The Comeback
The plan would also feature "an expanded playoff format." Teams would only play opponents within their division.
"We can't be sitting in a hotel room, just going from the field to the hotel room and not being able to do anything. I think that's pretty crazy."- Mike Trout
Dodger Stadium is currently scheduled to host the 2020 MLB All-Star Game, but it's obviously hard to see that happening due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020 MLB season isn't expected to begin until May at the earliest (if at all). Squeezing a 162-game season into the schedule doesn't seem feasible, and would likely lead to the postseason dragging into December.
There's a lot more to the backlash over the Astros' sign-stealing saga than "the way society has evolved," but that's how MLB commissioner Rob Manfred started an answer about it. He did apologize for calling the Commissioner's Trophy "a piece of metal," though.
Thank goodness someone is looking out for the Houston Astros.
The Wall Street Journal reported many new details of the Astros' sign-stealing saga, some of which contradicted information MLB previously released to the public. And Hinch's MLB Network interview saw quite the non-denial on 2019 buzzer allegations.
Manfred should let players be themselves on the field.
By almost all accounts, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout is the best player in Major League Baseball....
MLB needs to do a much better way of promoting the world's best baseball player, and instead they're blaming him for it.
MLB's desire to be involved in integrity regulation of gambling makes the Home Run Derby controversy a little more significant.
Our writers submitted an interesting range of answers.
Baseball in Mexico would be particularly interesting.
The MLBPA blames the owners for a stagnant winter, while the owners blame agents and agents blame the league.
Yu Darvish also called the gesture "offensive to everybody."
So much for the immediate end of Chief Wahoo...
The Hall of Fame opted not to consider Rose's eligibility separately from his ban from baseball.
Could MLB be heading south of the border rather than north of the border?
Harper will be more affected than Strickland by the suspension.
Chief Wahoo's days might be numbered.
"My favorite Spring Training at-bat is a first-pitch lineout to center. Or even better, a first-pitch, line drive double play."
This won't actually happen anytime soon.... will it?
Jose Canseco is wasting no time in 2017 firing off his Twitter rants about anything that comes to...
Major League Baseball continues to show it isn’t messing around when it comes to punishing players for domestic...
