With just 60 games in this MLB regular season, the Chicago Cubs need Craig Kimbrel to be better than he was last year.

An array of injuries was largely responsible for the blight on the first five years of Byron Buxton's still-promising Major League Baseball career, with surgery last fall to repair labrum damage in his left shoulder serving as the latest setback.

Many familiar pregame sights won't be back when Major League Baseball and the NBA return later this month. Managers won't exchange lineup cards at home plate, and basketball lineup introductions won't feature complex high-fives — or any high-fives, if rules are followed.

Tuesday morning found Chattanooga Lookouts president Rich Mozingo in his AT&T Field office, despite his having been furloughed after last week's official cancellation of the team's Southern League season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By the time MLB revealed each team's 60-game slate Monday evening, the Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals had canceled workouts because of COVID-19 testing delays that one executive worried could endanger the season.

Atlanta Braves outfielder Nick Markakis opted out of the 2020 MLB season on Monday due to increased concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

Befitting someone with 227 home runs and a .293 batting average for his career, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has been sending chills through major league pitching staffs for close to a decade.

The decision was made after the former Cy Young Award winner participated in workouts Friday and Saturday at Atlanta's Truist Park.

There the Brothers Blaylock sat, all three of them perched near the top of the stairwell in their divorced mother Janelle's suburban Atlanta home. It provided them the perfect view to glimpse the new man in her life before the two adults headed out for a date night.

Rick Carlisle isn't sure what to expect from players during the national anthem when the NBA season resumes in empty arenas in Florida.

Dodger Stadium's 40-year wait to host the MLB All-Star Game is going to last even longer.

Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward was going to address his entire team before the start of MLB's unprecedented summer training camp, just like he did when spring training opened about 4 1/2 months ago.

Tommy Hottovy is recovering from a severe case of COVID-19 that quarantined him for 30 days.

Minor leaguers have received $400 weekly stipends through April, May and June since the coronavirus pandemic ceased play in March.

Yoán Moncada has spent the past couple of months working out in what he called a "controlled and limited environment" in Florida, where the Chicago White Sox slugger could continue to get at-bats while protecting himself from the coronavirus.

The organization that presents the annual Most Valuable Player awards for Major League Baseball will consider whether the name of former commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis should be pulled from future plaques.

Trying to find out the status of a baseball player coming back from an ankle injury definitely will be easier than learning whether someone tested positive for the coronavirus.

Baseball's minor leagues canceled their seasons Tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the head of their governing body said more than half of the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections.

Cole Wilcox spent Tuesday in San Diego. By mid-afternoon, the former Heritage High School and University of Georgia pitcher was a millionaire.

Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.

Several months before the coronavirus outbreak altered everyone's way of life, Major League Baseball announced it would be altering the minor league landscape by contracting roughly one-fourth of the teams.

Major League Baseball fans hoping to see a game in person this season may have to settle for the modern equivalent of pressing their faces up to the windows or squinting through fences like the children's Knothole Gangs of yore.

Forget about those halcyon first few days of spring training, when arranging for the right tee time on the right golf course is often more challenging than the work on the field.