J.D. Martinez will move his rehab to Triple-A Syracuse this week. 'It's possible' the Mets could activate him when they get home on Friday, per Carlos Mendoza.

Casas going back to Boston to get examined. Cora said he’s concerned it will be a lengthy absence.

Said the Sox need to meet tomorrow to discuss options.

From Sarah Langs: Most rookies to play at least 1 regular season game through the end of April for the defending World Series champs:
17    1998  Florida Marlins
9     1944  New York Yankees
8     2024  Texas Rangers
8     2001  New York Yankees
8     1947  St. Louis

From Sarah Langs, about the Braves' culture of playing every game: Since 2017, Brian Snitker's first year as manager, the number of individuals who've played 155+ games in a season...
ATL 20
PHI 11
SEA 11
SDP 10
TOR 10
KCR 10

Fewest:
PIT 3
BOS 3
SFG 2
MIN 1
TBR 1
MIL 0 [Max

From Elias Sports Bureau: The last major-league player who had at least 20 runs scored and 10 or more stolen bases over his first 20 games of a season was Jose Reyes for the 2007 Mets. We mention that because Ronald
Acuna Jr. enters tonight with 19 runs scored and nine steals over his

From Elias Sports Bureau: Adolis Garcia is playing in his 500th major-league game tonight. He’s one of five active players who had 100 homers and 50 steals over their first 500 games––along with Ronald Acuna Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Trevor Story and Fernando Tatis Jr. (Tatis has still only

From Elias Sports Bureau: The Braves are averaging a major-league-high 6.4 runs scored per game this season; Atlanta has scored 121 runs over its 19 games. Since 1900, the most runs that the Braves scored over their
first 20 games of a season were 126 in 1999 and 124 in 1900.

⚾️ Atlanta Braves host World Series Champion Texas Rangers tonight on Sunday Night Baseball at 7p ET. Every week SNB is a showcase of broadcasting innovation.

📺 Karl Ravech, Eduardo Perez, David Cone & Buster Olney call the action. Third ESPN appearance for the Rangers already this season.

Devastated. Howie was a good man. Met him 2 decades ago before coming to ESPN and he was so supportive before I got the job and throughout my career. He was a legend at ESPN and every year we would catch up w him and his wife Suzie at the Dick Vitale gala every May. RIP Howie.

Podcast espn.com/radio/play/_/i… Stephen Kurkjian talks about great teammates, Red Sox pitching improvement; the AL and NL Central; Rowdy Tellez of the Pittsburgh Pirates talks about how he responded to the booing of David Bednar; Todd Radom with the history of the meeting place for Branch

From The Baseball Tonight Podcast: Christian Yelich on a hitter's evolution and what needs to happen first to become a power hitter. Full interview here Milwaukee Brewers 📷 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pul…

That’s 258 career wins for Justin Verlander. He’s 42 wins away from becoming the last pitcher to reach 300 in his career.

What an awesome job by NESN showing the emotion of 31-year-old Cam Booser crying in the dugout after finally getting to make his #MLB debut at the age of 31

Perseverance, hard work and heart shining through! Love it!

Congrats to him!🥲⚾️
(Video via @nesn)

Strider had a bone fragment in his UCL. He was told it was likely there even before the 2022 season. He had some discomfort in March, but thought he might be fine after his breaking ball was so good on Opening Day. This was likely something he couldn’t have prevented.

20 years ago, Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan, by friendly fire, as he was trying to help his platoonmates. For all this time, his mother Mary 'Dannie' Tillman, has been in search of the truth about how it happened--and why the Army misled her.

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Thanks Buster Olney for having me on the pod. We quizzed and we visited this week's stop on the Ballpark and Beyond, 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn espn.com/radio/play/_/i…

The Mets have officially released their city connect uniforms:

This line for Paul Skenes autographs after his start last night went up to the concourse 😳.

He stayed to meet everyone on line. 👏(🎥: Jack McMullen)

Podcast espn.com/radio/play/_/i… Stephen Kurkjian talks about great teammates, Red Sox pitching improvement; the AL and NL Central; Rowdy Tellez of the Pittsburgh Pirates talks about how he responded to the booing of David Bednar; Todd Radom with the history of the meeting place for Branch

Jeff Passan writes about Corey Seager's drive for excellence: espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…