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MIAMI – Next year’s World Baseball Classic will be played in Taiwan, Tokyo, Phoenix and Miami, with the Marlins hosting the semifinals and final along with half of the quarterfinals. The fifth edition of the tournament will be played from March 9-23, 2021, Major League Baseball and the Major League […]

DUNEDIN, FLORIDA – Luis Severino will miss the season with an elbow injury that requires Tommy John surgery, and the New York Yankees’ rotation no longer looks all that imposing. New York announced Tuesday that the 26-year-old right-hander has a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament, a development that means the […]

BINGHAMTON NEW YORK – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said MLB officials agreed to work to keep Binghamton’s Double-A baseball team, which is among the 42 minor league franchises targeted to lose their big league affiliation. The New York Democrat met with MLB deputy commissioner Dan Halem, Mets COO […]

PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA – Tampa Bay Rays rookie Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slugged his first major league home run — albeit a preseason one — on Monday in a 2-2 tie with the Boston Red Sox. After getting a hit in his preseason debut on Sunday, Tsutsugo tied Monday’s game at 1-1 […]

GOODYEAR, ARIZONA – Shogo Akiyama gave Cincinnati Reds fans a small taste of what he can provide at the top of the batting order and in the outfield Sunday in his first spring training game with the team. Akiyama, hitting leadoff and playing center field, lined the second pitch he […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – Fans hoping to heckle the sign-stealing Houston Astros at their spring opener were met with quite the coincidence. They got their signs stolen. In the Astros’ first spring training game since their sign-stealing scandal rocked baseball, some fans brought signs jeering Houston, and ballpark personnel […]

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – On the day Houston outfielder Josh Reddick said he and other players have received death threats in the wake of the team’s sign-stealing scandal, union head Tony Clark said safety had become an issue for some of his members. “There are undoubtedly concerns out there based […]

When records are set in baseball, they so often occur at the confluence of favorable circumstances, the right player in the right place at the right time. Pitcher Carter Stewart may not have set any records last year, but by signing with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks instead of an MLB […]

TAMPA, FLORIDA – New York Yankees right-hander Luis Severino has been shut down from throwing for the second consecutive spring training, this time because of right forearm soreness. Severino, who turned 26 on Thursday, was sidelined until the final weeks of the regular season last year. Yankees manager Aaron Boone […]

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred apologized Tuesday for what he called a disrespectful reference to the World Series trophy as a “piece of metal.” Even before being asked about it, Manfred said he made a mistake with those comments while trying to deliver a rhetorical point in an […]