AJ Hinch, Jeff Luhnow suspensions fulfilled in 2020 even if MLB season canceled  —  Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow will fulfill their one-season suspensions for the team's sign-stealing scandal even if no baseball is played in 2020, sources told ESPN's Buster Olney on Thursday.

Dr. James Andrews suspends Tommy John surgeries at his offices  —  With questions being raised as to whether athletes should have orthopedic operations such as Tommy John surgery at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing, the best-known practitioner of the procedure has stopped performing …

Shin-Soo Choo donates $1,000 to each Rangers minor league player  —  Donation of at least $190,000 will help players with expenses during coronavirus shutdown.  —  Shin-Soo Choo has often talked with reverence about wanting to help the next generation of players the way veterans did for him in his early years.

2020 Season Increasingly Likely To Begin Without Crowds  —  What began as a backup plan has increasingly turned into an apparent inevitability as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow.  If MLB is able to get a 2020 season off the ground at all, it's likely to be played initially in empty stadiums …

Dodgers' New TV Deal Ends 7-Year Blackout  —  No joke.  This is not an April Fool's Day prank.  The Dodgers seven-year cable television nightmare is over.  —  What started with the club signing a 20-year, $8 billion TV deal with what was then Time Warner Cable in 2013 has ended …

2020 British Open to be canceled due to coronavirus pandemic, sources say  —  The R&A is expected to cancel the 2020 Open Championship, multiple sources tell Golf Digest.  The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about the cancellation publicly.

Minor League Transactions  —  Minor league maneuvering for all 30 organizations for the period March 1 to April 1, 2020.

Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka leaves to Japan as coronavirus hammers U.S., says he was in dangerous situation  —  Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has retreated to his native Japan as the coronavirus continues to devastate the U.S.  —  Tanaka said he left in late March, but didn't give an exact date.

New study says 2019 playoff balls were de-juiced, but MLB still has no answers  —  Baseball has enough problems to deal with.  For one thing, it's nearly April and there's no baseball.  Still, a problem found does not resolve a problem left for later, and there is at least one major unresolved issue …

Additional Steps We're Taking for the Health and Safety of Our Associates  —  As our company and country continue to deal with the spread of COVID-19, we remain focused on the health and safety of our associates.  —  We continue to follow and communicate the CDC's recommended guidance …