2:12 PM ET The Colorado Rockies will retire the jersey of outfielder Larry Walker on April 19, the team announced Friday. Walker, the National League MVP in 1997, played 10 seasons with the Rockies, batting .334 with 258 home runs and 848 RBIs. His 17-year career also included stops in Montreal and St. Louis. “I
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2:10 PM ET Former Cy Young Award winner Jack McDowell on Friday accused Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa of having a camera-aided sign-stealing system installed when he was with the Chicago White Sox in the late 1980s. McDowell, who made his major league debut for the White Sox in 1987 and pitched for
11:42 AM ET Major League Baseball has shifted its view of deceased players who have been banned for life, a group that includes “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and the seven other Chicago White Sox players prohibited from playing professional baseball in 1921 for fixing the 1919 World Series. A senior MLB source told ESPN that the
11:30 AM ET NEW YORK — When allegations that the Houston Astros had illegally stolen signs during their 2017 world championship season surfaced in November, Jimmy O’Brien was sitting in his new apartment in Harlem, waiting for five Verizon workers to finish setting up his cable internet. Known better as Jomboy, O’Brien had broken into
11:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” BASEBALL LOST ITS mind Thursday. Every sport endures this: part-cleansing, part-reckoning, part-recalibration — a day to release everything, good, bad and otherwise, a full-throated scream into the void. It was inevitable, building
6:00 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was business as usual in Week 17 for Ryan Tannehill and A.J. Brown. The Tennessee Titans quarterback dropped back to launch a deep pass from the 3-yard line
8:09 PM ET The Astros‘ illegal use of technology fueled further speculation Thursday that Houston players took their methods a step further by wearing concealed devices that notified them of certain pitches, including this past season. In response, Major League Baseball said Thursday it “explored wearable devices during the investigation (into the Astros) but found
7:11 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — Alyssa Nakken became the first female coach on a major league staff in baseball history Thursday when she was named an assistant under new San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler. Major League Baseball confirmed Nakken is the first full-time female coach in the majors. Nakken is
5:59 PM ET BOSTON — Red Sox All-Star Xander Bogaerts, addressing the sign-stealing scandal that cost Boston manager Alex Cora his job, said Thursday he doesn’t believe MLB’s investigation of the team’s alleged practices in 2018 taints their World Series title. “Nah, absolutely not,” Bogaerts said. “We came to the park every day, we worked
7:00 AM ET There is value in being average, in life and in baseball, too. In fact, when it comes to baseball there is a lot of value in it. Think of it like this. A .500 team in sports is exactly average. You add up the wins and losses for any league, and that’s