Cardinals Rumors & News

Yahoo! Sports "Befitting Rob Manfred’s reputation as a shrewd labor negotiator, Major League Baseball devised a new strategy this week to defeat the players association in the entrenched economic fight that has stalled plans to schedule a coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. But it..." June 03

12 Up "As several professional sports leagues across the globe make strides towards resuming their suspended seasons amid the coronavirus pandemic, the MLBcontinues to engage in a spiteful financial dispute. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that this predicament lies..." June 03

Larry Brown Sports "This week is regarded as pivotal in efforts to get an agreement in place to play an MLB season in 2020, and optimism among some parties seems to be waning quickly. After Major League Baseball turned down the MLBPA’s counterproposal for a 114-game season, the two sides were left..." June 03

Bleacher Report "Major League Baseball rejected a 114-game proposal for the 2020 season brought forth by the players association, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The league will not make a counteroffer, instead moving forward with discussions for a shorter season. The..." June 03

MLB.com "Major League Baseball issued the following statement today: We offer our condolences to the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and all the families that have lost loved ones due to senseless killing and injustice. " June 03

New York Post "On the bright side, no one calls baseball “boring” at the moment. These heated negotiations to restart the 2020 season continue to entertain, even as they present absolutely terrible optics to a country coping simultaneously with a social crisis and a pandemic. Here are..." June 02

SNY TV "Owners from all 30 Major League Baseball teams convened on a conference call Monday, according to sources, and reiterated the desire to begin the season.  If any owner has gotten to the point where he does not see the value in playing a truncated schedule, he did not express that..." June 02

USA Today "As the days peel off the calendar toward an unofficial but implied deadline to salvage a 2020 season, the gulf between Major League Baseball and the Players' Association appears as many as 74 games wide. Tuesday morning, some two days after its offer of a 114-game season, the..." June 02

MLB Trade Rumors "Right-hander Chris Ellis and catcher Oscar Hernandez were among the 33 minor leaguers released by the Cardinals in the final week of May, Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat reports (Twitter thread). Right-hander Johnny Hellweg was also cut loose...." June 02

ESPN "Is all of the recent acrimony between MLB players and owners real or the byproduct of the early stages of the 2020 season's negotiations playing out in the public spotlight? When recently asked that question, one baseball official's reply was, "Yes." Yes, as..." June 02

NESN "Major League Baseball and the MLBPA are continuing negotiations for a potential 2020 season. Players reportedly were upset with the league’s recent sliding scale economic plan, and the MLBPA has responded with a plan for the season of their own. The MLBPA’s proposal..." June 02

New York Post "MLB and the players association have now swapped financial proposals with each expressing distaste for the opposing plan. And while that keeps the sides far away from an agreement to restart the game, they do continue to heighten a war of words. The players association, represented by..." June 02

Hardball Talk "Across the league, scores of minor leaguers have been released in recent days. Already overworked and underpaid, these players are now left without any kind of reliable income during a pandemic, and during a time of civil unrest. " June 02

St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Manager Mike Shildt insisted, at least twice, it wasn’t preplanned on the first day of live batting practice to have the final pitcher on the mound be Matthew Liberatore, the Cardinals’ prized prospect acquisition in a trade one rival official called “potentially a..." June 01

The Score "Major League Baseball's owners and players are locked in combative negotiations, but it appears they're on the same page regarding temporary realignment. As part of its counteroffer to the league, the players' union agreed to MLB's proposal to abandon the traditional..." June 01

Larry Brown Sports "The daughter of former Oakland A’s manager Art Howe shared some great news on Twitter Monday. Stephanie Sullivan, who is Howe’s oldest daughter, tweeted that her father was COVID-19 free. " June 01

The Score "Major League Baseball is preparing to offer some additional financial incentives in order to reach an agreement on a 2020 season. The league will consider removing the luxury tax and qualifying offer in order to help spur this winter's free-agent market coming off a shortened..." June 01

