6:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Injured Houston Astros pitcher Francis Martes has been suspended for 80 games following a positive test for the banned performance-enhancing drug Clomiphene. The anti-estrogen substance is used in fertility treatments and is employed by men to accelerate testosterone production. It is taken along with steroids to inhibit
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9:00 AM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was either the World Series or the postseason round before that. Walker Buehler is fuzzy on the details. All he knows is that the stakes were high, and that it was the second or third inning, and that all of a sudden he had forgotten how to throw
12:00 PM ET It doesn’t really matter that the Angels have a team OPS of .872 in spring training, and no one should care that Max Scherzer has an ERA of 5.93, or that postseason hero Steve Pearce is still looking for his first exhibition hit. Exhibition numbers don’t carry much weight. Mostly. For some
9:59 AM ET Tim Tebow was among Mets players optioned to minor league camp by the New York Mets on Tuesday. Tebow will likely begin the season at Triple-A Syracuse. He went 4-for-15 and had an RBI for the Mets in Grapefruit League action. The 31-year-old outfielder hit .273 with six homers and 36 RBIs
12:57 AM ET Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. — Shohei Ohtani got a modest raise from the Los Angeles Angels after winning the American League Rookie of the Year award, agreeing to a one-year contract that boosts his pay to $650,000 from last year’s minimum of $545,000. Los Angeles announced agreements Monday with 22 players not
8:33 PM ET Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Reliever Michael Lorenzen has begun the Cincinnati Reds‘ mound-to-outfield experiment, pitching one inning and then moving to center field Monday in a game against the Cleveland Indians. It didn’t take long for the ball to find him. Lorenzen chased Jose Ramirez‘s leadoff double in the bottom of
6:52 PM ET Associated Press PEORIA, Ariz. — Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager needs surgery on his left hand and will be out at least through April. Manager Scott Servais said Seager will have surgery Tuesday to repair the tendon of his middle finger. Seager had an MRI over the weekend that revealed the
6:36 PM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — Nonchalantly, Washington manager Dave Martinez made official on Monday what most already assumed — ace Max Scherzer will be the first to get the ball for the Nationals. “I’m going to go out on a limb today and tell you that Max will be our opening day
9:32 PM ET My first dispatch from my spring-training rounds, this one from the east coast of Florida … Julio Teheran had his worst velocity in 2018, averaging just under 90 mph on his fastball (per FanGraphs), so he enters this season as a major question for Atlanta, a player who has had a rotation
4:49 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — Clayton Kershaw stood on a mound and fired 20 fastballs in the direction of Russell Martin on Monday morning, a light workout that represented the ace lefthander’s first bullpen session in nearly three weeks. Kershaw merely described it as “a good step forward,” but longtime Los Angeles Dodgers pitching