Seattle Seahawks quarterback and former Yankees minor leaguer Russell Wilson is plotting his return to MLB … as an owner.
Wilson was announced Friday as an investor in the Portland Diamond Project, which is dedicated to bringing a major league team to Portland, Ore. More
Minor league baseball players who make as little as $5,500 a season would be stripped of the protection of federal minimum wage laws under a provision in government spending legislation expected to be approved by Congress this week.
The “Save America’s Pastime Act” is included on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion spending bill and appears to pre-empt a lawsuit filed four years ago in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by three players alleging Major League Baseball and its teams violate the Fair Labor Standards Act and state minimum wage and overtime requirements for a work week they estimated at 50-to-60 hours. More
DENVER — The Mets badly needed to restock their farm system with pitching and they accomplished that on Monday, sending Addison Reed to the Boston Red Sox in return for three minor league relievers in a non-waiver trade deadline deal. More
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) Tim Tebow seems to have found his stroke since getting back to his home state. More
Tim Tebow is making his way up the ranks of the New York Mets minor leagues, but Noah Syndergaard doesn’t believe the former NFL player will be in the majors by season’s end. More
Tim Tebow’s baseball career will probably always be overshadowed by his football career, but that comes with the territory of being a Heisman-winning quarterback turned NFL bust turned minor league baseball player. More
BOSTON — Clay Buchholz, the longest-tenured member of the Boston Red Sox pitching staff, has been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for minor league second baseman Josh Tobias, the teams announced Tuesday. More
ATLANTA (AP) The Seattle Mariners acquired right-handers Rob Whalen and Max Povse from the Atlanta Braves on Monday night for outfield prospect Alex Jackson and a player to be named.
The 20-year-old Jackson was the sixth pick in the 2014 amateur draft. He has hit .233 in three minor league seasons, including .243 with 11 homers and 55 RBIs for Class A Clinton of the Midwest League this year.
”We value upside, and we believe Alex has a lot of it,” Braves general manager John Coppolella told The Associated Press. ”We believe in the potential and the person,…