10:21 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Major League Baseball Players Association on Thursday gave management a wide-ranging response to a 67-page proposed set of protocols for a season to be played during the coronavirus pandemic. Management had presented the union and the 30 teams the proposed draft on May 15. The union
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4:19 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates are trimming payroll while they await word on the fate of the Major League Baseball season. The Cubs are instituting pay cuts because of the coronavirus crisis, but there will be no furloughs through the end of June. The Pirates announced Thursday
7:28 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 2000, six grand slams were hit, a record for one day. So today, we will celebrate the grand
May 4, 2020 Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” The World Series begins with only one promise: It will produce a winner. It won’t assure us a compelling story, though it does often deliver. It won’t guarantee seven nights of entertainment,
3:19 PM ET Some major league baseball players are hoping for tweaks to the health proposal recently offered up by the league as the sport continues its discussions for a restart. Mostly, players want to know whether some in-stadium and clubhouse restrictions can be loosened based on frequent testing for the coronavirus. “The daily testing,
7:50 AM ET The Oakland Athletics have not paid their rent to use the RingCentral Coliseum, according to the interim executive director of the stadium authority. Henry Gardner told the Bay Area News Group on Tuesday that the team had informed the stadium authority it could not pay the $1.2 million annual rent that was
9:16 PM ET Associated Press The Texas Rangers would prefer to stay home in their new ballpark instead of returning to Arizona whenever it is time to get back to spring training. They still haven’t played a game, or even had an organized workout, in their $1.2 billion stadium with a retractable roof. Spring training
7:15 AM ET Two weeks into the season, we have a new team atop our Korean Baseball Organization Power Rankings. Plus, we had a continuing surge in home runs (including one that won a player new car!), which means we also had a continuing surge of bat flips. On to the latest in KBO …
8:00 AM ET ESPN continues MLB Encore Tuesdays, a series of classic game broadcasts, this week at 7 p.m. ET with Game 6 of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium. • What you need to know: The Rangers were one win away from the first World
10:45 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” What’s most striking about Major League Baseball’s 67-page health-and-safety protocol outlining an attempt to return amid the coronavirus pandemic isn’t its little, snicker-worthy details — that players won’t be able to take