Players Association executive [...]

Teams would play 60 games starting in mid-July under a framework Commissioner Rob Manfred said he had reached with Tony Clark, the union head. After weeks of acrimony and brinkmanship [...]

Byline: RONALD BLUM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Lead Major League Baseball might not play at all this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' [...]

A baseball season of roughly 50 games appears to be increasingly inevitable after another round of pointed statements between the league and the players' union. What once seemed like a [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead This week, Bill DeWitt Jr. was trying to explain that despite all appearances, baseball is more like missionary work than commerce. 'The industry isn't very [...]

After another proposal from the owners, and more scoffing from the players, a 50-game season seems to be the most likely outcome. Nobody wants a 50-game Major League Baseball season. [...]