Proposing A 44-Game 2020 MLB Season, Expanded Playoffs
Right now, Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association are at an impasse. So here’s an idea that may help both sides.
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Right now, Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association are at an impasse. So here’s an idea that may help both sides.
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Front offices and agents are expecting to receive word that the draft will be cut to five rounds.
Reducing the minors to 120 teams, a revised affiliation system and MLBs desire to run the minor leagues are among the key negotiating points.
With at best a shortened minor league season on the way in 2020, we propose revamping the Arizona Fall League to help make up for lost development time.
MLB floated a proposal to extend the draft to 10 rounds, but to install strict spending restrictions as part of the extension.
Using the 2019 MLB Draft as our compass, here is the 2020 draft order and slot values through the 10th round.
We’re constantly asked which teams are in danger of being eliminated. The answer? It’s impossible, at this time, to say.
Minor League Baseball has now agreed to find ways to come to agreement on almost all of MLB’s public demands, hoping that will be enough.
And that’s not the only bad news. Many teams, already in a dire financial situation, are bracing for a sobering economic reality in 2021.
MLB has started to relax restrictions it placed on amateur scouts in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has shut down sports around the world.
Whether the 2020 season is played or not, it’s almost assured that a significant number of MiLB teams will not be playing affiliated professional baseball in 2021.
The decision provides a base level of financial security for players by continuing to pay the $400 stipend players were receiving through April 8.
MLB and MLBPA achieved plenty of what they set out to accomplish in negotiating a new deal. But it comes at a significant cost to amateur draft and international talent.
JJ Cooper and Ben Badler discuss how the coronavirus has affected international baseball.
A MiLB player advocacy group is urging MLB to continue paying MiLB players once the MiLB season was slated to begin.
Baseball America executive editor J.J. Cooper shares the minor league game that helped reinforce his love for baseball.
Here’s how to squeeze as many games as possible out of the MiLB calendar whenever baseball returns.
Some within MiLB believe as many as 40 teams could be financially at risk of not making it through 2020 without aid from the government or elsewhere.
Baseball America is committed to covering the game–and to its readers–as baseball enters uncharted waters caused by the novel coronavirus.
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