7:00 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” When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he was 28 years old and had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball
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7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With the 2020 MLB trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, what you see on big league rosters is what you’ll get as baseball takes its turn into the stretch drive. As Major League Baseball clubs shook up their squads, we saw considerable moves up and down this week’s rankings.
10:12 PM ET The 2021 MLB draft will move from June to July 11-13 and will be held in Atlanta as part of the All-Star Game festivities, according to a memo obtained by ESPN that MLB sent to clubs Monday about changes to the draft. The draft has been held in early to mid-June for
5:31 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN The 2020 MLB trade deadline, the strangest deadline in Major League Baseball history, has passed. The San Diego Padres stole the headlines by dealing for Mike Clevinger on a deadline day that lagged behind other recent ones in overall volume of moves. But that doesn’t mean the trades that went
7:00 AM ET It’s MLB trade deadline day, usually a day of anticipation and hopefully much wheeling and dealing before the 4 p.m. ET Aug. 31 deadline arrives. We’ve already seen a half-dozen or so interesting deals, although no blockbusters. That’s not necessarily a surprise, given the major issues affecting this year’s trade market: 1.
7:34 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Cody Bellinger and the Los Angeles Dodgers set the National League record for home runs in a month. Now they’ll keep pushing for the most series victories to start a season in the majors since 1969. Bellinger’s two-run homer gave the Dodgers 57 long balls in August
5:48 PM ET Chicago Cubs starter Tyler Chatwood left Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds in the third inning with left elbow discomfort and will be re-evaluated by doctors on Monday, according to manager David Ross. “We’ll get him looked at,” Ross said after the Cubs 10-1 win. “He felt something on the breaking ball
10:33 AM ET The Atlanta Braves have agreed to acquire Baltimore Orioles left-hander Tommy Milone in a trade that could bolster their struggling rotation, according to ESPN and multiple reports. MLB.com first reported Sunday morning that the Braves and Orioles were close to finalizing a deal involving Milone. Baltimore will receive two players to be
12:50 AM ET In a first for the 2020 season, both managers in an MLB game were ejected as the benches cleared in Game 2 of a doubleheader between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night. First, David Ross was tossed after Reds pitcher Tejay Antone threw a fastball over the head of
4:28 PM ET The San Diego Padres are in agreement on a deal to acquire reliever Trevor Rosenthal from the Kansas City Royals, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Saturday. Arguably the best reliever on the market is headed to the Padres, whose beleaguered bullpen will get a huge boost from a revitalized Rosenthal. Two
11:23 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Billionaire Steve Cohen has reentered into negotiations to purchase the New York Mets, hoping to salvage a deal for the franchise after a previous agreement to buy the team fell apart, a
6:30 PM ET Randy Wilkins was frustrated, and at 10:09 a.m. on June 3, he purged his feelings. For 36 minutes, over the course of 16 tweets, Wilkins dissected with great clarity how Major League Baseball had botched its response to George Floyd’s murder and how it was indicative of deeper problems of racism within
3:00 PM ET Editor’s note: Richard Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, expert on sports issues, scholar and author. He is president of the Institute for Sport and Social Justice, chairman of the DeVos Sports Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida and director of the Institute for Diversity
2:51 PM ET The Athletics–Rangers, Phillies–Nationals, Twins–Tigers, Red Sox–Blue Jays, Rockies–Diamondbacks and Orioles–Rays games set for Thursday night have been postponed, with possibly more to follow. The action follows three games being postponed on Wednesday as players across the sports landscape reacted to the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in
7:02 PM ET New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen apologized Thursday night, saying he falsely accused MLB commissioner Rob Manfred of proposing a plan that would have had players stage a one-hour walkout during New York’s scheduled home game against the Miami Marlins instead of not playing at all. Van Wagenen’s initial comments,
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” In the hours leading up to their scheduled game Wednesday night, some members of the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants saw an opportunity. Already Aug. 26, 2020, had registered as
5:38 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds agreed to not play their game Wednesday night at Miller Park in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. And the Seattle Mariners will not play Wednesday night’s game against the host San Diego Padres after Mariners players agreed to postpone it. In
10:52 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN On Sunday, there were four NBA playoff games, three WNBA games, two NHL playoff games, one MLS game and 14 MLB games. The same day, Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as he tried to enter the driver’s