Ronald Blum

Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major-league teams and raising the age for international amateurs in negotiations Thursday for a new CBA.

Baseball players seek expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights. They also want to nearly double the major league minimum salary and increase revenue sharing among teams.

Negotiators for baseball players and owners began what figures to be lengthy and acrimonious collective bargaining negotiations.

Walks are up 7.3% as pitches in the strike zone dropped markedly, and the average time of games increased by 5 minutes through the first full month of MLB’s initial...

Major League Baseball’s average salary rose 3.4% on opening day to a record $5.34 million, and the New York Mets topped spending at the season’s start for the fourth straight...