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Former MLB pitcher Mike Henneman has quite an amazing family story.
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Like everything else in this bizarre calendar year, the MLB playoffs will be different in 2020. Here's what to know about the expanded 16-team postseason bracket and how it will work.
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How MLB can improve on excitement of playoff schedule
Wednesday was the kind of day a baseball fan could get used to, the type of excitement MLB should strive to replicate every year — just not this exact format.
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Here's everything you need to know about MLB's bubble cities, including the rules, locations, COVID-19 testing protocol and the full 2020 playoff game schedule.
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Things could get crazy as the shortened MLB season comes to a close.
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The first three MLB playoff seeds (1-3) in each league will go to division winners, ordered by record. The second trio of seeds (4-6) goes to the second-place finishers in each division, ordered by record. The final two seeds (7-8) go to the two wild-card teams.
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During a normal baseball season, any 60-game stretch would be considered a relatively small sample size when it comes to voting for postseason awards. But 2020 is not a normal season.
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Baseball often produces amazing moments and improbable occurrences. And sometimes it produces things that are nearly impossible to believe.
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Let’s endeavor to make a 16-team MLB playoff scenario as strong as possible.
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Sixteen of baseball’s 30 teams will make the postseason this year. That’s good for the 16, but a special type of disappointing for the 14 clubs that fall short of the cutoff, especially the clubs that hoped/expected to contend for October berths.
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When you have a life event in common with a baseball player, it makes for an instant connection — and some interesting stories.
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When a franchise with the resources and history of Boston is content not to compete, baseball has a problem.
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They’ve had a lot of success over the past three years, but there are a lot of questions looming — and how those questions are answered will determine what the club looks like over the next few years.
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The 2020 MLB trade deadline day was surprisingly chock full of news, notes, rumors and deals. And, for at least a little while, things felt normal.
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Despite what rumblings on social media might try to tell you, this flurry of activity in San Diego isn’t about the Dodgers.
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7 players most likely to be traded
Once upon a time, the 2020 trade deadline had the potential to be a lot of fun. That is no longer the case.
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What to know about the MLB trade deadline in 2020
Here is a complete guide to the 2020 MLB trade deadline, including the new date, time and rules to know.
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Comment: Listen to players for once instead of raging at them
Athletes are people, not just performers. They sure won't be shouted down by people who live to make pointless, self-serving arguments online.
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Fun fact: You can't spell "statistics" without "Tatis."
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There's a simple solution to the unwritten rules controversy
There is a very simple solution to this stupid unwritten rules controversy involving Chris Woodward and Fernando Tatis Jr.
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Turns out, the big, bad, mean media folks in Cleveland and around the country were not the only ones upset by the reckless actions of Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger.
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Let’s take a look at where we stand, one third of the way through a very bizarre season.
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Can Baltimore stick around the .500 mark for the next seven weeks? It’s 2020, and anything is possible.
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The perfect answer for what to do with the St. Louis Cardinals does not exist.
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Even though the Marlins lost 105 games last year and were picked to finish last in the NL East by pretty much everyone, there were reasons for optimism this year.
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Cardinals' COVID-19 outbreak is a needed wake-up call
Despite what you may have read on social media, the MLB season is not on the verge of collapse. It’s really, really not.
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Why not really go all-in with the new and unusual?
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MLB has opportunity to show Americans how to navigate through a COVID world
What matters now is not how MLB got to this point, no matter how foolish the decisions seem. What matters is how MLB handles this predicament going forward.
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The A's essentially have said to their minor-leaguers, "We’re not going to pay you, but you can’t seek employment elsewhere."
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We’re used to seeing staggering numbers from Mike Trout, but this one is insane.
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To the kids who grew up collecting baseball cards in my era, Bo Jackson was special. So were his cards.
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Nearly every summer night, this baseball-loving grandma settled into her recliner and listened to Cincinnati broadcasting legends Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall call Reds games on her radio. But nobody really knew the extent of what she was doing.
