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Sean Rodriguez's Family Hospitalized After A Deadly Crash With A Stolen Police Car

Atlanta Braves infielder Sean Rodriguez and his family were in a serious car crash involving a stolen police cruiser around 1:45 pm on Saturday in Miami.

Rob Manfred Has Started Meeting With Cleveland Ownership To Discuss Chief Wahoo

During the Cleveland Indians’ postseason run, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hinted that he would speak to the team’s ownership about their horrifically racist logo during the offseason. Now, apparently, he’s followed through and begun that conversation—though the conversation appears to be totally devoid of substance…

Rangers Pitcher Jake Diekman Will Miss First Half Of Season After Colon Surgery

Texas Rangers pitcher Jake Diekman, who has had ulcerative colitis since he was a kid, underwent the first of several surgeries to remove his colon earlier this week. He had hoped to delay the procedure until next offseason but after a flareup over the holidays caused him to lose nearly 20 pounds in about two weeks,…

King Felix's Yankees World Series Ring Was A Replica His Son Got As A Ballpark Promo

Yesterday we wondered why Felix Hernandez had a 2000 Yankees World Series ring, recovered in a burglary bust in Bellevue, Wash. As it turns out, the reason is pretty funny and cute.

Colorado Rockies: What Jeff Bridich Learned From NFL Teams

In a recent interview, Colorado Rockies general manager Jeff Bridichexplained some of his philosophies on building a successful sports franchise.Fangraphs.com posted an interview with Bridich yesterday, and there were some interesting insights into the way the Rockies do business. Perhaps most int…

Wait, Why Does Felix Hernandez Have A 2000 Yankees World Series Ring?

Police in Bellevue, Washington held a press conference today to announce that they’d busted a burglary ring that had stolen somewhere near $3 million worth of stuff from 123 homes in the Seattle-Bellevue area.

Korean Bat-Flipping Hero Will Leave His Bat Flip In Korea

If you know anything about Korean infielder Jae-gyun Hwang, it’s that the man can flip a damn bat. I mean, just look at that beaut.

Yordano Ventura/Andy Marte Autographed Combo Pack Is A Morbid Deal Of The Day

Congrats to memorabilia website Insider Sports Deals for the baldest display of opportunism in recent memory with this pairing of Andy Marte and Yordano Ventura autographed baseballs, marked down in price and marketed as the deal of the day.

Report: The Fate Of Yordano Ventura's $20 Million Depends On Whether He Was Legally Drunk

It feels almost meaningless to discuss the money still remaining on the contract of Yordano Ventura, the 25-year-old Royals pitcher who was killed in a one-car crash early Sunday in his native Dominican Republic. But it’s obviously not meaningless to his family, which would be in line to receive the money—pending the…

What's This Yankees Sportswriter Doing – When Football's On!

This Yankees sportswriter is bound to be one of the few writers still pounding away on his laptop when the whole of a nation is turning it’s lonely eyes to the National Football League’s Championship games. What’s up with that, Steve?The Yankees don’t even open their Spring Tra…

Royals Pitcher Yordano Ventura Killed In Car Crash

Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a car crash today in his native Dominican Republic, according to several reports.

Seriously, Curt Schilling, That's Not The Real Sidney Ponson, Here's Proof

Yesterday, we all got a chuckle out of meme-loving toad Curt Schilling getting into a Twitter fight with someone pretending to be former MLB pitcher Sidney Ponson. Then we all chuckled some more when Curt insisted that he was in fact beefing with the real Sidney Ponson. Then he just kept insisting, and it got kind of…

I'm Sorry, But When Did They Become The Toronto Red Jays???

Folks, get a load of this:

Mark Trumbo's Discount Dingers Belong In Baltimore

The Orioles and RF/DH Mark Trumbo have agreed to a three-year deal for $37.5 million, and the most interesting thing about the agreement is that it’s for less than Baltimore offered him at the beginning of the offseason. It’s been a weird winter for power hitters.

Curt Schilling Is Convinced He Is Beefing With The Real Sidney Ponson

There are a lot of fake athlete accounts out there on Twitter, because it’s fun to pretend to be Jonathan Broxton or whatever and tweet, “just did a big wet fart.” One of these fake accounts bears the name of former MLB pitcher Sidney Ponson, and last night the owner of the account started a beef with Curt Schilling…

Who missed out on the Baseball Hall of Fame for the final time?

