10:56 AM ET Evan Gattis, who won a World Series ring with the Houston Astros in 2017, said the team and its players “obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans” with the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the sport. “Everybody wants to be the best player in the f—ing world, man,” Gattis, who has since retired,
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7:35 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 1966, Tom Seaver signed with the Mets out of USC. The Braves had selected Seaver in the January
3:29 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — The Japanese professional baseball and soccer seasons will be further delayed as the country grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus. Japanese professional baseball had aimed to open its season on April 24 after previously pushing it back from March 20. After a meeting Friday of a joint
7:33 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Justin Turner has a lot of time on his hands these days, and has come up with a novel idea for deciding extra-inning games once the regular season starts. Taking a cue from NHL shootouts, Turner suggested that baseball go to a home run derby if a game
4:03 PM ET Associated Press Former baseball All-Star Jim Edmonds says he tested positive for the new coronavirus and for pneumonia. “I am completely symptom free now and doing really well, and so I must have had it for a while,” Edmonds said in a video posted to his Instagram account. “I appreciate everyone who
6:45 AM ET No matter how many times your team wins it all, it doesn’t every quite erase the memory of the one that got away. As a Royals fan, to an embarrassing degree my happiness over them winning the 2015 World Series was hampered by the unshakable memory of Alex Gordon being stranded on
12:41 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Ed Farmer, an All-Star reliever who spent nearly three decades as a radio broadcaster for the Chicago White Sox, has died. He was 70. The White Sox said he died Wednesday night in Los Angeles following complications from an illness. A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, and a
7:00 AM ET A month ago, when the world still felt predictable and baseball important, Dusty Baker and AJ Hinch were two sides of a damaged coin. The Houston Astros were the disgrace of baseball, a once extremely valuable currency in sharp decline. The Astros fired Hinch, who was without objection serving the yearlong suspension
8:04 AM ET Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow will fulfill their one-season suspensions for the team’s sign-stealing scandal even if no baseball is played in 2020, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Thursday. Hinch and Luhnow were given the one-year bans and subsequently fired in January following an
7:39 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 2001, Ichiro made his Major League Baseball debut. Ichiro Suzuki was the first position player from Japan to