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Sources: Choices by Mike Clevinger, Zach Plesac to break protocol caused rift within Indians

During a testy meeting Friday, Cleveland Indians players scolded teammates Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac for breaking protocol and going out in Chicago, and at least one player said he would opt out of the season if the two remained on the active roster, sources familiar with the meeting told ESPN. Clevinger and Plesac, two-fifths […]

2020 MLB season preview: Power Rankings and everything you need to know for 60-game sprint

The 2020 major league baseball season will be like none that has ever come before it. MLB’s 30 teams will have just 60 games to try to streak into the postseason. Players and coaches will need to focus on the field while maintaining strict health and safety protocols off of it. There will be limited […]

The exile of Oakland A’s Bruce Maxwell and the birth of MLB’s Black player movement

To find Bruce Maxwell’s America, you first have to leave it, as he did, by crossing over into another country, into an exile both self-imposed and voluntary. It is to journey 165 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Laredo, Texas, into the Mexican city of Monclova, and look back at the most important intersection […]

31 MLB players positive for coronavirus after first round of tests

Thirty-one players were positive for COVID-19 in Major League Baseball’s first round of coronavirus testing, the league and players’ union announced Friday. Seven staff members also tested positive. The 38 positives represent 1.2% of 3,185 samples collected for the first set of results. For comparison, the NBA on June 26 reported a 5.3% rate of […]

Black baseball players seek support for BLM in video, ask fans to join

CC Sabathia, Prince Fielder, Giancarlo Stanton, Jason Heyward, Matt Kemp, Andrew McCutchen, Jackie Bradley Jr., Dexter Fowler, Adam Jones, Mookie Betts, Curtis Granderson, Marcus Stroman and David Price are just some of the players seen in the video as part of the #Players4BLM campaign. The video opens with New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, as […]

Tom Brady catching Patrick Mahomes? Our lineup of NFL stars drafted by MLB

The past two quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl — Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes — could have been pro baseball players. Before Brady won six rings, he was chosen in the 18th round of the 1995 draft by the Montreal Expos. “He was a left-handed-hitting catcher with power. He had a good future,” the […]