MLB Announces 2021 Schedule  —  In what amounts to a statement of optimism, Major League Baseball has decided to announce the schedule for the 2021 season much earlier than is usual — and before the current campaign has even begun.  Each team's Twitter account has provided the relevant schedule, for those that want a closer look.

Buster Posey Opts Out Of 2020 Season  —  Giants catcher Buster Posey has decided to opt out of the 2020 season, he announced in a Zoom call with reporters today.  Posey explained that he and his wife have adopted twin girls who were born prematurely.  They're in stable condition …

Mets Sale: At Least Five Bidders Include Cohen, Harris and A-Rod Group  —  Billionaires Steve Cohen and Josh Harris, along with former big-league star Alex Rodriguez, were among at least five groups that submitted first-round bids to buy the New York Mets, according to people familiar with the matter.

MLB COVID-19 Screening Results in 66 Positive Tests  —  Major League Baseball released the results of its latest round of COVID-19 tests on Friday.  —  58 players and six staff members tested positive for COVID-19.  Of the 3,748 samples tested, 1.8% came back positive, per MLB.

MLB umpires Joe West, Gerry Davis take opposing stances on COVID-shortened 2020 season  —  These two friends have worked in the same business for nearly 40 years together but are taking opposite stances on the upcoming Major League Baseball season.  —  They are 67-year-old umpires Joe West …

MLB flew Dominican players to the U.S. for restart but didn't test them for coronavirus first  —  Multiple players who took one of two Major League Baseball-chartered flights from the Dominican Republic to Miami on July 1 have since tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.

Detroit Tigers' Daniel Norris tests positive for COVID-19, but feels ‘healthy and ready’  —  Daniel Norris is currently in protocol for coronavirus recovery, he said.  —  Norris, the Detroit Tigers' left-handed starter, has not been at the team's training camp since it began on Friday.

The exile of Oakland A's Bruce Maxwell and the birth of MLB's Black player movement  —  To find Bruce Maxwell's America, you first have to leave it, as he did, by crossing over into another country, into an exile both self-imposed and voluntary.  It is to journey 165 miles southwest …

Will Nationals follow tradition with gold uniforms for home opener?  One video suggests so  —  By subscribing, you are agreeing to Yahoo's  —  started to receive their World Series rings, something many have been waiting for since the final out in Houston back in October of 2019.

Yoenis Cespedes practices at first base, but Mets manager Luis Rojas says not to read anything into that  —  On a mostly empty field, Yoenis Cespedes' presence was striking.  During a pickoff drill for pitchers, and then again during infield practice, the hobbled leftfielder and maybe DH was manning first base.