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10:26 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Second baseman Joe Panik was added to the 40-man major league roster by the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday. Toronto selected the contract of the 29-year-old from Triple-A Buffalo and placed right-hander Yennsy Diaz on the 60-day injured list with a right lat strain. Panik gets a one-year

12:01 PM ET When Major League Baseball announced Opening Day would be delayed by at least two weeks, two words stood out: at least. As each day passes, and the coronavirus pandemic continues, it’s clear those two weeks could likely become two months — or more. Here’s the latest on what we’re hearing about a

12:23 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” A New York Yankees minor league player has tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the first known baseball player affected by the outbreak, the team confirmed. The player, who did not spend any

7:00 AM ET Last Monday, Major League Baseball closed its clubhouses to media members. By Wednesday, scouts were being pulled off the road. On Thursday, an announcement stated that the regular season would be delayed by at least two weeks. Before Friday came to an end, spring training operations were officially suspended. And on Sunday,

11:00 AM ET When the Major League Baseball season is restarted in 2020 — that is to say, if it’s restarted, because it’s foolhardy to assume anything under the current circumstances — the run-up to the first games could be fast and furious, with everyone pushing to get back on the field and open the

8:50 AM ET Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer played host to a “Sandlot” charity wiffle ball game Saturday night in Arizona. All proceeds were to be donated to support MLB staff members who are out of work while the games have been suspended because of the coronavirus outbreak. Bauer also set up a Gofundme account

7:00 PM ET A group of MLB players led by Cincinnati Reds pitchers Trevor Bauer and David Carpenter are trying to organize a sandlot baseball game in Arizona to pass the time with spring training and the 2020 season on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak. So we decided to give them a little help

11:47 AM ET With Major League Baseball suspending spring training and the start of the regular season unclear, Cincinnati Reds pitchers Trevor Bauer and David Carpenter are trying to organize a sandlot baseball game in Arizona to pass the time. Carpenter reached out to Bauer on Twitter on Friday and received an enthusiastic response. @BauerOutage

10:46 PM ET Associated Press The New York Mets say the father of Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested negative for the coronavirus. Donovan Mitchell Sr. works for the Mets as director of player relations and community outreach. The younger Mitchell confirmed Thursday he tested positive for COVID-19 after Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert became

8:10 PM ET ESPN News Services NBA great Charles Barkley, who is awaiting the results of a coronavirus test he underwent after believing he was exposed, spent significant time with members of the Los Angeles Angels on March 2. Barkley, who did not appear on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” Tuesday, revealed he was self-isolating after

4:27 PM ET Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — Major League Baseball is encouraging players to go home, a day after canceling the rest of the spring training schedule and postponing opening day by at least two weeks amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. Ballparks in Florida and Arizona were locked down Friday as the sport considered

4:30 PM ET Major League Baseball is delaying the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks from the scheduled March 26 start in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the league announced Thursday. Here’s what we know about MLB’s announcement, what this means for baseball and where things could go from here. What is the

1:25 PM ET Major League Baseball is expected to suspend the remainder of spring training Thursday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Sources tell Passan that they expect the league will likely delay the beginning of the regular season as well. The league’s owners will hold a conference call Thursday

2:10 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” California on Wednesday recommended a statewide limit on large gatherings through at least the remainder of March, according to a memo from the state’s department of public health, bringing into question the

7:50 AM ET The new MLB Rank from ESPN of Major League Baseball’s top 100 players is out, and as usual, my compulsive need to project the future already has me thinking about the 2021 list. After all, who likes waiting? Since I’m curious about what next year’s top 20 could look like, rather than

7:00 AM ET Last week, I ranked the top 100 prospects in baseball heading into the 2020 season. Now it’s time to go deeper with my team-by-team rankings, starting with the American League. A quick refresher on a key term you’ll see throughout the team lists: I use something called Future Value, shortened to FV

7:00 AM ET MESA — Yu Darvish is the only human being on the planet who has the following two abilities: He can throw nine different pitches on the mound and then, while hanging out in the clubhouse after the game, the Chicago Cubs righty can guess your blood type. Wait. What? It might be

8:00 AM ET The results are in, and ESPN has determined Major League Baseball’s top 100 players for the 2020 season. But not everyone is going to agree with who wound up where. In the wake of the release of this year’s voting by 40 of ESPN’s baseball experts, we asked three of our voters