8:01 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs agreed to a minor league deal with Pedro Strop on Friday, bringing back the popular reliever after he was released by Cincinnati, according to ESPN and multiple reports. The deal was pending a physical. Strop will report to the team’s alternate training site in
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Sep 3, 2020 Tristan H. Cockcroft In a season filled with injuries thus far, fantasy managers are surely seeking replacements. Here are three players well worth adding in ESPN leagues: Clint Frazier, OF, New York Yankees In four years since coming over from the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 deadline deal for Andrew Miller, Frazier
6:54 AM ET Moneyball man Billy Beane has bought a 5% stake in AZ Alkmaar. Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Moneyball guru Billy Beane has bought a minority share in Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar. Beane, executive vice president of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, has bought a 5% share in Alkmaar, strengthening his
12:40 PM ET Minnesota Twins outfielder Max Kepler has been placed on the injured list with a left adductor strain, the team announced Friday. It is the first time that Kepler, who suffered the injury during Wednesday’s game against the Chicago White Sox, has been put on the IL during his career. He is hitting
7:00 AM ET CHICAGO — It was June 26, 2019. Chicago Cubs right-hander Yu Darvish was struggling — like he had done for much of his short Cubs career — against the Atlanta Braves. Then came a mound visit from his pitching coach and a conversation later in the dugout. Those moments changed the trajectory
10:47 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw collected the 2,500th strikeout of his career during Thursday night’s game against the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks. Kershaw reached the milestone with his third strikeout of the night, throwing a looping curve that got Nick Ahmed swinging in the second inning. At 32 years, 168 days old,
6:00 PM ET By the time I was 5 I would come to understand that Superman, Batman and Spider-Man were not actually somewhere outside our apartment on West 10th Street. That wasn’t true of Tom Seaver. He was the superhero we could go see in Queens. The best pitcher in the game was on my
5:09 PM ET To pay tribute to Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, who died Monday, every member of the New York Mets put dirt on the right knees of their pant legs before facing off against the New York Yankees on Thursday. The nod was meant to symbolize Seaver’s iconic drop-and-drive delivery, as his right
8:30 PM ET ESPN News Services PHILADELPHIA — Dick Allen’s No. 15 was retired by the Philadelphia Phillies in a ceremony Thursday, a long overdue honor for one of the franchise’s greatest players who fought against racism during a tumultuous period with the team in the 1960s. Allen, 78, thanked Phillies managing partner John Middleton,
5:59 PM ET Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve is getting an MRI on his right knee after leaving Thursday’s 8-4 win against the Texas Rangers with knee discomfort, manager Dusty Baker said. Altuve was replaced at the top of the third inning after sliding hard into third base in the first inning. He had