10:38 PM ET ESPN News Services Friday started with bad injury news for the New York Yankees. It ended with the same. An MRI revealed that reliever Dellin Betances has a spur causing inflammation in his right shoulder, general manager Brian Cashman said. The right-hander will receive a cortisone shot Saturday and will be shut
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9:51 PM ET Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is back hitting again in the minor leagues, and Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins indicated Friday that it won’t be too long before he’s doing it for the big league club. The touted prospect was slowed in spring training by a strained oblique, but he joined Triple-A
6:20 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — J.T. Realmuto sat in the visiting dugout before Friday night’s game at Marlins Park, surveyed the surroundings and noted he wasn’t the only one to depart last offseason. His former team’s garish home run sculpture is gone, too, as part of an outfield makeover to give the ballpark
1:47 PM ET NEW YORK — Another day, another New York Yankees star to the injured list. With 11 other players already on their IL, the Yankees announced Friday afternoon that catcher Gary Sanchez would be joining them, retroactive to Thursday, after suffering a left calf strain earlier this week. Sanchez will be replaced on
5:15 PM ET CHICAGO — The winds at Wrigley Field were howling out to center field before Friday’s game between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels, but the game’s best player isn’t there to take advantage of them. Mike Trout, the Angels’ two-time American League MVP, remained in Anaheim, California, when his club departed
12:03 PM ET The Chicago Cubs placed backup catcher Victor Caratini on the 10-day injured list Friday with a fractured left hamate. He will have surgery on Monday is expected to be out up to 4-6 weeks, the team said. Caratini, 25, is batting .545 with one double, one homer and four RBI in five
10:54 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” They’re killers. Two agents used the same word last week to describe this generation of baseball executives. It was meant as a compliment. Modern general managers are single-minded. Uncompromising. They spot weakness
Apr 8, 2019 It’s Justin Verlander‘s 36th birthday. The day he officially moves closer to 40 years old than 30. The day he creeps nearer to middle age and further away from the best physical version of himself. Not that you’d ever know it. “Happy birthday,” shouts pitcher Brad Peacock, who’s seated on one of
9:35 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Scott Sanderson, the right-hander who helped the Chicago Cubs make two playoff appearances and was a member of four postseason teams during a 19-year career, died Thursday. He was 62. An official with Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, where Sanderson was a member, told The Associated
3:35 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the simple telling of this beyond-real Seattle Mariners story, Daniel Vogelbach plays the large adult son. He stands 6-foot, with the round face of a South Park