SURPRISE, Ariz. — The morning after Tony Clark’s abrupt resignation, the Major League Baseball Players Association was still without an acting executive director. But that could change as soon as Wednesday afternoon. The union’s executive board of player representatives met Tuesday afternoon with MLBPA staff and outside counsel to discuss next steps following Clark’s ouster…
Giancarlo Stanton feels his Yankees career is lacking. “It’s definitely incomplete,” he said Tuesday ahead of his ninth season in pinstripes. “The point of being a Yankee is being a champion.” Now 36 and entering the final two guaranteed seasons of a $325 million, 13-year contract he signed with the Miami Marlins, Stanton has gone…
Walker Buehler has signed with the San Diego Padres after the right-hander spent the first eight seasons of his major league career with their archrivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Buehler was in the Padres’ clubhouse Tuesday morning after agreeing to a minor league deal with an invitation to big league camp. “Yeah, it feels a…
“No … there is another.” And that one is right-hander Lucas Giolito, who’s arguably the best remaining MLB free agent, position player or pitcher. Coming off a season that saw Giolito post a plausible 3.41 ERA in 26 regular-season starts for the Boston Red Sox, the 31-year-old could be a plug-and-play starter for numerous MLB…
We have a big change in Major League Baseball as players are just getting warmed up for the 2026 season. Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), is expected to step down from his position, The Athletic reported on Tuesday morning. Clark, who was involved in the union as…
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was the last person to leave the Toronto dugout after the Game 7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series last fall because the star slugger wanted that to be the moment when he moved on. The first full workout for the Blue Jays at spring training Monday brought…
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen likes the vibe in a revamped clubhouse, and says he’ll never have a captain in charge of that scene. “As long as I’m owning the team, there will never be a team captain,” Cohen said in his first meeting with reporters at spring training Monday. “That was my decision….
Aaron Judge fretted like many Yankees fans as big-name free agents kept signing elsewhere. “It was brutal,” the New York captain said Monday after the year’s first full-squad workout. “Early on it was pretty tough to watch. I’m like: Man, we’re the New York Yankees. Let’s go out there and get the right people.” Judge…
GLENDALE, Ariz. — He has made five All-Star teams, won four MVP Awards and two World Series championships and just followed up Major League Baseball’s first ever 50-homer, 50-steal campaign by becoming the first player ever with 50 homers as a hitter and 50 strikeouts as a pitcher. Now, after back-to-back record-setting seasons to start…
Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper said onSunday “it’s kind of wild to me still” that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski suggested in October the two-time NL MVP may no longer be an elite player. Harper said he wasn’t motivated by Dombrowski’s comments. He added he didn’t understand why Dombrowski made public his review…
