12:04 PM ET The Major League Baseball draft is increasingly likely to happen in July, though it could be shortened and include bonus deferrals, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN. Fear of handing out significant signing bonuses amid cash-flow questions prompted a number of owners to question whether the 2020 draft should be canceled
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7:15 AM ET This was supposed to be opening week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Since we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our
7:00 AM ET Well, there are no flyovers, no cracks of the bat, no peanuts or Cracker Jack. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be Power Rankings. On what would have been Opening Day, we compile the votes of ESPN’s baseball reporters, writers and editors and unveil our rankings for all 30 teams, looking at
7:30 AM ET Anthony Rizzo This past Monday, when his team would have been finishing spring training and heading to Milwaukee for Opening Day if not for the coronavirus outbreak, Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, a former Roberto Clemente Award winner and Man of the Year in MLB, wrote an essay for ESPN.com from
11:12 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Vowing that “baseball will be back” and “will be part of the recovery,” Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said in an interview Wednesday with ESPN’S Scott Van Pelt on SportsCenter that
2:01 PM ET ESPN News Services With no live Opening Day games Thursday, because of the coronavirus pandemic, baseball fans are being offered a multitude of classic alternatives on television and other platforms. ESPN2 is airing an eight-hour Home Run Derby marathon on Thursday, starting with Pete Alonso‘s impressive show from last summer. The consecutive
1:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Seven-inning doubleheaders could be a way for big league teams to squeeze more games into a condensed season without exhausting pitching staffs, Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins suggests. Opening Day has been postponed until at least mid-May because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Blue Jays were set
7:00 AM ET This was supposed to be Opening Week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Since we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our
7:00 AM ET This would have been the opening week for Major League Baseball, but instead we wait for normalcy to return. In the meantime, you can get your baseball fix by checking out some past Home Run Derbies on ESPN+ — you can rewatch all the theatrics of the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019
Mar 24, 2020 On Thursday, March 26, ESPN2 will be airing a Home Run Derby Classics marathon starting at 6 p.m. with 2019’s epic battle between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Pete Alonso. After that, it will be 2018 (Washington, D.C.), 2017 (Miami) and 2015 (Cincinnati). • The best home runs we ever saw: Rocking Wrigley,