5:18 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — About 370 players who were at big league spring training with minor league contracts will get advance payments of up to $50,000 each from the Major League Baseball Players Association. The money approved Friday by the union’s executive board will be in addition to $400 weekly allowances

3:12 PM ET A federal judge in New York has dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Major League Baseball by a group of daily fantasy sports contestants, who claimed to have been harmed by the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox sign-stealing scandals. In a 32-page opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff lambasted

10:56 AM ET Evan Gattis, who won a World Series ring with the Houston Astros in 2017, said the team and its players “obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans” with the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the sport. “Everybody wants to be the best player in the f—ing world, man,” Gattis, who has since retired,

7:00 AM ET A month ago, when the world still felt predictable and baseball important, Dusty Baker and AJ Hinch were two sides of a damaged coin. The Houston Astros were the disgrace of baseball, a once extremely valuable currency in sharp decline. The Astros fired Hinch, who was without objection serving the yearlong suspension

7:33 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Justin Turner has a lot of time on his hands these days, and has come up with a novel idea for deciding extra-inning games once the regular season starts. Taking a cue from NHL shootouts, Turner suggested that baseball go to a home run derby if a game

4:03 PM ET Associated Press Former baseball All-Star Jim Edmonds says he tested positive for the new coronavirus and for pneumonia. “I am completely symptom free now and doing really well, and so I must have had it for a while,” Edmonds said in a video posted to his Instagram account. “I appreciate everyone who

8:04 AM ET Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow will fulfill their one-season suspensions for the team’s sign-stealing scandal even if no baseball is played in 2020, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Thursday. Hinch and Luhnow were given the one-year bans and subsequently fired in January following an

12:57 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Twice a week, beginning Friday morning, Brandon McDaniel, the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ director of player performance, will stream 30-minute workouts through the team’s social media outlets for everyone to partake. He wants to help fans stay in shape while they’re stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. He wants

3:50 PM ET Texas Rangers veteran Shin-Soo Choo bounced around from Grand Chute, Wisconsin, to Tacoma to Buffalo in his first three seasons in baseball, so he knows firsthand how tough life is for minor leaguers. So Choo is opening his pockets to minor leaguers in the Texas organization who are struggling because of the

9:00 AM ET Willie Mays was still finding himself as a player when he departed the New York Giants in late May of 1952. There was no doubt he’d already displayed one of the best skill sets anyone had seen on a Major League Baseball field, but he was very much still in the process