MLB team employees will be the subjects of US's largest COVID-19 antibody study  —  Major League Baseball team employees are the subjects of the first and largest COVID-19 antibody study in the United States, the lead researchers of the study told The Athletic today.

World Series MVP Steve Pearce officially retires, says 2018 Red Sox did nothing wrong  —  It's now official.  —  After telling WEEI.com he was “unofficially retired” in December, Steve Pearce took the next step when appearing with Mike Mutnanksy on WEEI's replay of Game 1 of the 2018 World Series.

Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63  —  Hank Steinbrenner, general partner and co-chairperson of the Yankees, died early Tuesday morning at his Clearwater, Fla., residence due to a long-standing health issue surrounded by family members.  —  According to a source, the cause of death was not COVID-19.

MLB's return contingent on one major thing, Rob Manfred says  —  Baseball was in the middle of spring training when it decided to delay the start of Opening Day  —  Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday baseball would not be returning until given the proper clearance …

New playing field for Jackie Robinson Day: Online tributes  —  NEW YORK — Forced from the field by the coronavirus, Major League Baseball is moving its annual celebration of Jackie Robinson online.  —  The Jackie Robinson Foundation is launching a virtual learning hub to coincide …

Former manager Jim Frey, who led Royals to first World Series, dies at age 88  —  Jim Frey, who replaced Whitey Herzog as the Kansas City Royals' manager in 1980 and helped the franchise to its first World Series that season, died Sunday.  He was 88.  —  The Somerset Patriots …

Dodgers batboy for Kirk Gibson's ‘impossible’ 1988 World Series home run: ‘I still get chills’  —  Mitch Poole was just an anonymous batboy for the Los Angeles Dodgers 32 years ago, living at his parents' home and driving a beat-up Volkswagen.  —  Everything changed the evening of Oct. 15, 1988.

Happy Birthday Greg Maddux  —  Greg Maddux turns 54 years old on Tuesday.  He could probably still pitch six or seven innings, if you asked him.  —  For those of us who watched him religiously for any length of time, Maddux is likely the best pitcher we ever saw.

Grading American League GMs on their best and worst MLB trades  —  Evaluating general managers in Major League Baseball is an incredibly tough exercise.  There's the draft, free agency, coaching staff and trades, and every general manager deals with different constraints from prior regimes and from ownership.

Former Cubs All-Star infielder Glenn Beckert dies at 79  —  Former Chicago Cubs second baseman Glenn Beckert died Sunday, the team announced.  He was 79.  —  Beckert spent nine seasons with the Cubs from 1965 to 1973 before finishing his career with two seasons for the San Diego Padres.

Taiwan bucks virus sports cancellations with new baseball season  —  Taiwan swung into a new baseball season on Sunday — with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands — as the island bucked the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus.

Anthony Causi, beloved Post sports photographer, dies of coronavirus at 48  —  Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a beloved and respected figure throughout the New York sports world, died Sunday from the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital.