2:19 PM ET A bargaining session between Major League Baseball and the players’ union lasted just 15 minutes Thursday and produced little progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN. The union offered tweaks to its arbitration demands while asking MLB for more money in a pre-arbitration bonus pool,
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7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN This week ESPN MLB draft and prospect expert Kiley McDaniel ranked his top 100 MLB prospects for 2022. Now, it’s time to have some fun with the biggest names on the list. We asked our MLB experts to give us one bold 2022 prediction for the one prospect in the
6:27 PM ET If Matt Harvey can find a team willing to sign him, he could immediately be suspended for at least 60 days for saying that he provided opioids to Tyler Skaggs on several occasions, a Major League Baseball official told ESPN on Wednesday. Harvey’s admission in federal court Tuesday qualifies as distribution under
8:04 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — The trial of Eric Kay, the former Los Angeles Angels communications director charged with the 2019 death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, is headed to the jury. The defense rested Wednesday after presenting a brief case, and closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning. After that, 10 women and
6:57 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Negotiations aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s lockout will resume Thursday. The players’ association notified management Wednesday that it is ready to respond to the offer MLB made last weekend, proposals that were received coolly by the union. Baseball’s ninth work stoppage, its first since 1995, enters
2:41 PM ET The Washington Nationals offered a 13-year, $350 million extension to outfielder Juan Soto prior to the current lockout by Major League Baseball, he confirmed to ESPN’s Enrique Rojas on Wednesday. The offer, made before the work stoppage, was intended to start this season and did not include deferred money, a Nationals source
6:19 PM ET Tyler Zombro, the Tampa Bay Rays minor leaguer who was struck in the head by a comebacker to the mound last June, told the Tampa Bay Times in a story published Tuesday that he plans to resume his pitching career. Zombro told the Times that he had a follow-up CT scan on
3:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Ryan Zimmerman announced his retirement from Major League Baseball on Tuesday after 16 seasons, all with the Washington Nationals. The veteran infielder issued a statement announcing his retirement via CAA Baseball in which he thanked the Nationals’ front office, managers and coaches, trainers and medical staff, teammates, his agents
4:32 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — A Chicago ticket broker convicted of fraudulently selling tickets to White Sox games was sentenced to prison Tuesday after a federal judge rejected his argument that he had actually helped the team by putting more concession-buying fans in the seats. During a hearing, the judge sentenced Bruce Lee,
2:27 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Four major league players testified Tuesday they received oxycodone pills from a former Angels employee accused of providing Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to the pitcher’s overdose death. Pitchers Matt Harvey, Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian and first baseman C.J. Cron played for the Angels