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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 […]
Continue readingWhat the best of the best in MLB can do in a 60-game season
Whatever else happens, the numbers that players put up in their 60-game seasons will still be season totals, bound for their places on the backs of baseball cards and the pages of Baseball-Reference.com. While nobody’s going to set a single-season record for home runs or steals, a season this short could make possible a player […]
Continue readingPicking both 2020 MLB All-Star rosters — even though there’s no game
The 91st All-Star Game would have been played Tuesday, and it would have been a wonderful celebration of the sport’s best players at Dodger Stadium. Instead, for the first time since 1945, there is no game, so the American League will carry its seven-game winning streak into 2021 at Atlanta’s Truist Park, with Dodger Stadium […]
Continue readingPittsburgh Pirates lefty Steven Brault makes his musical pitch
PITTSBURGH — Steven Brault is waiting in the wings as a trio of Broadway veterans belt out the final notes of “Being Alive,” from Stephen Sondheim’s Company. He has spent the last hour in his dressing room deep inside Heinz Hall, smacking his lips together in high-pitched trills and sticking his tongue behind his bottom […]
Continue reading2020 MLB Rank preview: How did we do last year, and what will this year’s list look like?
As we prepare to unveil the 2020 MLB Rank top 100 on Tuesday, we first take a look back at our 2019 rankings to see how we did, and make some predictions for what this year’s list of baseball’s top players will look like. We asked ESPN national baseball writers Bradford Doolittle, Sam Miller and […]
Continue readingYankees’ Gerrit Cole strikes out 2 in hitless inning of spring debut
Cole’s first pitch to Adam Frazier was a 97 mph fastball. After Frazier popped out and Bryan Reynolds struck out, Cole Tucker drew a walk. The right-hander then fanned Josh Bell to finish up. Cole signed a $324 million, nine-year contract as a free agent after going 20-5 with a 2.50 ERA and 326 strikeouts […]
Continue reading2020 MLB arbitration tracker: Follow along at Jan. 10 deadline
Friday was the deadline for 155 arbitration-eligible players and their MLB teams to agree on salaries or exchange desired numbers for 2020. This year, big names including Mookie Betts, Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, Aaron Judge, George Springer and Noah Syndergaard are among those who either came to a settlement amount before the deadline or are […]
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