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Eddie Kasko, star infielder and Red Sox manager, dies at 88

Kasko managed the Boston Red Sox and spent nearly three decades with the team in a variety of roles

Multiple Blue Jays players and staff test positive for COVID-19

In case you were overwhelmed with excitement about the season, here’s yet another reminder that this will not be easy.

Washington Nationals v Philadelphia Phillies

Phillies player who tested positive never failed a temp check

Temperature checks are a big part of the 2020 season plan. They are not foolproof

Baseball odds for 2020: Dodgers, Yankees, betting favorites

The Dodgers were the favorites before the pandemic hit. They remain the favorites still.

The details of how the 2020 baseball season will be played are intense

No high gives. Personal baseballs. Showers at the ballpark “discouraged.” An August 31 trade deadline, and much, much more.

MLB to use the runner-on-second rule for extra innings this year

The rule tends to cause a lot of leadoff bunts. Feel the excitement.

Additional Phillies players test positive for COVID-19

This comes on the heels of five Phillies players and three staff members testing positive late last week.

1990 World Series GM 1 - Oakland Athletics v Cincinnati Reds

University of Cincinnati removing Marge Schott’s name from stadium

Schott was notorious for making racist comments while owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

Will a 60-game season be legitimate? Does it matter? And what does that even mean?

Baseball in 2020 will be a sprint, not a marathon. How will that change things?

MLB 60-game season: Everything you need to know

And everything you need to know about how it took so long for us to get here.

Billionaire Mike Repole joins A-Rod and J-Lo’s bid for the Mets

Repole, is a billionaire businessman, a thoroughbred owner, a Queens native, and a huge Mets fan

Tony Clark, executive director of Major League Baseball

MLB players to vote on owners’ 60-game proposal Monday

If they vote it down, and most expect they will, Rob Manfred will likely impose a short season.

Restraining order issued against David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic

Ortiz’s former partner, Fary Almanzar Fernandez, alleged in the restraining order application that Ortiz “intimidated and threatened” her.

MLB shuts down all spring training facilities for cleaning and disinfecting

The move comes a day after COVID-19 outbreaks were reported at multiple pro and college sports facilities

Addison Russell signs with Korea’s Kiwoom Heroes

The Cubs non-tendered Russell last December

Major League Baseball will not make a counteroffer to the players

After a couple of days of seeming promise earlier this week the owners and the players seem to be back at square one.

Blue Jays shut down their spring training facility due to player with COVID symptoms

On the heels of the report that at least eight people at the Phillies camp in Clearwater, Florida have tested positive for COVID-19 comes a report from Jeff Passan of ESPN that that the Toronto Blue Jays have shut down their spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida after a player exhibited COVID-19 symptoms.

COVID-19 outbreak hits Phillies camp in Clearwater

Five players and three staff players have tested positive. Others are awaiting test results so the number could climb.