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Athletics’ Mike Fiers declines to discuss whistleblower role
OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers didn’t have any more to say regarding his role as a whistleblower. Fiers declined to answer questions Friday about revealing the sign-stealing scandal that has engulfed Major League Baseball, instead saying he simply wanted to focus on the future. He spoke a day ahead of an A’s […]
Continue readingTigers want top prospects to get some seasoning at Triple-A Toldeo
About 60 miles down Interstate 75. “We’ve got some pretty good ones going to Triple-A Toledo,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “They ought to be pretty happy down there. They’re going to see some pretty good pitchers.” Gardenhire and general manager Al Avila indicated Thursday that some of Detroit’s top prospects will likely spend time […]
Continue readingJ.D. Martinez confident Red Sox will be cleared in investigation, as ‘there was nothing going on here’
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Boston Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez believes Major League Baseball’s investigation into the 2018 World Series champions will not reveal sign stealing. “I’m excited for the investigation to get over with, just so they can see there was nothing going on here,” Martinez said Saturday at the team’s Winter Weekend fan […]
Continue readingSetting sights on spring training, Jose Altuve confident embattled Astros will ‘be in World Series’
HOUSTON — A week filled with fines, suspensions, firings and impromptu news conferences as a result of their sign-stealing scandal ended awkwardly in Houston on Saturday, with the Astros meeting and greeting fans and media at their annual winter festival. Two of the team’s biggest stars — Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman — took center […]
Continue readingWhat really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL’s ‘scandal’ aged poorly
Hey, baseball world: We here on the NFL side are sorry to see your game engulfed in a cheating scandal. It’s truly awful to know that the Houston Astros swindled their way to the 2017 World Series title. But I’ve got to laugh and remind you that five years ago today, the NFL produced a […]
Continue readingBuzzers, burner accounts and conspiracies: Inside baseball’s day of epic chaos
BASEBALL LOST ITS mind Thursday. Every sport endures this: part-cleansing, part-reckoning, part-recalibration — a day to release everything, good, bad and otherwise, a full-throated scream into the void. It was inevitable, building up over the previous three days, each unforgettable in its own right. History will treat Thursday as a footnote, even if it said […]
Continue readingHow the internet helped crack the Astros’ sign-stealing case
NEW YORK — When allegations that the Houston Astros had stolen signs electronically during their 2017 World Series championship season surfaced in November, Jimmy O’Brien was sitting in his new apartment in Harlem, waiting for some Verizon workers to finish setting up his cable internet. Known better as Jomboy, O’Brien had broken into baseball internet […]
Continue readingThe five biggest victims of the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal
The grumbling around the game was thick after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred rendered discipline in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing case Monday, because while two individuals got hammered, the institution that stood to glean enormous benefit from the systemic illicit behavior was mostly left untouched, the players who participated left unscathed. The Astros are still 2017 […]
Continue readingTwo managers gone in two days: What losing Alex Cora, AJ Hinch means for baseball
The Boston Red Sox decided not to wait. A day after manager Alex Cora’s name was mentioned 11 times in the commissioner’s report on the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal from when Cora was the team’s bench coach in 2017 — a report that implicated Cora as the mastermind behind the entire scheme — the two […]
Continue readingMLB superstar trades, sign-stealing punishment and more: Passan answers 20 questions for 2020
A new year means endless new questions for Major League Baseball, a sport in the midst of its most engaging free-agency period in a half-decade, nearing the punishment phase of an ugly scandal, grappling with deep-seated economic questions, ever considering the quality of its on-the-field product and prepared to overhaul its minor league system. It’s […]
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