3:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Thirteen of 4,336 tests for COVID-19 were positive during intake for Major League Baseball’s spring training, a rate of 0.3% The commissioner’s office said Friday that nine positive samples involved players and four involved staff members. Positive tests included 11 of the 30 teams. After the intake
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3:52 PM ET Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ won his arbitration case with the club and will earn $4.1 million in 2021, a source familiar with the result confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The team had presented a $3.25 million salary to an arbitrator but the case was decided in favor of the four-year veteran
3:08 PM ET Associated Press The last spring training of Max Scherzer‘s $210 million, seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals is not exactly beginning the way he — or the team — would prefer. The three-time Cy Young Award winner sprained his left ankle while running to get in shape for the season and so
2:00 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona recently underwent surgery for a staph infection in his left big toe and will be on crutches for several weeks in training camp. Francona, who missed most of last season with health issues, said Friday that he was being treated for gout this
9:08 AM ET The New York Mets have reached a deal with free-agent starting pitcher Taijuan Walker, a source confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The right-handed Walker, 28, was 4-3 with a combined 2.70 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 53 1/3 innings for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays in 2020. With the Mets,
10:00 AM ET Last week, I ranked the top 100 prospects and all 30 farm systems heading into the 2021 season. Now it’s time to go deeper with my team-by-team rankings, wrapping up with the National League following Thursday’s American League lists. A quick refresher on a key term you’ll see throughout the team lists:
12:07 PM ET Eduardo Rodriguez felt the effects of COVID-19 firsthand, missing the entirety of the 2020 season after being diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart linked to the coronavirus. An offseason later, Rodriguez is ready to take his spot at the top of the Boston Red Sox rotation, feeling the way he
10:19 AM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — Right-hander Edward Cabrera, one of the Miami Marlins‘ top prospects, will be sidelined indefinitely with an inflamed nerve in his right biceps. The team became aware of the injury earlier this winter, manager Don Mattingly said Friday. Cabrera is with the Marlins at their spring training complex
1:22 AM ET Kenley Jansen watched from the bullpen as Julio Urias, a 24-year-old starting pitcher, preserved a two-run lead and recorded a save in the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ long-awaited championship clincher last fall. Jansen, a three-time All-Star, had proven too unreliable in the postseason, leaving outsiders to wonder if his reign as the Dodgers’
9:01 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he had a conversation with Domingo German about his cryptic Instagram post on the day he returned to the team following a domestic violence suspension. “Everything is over,” German wrote in Spanish on Wednesday. German deleted his posts, then wrote: