7:00 AM ET On May 15, 1973, Nolan Ryan pitched the first no-hitter of his career in Major League Baseball. As far as Nolan Ryan no-hitters would go, it was a relatively pedestrian effort, with a mere 12 strikeouts, although there were no hard-hit balls against the Angels right-hander until the final couple of innings,

10:55 PM ET Commissioner Rob Manfred on Thursday night outlined the coronavirus-testing protocols Major League Baseball is proposing, telling CNN that frequent tests will be key to the sport’s restart and that a positive test won’t mean shutting down the entire team. Players who do test positive will be quarantined until they have two negative

8:07 AM ET Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell said he will not play this season for a reduced salary, especially because the risk of contracting COVID-19 is “just not worth it.” Snell railed against Major League Baseball’s reported proposal of a 50-50 revenue split with the players for a coronavirus-shortened season in a video

7:00 AM ET The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, and this year’s Induction Weekend festivities have been canceled. Nonetheless, the hall of fame that so many of us visit in our mind’s eye — whenever we take stock of greatness or steep ourselves

7:00 AM ET Dan Kurtz woke up last Tuesday morning to a message he never dreamed of getting. Your site crashed. He opened Twitter on his smartphone and saw that nearly a dozen other people had reported the same issue. While Kurtz slept in Washington state, the Korea Baseball Organization began its season, regaling an

1:32 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Ethan Hearn has some good friends who are eligible for baseball’s amateur draft this year. Hearn is just an interested spectator this time around, and he feels pretty fortunate about his situation. The 19-year-old catcher was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the 192nd pick of the 2019

7:00 AM ET On Friday, Major League Baseball decided to shorten the 2020 MLB draft to five rounds, despite clubs lobbying the league to make it 10 rounds. The league had the option, per an arrangement agreed to by the players’ union in March, to make the draft anywhere from five rounds up to 40

9:19 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Major League Baseball made an opening presentation to the players’ union Tuesday on terms to start the coronavirus-delayed season. The presentation did not include an economic proposal, a person familiar with the discussion told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no

7:00 AM ET And on the seventh day, the KBO rested. Baseball-starved fans everywhere rejoiced as the Korea Baseball Organization, the highest level of baseball in South Korea, opened its season last week, becoming one of the first major professional sports leagues to return to action during the coronavirus pandemic. It wasn’t the major leagues

2:34 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 owners approved a proposal that commissioner Rob Manfred plans to present to players Tuesday on a return-to-play scenario that aims to have baseball back in home stadiums by early