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Four days after Major League Baseball officially proposed a salary-cap system to the MLB Players Association for the first time in more than three decades of labor negotiations, union interim executive director Bruce Meyer held a 40-minute teleconference in which he summed up the players' position on the overhaul the league wants to implement. "The cap system they propose is not just bad for all the reasons that we believe cap systems are always bad," Meyer said, "but they've effectively...
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MLB stars leave divisional game after scary collision at first base leaves both injured
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Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr snaps home run drought with thunderous dinger: 'About f---ing time'
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WNBA player says the league shouldn't wear USA 250 patches for the All-Star Game because of slavery
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Major League Baseball's Over-35 Hitters Face Steepest Production Drop-Off in Decades
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