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3:53 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. In August, a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card set the stratospheric record for most expensive sports card of all

2:30 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. With the MLB lockout started by owners on Dec. 2 now in its

2:45 PM ET While Major League Baseball continues to insist that federal mediation is the best route to “break the deadlock,” the MLB Players Association on Friday rejected MLB’s request for a mediator to negotiate between the parties for a new collective bargaining agreement. “Two months after implementing their lockout, and just two days after

2:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Joe West has made it official, retiring from Major League Baseball after umpiring a record 5,460 regular-season games. The 69-year-old West worked his first big league game on Sept. 14, 1976, at third base in Atlanta when the Braves hosted the Houston Astros. His finale was on Oct. 6,

7:00 AM ET When putting together our list of the top 100 players of all time, there were plenty of debates about how peak performance and career longevity intersected. For young players in particular, injuries can completely shift a career’s trajectory and alter legacies — as Pete Reiser, J.R. Richard and others learned. Nolan Ryan,

9:58 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mike Moore, the former president of the National Association Professional Baseball Leagues, died Thursday affer a lengthy illness. He was 80. Moore died at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, Florida, Major League Baseball said. A native of Columbus, Indiana, Moore was general manager and part owner

7:28 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The schedule for each Triple-A team will be expanded to 150 games from 144 in the first full season the minor leagues are being run by Major League Baseball. MLB took over operation from the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues for the 2021 season. Because the

7:05 PM ET A sizable roster of current and former Los Angeles Angels players and personnel is on the government’s witness list for next week’s federal trial connected to the 2019 death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, according to documents filed Thursday. Eric Kay, the team’s former communications director, is facing two felony counts of

4:55 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball on Thursday requested the immediate assistance of a federal mediator to help resolve the sport’s lockout, sources told ESPN, potentially inserting the presence of a neutral party to end

7:00 AM ET Inner-circle Hall of Famers. The best player in the game today. A couple of PED-tainted superstars. Our ranking of the 100 greatest MLB players of all time comes down to the top 25. Dozens of ESPN writers and editors submitted more than 20,000 votes (see full methodology here) to determine the final

7:00 AM ET Now that our list of the top 100 MLB players of all time has been revealed, it’s time to have some fun. More than 20,000 votes were cast to put together these rankings, from representatives from across ESPN’s MLB platforms. Now, we’re asking our baseball experts to break down what they saw.

5:43 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — David Green, an outfielder on the St. Louis Cardinals‘ 1982 World Series champions, has died. He was 61. Green had been hospitalized in suburban St. Louis after choking at his home about a week ago and died Saturday of respiratory failure, his family told the St. Louis

7:00 AM ET Legendary teammates — and rivals — highlight the next 25 stars unveiled on our all-time MLB Top 100 list. Today we crack the top half of our ranking with Nos. 50-26. On Tuesday, we presented the first half of our list and we’ll finish with the top 25 on Thursday (see full

7:00 AM ET Could Oscar Charleston be the best player of all time? The question is a big one, perfectly straightforward and ultimately, not even the real subject of this story. For now, just keep an open mind and take this as a jumping off point: it’s a reasonable one to ask. Bill James once

7:50 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Minor League Baseball announced Tuesday it is launching an outreach program focused on the Black community called “The Nine,” which is designed to honor and celebrate the historic impact of Black baseball pioneers and civil rights leaders. The Nine is named in honor of the number Jackie

7:00 AM ET Who are the best Major League Baseball stars ever to take the diamond? Dozens of ESPN writers and editors submitted more than 20,000 votes (see full methodology here) to rank the 100 greatest MLB players of all time. Which active stars made the cut? Who ranks too high? Who’s too low? We

7:00 AM ET As we begin our ranking of the top 100 Major League Baseball players to ever take the diamond, it’s time to debate the stars who landed just outside of our list. With that in mind, we asked our MLB experts to find the one player not in this week’s top 100 they

8:00 AM ET BACK IN 1997, when I was in my second year with the Cubs, I vividly recall watching batting practice when Mark McGwire stepped in the cage for the Cardinals. It was awesome. I saw how far the ball flew, and, like so many of us, I suspended disbelief. It was like watching