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Ending their decades-long ban on facial hair and bringing beards back to the Bronx had to be done to prop up New York’s declining competitive advantage

Yoshinobu Yamamoto flashed his cutter, Gage Workman smashed a home run and more from Arizona.

The Yankees' long-standing facial hair policy was changed Friday, owner Hal Steinbrenner announced.

Sasaki announced his marriage on Instagram on Friday.

Tony Gonsolin, pitching in a competitive big-league environment for the first time in 18 months, gave up a leadoff single before getting a flyout and two strikeouts.

The calculus behind ESPN’s decision to walk away from its longstanding partnership with Major League Baseball may have been a bit knottier than a simple cost-benefit analysis would otherwise suggest—nothing’s ever simple when so many terminal zeroes are involved—but you don’t need an advanced economics degree to intuit that Disney’s departure was inevitable. For ESPN …

The Yankees can no longer rely on aura, tradition and bottomless caches of cash to nab the top free agents.

Here are some notes on Marcus Stroman and JT Brubaker from the Yankees’ Grapefruit League opener Friday against the Rays.

The Yankees opened Grapefruit League exhibition play on a positive note, defeating the Tampa Bay Bays, 4-0, on Friday afternoon at Steinbrenner Field.

Top Yankees pitching prospect Chase Hampton will miss the 2025 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery.

The Yankees have done away with their 49-year-old policy against facial hair. New York players will be allowed to sport 'well-groomed beards.'

Just as Shohei Ohtani's marriage announcement last year came as a surprise around Dodgers camp, Roki Sasaki's previously unknown nuptials were the news of the morning.

The 26-year-old, who has been with the Tigers since 2021, is at spring training as a non-roster player.

The Yankees had Major League Baseball’s highest payroll for 15 straight years through 2013 but have not been the biggest spender since then.

News spread Friday morning that the Yankees made a decision to finally allow players to wear beards.

Brett Baty, who is among the Mets players battling for a spot on the bench for Opening Day, is continuing to add to his versatility.

The New York Yankees have made some slow-day news by revising their longstanding policy against facial hair, which has always had the feel of something George Costanza suggested — along with hitting tips, cotton uniforms, and Jon Voight day.

The Twins, Royals, Athletics, Cubs and Cardinals make up the next tier of the 2025 rankings.

Fantasy baseball analyst Dalton Del Don examines some questionable statistics for the 2025 season.

The agreement is worth $5.25 million and is pending Andrew Heaney passing a physical.

Brett Baty, the 12th overall pick by the Mets in the 2019 draft, had still been driving the same 2016 Toyota 4Runner he did in high school.

There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it should have in games that count.

The New York Yankees reverse a 49-year-old facial hair policy to allow their players and staff to now sport "well-groomed beards".

If you can hit on the eventual top pitcher in fantasy baseball, your odds of winning your league increase exponentially.

What moves will or won't Craig Breslow and the Red Sox make at the 2025 trade deadline? Our panel shares their predictions.

PEORIA, Ariz. — It’s another season of the San Diego Padres’ usual soap opera, replete with ownership chaos and payroll intrigue. But Erik Greupner, the team’s longtime chief executive, insists this version of All My Padres won’t affect the club on the field. The Padres’ ownership experienced an offseason of turmoil as the Seidler family publicly …

The policy, instituted in the 1970s by George Steinbrenner, forced players to trim their hair upon joining the team.

The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner. The change was announced before the team’s spring training opener.

A look at each MLB's bullpen situation going into the 2025 season.

Phillies notes on an injury from Friday, a confidence-building afternoon for Taijuan Walker and the team's weekend pitching plans.

Here are five under-the-radar players Red Sox fans will want to keep their eyes on during spring training.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb will make his fourth consecutive Opening Day start to kick off the 2025 MLB season.

Spring training games begin on Saturday for the Phillies and a handful of players who could make the team are expected to be in action.

With the everyday second base job in front of him, it's time for the San Francisco Giants to cut Tyler Fitzgerald loose, Alex Pavlovic writes.

ESPN will likely hang up its baseball mitt after 36 seasons. The cable sports giant failed to renegotiate contract terms with the league.

Angels fans will have some options when it comes to streaming games this season. Dodgers fans might be hard-pressed to stream games unless they have Spectrum.

The Cubs went 1-for-2 on challenges in their first game with the system.

Major League Baseball and ESPN announced Thursday that their national television deal would be cut short after this season, with baseball rights now on the market for the following three years. In a letter to owners first published by The Athletic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred specifically cited “new broadcast and/or streaming platform(s)” as the ideal …

"Sunday Night Baseball" won't be on ESPN after this year.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws 27 pitches and Bobby Miller takes a comebacker off his head and is placed into concussion protocol during the Dodgers' 12-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs.

"I don’t like that we haven’t won a championship yet. That bothers me,” Boone told reporters Thursday in Florida.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is poised to hit free agency next winter. Did the Blue Jays miss their opportunity?

The latest Mets free agency and trade buzz during the MLB offseason.

ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball games — at least in its current form — will conclude at the end of the 2025 season.

After the game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Miller, who walked off under his own power, will enter concussion protocol.

Jake Mintz & Jordan Shusterman react to Vladdy not signing an extension in Toronto, 3B drama in Boston, Manfred's latest appearance before the press and play a game of The Good, The Bad, The Uggla.

Angels manager Ron Washington names left-hander Yusei Kikuchi as the team's opening day starter. The Angels open the season against the White Sox in Chicago on March 27.

Justin Turner also went through workouts with the team before its opening game of spring training.

Giants third baseman Matt Chapman believes his game-winning defensive play in San Francisco's win over the New York Mets last season is "underrated."

Drew Smith is expected to miss all or most of this season while recovering from his second Tommy John surgery, but the right-hander should be ready for 2026.