MLB All-Star Game - Predictions, live updates and takeaways - ESPN
The Midsummer Classic is here. The 2023 MLB All-Star Game will be played Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park in Seattle (8 ET on FOX).
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How the Yankees could change MLB draft strategy forever - ESPN
Baseball's draft can be pretty predictable. Not on a pick-to-pick basis — no prognosticator can predict even half of the picks right, and that includes the scouts and execs making some of the picks — but on the whole, things go as expected. There are slot values associated with every pick, and those add up to a club's total bonus pool. The vast majority of picks sign for basically that suggested amount, and under the draft rules of the past two CBAs, a team has never gone more than 5% over its entire pool (because that's where penalties begin). Only rarely does one spend more than 5% below its pool.
Robot umpires not likely for MLB call-up in 2024, Manfred says - ESPN
NEW YORK — Robot umpires likely won't be ready for a big league call-up next season.
Jeff Passan's early MLB trade deadline preview - ESPN
Every Los Angeles Angels victory, every day they spend over .500, every win-now move they make reinforces what people across baseball now almost universally believe: They will not trade Shohei Ohtani, the best player in the world, before the 6 p.m. ET deadline Aug. 1. Of course, a year ago today, Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo went on a D.C. radio station and said he was not trading Juan Soto. Two months later, Soto was a San Diego Padre.
Mets to call up slugging prospect Mark Vientos, sources say - ESPN
The New York Mets are promoting power-hitting prospect Mark Vientos from the minors, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan, in an attempt to boost their struggling offense.
Sources -- Bryce Harper to return to Phillies' lineup Tuesday - ESPN
Only 159 days after Tommy John surgery, two-time MVP Bryce Harper has been cleared to play by the Philadelphia Phillies, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan.
Five teams that could stop an Astros World Series repeat
A Google search for "Houston Astros" and «evil empire» generates more than 1 million results, with headlines such as: «Are the Houston Astros the new evil empire of baseball?» and «Jose Abreu signing helps Astros approach evil empire status» and «The new evil empire: Houston Astros look to erase stain of cheating scandal.»
2023 MLB predictions: Wild Cards, Playoffs, World Series, more
It's opening week, and you know what that means — season predictions!