7:00 AM ET ESPN recently released its ranking of the 100 greatest baseball of all time, and there is one player who is distinct from the others on the list: Sandy Koufax. With the exception of the still-active Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, the others all enjoyed careers of both dominance and longevity. Koufax, however,

5:14 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs assistant general manager Jeff Greenberg has interviewed with the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks for their GM opening, becoming the first known candidate for the job from outside professional hockey. The Blackhawks confirmed the interview on Monday. CEO Danny Wirtz, the son of team owner Rocky Wirtz,

3:40 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has stopped testing players for steroids for the first time in nearly 20 years due to the expiration of the sport’s drug agreement, two people familiar with the sport’s Joint Drug Program told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity Monday

7:00 AM ET The scheduled start of spring training is a week away, yet owners continue to lock out the players with the sides unable to settle on a new collective bargaining agreement. The parties are talking, but progress has been slow. Very slow. One of those in the room during negotiations is 36-year-old free-agent

3:53 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. In August, a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card set the stratospheric record for most expensive sports card of all

Feb 3, 2022 Inner-circle Hall of Famers. The best player in the game today. A couple of PED-tainted superstars. Our ranking of the 100 greatest MLB players of all time comes down to the top 25. Dozens of ESPN writers and editors submitted more than 20,000 votes (see full methodology here) to determine the final

2:30 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. With the MLB lockout started by owners on Dec. 2 now in its

2:45 PM ET While Major League Baseball continues to insist that federal mediation is the best route to “break the deadlock,” the MLB Players Association on Friday rejected MLB’s request for a mediator to negotiate between the parties for a new collective bargaining agreement. “Two months after implementing their lockout, and just two days after

Feb 4, 2022 ESPN News Services Joe West has made it official, retiring from Major League Baseball after umpiring a record 5,460 regular-season games. The 69-year-old West worked his first big league game on Sept. 14, 1976, at third base in Atlanta when the Braves hosted the Houston Astros. His finale was on Oct. 6,

7:00 AM ET When putting together our list of the top 100 players of all time, there were plenty of debates about how peak performance and career longevity intersected. For young players in particular, injuries can completely shift a career’s trajectory and alter legacies — as Pete Reiser, J.R. Richard and others learned. Nolan Ryan,