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Mariners announce reduction in pay, no layoffs

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 6:53pm
Mariners personnel working under uniform employee contracts and making more than $60,000 will take a pay reduction of at least 20%, but there will not be any layoffs.

The 9 greatest games in fantasy baseball history

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 12:53pm
Using standard points league scoring, Tristan H. Cockcroft identifies the nine biggest games in fantasy baseball history (1980-2019), including 20 strikeout games, 4-home run games and other feats that almost broke the fantasy scoring scale.

Inside an ugly financial battle to save the 2020 MLB season

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 9:52am
As the league's proposal to start play heads to the players, millionaires and billionaires are digging in for a major money fight. What's at stake? Whether there's any baseball at all this year.

The time Yogi Berra threw his cigarettes at George Steinbrenner

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 6:51am
Sure, he mangled the language and was painted as a cartoon character. But he won 10 rings as a player. So he was tougher than you think. And he wasn't afraid to take on The Boss.

How Derek Jeter became 'Mr. November'

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 6:51am
The 2001 World Series was packed with emotion and drama. Relive a huge part of it, with New York's captain front and center.

From the archives: Derek Jeter and the end of a perfect career

TEst 4 May 12, 2020 - 6:51am
Now that Derek Jeter has reached the end of his Long Goodbye, we pause, in appreciation, to look at what he has meant to the Yankees, to the game, to all of us.

Plant that makes Louisville Slugger bats reopens

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 7:12pm
The Hillerich & Bradsby factory that makes Louisville Slugger bats resumed production Monday in Kentucky after being idle for nearly two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

An 82-game season? A universal DH? Key takeaways from MLB's 2020 proposal

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 4:12pm
From when the games could begin to who could be helped and hurt most on the diamond, we debate the baseball side of the league's reported plan.

Sources: MLB owners OK proposal for July start

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 1:11pm
In the MLB season proposal that owners agreed to on Monday and will soon submit to the union for its consideration, the plan is for "spring" training to start in mid-June, with the shortened season beginning in July, sources told ESPN.

Sources: Cancellation of WBC in 2021 imminent

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 1:11pm
The cancellation of the World Baseball Classic in 2021 is imminent, sources tell ESPN's Enrique Rojas.

'What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?': Remembering Jerry Stiller

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 1:11pm
One of the Yankees' worst trades gave us one of TV's most memorable lines, uttered on "Seinfeld" by Jerry Stiller, who died Monday.

Japanese baseball league hoping for June start

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 7:11am
The head of Japanese baseball says the 12-team league is hoping to start play next month, but no specific date has been set.

Against Kerry Wood, hitters 'had no chance'

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 7:11am
Everyone remembers the 20-strikeout game. What about the one that followed? That would be 13 strikeouts and no walks. Consecutive starts, 33 strikeouts, one walk. Those poor hitters.

Kiley McDaniel's 2020 MLB Mock Draft 1.0

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 4:11am
Picking first overall, will the Tigers reach beyond Arizona State slugger Spencer Torkelson to snag pitcher Asa Lacy from Texas A&M?

KBO Weekly: Power rankings, top plays and performers, and what's ahead

TEst 4 May 11, 2020 - 4:11am
With baseball back in South Korea, we size up Week 1, looking at the biggest stars, surprises and highlights (and, yes, bat flips).

Study shows low rate of virus antibodies in MLB

TEst 4 May 10, 2020 - 4:09pm
MLB employees tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in a study run by Stanford University at a rate much lower than other studies done in California.

Bauer uses leaked number to create giveaway

TEst 4 May 10, 2020 - 1:09pm
After Trevor Bauer's phone number was mistakenly shown on an ESPN broadcast, the Reds pitcher used the situation to create a giveaway for fans.

Think MJ was a baseball bust? Here’s what really happened

TEst 4 May 10, 2020 - 1:09pm
Nowadays, fans look upon Michael Jordan's foray into another sport 26 years ago as a whim and conclude that his baseball career was a bust. They could not be more wrong.

Olney: For MLB teams, doing right by staff members now will pay dividends later

TEst 4 May 10, 2020 - 10:08am
Assuring lower-level employees that their jobs are safe for at least the near future, as the Tigers and Phillies did, isn't only the decent thing to do -- it makes business sense.

From the archives: The true story behind Michael Jordan's brief-but-promising baseball career

TEst 4 May 10, 2020 - 10:08am
Nowadays, fans look upon Michael Jordan's foray into another sport 26 years ago as a whim and conclude that his baseball career was a bust. They could not be more wrong.

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