USA Today "There’s just one guarantee as Major League Baseball aims to wedge an 80-plus game schedule and expanded playoffs into a pandemic-driven four-month window: Roughly half the season is gone forever. Some franchises have pointed to 2020 for several years as the moment their plans..." June 01

Larry Brown Sports "It does not sound like Major League Baseball’s short season proposal is going to be enough to satisfy players. According to Brendan Kuty of NJ.com, most MLB players — including several stars — would not be interested in playing less than half a season, which would..." June 01

SI "Major League Baseball will propose a shorter season in 2020, with players receiving their full prorated salaries, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan. MLB's plan will include a regular season consisting of roughly 50 games, per Passan. The 2020 season would return at..." June 01

Sportsnet "It has been embarrassing watching how the debate surrounding Major League Baseball’s return to play seems to have settled on how it’s all up to the players, either as a subtle under-current from much of the chattering classes or from former players such as Mark Teixeira, a union..." June 01

New York Post "I think the players have a responsibility to help find a financial solution that allows major league baseball to be played this year. For the long-term damage to reputation and revenue without games will make the 2020 salary dispute feel like fighting for a drop of water and ending up with an..." June 01

Sporting News "Jack Flaherty is speaking out. The 24-year-old California native posted a lengthy message on Twitter Sunday night, calling for justice for the "murder" of George Floyd and opined that law enforcement officials should take a more aggressive stance against other officers who..." June 01

ESPN "Many of the folks inside baseball but outside of the Zoom labor negotiations assume that, eventually, cooler heads will prevail in the talks between the owners and the players' union. Because they have to -- right? Because the alternative -- no attempted restart of baseball in..." June 01

SI "The MLB Players Association submitted its proposal to the league on Sunday, according to Jeff Passan.  In its plan, the union proposes a 114-game season that would commence June 30 and end on Oct. 31. Per Passan, players want three weeks to train, allow time for travel --..." June 01

MLB Trade Rumors "There has been “no evidence of progress” in the discussions between MLB and the MLBPA as the two sides negotiate the economic provisions of a potential 2020 season, reports Jon Heyman of MLB Network. As such, there’s no reason to believe the parties will reach an..." May 31

Larry Brown Sports "There can be no Major League Baseball season in 2020 without an agreement between team owners and the MLB Players Association, and the two sides do not appear to be close to a deal. However, it sounds like neither has come close to giving up on playing this year. Jon Heyman of MLB..." May 31

Clutch Points "The NBA is making strides toward a potential return. In Europe, professional soccer leagues have already restarted, with more to come. But the 2020 MLB season remains in serious jeopardy. Buster Olney of ESPN reports some MLB owners are “perfectly willing” to..." May 31

Bleacher Report "One of the most impressive things about professional athletes is how easy they make their jobs look. That's certainly true for MLB pitchers. Despite periodic hiccups, they hurl baseballs past big league hitters with speed and precision. The degree of difficulty becomes especially..." May 31

MLB Trade Rumors "In a piece from MASN last week, Roch Kubatko said this of the Orioles’ search for a veteran shortstop: “The Orioles chose [Jose] Iglesias over Adeiny Hechavarría in their winter search for a glove-first shortstop.” Kubatko linked the Orioles the Hechevarria..." May 30

Sportsnaut "It’s not yet known when professional sports will return to Southern California. The NBA and NHL are in the midst of plans that would resume their seasons in bubble cities. At least with the NHL, Los Angeles is being considered as one of the host..." May 30

The Score "The Major League Baseball Players' Association is planning to bring forward a counterproposal to MLB for the 2020 season that will include several unique wrinkles, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan. However, it's described as "outlandish" by Passan, who adds..." May 30

USA Today "If they can pull it off, Major League Baseball’s 2020 season will be an audacious experiment in the oddest of labs – and we’re not just talking about massive stadiums where the only fans may be of the virtual or cardboard variety. Other tests will come in clubhouses..." May 29

12 Up "The latest news surrounding the 2020 MLB season has all been bad: the players were not happy at all with the most recent proposal sent over by owners (rightfully so), and planned to rage and regroup this week. The players were expected to make a counter-proposal..." May 29

