6:35 PM ET Oakland Athletics Gold Glove first baseman Matt Olson had surgery on his right hand, the team announced Friday. The team said the surgery was on his hamate excision. No timetable was given on when the 24-year-old would return to play. He was injured in Thursday’s game in Japan against the Mariners in
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7:37 PM ET ESPN News Services PHOENIX — Cincinnati Reds All-Star second baseman Scooter Gennett injured his groin while fielding a grounder against Milwaukee and was helped off the field. Gennett ranged to his left for a ball off the bat of Yasmani Grandal leading off the second inning Friday. Gennett slid to make the
8:00 PM ET The free-agent season might have been sluggish once again, but the extension season is smoking hot. With ESPN’s Jeff Passan reporting that the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a five-year extension with ace lefty Chris Sale — worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $145 million — yet another established star has
6:07 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — “Trader Jack” is back at spring training and couldn’t be happier. Back in baseball, where he belongs, after a season away. Now a special adviser to the Washington Nationals‘ general manager, Jack McKeon feels refreshed after a bit of a break from the place that’s
6:02 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Seattle outfielder Eric Filia, the Mariners’ No. 22 prospect according to MLB.com, has been suspended for 100 games following a third positive test for a drug of abuse under baseball’s minor league drug program. Filia went 1-for-8 in six spring training games this year before being
4:57 PM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — Matt Wieters has been added to the St. Louis Cardinals‘ roster after earning the back-up job behind catcher Yadier Molina. Wieters’ contract was selected Friday from Triple-A Memphis. He gets a $1.5 million salary while in the major leagues and $200,000 while in the minors. He can
4:43 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees‘ hitters involved in testing a ball that has undergone a factory rubbing at a factory have issues with the prototype’s color. “I was asked what I thought, and I thought it was too dark,” outfielder Brett Gardner said. “The ball felt the same coming
8:41 PM ET Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. — Veteran outfielder Hunter Pence is set to start the season with his hometown Texas Rangers. Manager Chris Woodward told Pence on Thursday that he will be on the 25-man roster as the team’s fourth outfielder when the Rangers open the regular season at home next Thursday against
10:31 AM ET Ceilings and floors. Upside and downside. Best- and worst-case scenarios. However you choose to term them, players’ most and least optimistic outcomes are integral parts of their annual fantasy baseball outlooks. They are also, unfortunately, among the more misunderstood such ingredients, with many fantasy managers often mistaking upside for “most probable outcome”
9:00 AM ET Every March, I post a list of players who I think are primed for significant upticks in performance for the coming MLB season. These are players who already have lost their rookie status but either haven’t performed at all in the majors or perhaps just haven’t lived up to expectations. I ranked