8:00 AM ET I have a friend who roots for the New York Yankees. I’ll call him M.M. It’s not Mickey Mantle, but if you want to believe it’s Mickey Mantle speaking to me from baseball heaven, that’s fine. Anyway, M.M. isn’t completely happy about the Yankees’ offseason. I mean, I think he’s happy about
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1:30 PM ET Alex Rodriguez, who again acknowledged his past “mistakes” involving performance-enhancing drugs, believes Barry Bonds and former New York Yankees teammate Roger Clemens deserve to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. “Of course I want them to get in, because that would mean that I have an opportunity to get in one
12:11 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers promoted general manager David Stearns to president of baseball operations and extended his contract Wednesday. The team also promoted Rick Schlesinger to president of business operations and extended his contract as well. Terms of the extensions were not disclosed. “David’s approach to acquiring, developing and retaining talent has been
6:25 PM ET Closer Mariano Rivera, designated hitter Edgar Martinez and starting pitchers Roy Halladay and Mike Mussina will be the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rivera became the first played to be unanimously voted into the Hall. The four were voted into the hall by the Baseball Writers Association of America
9:45 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The slow, excruciating bleeding out of Barry Bonds’ and Roger Clemens’ candidacies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame continued Tuesday. It is the personification of death by paper cut. For three
3:36 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Free agent outfielder Nick Markakis agreed to a one-year deal worth $6 million guaranteed with the Atlanta Braves, returning to the defending National League East champions after turning in his best season
1:23 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — The home of the Milwaukee Brewers will be renamed when MillerCoors’ naming rights expire following the 2020 season. MillerCoors said in a statement Tuesday the rights to Miller Park will go to American Family Insurance beginning in 2021. MillerCoors said American Family proactively pitched the Brewers “an incredibly
8:42 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” Mariano Rivera, the first player in history unanimously elected* to the Hall of Fame, is as good a player as anybody to be that guy. So too would have been Ken Griffey
12:10 PM ET Free agent infielder Asdrubal Cabrera and the Texas Rangers are in agreement on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, pending a physical, league sources tell ESPN. Cabrera can play all around the diamond and slot into a utility role if necessary, but the Rangers’ plan is to slot him at third base, the
10:30 AM ET Bryce Harper is headed to Texas. At least if you believe Tony Romo. The top outfielder on the free-agent market is set to make big bucks. We put you in Bryce Harper’s shoes. Where will you go? From the free agents set to cash in to the big-name stars sure to come