8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” What is the smallest, oddest, most omnipresent detail about baseball that we take totally for granted? Is it that there is a front of the batter’s box to keep batters from moving
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7:08 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 1979, Adrian Beltre was born. Beltre’s eyes, that famous stare, made him look mean and unapproachable to strangers.
12:15 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball and its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow the them to start the season as early as May and has the support of high-ranking federal
8:00 AM ET Of course we love Major League Baseball prospects. Maybe it’s not fair that we pay so much attention and make silly comments like comparing a young player to Ken Griffey Jr. or saying this kid throws harder than Nolan Ryan, thus implying he might be the next Nolan Ryan. But we do
6:00 PM ET Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former All-Star first baseman Todd Helton pleaded guilty to driving under the influence as a first offense and has served 48 hours in jail as part of his sentence. Helton crashed his vehicle on March 18, 2019, in Knox County and required emergency medical care. No other
4:07 PM ET With the news of Hall of Famer Al Kaline’s passing away at the age of 85 on Monday, Tim Kurkjian looks at the life of the Detroit Tigers great. Al Kaline, at age 75, still looked elegant and regal and athletic as he pulled on his famous uniform No. 6 before a
3:56 PM ET Al Kaline, a Hall of Famer who played all 22 years of his career in Detroit, earning the nickname “Mr. Tiger,” died Monday, a team official confirmed to ESPN. Kaline was 85. Kaline, an All-Star in 15 seasons and a 10-time Gold Glove winner in right field, retired shortly after recording his
7:15 AM ET After an elite eight marked by one if-it-were-real historic comeback, we’re down to the two LCS matchups. While we’ll let you discover the identity of the four remaining teams by reading on, it seems to be a quartet of survivors appropriate to the theme of this tournament. All four were very good,
7:00 AM ET As we advance into the later rounds of our Second-Chance World Series, things are taking on a 1990s flavor, with half of our survivors coming from the decade of grunge, Michael Jordan and backward ball caps. It’s probably just a coincidence. But one thing we do know is that in this era
8:00 AM ET As baseball’s work stoppage lingered into the spring of 1995 and camps opened amid a loose plan for the teams to use replacement players, a small group of Baltimore fans gathered near the parking lot entrance to the Orioles’ facility, bathed in orange T-shirts and caps. They clutched baseballs, bats and file