Sometimes not even really great players get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Did any player fail to get elected on his final try towards enshrinement?Wednesday, Jan. 18 was the day of the 2017 election for the newest class heading into Cooperstown. The Baseball Hall of Fame has been an exclusive br…

Here's The Moment Ivan Rodriguez Found Out He'd Made The Hall Of Fame

Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez was one of three players elected into the baseball Hall of Fame this afternoon. Since-already disclosed ballot returns assured that Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell would make it, Pudge was the only surprising player elected and he barely cleared the 75 percent bar for entry.

Here Is Your 2017 Baseball Hall Of Fame Class

Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s diligent ballot tracking, we already knew that Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines (thank God) were going into the Hall of Fame this year. Now that all of the ballots have been counted, we can see if anyone else will be joining them.

Tim Raines And Jeff Bagwell Look Like Locks To Make The Hall Of Fame Tonight

Finally, mercifully, the period of speculation about who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year will come to an end.

White Sox Prospect Throws Ball 110 Miles Per Hour

White Sox pitcher Michael Kopech was the 33rd overall pick in the 2014 amateur draft. As you can see here, he is capable of throwing the ball hard as hell:

Jose Bautista And The Blue Jays Needed Each Other More Than They Were Willing To Admit

In the end, both sides miscalculated. Jose Bautista misread the market for power hitters, and had to settle for what Toronto was offering. The Blue Jays mishandled the slugging outfielder they really wanted, and had to settle for the 36-year-old Bautista. It’s not romantic, but it’s a marriage nonetheless: Bautista…

President Obama Pardons Giants Legend Willie McCovey

The most surprising and noteworthy prison sentence that Barack Obama commuted today was that of Chelsea Manning, the former Army official who was seven years into a 35-year sentence for leaking documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Among the other 208 people whose sentences Obama commuted were Puerto Rican activist Oscar…

A-Rod's New TV Show Sounds Sort Of Sad

I am all in on rehabbing-his-image Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod the apologetic scholar, businessman, devoted dad, analyst and Pete Rose antagonist—I eat that shit up. If you think about the trajectory of his career, it makes perfect sense that his apparent next step is to become a reality TV host:

Columnist Attempts To Abstain From Hall Of Fame Vote, Submits Blank Ballot Instead

The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Bill Livingston wrote a grandstanding column today about his decision to forgo participating in this year’s baseball Hall of Fame vote. There’s, uh, one big problem with his column:

Mike Trout threw some shade at the Dallas Cowboys

While the Angels are just under a month from Spring Training, Mike Trout is enjoying the NFL Playoffs. Especially when Dallas loses.Mike Trout is a Philadelphia Eagles fan. So, naturally, he has a distaste for the Dallas Cowboys. The Philadelphia Dallas rivalry goes back generations. This stems fr…

Matt Garza Shares Opinion On Birth Control, Continues To Be A Big Dumbass

For some goddamn reason, former teen dad, father of six, and Brewers pitcher Matt Garza is saying some shit about abstinence-only education on Twitter.

San Diego Padres: Fowler "Deeply Disappointed" by Exit of Chargers

The San Diego Padres released a statement after the news broke that the Chargers would be leaving for Los Angeles before the 2017 NFL season.While it may have seemed inevitable to many San Diego fans, the exit of the city’s beloved football franchise sparks a wide variety of negative emotions…

David Ortiz's Review Of Spotlight, Maybe

Scott Boras Wouldn't Advise California Players To Seek Early Free Agency

Yesterday, we considered the legal viability of baseball players using Section 2855 of the California Labor Code to enter free agency early. The state law stipulates that employees cannot be held to contracts of longer than seven years; over at FanGraphs, Nathaniel Grow speculated that Mike Trout—and other California…

Could Mike Trout Exploit A California Labor Law Quirk To Become A Free Agent Early?

There isn’t a team in Major League Baseball that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign Mike Trout, whose two MVP awards in his first five years of big league service vastly underrepresent how good he really is. And there isn’t a team that could afford to do so that wouldn’t throw hundreds of millions of dollars in his…