Major League Baseball News

While cutting costs and suppressing young players' service time are mainstream ideas in today's MLB, former Seattle Mariners CEO Kevin Mather's mistake was letting it reach a general public skeptical of ownership's motives.

The Korean Baseball Organization has suspended ex-Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang for a year and ordered him to perform 300 hours of community service over a series drunk driving cases.

Kris Bryant remains under contract with the Chicago Cubs through the 2021 season after losing a grievance over his service time, ESPN reported Wednesday.

A 20-year-old food service worker at Comerica Park in Detroit has been charged after a video was posted online that appeared to show him spitting on a pizza intended for customers during a Major League Baseball game.

Former pitching star Roy Halladay, the face of the Toronto Blue Jays for about a decade, will be remembered in a memorial service this afternoon at Spectrum Field in Clearwater, Fla., the spring training home of the team the last team he played for, the Philadelphia Phillies.

A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that free agent closer Aroldis Chapman and the New York Yankees have reached agreement on an $86 million, five-year deal.

A day after fans said goodbye, family members and friends of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez gathered for a private funeral mass on Thursday afternoon.

When Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers played the Philadelphia Phillies in 1947, he was told to "go back to the cotton fields" by the Phillies' manager, refused service at a local hotel and taunted by players with racial slurs when he came to bat. On Friday, Philadelphia's city council publicly acknowledged the incident as a dark chapter in the city's history.

New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman has agreed to accept a 30-game suspension under Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy, a penalty stemming from an incident with his girlfriend last October.

A gold catcher's mitt was placed on top of his remains. But on a day filled with stories from a lifetime in baseball, beloved New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra was remembered Tuesday for being more than one of the game's greats.