4:56 PM ET Associated Press Brendan Rodgers and his strained right hamstring have the Colorado Rockies searching for a second option at second base. With Rodgers sidelined at least a month, the Rockies may need to shuffle around the infield. The plan could be to move Ryan McMahon from third base to second and Josh
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2:08 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — One major league player was positive for COVID-19 during the past week among 14,845 tests, a positive rate of 0.007%. There have been 13 positive tests — 10 for players, three for staff — among 58,733 monitoring tests during spring training, a rate of 0.2%, the commissioner’s
7:00 AM ET Trevor Bauer estimates spending about an hour each day logging his own metrics, a process that produces something in the neighborhood of 50 different data sets related to body composition and vital signs. The work is at the crux of Bauer’s conviction about being able to start every four days. Workload, Bauer
5:52 PM ET Associated Press Jon Lester was back on a mound Thursday, wearing a Washington Nationals uniform while facing opposing batters for the first time in spring training and striking out a couple during his two innings, less than two weeks after surgery to remove a parathyroid gland. “Baseball, for me, is an escape.
3:08 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — New Mets pitcher Carlos Carrasco strained his right hamstring during conditioning after throwing batting practice Thursday and seems certain to miss the start of the season. Carrasco, a right-hander who turns 34 on Sunday, has not appeared in any exhibition games this year. He is
1:20 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Yankees and Mets will be allowed to start the season with a maximum 20% capacity. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced at a news conference Thursday that the Yankees could have up to 10,850 fans for their April 1 opener against Toronto at Yankee
9:50 AM ET Frustration began to mount soon after the 2020 MLB season got underway last summer. Without in-game video available to major league hitters for the first time, many found themselves at a disadvantage at the plate. They struggled. And then they vented. Mostly, players chirped to their agents, and then those agents called
8:10 AM ET Clint Frazier couldn’t wait to show off his latest piece of lumber. Featuring a colorful caricature of his face, his bright red curly locks, a face mask with his jersey number — 77 — a chain and sunglasses, his new bat was everything a typical brown, gray or black bat was not.
7:05 PM ET Associated Press A year after a bout with COVID-19 denied him a chance to be the Boston Red Sox‘s Opening Day starter, Eduardo Rodríguez is getting a do-over. Manager Alex Cora made the announcement Wednesday following Boston’s 9-1 spring training win over the Minnesota Twins. Rodríguez threw an efficient 55 pitches, striking
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” With a month of spring training in the books, people inside baseball are starting to form their opinions on players. Who’s real; who’s not. Who changed; who didn’t. Who matters; who doesn’t.
7:55 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — An Illinois appellate court ruled Tuesday a woman struck by a foul ball at Wrigley Field can move ahead with a lawsuit she filed against Major League Baseball. In upholding a lower court ruling, the appellate court said the plaintiff was not limited to arbitrating her case with
4:09 PM ET Associated Press Travis Shaw’s second stint with the Milwaukee Brewers is off to an encouraging start. The Brewers announced Tuesday they have added Shaw to their 40-man roster, making him one of the leading candidates for playing time at third base. Shaw, who played for Milwaukee from 2017-19 and spent last season
2:40 PM ET SARASOTA, Fla. — Infielder Maikel Franco and the Baltimore Orioles finalized an $800,000, one-year contract on Tuesday. Franco hit .278 with 16 doubles, eight homers and a team-high 38 RBIs for the Kansas City during last year’s pandemic-shortened season. The 28-year-old would get a $200,000 performance bonus if he reaches 400 plate
1:52 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Blue Jays pitcher Nate Pearson aggravated his strained right groin during a bullpen session Tuesday, further decreasing the hard-throwing right-hander’s chance of making Toronto’s Opening Day roster. “We do feel it’s very mild in nature but want to re-asses that and then just take it a day at
12:48 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. LAKELAND, Fla. — Miguel Cabrera isn’t consumed by the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal and doesn’t believe their 2017 World Series title is tainted, either. It didn’t matter to him then, he said, and it doesn’t matter to him now.
7:00 AM ET Who says you can’t learn anything from MLB spring training games? We asked our MLB experts to put aside any notion they may have that these exhibition games — even ones that stop mid-inning for a mercy rule put in this spring — don’t matter for a minute and instead focus on
7:50 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Ryan Braun says he’s strongly leaning toward retirement, but the Milwaukee Brewers‘ home run leader isn’t ready to make any decision regarding his future. Braun visited the Brewers’ spring training site Monday and said he hasn’t picked up a bat since the end of the 2020 season. The
6:14 PM ET Associated Press Sixto Sanchez‘s first pitch for the Miami Marlins in the first spring training game of his career squarely met Jose Altuve‘s bat. The Houston Astros star grounded a leadoff single Monday, but Sanchez shook off that setback on his way to 1 2/3 scoreless innings in West Palm Beach, Florida.