4:44 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in
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6:31 PM ET The Oakland Athletics, feeling the financial crunch of a 2020 season that has yet to get off the ground, have implemented a system of furloughs and salary reductions that will impact the majority of their baseball-operations department, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Professional scouts will be furloughed next week and amateur scouts
5:21 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Tuesday that they will not impose furloughs or layoffs on full-time employees due to the coronavirus pandemic but instead will begin a system of tiered salary cuts. The Dodgers informed hundreds of their employees on a Zoom call Tuesday afternoon that the salary cuts — which will
5:53 PM ET Team owners in Major League Baseball have reportedly made their long-anticipated initial proposal to the MLB Players Association about what the players could make during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. Working from what details have come out from sources, we look at the key takeaways from what we’re hearing about the proposal so
3:43 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Dodger Stadium, which has hosted nearly 20 million fans over the last five seasons, opened as a coronavirus testing facility that is considered to be the largest in the state of California. The drive-through testing site has the capacity to test 6,000 people daily, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. If there’s a pathway to play baseball under the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 season will serve as an accelerated test lab for implementing changes in the game. One of them will be the use of a universal designated hitter.
7:00 AM ET ESPN continues MLB Encore Tuesdays, a series of classic game broadcasts, this week at 7 p.m. ET with Game 7 of the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. What you need to know: Given everything at stake, this has to be considered one of the
7:00 AM ET With the June 10 MLB draft two weeks away, team preferences and talent tiers are coming into focus, so it made sense to use the long weekend to pump some sources and put out another mock draft before we enter the final phase of preparations. I have a solid feel for where
4:12 PM ET ESPN News Services The Tampa Bay Rays opened Tropicana Field to limited workouts on Monday, with 14 players, including outfielder Austin Meadows and shortstop Willy Adames, taking part. “It was good to see some smiling faces,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said on a video conference call with reporters after the workouts. Those
8:00 AM ET Alden Gonzalez Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.com Joon Lee Close ESPN Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher ReportCornell University graduate IT BEGAN WITH the hype video that was supposed to introduce the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers on