3:08 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — New Mets pitcher Carlos Carrasco strained his right hamstring during conditioning after throwing batting practice Thursday and seems certain to miss the start of the season. Carrasco, a right-hander who turns 34 on Sunday, has not appeared in any exhibition games this year. He is

9:50 AM ET Frustration began to mount soon after the 2020 MLB season got underway last summer. Without in-game video available to major league hitters for the first time, many found themselves at a disadvantage at the plate. They struggled. And then they vented. Mostly, players chirped to their agents, and then those agents called

7:05 PM ET Associated Press A year after a bout with COVID-19 denied him a chance to be the Boston Red Sox‘s Opening Day starter, Eduardo Rodríguez is getting a do-over. Manager Alex Cora made the announcement Wednesday following Boston’s 9-1 spring training win over the Minnesota Twins. Rodríguez threw an efficient 55 pitches, striking

12:07 PM ET ESPN Fantasy Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print No matter how hard you study for your fantasy baseball draft, there’s simply too many names to keep track of from pick to pick. That’s why they invented cheat sheets. Unlike other cheat sheets, this one isn’t just rankings. We’ve taken the best

7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” With a month of spring training in the books, people inside baseball are starting to form their opinions on players. Who’s real; who’s not. Who changed; who didn’t. Who matters; who doesn’t.

11:15 PM ET When Derek Jeter retired from baseball in 2014, he and his advisors started having meetings with power players in the financial world with the audacious ask to run a Major League Baseball franchise like a controlling owner — but have someone else put up most of the money. Jeter pulled it off

3:25 PM ET LeBron James has become a partner in the Fenway Sports Group, making the NBA superstar a part owner of the Boston Red Sox, a source has confirmed to ESPN. The Boston Globe first reported Tuesday that James and Maverick Carter — his longtime friend and business partner — are now partners at

7:00 AM ET Who says you can’t learn anything from MLB spring training games? We asked our MLB experts to put aside any notion that exhibition games — even ones that stop mid-inning for a mercy rule — don’t count for a minute to focus on what they have learned from this year’s early action

7:50 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Ryan Braun says he’s strongly leaning toward retirement, but the Milwaukee Brewers‘ home run leader isn’t ready to make any decision regarding his future. Braun visited the Brewers’ spring training site Monday and said he hasn’t picked up a bat since the end of the 2020 season. The

1:09 PM ET Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg threw 245 1/3 innings in 2019 over the course of the regular season to winning World Series MVP honors, so we can probably dispense with the durability narrative in the fantasy baseball world. He proved himself. Then again, Strasburg threw all of five innings during the 2020