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The coronavirus has changed everything for the Ryukyu Blue Oceans, Okinawa’s first-ever professional baseball team, who opened their inaugural season in January. The team in Japan’s southernmost prefecture resumed training on May 21, after having being forced to suspend the 2020 season in April. But like many sports organizations around […]

New York – Baseball players appeared likely to propose more regular-season games this year while holding to their demand for full prorated salaries, people familiar with their deliberations told The Associated Press. Washington pitcher Max Scherzer, among eight players on the union’s executive subcommittee, issued a statement late Wednesday night […]

New York – Baseball players appeared likely to propose more regular-season games this year while holding to their demand for full prorated salaries, people familiar with their deliberations told The Associated Press. Washington pitcher Max Scherzer, among eight players on the union’s executive subcommittee, issued a statement late Wednesday night […]

A day after the Japan High School Baseball Federation’s May 20 announcement that it was canceling this summer’s high school baseball tournament and regional championships due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the high school baseball federation of Ishikawa Prefecture started organizing its own regional championship, saying it will hand out 2,000 […]

NEW YORK – A rookie at the major league minimum would make a higher percentage of his salary than multimillionaire stars like Mike Trout or Gerrit Cole under a six-tier, sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players found « extremely disappointing.” Major League Baseball made the proposal to the players’ […]

Seoul – The Korean Baseball Organization has suspended ex-Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Kang Jung-ho for a year and ordered him to perform 300 hours of community service over a series drunk driving cases. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Monday the suspension for Kang, who last week filed to be reinstated […]

The Nippon Professional Baseball season, which has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, will begin June 19, the league announced on Monday. The decision comes after the government’s advisory panel approved the plan to end Japan’s nationwide state of emergency for the five prefectures still under the order, including Tokyo […]

Osaka – The Orix Buffaloes held an intrasquad game on Monday, with Nippon Professional Baseball targeting a late-June start for its coronavirus pandemic-delayed 2020 season. NPB had aimed to open its season on April 24 after previously pushing it back from its original start date of March 20. Earlier this […]

With the coronavirus pandemic interrupting professional baseball in Japan, the United States and elsewhere around the world, some diehard fans of the sport are getting their fix from an unlikely source. Thanks to successful local efforts to combat the spread of the pneumonia-causing virus, Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League was […]

The Washington Nationals said on Saturday they have altered plans for a virtual World Series championship ring ceremony amid the COVID-19 pandemic after players expressed a preference to receive the rings in person. The Nationals, who beat the Houston Astros last October to win their maiden World Series title, will […]