4:54 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — New Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo said on Monday that he is fully healthy and he will be ready for the season — if there is one. Verdugo has used the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic to rehab a stress fracture in his spine he already had

11:00 AM ET ESPN will televise South Korea’s KBO baseball games during the upcoming 2020 season, starting with the league’s opening day on Tuesday. ESPN will become the Korea Baseball Organization’s exclusive English-language home as part of an agreement with Eclat Media Group, announced Monday, and will televise six regular-season games per week. “We’re thrilled

7:52 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell won the inaugural MLB The Show Players League on Sunday with a three-game sweep against the Chicago White Sox‘s Lucas Giolito in the best-of-five championship series. Snell’s Rays beat Giolito’s White Sox 5-1 in Game 1, 3-2 in Game 2, and 6-0 in Game 3. The

7:25 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 1986, Don Mattingly became the sixth player ever with three sacrifice flies in a game. They are fascinating.

12:45 AM ET Former major league pitcher Matt Keough, a special assistant with the Oakland A’s, has died, the team announced on Sunday. He was 64. The Athletics did not disclose details on the cause of death. Keough spent parts of seven seasons with Oakland as a player, ending in 1983, and was named an

8:00 AM ET The finals in the MLB The Show Players League are set. After a scorching-hot, undefeated start to the season from Texas Rangers slugger Joey Gallo ended in a surprise first-round playoff defeat, Tampa Bay Rays left-hander Blake Snell and Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito will face off in the championship series.

6:19 PM ET Four days after Trey Mancini detailed his diagnosis and treatments after having a cancerous tumor removed from his colon in March, his Baltimore Orioles teammates joined him on a Zoom call on Saturday. Their message was simple for a player who wears No. 16 on the field: #F16HT The guys surprised Trey.

8:00 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 1939, Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak ends at 2,130. Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse,” which he

4:25 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — No one knows for sure how, when and where — or, truly, even if — Major League Baseball will play games in 2020. Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez feels certain of this much: His team will wait to properly mark its World Series championship with spectators in the

4:06 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians reliever Emmanuel Clase has been suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug. Clase was acquired from the Texas Rangers this winter in Cleveland’s trade of two-time Cy Young winner Corey Kluber. The commissioner’s office said the 22-year-old Clase tested