John Means.
Spencer Turnbull.
Six different teams got to mob a starting pitcher on the mound at the end of a no-no. That hadn’t happened for the Yankees since David Cone spun a perfect game on July 18, 1999 a drought longer than all but seven teams in baseball.
Then, Corey Kluber took the ball on May 20th and offered up an absolute gem. On the same Globe Life Field mound where his 2020 season came to a sudden end on Opening Day, he no-hit the Rangers, allowing just one walk in the process and never even allowing the Texas lineup to even sniff a base hit. It was the 12th no-hitter in Yankees history and the first on the road in 70 years.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has filed a grievance against the league, claiming that MLB did not negotiate in good faith to play as many games as possible in the shortened 2020 season, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports. The MLBPA grievance seeks as much as $500M, which Sherman suggests is the equivalent of roughly 20 games of additional pay.
At this point, the timeline for a potential resolution isn’t fully clear. Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic report that the grievance was actually filed two weeks ago, adding that the league has argued in response that 60 games was the maximum possible due to health and safety reasons. Of course, the league itself submitted proposals for larger numbers of games, although it did so with additional salary cuts which MLB knew to be a nonstarter in talks with the union.
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