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Vida Blue, a dominating left-hander who helped the Oakland Athletics win three straight World Series championships from 1972-74, died on Saturday. He was 73. “There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “He was a three-time champion, an MVP, a…

ESPN cut ties with MLB reporter Marly Rivera after a heated exchange with fellow reporter Ivón Gaete. According to USA Today, the sports network said in a statement that Rivera “no longer works here.” Rivera’s social media accounts have been disabled and her bio on the ESPN website is not…

The 2023 Major League Baseball season opens Thursday, boasting a new official advertising slogan: “Baseball is Something Else.” In terms of media presence, that phrase definitely rings true. This season, a sport known for its decades of history on radio and TV will see direct-to-consumer streaming…

Fox Sports used its Super Bowl platform Sunday to break some news among the ads and pregame hype: New York Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter is joining the MLB on Fox team for the 2023 season. MLB on Fox regular Alex Rodriguez helped make the announcement on the Fox pregame set today in…

If you’re a New York Yankees fan living in Seattle, you’ve learned that you can watch your favorite team on Major League Baseball’s Extra Inning cable package or MLB.TV’s streaming package – except when they’re playing in your city. That’s because a blackout occurs and only allows that fan to watch…

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Dodgers are releasing controversial pitcher Trevor Bauer.  The former Cy Young winner was designated for assignment by the team today in a widely expected move.. Bauer was reinstated from a two-year suspension by an arbitrator last month. He was accused of sexual assault by a woman to…

A promotion for House of the Dragon during last night’s New York Yankees-Cleveland Guardians playoff baseball game on TBS is continuing to draw online eyerolls the day after the stunt. With parent company Warner Bros Discovery looking to make use of every pixel of promotional real estate, the notion…

UPDATED with sentencing: Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels communication director who earlier this year was convicted of distributing a controlled substance that caused the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday. The minimum sentence was for 20 years, but…

ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will team to televise the 2022 MLB Wild Card Series beginning Friday with four games, marking the debut of the reformatted and expanded baseball postseason. Four best-of-3 series will be on tap in the first year of the wild card round, which will feature each league’s third…

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge broke a 61-year-old record when he hit his 62nd home run in a game Tuesday against the Texas Rangers. The slugger made history by breaking the American League record for single-season home runs that had been held by Roger Maris since 1961. Maris, in turn, had broken…

For the Los Angeles Angels, 2023 will bring one more year of “Sho-Time.” Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed on a $30 million contract for the 2023 season, the largest salary ever for an arbitration-eligible player. He surpassd the $27 million deal Dodger Mookie Betts signed for $27…

Maury Wills, whose long tenure with the Los Angeles Dodgers began the year after the team moved to the West Coast in the late 1950s and included three World Series championships, died September 19 at his home in Sedona, AZ, the team said Tuesday. He was 89. Wills, a five-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove-winning…