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The plan to start the Major League Baseball season after the coronavirus shutdown is lifted seems a little fishy to the sport’s biggest star. Los Angeles Angels outfielder and reigning AL MVP Mike Trout sounds skeptical about the proposal being discussed to play games in Arizona without fans while sequestering players and staff in nearby …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he is hoping baseball can return soon and made his feelings known to Mets COO Jeff Wilpon. But with one caveat. “I said why can’t we talk about a baseball season with nobody in the stands? Why can’t you play the game with the players,” Cuomo told his …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay had high-levels of amphetamines in his system and was doing extreme acrobatics when he lost control of his small plane and nosedived into Tampa Bay in 2017, killing him, a National Transportation Safety Board report issued Wednesday said. Halladay had amphetamine levels about 10 times …

First of all, hold onto those tickets, or those StubHub emails, or whatever your proof of purchase might be that you planned to attend a Major League Baseball game in 2020. After that? Just hold on, period. Hang in there through the uncertainty. Some certainty should arrive next month. We’ll insist on it, right? The …

Damaso Garcia, a two-time All-Star and former Yankees second baseman, died Wednesday at 63, in his native Dominican Republic. Garcia, who was signed by the Yankees in 1975 as an amateur free agent and began his 11-year major league career began in The Bronx in 1978, played in just 29 games with the Yankees before …

The list of New York athletes to publicly mourn the tragic death of New York Post sports photographer Anthony Causi continues to grow. After Causi, who passed at 48, lost his battle with the coronavirus late Sunday night, many of those who work in New York sports took to social media to honor the longtime …

Reports that Major League Baseball is considering playing under quarantine conditions in Arizona and Florida don’t sit well with Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Zack Wheeler. Wheeler, whose wife Dominique is due to deliver their daughter in July, said he would balk at the plan if approved. “I am not going to miss the birth of my first child. …

Every day there is civil war, raging in our hearts, seething in our souls, fulminating our conscience. We know what we are supposed to do, and mostly we have done that. We have stayed home. We have masked up, and gloved up, whenever we venture to grocery stores. We have kept our social distance. But …

United States sports leagues may be itching to return to action but 72 percent of those who responded to a Seton Hall poll said they would not feel safe to attend games until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is developed. Asked what they would do if the leagues resumed play before there was a …

Forbes estimates the New York Yankees are baseball’s most valuable franchise at $5 billion, up 9 percent over last year and 47 percent more than the No. 2 Los Angeles Dodgers at $3.4 billion. The Yankees are second among all sports in Forbes’ evaluations to the Dallas Cowboys, listed at $5.5 billion in the last …