Baseball

11/18/2025 |  "Integrity crisis": Senate committee to investigate MLB over betting scandal (AXIOS Sports) A Senate committee said on Monday it will investigate Major League Baseball (MLB) following a recent high-profile gambling scandal.
Why it matters: The probe signals more congressional oversight into what the committee labeled the "integrity crisis" in American sports, according to a letter from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred released Monday. 

11/18/2025 |  Ready for a Big Payday? Top MLB Free Agents Who Boosted Their Stock (Fox Sports) All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker is the top free agent in this year’s class, but that seemed like a foregone conclusion once Blue Jays' slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. signed a 14-year, $500 million contract extension back in April.

11/18/2025 |  3 Best MLB Free Agent Fits for Eugenio Suarez if he Leaves the Mariners (Fox Sports) If a team is looking for power, third baseman Eugenio Suarez fits the bill and then some.
Last season, which Suarez split between the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks, he uncorked 49 home runs and posted a .526 slugging percentage. Suarez would be a great fit in Seattle for the foreseeable future, as the 34-year-old would fill a position of need for a Mariners team that was one win away from reaching their first-ever World Series.

11/18/2025 |  USA: Where will the new Rays stadium be built? Debate continues as time runs out (StadiumDB.com) The new ownership group of the Tampa Bay Rays – Patrick Zalupski, Bill Cosgrove and Ken Babby – has announced that the team will remain in St. Petersburg for now, while simultaneously launching an intensive search for a site to build a new long-term stadium in the Tampa Bay region. 

11/18/2025 |  Tyler Skaggs' wife, mother take the stand in wrongful death suit against Angels (Yahoo Sports) The wife and mother of former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs took the stand Monday in their wrongful death suit against the team, according to multiple sources.
Skaggs died in his hotel room while on a road trip with the team in 2019. He was 27. Toxicology reports later revealed Skaggs died due to a combination of "alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone intoxication with terminal aspiration of gastric contents."