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Major League Baseball and ESPN have a framework agreement that would give the network the exclusive rights to sell all out-of-market regular-season games digitally and in-market games for five clubs over the next three years, sources briefed on the discussions told The Athletic. ESPN would continue to broadcast around 30 regular-season games, but not “Sunday Night Baseball.” ESPN would move …

This past Sunday night, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made on-the-air comments that brought expansion back to the national baseball conversation, and with it, the idea of geographical realignment. By the time the league expands – most likely by two teams – it will have been 30 years or more since the last time MLB expanded when the Arizona Diamondbacks and …

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — José Caballero hit two home runs in 86 games with the Tampa Bay Rays this season. The speedy utilityman matched that total in one night Tuesday as the New York Yankees put on quite a power show. “I think it’s from hanging around with these guys,” Caballero explained after helping his new team to a 13-3 …

WASHINGTON — Fans and media have debated feverishly over the past few days following commissioner Rob Manfred grabbing an ESPN microphone and expressing a desire to “geographically realign” Major League Baseball upon adding two additional expansion teams at some point in the future. The Mets have been less preoccupied with the notion. “Why is he doing that?” Tyrone Taylor said …

TAMPA — As they try to scrap their way back to the top of the AL East, the Yankees have enough to worry about these days. But with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred mentioning the potential for expansion and realignment on Sunday, there is the intriguing thought of the Yankees playing in a new division alongside the likes of the Red …

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Realignment in baseball stirred up some sour feelings. When commissioner Rob Manfred pointed out that Major League Baseball expansion could also mean realigning the divisions and conferences, the baseball world had itself a tizzy, speculating that it would ruin decades-long rivalries, among other traditions of America’s Pastime. MLB analyst and former Yankee Cameron Maybin was one of those firmly in …

Call it the Ea$t division. Following Rob Manfred’s recent comments about MLB expansion that would lean into Eastern and Western conferences, one often-circulated proposed four-team division would be a heavyweight quartet featuring the Yankees, Mets, Phillies and Red Sox. Such a division would feature the second-, third- and fourth-highest payrolls in MLB this season in the Mets, Yankees and Phillies, …

The Mets swapping the Braves for the Yankees as divisional foes? Goodbye to the Dodgers vs. Giants rivalry as we know it?  Geographic realignment in MLB is more likely than you think. Or, more likely than previously thought, after commissioner Rob Manfred surprisingly discussed the subject on Sunday. With expansion expected before the end of this decade, there could be …

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