7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — A week before Christmas last year, the New York Yankees held a news conference in the posh Legends Club at Yankee Stadium to introduce Gerrit Cole after signing him to a $324 million deal, the richest
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2:31 PM ET Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto has tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss Thursday’s night’s season opener against the New York Yankees, general manager Mike Rizzo said. Rizzo said that Soto was asymptomatic and that no one else on the roster was deemed ineligible following contact tracing. Soto needs two negative
2:15 PM ET Boston Red Sox left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez had “minor complications” following his bout with the coronavirus and was being shut down from all baseball activities, manager Ron Roenicke said Thursday. “We’re taking everything very seriously in this matter,” Roenicke said. Roenicke said Rodriguez, who was projected to be the Red Sox’s No. 1
10:46 AM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Indians will consult with Native American groups as the team considers changing its name for the first time since 1915. Owner Paul Dolan gave more details about the steps the team is undertaking on a potential name change amid a national movement to remove racist symbols
12:57 PM ET A one-of-a-kind Mike Trout baseball card is set to go up for auction with a minimum bid of $1 million. Only one autographed Mike Trout rookie card was included in the 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor series. The card is in mint condition, graded by Beckett Grading Service as a Mint
12:37 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Nate Pearson was not included on the Toronto Blue Jays‘ 30-man roster for Friday’s opener at Tampa Bay, a move that likely will delay free-agent eligibility of the hard-throwing right-hander by a year, i.e., until after the 2026 season. Pearson, who turns 24 on Aug. 20, was 5-4
2:21 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The cutout crowd at Dodger Stadium will be getting a little ruff. The Los Angeles Dodgers are selling fan cutouts for dogs at $149 each. There will be a special Pups in the Park section in two areas of the loge seating for four-legged fans. Net proceeds
7:00 AM ET ESPN.com staff The 2020 major league baseball season will be like none that has ever come before it. MLB’s 30 teams will have just 60 games to try to streak into the postseason. Players and coaches will need to focus on the field while maintaining strict health and safety protocols off of
8:00 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” The oldest living human is 117, born in 1903 and probably incapable of having been a baseball fan any earlier than 1908 or so. By that point, the sport had already produced
11:57 PM ET Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are discussing expanding the 2020 playoffs from 10 teams to 16, according to multiple reports. The news, which was first reported by MLB Network, comes as the league is set to start its abbreviated 60-game regular season on Thursday. During negotiations for a return