7:00 AM ET This would have been the opening week for Major League Baseball, but instead we wait for normalcy to return. In the meantime, you can get your baseball fix by checking out some past Home Run Derbies on ESPN+ — you can re-watch all the theatrics of the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019
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9:50 PM ET A Boston Red Sox minor league player has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced on Tuesday. The player received the results of his positive test on Monday and is “doing well” according to a team announcement. His identity has not been revealed. The unnamed player was last at the Red Sox
3:42 PM ET New York Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and is expected to undergo Tommy John surgery in the near future, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The procedure will keep him out until at earliest April 2021 and likely into the summer months.
8:00 AM ET This was supposed to be Opening Week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Since we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it’d be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our personal
7:55 PM ET The Pirates may not be in Pittsburgh yet, but their hearts are with the hospital workers who are providing care to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic So on Monday, the players arranged a delivery of 400 pizzas to the staff at Allegheny General Hospital. 2 Related The pizzas, plus helpings of
7:00 AM ET I’ve always felt that the typical way to compile organizational farm rankings wasn’t good enough. Judging any one prospect is tough enough using all of the available data, if you can get it all. That said, we have trades, and the order in which players were drafted, as hard evidence of teams’
2:47 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — With no sign of when training camps can resume, Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro says he thinks Major League Baseball would need at least a month of workouts and exhibition games before regular-season play can begin. Opening Day has been postponed until at least mid-May because of
1:08 PM ET In the face of the looming international crisis that is taking lives, it feels almost disrespectful to ask questions out loud about issues of far less importance. When the priorities are protective masks, accessible testing and increased hospital capacity, most everything else is deferred, or settled out of sight. Quietly, Major League
Mar 20, 2020 Anthony OlivieriESPN.com A few nights ago, Peter Bayer pulled up to a Cheesecake Factory in Scottsdale, Arizona, about 20 miles north of Hohokam Stadium, where the Oakland Athletics play their spring training games, to collect an order. He was there moonlighting for DoorDash, a food delivery service, while his day job as
8:08 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Hard-throwing Padres reliever Andres Munoz and minor leaguer Reggie Lawson underwent Tommy John surgery Friday. Both right-handers were injured shortly before spring training was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Munoz, 21, made his big league debut last year and appeared in 22 games. He went 1-1