9:17 PM ET Albert Pujols is giving back to his team and his native Dominican Republic. According to the Los Angeles Times, the veteran Angels slugger is covering $180,000 in salary lost by staff members of the team in the Dominican who were furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The gesture will cover about five
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2:02 PM ET The Major League Baseball Players Association has finalized a proposal to MLB for a season of 70 games, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers. Among the details in MLBPA’s new proposal, sources tell ESPN: 70-game season from July 19 through Sept. 30 $50 million in playoff bonuses 50/50 split of
2:41 PM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball has sent a new proposal to the MLB Players Association, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday. No deal is done, but with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA executive director Tony Clark having met recently, this is seen as significant progress considering where the parties
7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. On May 5, one year after he went into surgery for a gruesome knee injury that nearly put an end to his Major League Baseball dreams, KBO star Sung-Bum Na stepped to the plate and gathered his thoughts. Thoughts
4:14 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN After several days of stalemate in the negotiations between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, we may have some traction towards a deal to resume the 2020 season. After commissioner Rob Manfred and union chief Tony Clark met face-to-face, we’re seeing the sport move back towards discussions about
7:34 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1995, pitcher Ian Hamilton was born. In 2018, Hamilton pitched for the White Sox in the same bullpen
9:20 PM ET In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases warned of the potential dangers of letting the Major League Baseball season go too far into the fall. “If the question is time, I would try to keep it in the
3:36 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yankees president Randy Levine called on the players’ association to resume negotiations with Major League Baseball to start the coronavirus pandemic-delayed season. Levine said the money difference between the feuding sides was not the primary obstacle but rather issues such as health and safety protocols and determining
7:00 AM ET The 2020 MLB draft was held in unique circumstances — reduced to five rounds, conducted remotely, with spring scouting virtually nonexistent because of the coronavirus pandemic. But in the end, the same old question must be answered: How did each team do? Here’s a team-by-team breakdown of all 30 draft classes, grouped
4:44 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN on Monday he’s “not confident” there will be a 2020 baseball season and that “as long as there’s no dialogue” with the MLB Players