Welcome to spring training, one of the great inventions in history. You may think we’re kidding. But ask anyone who had to pick up a snow shovel in the last week if they think we’re kidding. It may be tempting to say: What about the wheel? What about the microwave? What about the iPhone? What … Read more
The Hall of Fame is made for players like Adrián Beltré. As a pure hitter, reliable slugger and slick third baseman, Beltré had few peers: No other infielder in the history of baseball has 3,000 hits, 400 homers and five Gold Glove awards. Beltré, now 44, was a lock for the Hall of Fame. As … Read more
The bankrupt Diamond Sports Group, which holds the 2024 broadcast rights to 11 Major League Baseball teams through its Bally-branded regional sports networks, appears to be nearing a settlement with baseball’s commissioner’s office that could create relative certainty as to which MLB teams Diamond will broadcast next year. “We are in a position to believe … Read more
The Los Angeles Angels were given a chance to match the Los Angeles Dodgers’ $700 million offer to Shohei Ohtani before the deal was agreed to last weekend. However, team owner Arte Moreno declined to do so, a source briefed on the situation said Thursday. Ohtani announced Saturday morning that he’d sign with the Dodgers, and … Read more
On Friday morning, Robert Herjavec was tracking to be on time for a 9 a.m. flight out of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., until his 5-year-old twins, Hudson and Haven, announced in the car that they were hungry. Herjavec, a Canadian businessman and star of “Shark Tank” and “Dragons’ Den,” was traveling solo … Read more
The Los Angeles Angels missed the MLB playoffs for the ninth consecutive season in 2023. In the 13 seasons that Mike Trout has played for the Angels, they’ve made the postseason just once. Even then, the experience was short-lived as the Angels won only one game against the Boston Red Sox in the 2014 best-of-five … Read more
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels placed Shohei Ohtani on the 10-day injured list Saturday with an oblique injury and said he will not play again this season. Ohtani’s locker was cleared out following the Angels’ 11-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers at home Friday. A fully packed All-Star Game duffel bag was sitting … Read more
The initial news reverberated through the sport like a shockwave. Shohei Ohtani, this unthinkable unicorn pushing baseball beyond its preconceived limits, was hurt. And then, the questions started coming. Ohtani, now with a tear in the UCL of his pitching elbow, is months away from becoming a free agent. What does it mean for his … Read more