Baseball - The Durango Herald

Trump can’t commit to date for having fans in stadiums

President talks with leaders of various sports

DATE: Apr 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Big league vets with minor league deals get up to $50,000

MLB working to compensate players even wit no games

DATE: Apr 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Call to arms: Compressed MLB schedule could mean more pitchers

NEW YORK — When and if opening day comes around this year, New York Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake anticipates a brimming bullpen. Major League Baseball and the players’ associ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

AP exclusive: MLB vets get $4,775 daily during virus outset

NEW YORK – Gerrit Cole, Mike Trout and other veteran major leaguers will receive $4,775 per day in advance pay for the first 60 days of the season during the stoppage caused by the new coron...

DATE: Apr 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

6-man rotations? Piggybacking starters? Pitching, post virus

MLB teams in tricky position when it comes to protecting arms

DATE: Apr 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Regional sports network employees left without pay uncertain what comes next

MLB broadcast crews in limbo

DATE: Apr 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NCAA throws baseball coaches a curve with added eligibility

Widely hailed as the right thing to do for student-athlete welfare, the NCAA’s decision to extend spring sports athletes’ eligibility a year because of the coronavirus pandemic is causing c...

DATE: Apr 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Time has come for Durango Athletic Hall of Fame

One hundred forty years. When the town of Durango was formed two miles south of Animas City in 1880 to serve the San Juan mining district, it would have been impossible for those settlers to...

DATE: Mar 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

MLB final pitch could be closer to Christmas than Halloween

DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

MLBers keep service time in deal

NEW YORK – Players agreed to a deal with Major League Baseball that would preserve service time in the event this season is canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but left open detail...

DATE: Mar 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

MLB uniform maker switches to producing medical masks, gowns

Fanatics joins effort to produce needed materials

DATE: Mar 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

We’ll miss Opening Day, but its wonderful sense of anticipation will return someday soon

Once, I titled a book “Why Time Begins on Opening Day.” For others, time may seem to begin when gardens bloom, ski slopes open or a Kennedy Center opera season launches. Elk season, no doubt...

DATE: Mar 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports