3:11 PM ET Bryce Harper had an immediate impact at the Phillies‘ gate, with 100,000 tickets sold in the first 24 hours since his agreement was first reported, the team said Friday. Phillies senior vice president of ticket operations John Weber told radio station WIP he thought the number was a record for the team.
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6:22 PM ET Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. — Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez damaged the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, raising the possibility the 2015 World Series MVP may need Tommy John surgery and miss the season. Perez was hurt during a workout Wednesday, and the team said a MRI on Thursday
1:56 PM ET Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — Oakland Athletics slugger Khris Davis stepped up his rehab for a left calf strain and began running on the field Friday. Athletics manager Bob Melvin said he expects Davis to be ready by the season-opening series in Japan in mid-March. Davis has yet to play in a
12:00 PM ET Plenty of other superstar free agents have changed teams, from Reggie Jackson to Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson to Roger Clemens to Alex Rodriguez. But Bryce Harper forged his own path through the market, waiting and waiting through meeting after meeting. Now he must hit the ground running. A physical examination Friday, a
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 most of us, the Bryce Harper Story began almost a decade ago with a headline: “Baseball’s LeBron.” In Tom Verducci’s profile of a Las Vegas teenager who was so much better
10:48 AM ET Chicken can go back on the menu at the Brandon Nimmo household, as his wife says a virus, not improperly cooked food, led the New York Mets outfielder to fall ill. Nimmo had been set to make his defensive debut Thursday, but that was put off with what manager Mickey Callaway initially
2:08 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” In the meetings that led to him becoming the highest-paid athlete in the history of team sports, Bryce Harper kept coming back to one word: family. The protracted, bordering-on-interminable nature of his
9:02 PM ET Boston Red Sox catcher Blake Swihart decided to play Thursday, a day after learning that his brother, former New Mexico running back Romell Jordan, had died. “Romell would have been upset with me if I didn’t put on my uniform today,” Swihart wrote on Instagram. Swihart was in the starting lineup against
9:19 PM ET The Toronto Blue Jays and free-agent pitcher Clay Buchholz have agreed to a contract, according to multiple reports. The deal is pending a physical. Terms weren’t immediately available. Following a series of injury-plagued seasons, Buchholz became arguably the Diamondbacks’ best pitcher after signing with the team in May of last season, going
4:55 PM ET Barely more than a week after Manny Machado picked the San Diego Padres, Bryce Harper is headed to the Philadelphia Phillies. What does the deal mean for baseball’s new $330 million man, the team that signed him and the rest of baseball? We asked ESPN baseball writers Eddie Matz, Bradford Doolittle, Sam