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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 readingYankees’ Masahiro Tanaka plans to wear protective insert in cap
The Yankees right-hander suffered a concussion July 4, minutes into the team’s first summer workout, when a line drive that left Giancarlo Stanton’s bat at an estimated 112 miles an hour struck the right side of his head. The Yankees don’t have Tanaka on their opening day roster but say he might pitch July 31. […]
Continue reading2020 MLB season expert predictions: Division picks, playoff field, World Series winner
After a delay of nearly four months, the 2020 MLB season will begin on Thursday night when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees (7 ET, ESPN). It’s time to pin down our expectations for what we expect to happen in the abbreviated 60-game season. Will the Nationals repeat? Is this the year the […]
Continue readingBaseball’s top 60 storylines for a 60-game MLB season
There is going to be a baseball season after all, one of 60 games, following a month of ugly public negotiations between the players and owners over how to navigate through the money of the shortened season. In the words of Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, “COVID-19 already presented a lose-lose-lose situation and we’ve somehow found […]
Continue reading47 things to know about Bartolo Colon on his 47th birthday
(Editor’s note: This story originally ran for Colon’s 45th birthday, but two years later Bartolo is still amazing us all) 1. He pitched in the majors at 45! You can probably guess that it’s pretty unusual for a 45-year-old to be pitching in the majors. Colon became just the 16th MLB pitcher since 1900 age […]
Continue readingThe best pitching performance ever for all 30 teams
Editor’s note: The original version of this story ran on June 27, 2018. As part of ESPN’s Strikeout Saturday on March 28, 2020, David Schoenfield updated his evaluations, particularly of who’s most likely to beat each team’s best-ever pitching performance. On May 4, 2018 Gerrit Cole pitched one of the best games you will ever […]
Continue readingDiamondbacks’ Domingo Leyba receives 80-game drug suspension
Leyba tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. “We were disappointed to learn of this news and hope that Domingo will take the time away from the game to reflect on his actions and learn from his mistakes,” the Diamondbacks said in a statement. The 24-year-old from the Dominican Republic hit .280 […]
Continue readingWho could be this year’s Nationals? How all 30 MLB teams stack up
Only one World Series favorite entering the season actually won the World Series in the decade we just completed. Wait, let’s put that another way: A team that was one of the top five favorites entering the season won the World Series only once over the past decade. The 2019 Washington Nationals didn’t necessarily feel […]
Continue readingDiamondbacks’ Mike Leake has fracture on non-throwing wrist
Leake, 32, had an MRI on Wednesday and he said it revealed an old fracture that was aggravated by a fall while he was chasing his dog. He had a small brace on his left wrist Thursday and said that “hopefully two weeks [of inactivity] can make it feel normal. It won’t be full strength, […]
Continue readingOne thing to watch for all 30 teams as spring training begins
When spring training kicked off a year ago, Bryce Harper and Manny Machado remained unsigned. The drama this year will center around the Houston Astros: their cheating scandal, reactions from other players about the Astros’ cheating scandal, the possibility of other teams throwing at Astros hitters in spring training, the counter-reaction from Astros pitchers and […]
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