By Tim Britton, Will Sammon and C. Trent Rosecrans NEW YORK — A quiet Opening Day contest between the New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers was enlivened by a benches-clearing incident in the eighth inning. On a Willy Adames forceout at second base, Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil was angered by Rhys Hoskins’ slide into … Read more
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
This is a digital version of The Windup newsletter. Sign up here to receive this content directly in your inbox every morning. We have a Hall of Fame class! We also take a look at the Royals’ search for a closer, an all-time baseball story and Rhys Hoskins’ new home. I’m Levi Weaver here with … 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
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