MLB safety protocols: Must finish postseason before second wave of COVID-19 hits nation  —  PHOENIX — Don't take it personal, Uber and Lyft, but major league ballplayers will be strongly discouraged from riding in your cars this summer.  —  Fans, you can cheer for all your favorite players …

Rays' Blake Snell: ‘Just not worth it’ to play in 2020 for reduced pay  —  “I gotta get my money.  I'm not playing unless I get mine, okay?  And that's just the way it is for me,” said Snell, who was due to get $7 million.  —  Rays Cy Young award winner Blake Snell said the risk of returning …

Yankees hope Aaron Judge will be ready (at some point) for coronavirus-shortened 2020 season  —  TAMPA — Aaron Judge's rehab is going as the Yankees expected and they hope to have him on the field if there is an MLB 2020 season at some point, GM Brian Cashman said Thursday morning.

Willie Mays at 89: ‘My Thing Is Keep Talking and Keep Moving’  —  As the coronavirus pandemic keeps him homebound, the greatest living baseball player is missing visits to the ballpark, as well as opportunities to promote a new book on his life.  —  Baseball is almost like oxygen for Willie Mays.

FBI serves warrant on senator in investigation of stock sales linked to coronavirus  —  Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department's investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus …

SEE THE MLB MOCK DRAFT VERSION 4.0  —  While MLB has yet to officially announce the draft date and length, we are closing in on a five-round draft set to begin June 10.  —  So we present our latest mock draft projection roughly a month away from showtime.  —  Typically around this time …

Greatest Rays moment: Game 7 in 2008 or Game 162 in 2011?  We asked.  —  Players, coaches, execs, broadcasters, even the owner, shared their thoughts on which win was the greatest.  —  They are clearly the two greatest moments in Rays history.  —  The final out of Game 7 …

MLS proposing all 26 teams come to Orlando to resume season this summer  —  With no indications of when it could resume the season in home markets, MLS has proposed placing all 26 teams in the Orlando area this summer and playing competitive matches without spectators at the Disney sports complex …

Beyond perfect: Armando Galarraga, 10 years after the call  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Two outs in the ninth, hard grounder to first base, pitcher rushes over to cover.  One foot hits the bag.  Split-second pause.  Then the dull thud of another foot.  The umpire begins to pump his fist.

Sources: Cancellation of World Baseball Classic in 2021 imminent  —  Sources have told ESPN that the cancellation of the 2021 World Baseball Classic is imminent, with one source saying “it is not a priority right now.”  —  The tournament had been set for March 9-23, 2021, in the United States, Japan and Taiwan.

Jerry Stiller's death has a baseball star from the 1990s unexpectedly trending  —  died Monday at the age of 92 — and with it, a baseball player from the 1990s was unexpectedly trudged into Twitter's trending topics.  —  As any “Seinfeld” devotee knows, we're talking, of course, about Jay Buhner.