Source confirms: Padres acquiring Luis Arraez from Marlins for three prospects and a reliever. First: Jeff Passan

Somebody shared an old photo of an unknown Cleveland baseball fan and turns out it was Sherrod Brown's dad?!

Congratulations, thanks and best wishes to Manny Diaz on an unbelievable career leading Georgia Tennis. May your retirement be as wonderful as your time with the Bulldogs - as a player, assistant and head coach - has been. The ITA Hall of Fame awaits in 2026. #Legend

In 1970 when the Orioles met the #Reds for game 1 of WS at Riverfront, the Jackson 5 sang the National Anthem.

Very excited for my friend Andy McCullough’s book release next week. It was a true honor to harangue and mock him throughout the reporting and writing process. I hope you will consider pre-ordering THE LAST OF HIS KIND this weekend.

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I still say this show needs to make a comeback...with Joey Votto as host and Dusty Baker as the Dugout Wizard.

The first time I thought about suicide I was 14. The last time I was 28. May is Mental Health Awareness Month so I want to share my story. The first time I was at my high school football game. My life changed forever after this first picture. This is why…

The The Press Box pod is one of those that immediately goes to the top of my feed. This week, Bryan Curtis is joined by dad’s favorite baseball writer, Andy McCullough. It’s all I wanted it to be. My dad would’ve loved it.

Buy Andy’s book.

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New | How the #Bengals vetted — and fell for — confounding WR Jermaine Burton.

And why T. J. Houshmandzadeh helped bring the pick to life by doing far more than just announcing it.

“He is going to hear it constantly from me.”

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Happy Birthday, Sarah Langs! 🎂

Both Corbin Burnes and Sonny Gray recently accepted balks for disengagement violations, figuring a third pickoff attempt was worth the risk. In this story, @Ctrent and I delve into their thinking and other tactics players and teams are using to slow down running games.…

Rintaro Sasaki is not your typical Stanford baseball recruit. And his path to become eligible for the MLB draft has almost no precedent.

Andrew Baggarly on the left-handed slugger's journey from national celebrity in Japan and its top-rated high school player to the U.S.

Someone brought this to my attention. This is just dumb. This is 'take' culture at its worst. Pretend you know things that you don't, get upset, get loud, never back down. Never learn. Never grow. Never change, ESPN

I’ll say this with complete conviction.

This is the greatest piece of baseball sausage writing in literary history, from Dan

José Abreu is not with the Astros, GM Dana Brown said. Both sides decided that Abreu will be optioned to West Palm Beach effective tomorrow “to get some at-bats and his timing back right.”

When author and subject are made for each other — ⁦DanHayesMLB⁩ writing about sausages

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