8:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The Los Angeles Angels will be without outfielder Justin Upton for eight to 12 weeks while he recovers from “turf toe” manager Brad Ausmus told reporters on Friday. Ausmus said he expects to use Peter Bourjos and Brian Goodwin fill in while Upton is sidelined. Upton was injured in
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5:57 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The San Francisco Giants have the oldest average age in the major leagues at 30.63 years and the San Diego Padres have the youngest at 27.11, according to the commissioner’s office. Oakland is the second-oldest at 30.10, based on opening-day rosters, the commissioner’s office said Friday. Washington
7:39 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers reliever Corey Knebel is done for the season, after deciding to undergo Tommy John surgery to repair a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Knebel announced his decision to the media in the Brewers’ dugout a couple of hours before his team was set to
Mar 27, 2019 Quickly jump to any page for specific intel It’s not too late to draft your fantasy baseball team.Create or join a league today.Get rankings and more for your draft. The 2019 Major League Baseball season begins on Thursday, March 28, with all 30 teams scheduled to play, and a tripleheader of games
10:24 AM ET Mike Sheets Pete Alonso, Brandon Lowe and Rafael Devers are all batting near the top of their teams’ lineups to start the MLB season, which is important for their fantasy values. The first Saturday of the regular season is upon us. While every team has technically already thrown its No. 1 starter,
6:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark scolded the MLB and its teams for making a game out of the arbitration process by awarding a toy championship belt to the team deemed having done the best to keep salaries down. “That clubs make sport of trying to
3:13 PM ET Associated Press DENTON, Texas — A Texas grand jury has indicted former All-Star and World Series MVP pitcher John Wetteland on three counts of continuous sexual assault of a child. The indictments Thursday in Denton County, north of Dallas and Fort Worth, follow Wetteland’s January arrest. According to a consolidated complaint and
2:02 PM ET The Cleveland Indians have signed veteran outfielder Cameron Maybin to a minor league contract, the team announced Friday. Maybin will report to Triple-A Columbus, where he will join fellow veterans Carlos Gonzalez, Brandon Barnes and Trayce Thompson. Maybin, who turns 32 next week, was released by the Giants earlier this month. The
1:51 PM ET ESPN News Services There were more than 100 Dominican players in the major leagues on Opening Day, the first time a nation outside the United States reached the century mark. Major League Baseball said Friday that 251 of 882 players on Opening Day rosters, injured lists and the restricted list were born
7:02 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Earlier this spring, as San Diego Padres players were starting to dream about just how transformative the 2019 season could be for a franchise in eternal hibernation, Manny Machado and Eric Hosmer