Baseball

10/6/2025 |  ESPN Ends Its Wild-Card Coverage With Historic TV Ratings (Front Office Sports) ESPN is exiting the Major League Baseball postseason television business on a historic high. 
The network said Monday that last week’s wild-card round averaged 4.6 million viewers across the 11 games, up 64% from a year ago and by far the highest such mark in the four-year history of this format. In particular, the Game 3 matchup on Oct. 2 between the Red Sox and Yankees averaged 7.4 million viewers and peaked at 8.4 million, representing the network’s most-watched MLB game since 2021.

10/3/2025 |  Ryan McMahon flips head over heels into Red Sox dugout to make highlight-reel catch for Yankees (Associated Press (AP)) NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan McMahon looked up and saw Jarren Duran’s foul popup veering toward the Boston bench.
Without hesitation, the New York Yankees third baseman raced over. As he made a running catch, McMahon hit the padded railing and flipped head over heels into the Red Sox dugout, crashing to the ground while hanging onto the ball.

10/3/2025 |  MLB job openings: Here are three college coaches ex-GM Jim Bowden says could make the jump to the big leagues (CBS Sports) For a while now, MLB teams have generally avoided hiring managers from the college ranks. With eight managerial vacancies this offseason, that could change, and former MLB general manager Jim Bowden says three names will be at the top of the list.

10/3/2025 |  2025 MLB playoffs: Repeating is hard. Are Dodgers different? (ESPN) WHEN THE LOW point arrived last year, on Sept. 15 in Atlanta, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts broke character and challenged some of his players in a meeting many of them later identified as a fulcrum in their championship run.
This year, he attempted to strike a more positive tone.

10/2/2025 |  Twins make young player development a clear focus in the search for their next manager (Associated Press (AP)) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The next manager of the Minnesota Twins will inherit an uncertain outlook for next season, with an in-flux ownership group yet to determine what the payroll will be and the front office thus unable to promise whether certain players will remain on the roster.