The Major League’s cheating scandal wounded fans across the country, but a baseball-loving federal judge ruled Friday that it did not give daily fantasy bettors a basis to sue for fraud.
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Major League Baseball has appointed its first African American umpire crew chief, promoting Kerwin Danley to the position this week.
Read moreMichael Bolsinger, a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher who lost his job after the Houston Astros knocked him out of the box on Aug. 4, 2017, sued the team in L.A. Superior Court, claiming the Astros were stealing signs when it happened, and should be forced to return their $31 million in World Series bonuses, to be donated to charity.
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Major League Baseball is considering expanding the playoffs to nearly half the 30 teams and allowing higher-seeded wild-card teams to choose opponents.
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Pete Rose again asked Major League Baseball to end his lifetime ban, saying the penalty is unfair compared with discipline for steroids use and sign-stealing.
Read moreA fantasy baseball contestant filed a federal class action Thursday against Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros, claiming that they cheated fans of an honest fantasy baseball competition.
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to demand awarding two World Series titles to the LA Dodgers in the wake of a sign-stealing scandal currently rocking Major League Baseball.
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Carlos Beltrán, called out on a curveball again. Beltrán’s 2½-month tenure as Mets manager ended Thursday before he spent a single game on the bench, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing.
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The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Tuesday night, one day after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he was “an active participant” in the Astros’ cheating when he was a bench coach in Houston.
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The Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal cost manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow their jobs, and Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora could be next.
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Computer plate umpires could be called up to Major League Baseball at some point during the next five seasons.Umpires agreed to cooperate with Major League Baseball in the development and testing of an automated ball-strike system as part of a five-year labor contract announced Saturday, two people familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
Read moreMajor League Baseball touted a study Wednesday that clears it of having intentionally juiced baseballs to cause more home runs in the 2019 regular season.
Read moreT-Mobile Park, home to the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team, complies with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, a federal court in Washington ruled. A group of wheelchair users claimed there were inadequate sightlines in the stadium and improperly distributed accessible seats.
Read moreIn opposition to a decade-old tax on professional athletes, players associations from the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and National Football League joined forces Wednesday to file a lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh in Allegheny Common Pleas Court.
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The Houston Astros fired their assistant general manager Thursday amid an investigation by Major League Baseball into comments he shouted at a group of female reporters as the team celebrated a pennant-clinching win last Saturday.
Read moreThe Philadelphia Phillies’ beloved mascot, The Phanatic, is not up for grabs says the Major League Baseball team in an ownership dispute with the company that helped design him over copyright of the famous flightless bird.
Read moreUnable to mediate a dispute over television fees with their cross-town rivals, the Washington Nationals asked a judge Monday to stop the Baltimore Orioles from forum shopping.
Read moreTwo Milwaukee Brewers fans claim in a federal complaint that the club offers only “small, comparably inferior” seating to wheelchair-using patrons, in a “wheelchair ghetto.”
Read moreAfter two trials and two hung juries, federal prosecutors have agreed to dismiss insider trading and perjury charges against an Orange County, Calif., CEO accused of tipping former MLB star Doug DeCinces to the 2009 acquisition of the CEO’s medical-device company by a larger company.
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