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12:12 AM ET Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton has made steady progress this month with his strained right calf injury, New York manager Aaron Boone said Monday. In an interview on the YES Network, Boone spoke about Stanton’s road back from a Grade 1 strain, diagnosed last month, saying “if we were ready to start spring

8:34 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 1979, Earl Weaver won his 1,000th game as a manager. Weaver was a top-five manager of all time.

8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” A lot had to go right for the Astros’ trash can-banging scandal to become the most massive social media story in baseball’s modern history. Most importantly, the Astros’ signal was loud, obvious

7:15 AM ET One of the beautiful aspects about Major League Baseball: Great seasons can come from nowhere. The line between great and mediocre is smaller in baseball than other sports. A few extra strikes a game. A couple of extra swing-and-misses. A few more hits each month or a couple extra home runs and

7:00 AM ET We’ve covered the one-hit wonders in the National League. Let’s move over to the American League. This list includes maybe the most famous one-hit wonder, a guy nicknamed “The Hammer,” an unlikely MVP winner and the all-time record holder for doubles in a season. Jump to …AL East | AL Central |

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, 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 the

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

8:00 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. Sitting in her general computing class at Marshall University, Rachel Folden clicked the “statistics” tab on the NCAA softball web page. As her professor explained how to build Excel spreadsheets, Folden, then a 21-year-old senior, was more

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

4:44 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge told reporters Friday that his fractured rib is improving, and he also disclosed that he suffered a partially collapsed lung. Two weeks ago, manager Aaron Boone said a fractured rib revealed by a

7:00 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

12:56 PM ET In the aftermath of the sudden halt of the burgeoning 2020 baseball season because of the coronavirus outbreak, thousands of minor league players were thrust into an uncertain limbo. Invariably, numerous questions arose for minor leaguers. Where would they live? When would they be paid? Exacerbating the uncertainty was the lack of

8:45 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” On the days when it feels like too much, like the world is caving in, Rene Saggiadi will walk toward the front door of the apartment he’s not allowed to exit and

8:30 AM ET OK, I’m in. In these days of social distancing, Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman spent Thursday afternoon recruiting players for the 2021 World Baseball Classic via social media. Stroman was one of the stars of the U.S. team that won it all in 2017, starting the championship game against Puerto Rico and pitching

9:58 PM ET ESPN News Services Let’s play two? Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black would be down for doubleheaders. Maybe even a couple a week. That might be a necessity to make up games once a baseball season delayed by the new coronavirus gets under way. “In theory, yeah, I think all of us would

8:46 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Giants right-hander Tyler Beede will undergo Tommy John elbow surgery Friday. Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi made the announcement Thursday. Beede’s surgery will be performed by Texas Rangers physician Dr. Keith Meister in the Dallas area. Beede joined others having medical procedures, some

8:00 PM ET It’s easy to speculate that Chris Sale‘s decision to have Tommy John surgery was pushed by baseball’s coronavirus shutdown, like a NASCAR driver going to the pits in a race halted by an accident. With the immediate future of the MLB season cloudy, Sale can use the downtime to get fixed. But