8:00 AM ET One of the most unusual and incredible double plays started to form like a quilt of baseball development long before Ramon Laureano raced to the warning track in 2018. There was the time Laureano spent long-tossing as a kid, building arm strength. The high school days when he pitched, improving his throwing
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8:00 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 1980, Dan Quisenberry pitched for the Royals and was caught by Jamie Quirk. It was the first time
8:00 AM ET John Brogan was introduced to Strat-O-Matic Baseball by his two older brothers. He was 8 years old, it was the early 1980s, and sports simulation games were all the rage. Brogan immediately became hooked. He played incessantly with friends, at one point staging an entire six-team season in two weeks, then got
1:24 PM ET Former Chicago Cubs second baseman Glenn Beckert died Sunday, the team announced. He was 79. Beckert spent nine seasons with the Cubs from 1965 to 1973 before finishing his career with two seasons for the San Diego Padres. In 1968, he led all of baseball with 98 runs scored and also won
7:47 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 2010, Herbie The Love Bug said goodbye to an old home, and Minnesota gave him a new one.
7:00 AM ET Alden Gonzalez Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.com Marly Rivera Close ESPN Writer Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Eighteen of the Washington Nationals‘ Venezuelan players are staying at a Marriott in West Palm Beach,
1:55 PM ET The longer that baseball’s doors are closed because of the coronavirus, the greater the cost, as is the case with every other business. Team officials and player agents are bracing for what they expect to be a dramatic shift in the financial landscape if the sport is shut down for the season.
8:00 AM ET Evaluating general managers in Major League Baseball is an incredibly tough exercise. There’s the draft, free agency, coaching staff and trades, and every general manager deals with different constraints from prior regimes and from ownership. Because of those difficulties, we’ll try a different kind of exercise aimed at evaluating and grading general
8:07 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 2011, Sam Fuld didn’t stop. Willie Mays never hit for the cycle. Neither did Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth
Apr 10, 2020 Associated Press Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says one team employee — not a player — tested positive for the coronavirus and is “on the road to getting better.” Rizzo said no players for the reigning World Series champions have shown any symptoms of COVID-19 at any point and so no