12:46 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” It would have to be the right team. That’s where the idea starts. The team would need to be successful — really good, preferably, enough so that in Major League Baseball’s June
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6:53 PM ET Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa, detailing the events that led to his fractured rib in a nearly five-minute video posted Friday, said he heard a “crack” when a masseuse pressed on his right side. “I was getting a massage on this area on the ribs [on his right side] and I heard
6:07 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was put on the 10-day injured list with a strained right thumb tendon. The 36-year-old, a nine-time All-Star, got hurt during Saturday’s game against Atlanta and tried to play through the injury. St. Louis announced the roster move Friday and said it was
8:13 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — Kyle Freeland thinks he has lost his direction on the mound. So while the Colorado Rockies left-hander said it “stinks” that he’s been demoted to Triple-A Albuquerque, he’s keeping his mind open as he refines his mechanics. Freeland is 2-6 with a 7.13 ERA this season and nowhere
2:57 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Hyun-Jin Ryu was all but untouchable in May. His final start of the month was no different Thursday night as the left-hander pitched four-hit ball into the eighth inning of his latest dominant outing, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-0 win over the New York
6:54 AM ET It’s a big weekend with Yankees-Red Sox, Cubs-Cardinals, Dodgers-Phillies and Astros-A’s. And what series has the highest combined win total? Twins-Rays at the Trop, of course. Here’s what we’re most excited to see: With the Twins and Rays, two likely playoff teams, meeting this weekend, our thoughts turned to successful small-market teams.
4:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins drew 12,653 Wednesday night — combined. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Minnesota and Tampa Bay set stadium lows this year. Kansas City had its smallest home crowd since 2011, and Toronto and San Francisco since 2010. The Marlins’ average attendance is less than
6:49 AM ET ST. LOUIS — Perhaps St. Louis sports fans will be distracted by the Stanley Cup Final, forgetting that the Chicago Cubs and Kris Bryant will be in town for a weekend series. It’s the first time Bryant will be in St. Louis since famously calling the city “boring” during a comedy sketch
10:00 AM ET Coley Harvey Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered Florida State for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph Northwestern University graduate Joon Lee Close ESPN Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher ReportCornell University graduate NEW YORK — What a difference a year can make. Not only has the Yankees’ exhaustive, unenviable
10:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” For the first two weeks of the baseball season, WAR goes dark. Baseball-Reference.com didn’t roll out the first run of its all-encompassing stat until the morning of April 9, by which point