5:21 PM ET Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — Philadelphia Phillies ace Aaron Nola was scratched from his scheduled start Monday against the New York Yankees due to the flu. Phillies manager Joe Girardi said with an off day Wednesday, Nola may rejoin the team on Thursday. The date for Nola’s next appearance is not clear.
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7:00 AM ET The next few months without any baseball are going to be rough for MLB fans, so let’s spend a little time appreciating the game we do love as we await its return, starting with these players we don’t talk about enough. Some are simply underrated, some are unappreciated veterans we maybe take
2:19 PM ET ESPN News Services WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Houston ace Justin Verlander has a mild strain of a back muscle and said it would “probably take a miracle” for him to pitch in the Astros’ opener at Oakland on March 26. In an effort to remain positive, Verlander quickly added, “but I
1:22 PM ET Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez could be back in the lineup Friday if his sore back keeps improving. Sanchez played consecutive games for the first time this year on Thursday and Friday, then felt sore Saturday and hasn’t played since. “I’m not real concerned about it,”
1:06 PM ET Associated Press Milwaukee will be paying Christian Yelich until 2042, when the All-Star outfielder is 50 years old. Yelich’s $215 million, nine-year contract with the team calls for the Brewers to defer $4 million each year from his $26 million annual salary from 2022 to ’28. The deal includes a $20 million
10:33 AM ET Barry Bonds says Major League Baseball has given him a “death sentence,” telling The Athletic that he feels exiled by the sport since retiring in 2007. Bonds’ comments, published Sunday, were part of a wide-ranging interview with The Athletic, which originally intended to discuss modern hitting trends with baseball’s home run king.
12:00 AM ET Do Damage. That phrase emblazoned across sweatshirts during baseball’s postseason the past few seasons came across as a longing, desperate attempt by marketing sloganeers to find some way, any way, for baseball to return to the cool, Madison Avenue merchandising game now dominated by the NBA. After Reggie, Fernando and Junior, this
5:45 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Japanese officials postponed the start of the 12-team professional baseball league season on Monday because of the spread of the coronavirus. The season was to open on March 20. Japan’s professional league had been playing its preseason games without fans because of the virus. “I personally believe that
7:26 PM ET Chicago White Sox right-handed pitching prospect Michael Kopech is set to make his Cactus League debut on Tuesday in his first game action since undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2018. Kopech, ranked as the No. 16 overall prospect in Major League Baseball by ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel, is scheduled to start the game
9:00 AM ET As we prepare to unveil the 2020 MLB Rank top 100 on Tuesday, we first take a look back at our 2019 rankings to see how we did, and make some predictions for what this year’s list of baseball’s top players will look like. We asked ESPN national baseball writers Bradford Doolittle,