Baseball
Blockbuster week of baseball free agency continues with Cole, Rendon signings
Powerful player agent Scott Boras nets $814m in player contracts for three players in less than a week
Expanded protective netting to go leaguewide in MLB next year
Manfred address wide range of subjects including MiLB talks, Astros probe, red-hot free agency market
MLB report ties historic home run surge to ball seam height, batter behavior
Report from four-member team of scientists finds "manufacturing variability" at Rawlings
MiLB president O’Conner elected to fourth term amid fractious MLB talks
Longtime executive and industry lifer to remain leading the affiliated minors. But with MLB looking to overhaul the very notion of Minor League Baseball, the job has never been more complex
Diamondbacks, Padres to play MLB’s first regular-season games in Mexico City
Major League Baseball has announced plans to hold regular-season games in Mexico City for the first time in 2020, with the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres scheduled to play a two-game series…
Strasburg signs record-setting free agent deal to remain with Nationals
Deal for 2019 World Series MVP is largest-ever for a free agent pitcher
MLB, MLBPA sign multiyear video game extension with Sony
New term calls for first-ever expansion of MLB simulation game title to non-PlayStation platforms
Minor League Baseball inks new sponsorship with Nationwide
New multiyear deal with insurer calls for several new content, marketing programs
Former MLBPA executive director Miller elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
During the late Miller's lifetime, he helped usher in free agency and series of other sweeping economic reforms for baseball players
Baseball Hall of Fame posts $17.1m in revenue, $3.99m in profit in 2018
Figures are down from record-level totals in 2017, but still historically high for baseball shrine
Lerner says Nationals can only afford one of club’s two key free agents, not both
Team owner says retaining both Strasburg and Rendon not possible, despite World Series title
Rawlings adds official glove rights to MLB relationship
Rawlings to share official glove rights with Wilson next year, take status exclusively in 2021
Steve Cohen in talks to acquire majority stake in New York Mets
Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen is in talks to increase his investment in the New York Mets and potentially take an 80 percent stake in the Major League Baseball team
Tampa Bay Rays’ future in new doubt after planned split-season in Montreal is axed
The long-term future of the Tampa Bay Rays is again in sizable doubt after the Major League Baseball team and the City of St.
LA Angels agree to buy Angel Stadium, stay in Anaheim through 2050
Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels have agreed to remain in Anaheim, California, through 2050, in a deal in which Angels owner Arte Moreno will buy the publicly-owned Angel Stadium and the surrounding …
New York Yankees ‘partnering with Amazon for local streaming-rights deal’
The New York Yankees are reportedly looking to partner with e-commerce giant Amazon to become the first Major League Baseball team to offer games to in-market viewers without a cable TV subscription.
Bernie Sanders meets with MLB over proposed minor league overhaul
US presidential candidate airs concerns at league office over contraction plan for affiliated minors
Sherman closes on Royals deal, pledges sustainable success
Minority investors in MLB club include actor Eric Stonestreet