NEW YORK — Major League Baseball players who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus won’t be allowed to travel into Canada to face the Blue Jays in Toronto and won’t be paid for those games.

Canada’s government requires a person must have received a second vaccine dose – or one dose of Johnson & Johnson – at least 14 days prior to entry.

The provision that they won’t be paid is contained in a side letter between MLB and the players’ association, and was first reported by Boston television station WCVB.

Toronto opens at home against Texas on April 8.

“It’s a concern,” union head Tony Clark said Friday. “I think as everyone knows – appreciate and respect the decisions that are made, particularly in regard to player health and community health. But that is an issue, as one in the pandemic itself, that we’re navigating domestically, that we’re going to have to continue to try to work through here moving forward.”

TREVOR BAUER: Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave was extended Friday for a week by Major League Baseball and the players’ association.

The extension begins Sunday, the mandatory reporting date for spring training, and runs through March 19. Bauer will not report to spring training during the extension or before the mandatory reporting date.

He was placed on seven days’ paid leave July 2 under the union and MLB’s joint domestic violence and sexual assault policy after a Southern California woman said he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters earlier last year.

Bauer did not pitch after June 29 and MLB and the union have since agreed to several extensions.

ALL-STAR GAME TIEBREAKER: If the next All-Star Game in Major League Baseball goes deep into the night, a slugger may get a chance to decide it by going deep – in a home run derby. Because buried deep in the 182-page memorandum of understanding signed Thursday by MLB and the players’ association is a radical new method of potentially breaking a tie.

“If the All-Star Game remains tied after nine innings, the game will be decided by a Home Run Derby between the teams, subject to the parties’ agreement on details and format,” reads exhibit 13, titled “Tentative Agreement – All-Star Game and Home Run Derby.”

Dated March 1 and obtained by The Associated Press, the page was signed by MLB senior counsel Kasey Sanossian and players’ association deputy general counsel Matt Nussbaum. It is part of a 182-page agreement that led to the end of MLB’s 99-day lockout and the opening of training camps.

RANGERS: Left-handed starter Martín Pérez will not be back with the Red Sox in 2022.

Pérez has agreed to a one-year, $4 million contract with the Rangers, as reported by FanSided’s Robert Murray and MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. The move sends Pérez back to Texas, where he spent the first six years of his career from 2012 to 2018.

Pérez spent two seasons with the Red Sox, compiling a 10-13 record and 4.65 ERA in 48 appearances (34 starts). The soon-to-be 31-year-old lost his rotation spot midway through 2021, then served as a long reliever at the end of the regular season and in the postseason. After the season, the Sox declined their $6 million option on Pérez’s contract, making him a free agent. Boston paid a $500,000 buyout.

Once the Red Sox added veteran starters Rich Hill, Michael Wacha and James Paxton before the MLB lockout took effect on Dec. 2, it became apparent Pérez was likely headed elsewhere. He’ll now move on to his third team in four years.

CUBS: Chicago Manager David Ross and the team agreed to a contract extension through the 2024 season that includes a club option for 2025.

In the two years since he was hired to replace Joe Maddon, Ross is 105-117 with one playoff appearance.

He helped the team wade through the challenges brought on by the pandemic in 2020, leading Chicago to a 34-26 record and the NL Central championship in a shortened season before getting swept in two games by Miami in the wild-card series. Last season, the Cubs were in first place before going into a slump that led to the dismantling of their core and a 71-91 record.

Chicago went from leading the division at 42-33 after Zach Davies and the bullpen combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24 to dropping the next 11 games. That convinced president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer to break up the group that helped lead Chicago to a World Series championship in 2016 and its first title in 108 years.

CARDINALS: St. Louis signed right-hander Drew VerHagen to a two-year contract, one day after Major League Baseball and its players’ union agreed on a collective bargaining agreement to end a lockout.

VerHagen was a fourth-round pick of the Tigers in 2012 who went 10-10 over parts of six seasons in Detroit. He appeared in 127 games, starting eight of them, and will compete for a spot in the Cardinals bullpen during spring camp.

The 31-year-old VerHagen, whose financial terms with St. Louis were not disclosed, spent the past two seasons with the Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League, going 13-14 with a 3.49 ERA in 39 games.

OBIT: Odalis Pérez, a left-hander who threw the first pitch at Nationals Park and was an All-Star with the Los Angeles Dodgers during a 10-year career in the majors, has died. He was 43.

The local professional baseball league confirmed his death. His brother, Cristian Pérez, told local media the former pitcher was found motionless in the patio of his home Thursday.

Odalis Pérez’s attorney, Walin Batista, told ESPN the pitcher apparently fell off a ladder at his house.

Pérez was 73-82 with a 4.46 ERA with Atlanta, the Dodgers, Kansas City and Washington.