5:27 PM ET Major League Baseball intends to propose a shorter season in which the league would pay players a full, prorated share of their salaries, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The league believes the late March agreement to delay the start of the season allows MLB it to set the schedule, and that this
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10:53 AM ET ESPN News Services A judge has dismissed Lenny Dykstra’s defamation and libel lawsuit against Ron Darling, ruling that the former New York Mets outfielder’s “reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry is already so tarnished that it cannot be further injured.” New York Supreme Court Judge Robert D. Kalish dismissed Dykstra’s lawsuit Friday.
11:52 AM ET ESPN News Services The Washington Nationals changed course and told their minor leaguers on Monday they will receive their full weekly stipends of $400 through June after reliever Sean Doolittle tweeted that the team’s major league players would cover a planned cut in those payments. Doolittle wrote on Twitter that Nationals major
12:02 PM ET Major League Baseball players joined the wave of athletes, coaches and executives speaking out about their grief and anger over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, 46, died last week in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. Chauvin, fired last Tuesday,
9:37 PM ET The seasons of three of the top four American team sports were thrown into uncertain stasis by the coronavirus pandemic, a stunning turn of events that we’ve been dealing with for 2½ months now. As the weeks have passed and the country has ever-so-tentatively begun to reopen, Major League Baseball, the NHL
May 30, 2020 The pitcher many scouts think has the highest upside in the 2020 MLB draft has been seen by most big league organizations for just three innings. And those innings were nearly a year ago, when he was part of the 2021 draft class, so some scouts weren’t even paying attention to him.
11:18 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Major League Baseball Players Association delivered a return-to-play proposal to MLB on Sunday that includes a 114-game season, deferred salaries in the event of a canceled postseason and the option for
10:00 AM ET Many of the folks inside baseball but outside of the Zoom labor negotiations assume that, eventually, cooler heads will prevail in the talks between the owners and the players’ union. Because they have to — right? Because the alternative — no attempted restart of baseball in 2020 because of a failure of
8:26 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1950, Tippy Martinez was born. Martinez was a very good reliever; he had a 3.45 ERA and 115
7:00 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. Editor’s note: This story on the Detroit Tigers’ Rally Goose was originally published on May 31, 2019. It was just a typical game between so-so Angels and Tigers teams last May when a flock of geese landed