Complex "The people that fuck with baseball around these parts—and by these parts I mean the Complex universe—aren’t exactly plentiful. And frankly, you don’t need a PhD to get why basketball and football are way more popular these days than the national pastime. But for those of..." May 29

MLB Trade Rumors "3:14pm: The Astros will also pay their minor leaguers through August, Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle tweets. The Red Sox will do the same, Julian McWilliams and Alex Speier of the Boston Globe write. The Reds will pay theirs through Sept. 7, the end of the..." May 29

St. Louis Post-Dispatch "As this weekend's expiration of an agreement forged in March approached, the Cardinals extended Thursday their promise to minor-league players and will continue to pay them a weekly stipend through June. The team is "hopeful," an official said, to continue that through..." May 29

New York Post "With Major League Baseball veering toward a Titanic-like disaster, Scott Boras, trying to rally the playing universe, invoked a Leonardo DiCaprio line from the epic film about the ill-fated cruise liner: “This is horse[bleep]. Don’t you believe it...." May 29

CBS Sports "Major League Baseball and the players' union, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), are presently negotiating the parameters of what a 2020 season will look like, should such a thing be realized.  A number of essential issues must be agreed upon before..." May 29

CBS Sports "Major League Baseball's rosters may be frozen due to the novel coronavirus delaying the season, but that isn't stopping organizations from trimming their ranks on the minor-league side. Beginning this week and extending through next week, teams are collectively expected to release..." May 29

MLB Trade Rumors "In a few weeks, we’ll be running a two-team mock expansion draft here at MLBTR – just for the fun of it!  Currently, we’re creating 15-player protected lists for each of the existing 30 teams.  You can catch up on the rules for player..." May 28

Boston "I’m not sure what’s worse: That they really, genuinely don’t want to play baseball this season, or that even seeing through their caterwauling, I really, genuinely don’t care whether they do. Not the players of Major League Baseball. The owners and executives..." May 28

New York Post "This? This is different. We of a certain age still bear the scars of past labor wars, all sports. The World Series was called off in 1994. The entire NHL season of 2004-05 was canceled, every inch of it, as if the calendar were simply wiped clean. The official NFL record..." May 28

The Score "Shortly after the coronavirus pandemic postponed the beginning of the 2020 season, Major League Baseball teams agreed to pay minor leaguers $400 per week through May 31. Now, with that date approaching, many teams are releasing large numbers of minor leaguers in order to cut..." May 28

The Big Lead "After several weeks of quite public negotiations, MLB and the MLBPA appear to have reached another obstacle in the road toward play ball. The league sent over a proposal to the players that would result in a very significant salary reduction for everyone, especially the highest-paid..." May 28

New York Daily News "No players, no baseball. That was the message agent Scott Boras delivered to his clients. “Remember, games cannot be played without you," Boras, who represents 71 players on current big-league rosters, wrote in an email to his clients which was obtained by the Associated..." May 28

MLB Trade Rumors "Twelve years after the 2008 amateur draft, one top 10 pick ranks far above the rest… 1.) Tim Beckham, SS, Rays: Taking Beckham at No. 1 has long looked like one of the most regrettable moves in Rays history. Beckham was only a .247/.299/.421 hitter with 2.5..." May 28

Distinct Athlete "The 2020 Major League Baseball season remains very much up in the air. It’s not as much about the ongoing pandemic in the United States as it is about the almighty dollar. MLB owners sent a financial proposal to the players just recently. To say the players were not too happy..." May 28

CBS Sports "Major League Baseball and the players' union, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), are presently negotiating the parameters of what a 2020 season will look like, should such a thing be realized.  A number of essential issues must be agreed upon before..." May 28

The Score "The Major League Baseball Players Association is preparing its rebuttal. After receiving MLB's economic proposal Tuesday, the union plans to send its response by the end of the week, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan. Part of the union's proposal is expected..." May 28