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It’s a long journey from proposal to playing, largely because so many things that have to happen are out of MLB’s hands.
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A thousand thanks go out to all of those who humored me by answering these questions. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading their responses, and I hope you do, too.
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A dead end between sides could hold massive consequences for the sport.
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"The Last Dance" shows only a snippet of Scott Burrell’s fascinating athletic career.
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Looking at the best moments of Jordan’s time on a baseball field — with a couple of not-so-great moments, too.
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We’re going to recap some of the previous MLB schedule reports and keep track of new ones — and, hopefully, eventually concrete details — as they happen.
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Sporting News reached out to folks all across the baseball spectrum — players, writers, broadcasters, MLB front-office types — to see how they’re dealing with our current national quarantine situation. Here is Kevin Millar’s contribution.
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I knew I wasn’t alone in missing baseball, so I reached out to people all across the sport with 10 quarantine-related questions and asked for their thoughts.
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ESPN will air one game per day, starting with a 1 a.m. ET first pitch on Opening Day. Not ideal timing, but late-night live baseball is better than no live baseball at all.
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When talking about Michael Jordan’s impact on American pop culture, the Mars Blackmon commercials take up a large part of that conversation.
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The new name, image and likeness rules for college athletes are a frustrating change for certain fan bases that have seen their favorite programs dragged through the NCAA mud for violations that were ridiculous when they happened and would be fully legal in a couple of years.
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Just because Trout doesn’t yet have a big October pedigree doesn’t mean he won’t when ESPN finally airs its 10-part documentary on him in 2049.
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Even though the results won’t sit well with everyone, the powers that be are certainly satisfied with how the investigation played out.
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The Korean Baseball Organization, the KBO, started its preseason on Monday, with no fans in the stands, and the regular season is set to start in a couple of weeks.
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When Michael Jordan took a break from basketball, he added a wonderful spark into the baseball-card world.
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The late '80s and early '90s produced a ton of now-worthless baseball cards, but some sets remain priceless for nostalgia reasons.
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These cards were my childhood, and I still cherish them. So what you’re about to read comes from that place of love. Please remember that. I’m not really angry, just disappointed.
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Few golfers have pulled off more magical rounds at The Masters than Tiger Woods.
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'MLB The Show 20' Players League: How to watch MLB players compete
One player from each team will compete in a tournament to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs in MLB cities.
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The idea for the book originated with a trip to a Bronx elementary school last year.
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You voted, we tallied, and we now have a champion of Sporting News' "Missing March Madness" poll: the Dayton Flyers.
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Like the NBA’s H-O-R-S-E competition, MLB can make these ideas a reality quickly.
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Which two teams are playing for Sporting News' mythical "Missing March Madness" title? Read on and find out.
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The extremely lopsided affair between St. Francis of Illinois and the upstart Robert Morris still holds a special place in NCAA baseball history.
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The coronavirus-mandated shutdown of the baseball season has thrown a wrench into teams' fitness plans.
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The move follows the cancellation of MLB games that had been scheduled in Mexico and Puerto Rico.
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There may not be any games played in front of fans in Toronto until at least July. That's a sobering thought.
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If ever there was a show that capitalized on America’s love of stupidity, obsession with absurdity, infatuation with celebrity and the bizarre ability to overlook blatant selfish cruelty, it's the Netflix series "Tiger King."
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Sporting News breaks down the voting results from our Sweet 16 Missing March Madness brackets:
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Butler nearly upset of Duke a decade ago, but a Bulldogs win wouldn't have been a total shock. Here's why.
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Sporting News breaks down the Sweet 16 voting of our Missing March Madness bracket.
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'MLB The Show 20' tournament: Live results, how to watch
It’s no secret that baseball players love video games, and what better video game for baseball players to play as they wait out the delayed start to the season than the newest version of "MLB The Show"?
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Sporting News breaks down the Sweet 16 voting of our Missing March Madness bracket.
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