7:43 PM ET ESPN News Services HOUSTON — A week filled with fines, suspensions, firings and impromptu news conferences as a result of their sign-stealing scandal ended awkwardly in Houston on Saturday, with the Astros meeting and greeting fans and media at their annual winter festival. Two of the team’s biggest stars — Jose Altuve
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6:25 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Harrison Bader is confident he’ll be in center field for the St. Louis Cardinals when the season begins. Bader was in St. Louis on Saturday taking part in the annual Cardinals Winter Warm-Up. “I’m the starting center fielder,” the 25-year-old Bader said. “It’s my position. I’m going
5:49 PM ET Any player on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list will not be considered for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, even after the banned individual’s death, a hall spokesman told ESPN on Saturday. “This designation remains in place after an individual’s passing,” said Jon Shestakofsky, a Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
3:40 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Boston Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez believes Major League Baseball’s investigation into the 2018 World Series champions will not reveal sign stealing. “I’m excited for the investigation to get over with, just so they can see there was nothing going on here,” Martinez said Saturday at the team’s
12:46 PM ET The Houston Astros will interview Dusty Baker for their open manager position next week, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The story was first reported by MLB Network. Houston is looking for a new manager after Monday’s firing of AJ Hinch in the wake of a sign-stealing scandal. Baker, 70, last
9:56 AM ET More than half of Major League Baseball fans believe that Houston Astros players should have been penalized along with team management in the aftermath of the sign-stealing scandal that’s gripped the game over the past week, according to an online survey conducted among 1,010 adults, including 810 MLB fans, nationwide Thursday and
11:06 PM ET CHICAGO — In the aftermath of the Astros‘ cheating scandal, Yu Darvish has been left wondering: Was he tipping pitches during the 2017 World Series or were Houston players stealing signs? In the two-plus years since, the right-hander had thought it was the latter. He was rocked by the Astros that postseason
9:49 PM ET ESPN News Services CEO Sam Kennedy said the Boston Red Sox haven’t made any notable progress in the search for a new manager as of late Friday but would like to have one in place for the start of spring training in mid-February. “It’s got to be someone who fits the culture
8:08 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Houston Astros owner Jim Crane expects to hire a new manager by Feb. 3. The Astros need a new manager and general manager after AJ Hinch and Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday, hours after both were suspended by Major League Baseball for a year for the team’s sign-stealing
5:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Former Kansas City Royals owner and chairman David Glass died last week of complications from pneumonia at the age of 84, the team announced. Glass was named interim chairman and CEO of the Royals in 1993 when then-owner Ewing Kauffman died. He and his family bought the team in