Baseball

3/19/2026 |  New women’s pro baseball league turns long-held dreams into reality at Red Sox spring home (Associated Press (AP)) FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Kelsie Whitmore stood near third base at JetBlue Park and looked around at her new norm.

Women baseball players from around the world tossed balls back and forth, sharing laughs and taking pointers from major league coaches. In less than five months, they will play in the first women’s professional baseball league in the United States in more than 70 years.

3/19/2026 |  MLB teams pressure WBC managers to be careful with pitchers. Venezuela pushed back (Associated Press (AP)) MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela manager Omar López went beyond the limit to help his nation win its first World Baseball Classic.
Major league clubs routinely place restrictions on how national team managers can use pitchers at the WBC. One key for López and Venezuela in Tuesday night’s championship game was that he talked some MLB team executives into dropping their initial limitations. U.S. manager Mark DeRosa accepted such restraints.

3/19/2026 |  The WBC is thriving. Rob Manfred says MLB might consider moving it to midseason (Associated Press (AP)) MIAMI (AP) — Having set attendance and broadcast viewer records, the World Baseball Classic will return in 2029 or 2030 and at some future point could be moved to midseason, when clubs would be less likely to restrict players.
Since the WBC’s inception in 2006, it has been played during spring training. Tournament rules include pitch count restrictions, and teams can demand tougher limits or deny players permission to participate.

3/19/2026 |  MLB commissioner Rob Manfred teases possible schedule change for the next World Baseball Classic (CBS Sports) Venezuela outlasted USA in a thrilling World Baseball Classic Championship Game (VEN 3, USA 2) Tuesday night in Miami. It is Venezuela's first ever international baseball championship. And now, after two weeks of exciting WBC baseball, we have to go back to boring old spring training for a week before the MLB regular season begins.

3/19/2026 |  Why Mark DeRosa Should Never Work in Baseball Again (DEADSPIN) Team USA suffered a tragic defeat at the hands of heavy underdogs Venezuela in the championship of the World Baseball Classic. It’s the second straight silver medal for Team USA, and another one-run loss that will weigh heavily on the Americans and manager Mark DeRosa.