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7:00 AM ET After a fascinating MLB offseason of record-breaking contracts and free agency musical chairs, spring training camps have opened and games are about to start with Grapefruit League and Cactus League action beginning this weekend. As our brains start to refocus toward the action on the field, I’m thinking of 30 of the

8:20 PM ET ESPN News Services The Minnesota Twins on Tuesday agreed to a contract with veteran infielder Donovan Solano, according to multiple reports. The deal is for one year at the major-league level, according to The Athletic, and gives the Twins depth at several positions and a decent bat at the bottom of the

4:16 PM ET ESPN News Services TAMPA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton might play right field at times in New York Yankees‘ home games this year, and Aaron Judge could be shifted to the more spacious left field in the Bronx. “I think I have more of a flow when I’m in the outfield,” Stanton said

7:00 AM ET College baseball season is officially underway, and that makes it the perfect time to start looking ahead at the 2023 MLB draft. Since this is my first in-depth look at this year’s draft, which will take place July 9-11 in Seattle, here is a quick rundown of what to expect from a

7:40 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Judge flashed a big smile when asked if he could repeat his accomplishments of last year, when he hit an American League record 62 home runs for the New York Yankees. “You never know,” he said after the Yankees’ first full-squad workout Monday. “I don’t really

3:46 PM ET ESPN News Services FORT MYERS, Fla. — Team president and CEO Sam Kennedy admits his organization heard lots of displeasure from the fans during the offseason. “Pressure is definitely on the 2023 Boston Red Sox,” Kennedy said Monday at the team’s spring training complex on the first full day of workouts. Following

7:00 AM ET Last month, we took a look at persistent organizational holes — those sore spots on different teams that just never quite seem to heal. This is a companion examination to that exercise, in which we look at the flip side: What are the strongest positions for each team on a year-in, year-out

10:33 PM ET Associated Press Anderson Comas, a minor leaguer in the Chicago White Sox organization, says he is gay. The 23-year-old Comas made the announcement in an Instagram post. “Being a professional baseball player is the best thing that happened to me,” Comas wrote, “so I just wanna say something to those people that

3:45 PM ET ESPN News Services GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona is feeling much better these days. He has a rod in his left foot that bothers him when he wears his beloved flip-flops, but that’s a breeze compared with what he experienced in the past. The former big league infielder dealt

5:19 PM ET GLENDALE — Chicago White Sox pitching coach Ethan Katz had to fight back tears Saturday while discussing closer Liam Hendriks’ recent cancer diagnosis. “He’s special and everyone in that clubhouse knows that,” Katz said while choking up. Hendriks, 34, announced in early January that he’s receiving treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but that

5:30 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — The Milwaukee Brewers have signed left-handed pitcher Justin Wilson to a one-year contract with a club option for 2024 and placed right-hander Jason Alexander on the 60-day injured list. Alexander, who turns 30 on March 1, has a strained right rotator cuff. He went 2-3 with a 5.40

3:11 PM ET Associated Press The Cincinnati Reds and right-hander Hunter Strickland agreed to terms on a minor league contract with an invitation to major league camp. Strickland went 3-3 with a 4.91 ERA and seven saves in 66 relief appearances for the Reds last year. The previous season, he pitched for the Rays, Angels

7:00 AM ET Kirk Gibson’s at-bat in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, from the moment he hobbles out of the dugout to Vin Scully exclaiming, “She is gone!” as the ball sails into the right-field bleachers, lasts 6 minutes and 48 seconds. Not that anyone was putting a timer on it 35 years

10:30 AM ET Tristan H. Cockcroft Just as has been the trend in the on-field game the past three seasons, it’s becoming increasingly mandatory to squeeze every last bit of value you can out of each of your active pitchers in fantasy baseball. The game’s continuing specialization of the pitching landscape has forced this approach,

Feb 16, 2023 ESPN Fantasy We’ve still got about a week until spring training games get underway, but the planning for the fantasy baseball season has already officially begun! With that in mind and with many a fantasy baseball manager starting the process of figuring out which players to target in their drafts, we posed

7:46 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Harold Ramirez and Los Angeles Angels infielder Luis Rengifo won their salary arbitration cases on Thursday, while St. Louis Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley and Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Josh Rojas lost. Ramirez will get $2.2 million rather than Tampa Bay’s offer of $1.9

4:01 PM ET Associated Press For Corbin Burnes, the disappointment wasn’t from losing his salary arbitration case so much as hearing the words the Milwaukee Brewers used during the proceedings to determine his 2023 salary. They stung. The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner attended his case and came away with hard feelings. He lost

3:08 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels and left-hander Matt Moore agreed to terms on a one-year, $7.55 million contract, the team announced Thursday. Moore, 33, is coming off a renaissance season with the Texas Rangers, going 5-2 with a 1.95 ERA in a career-best 63 relief appearances. His 10.1 strikeouts per nine innings were