Baseball

6/26/2026 |  MLBPA: Owners’ Aggressive Labor Proposals Unite Players (Front Office Sports) The initial trio of labor proposals from MLB team owners has been so extreme in the intended impact that it’s had a unifying effect on players, the MLB Players Association said. 
Management’s latest offer, which would radically redefine the sport’s reserve system and limit free-agent contracts, completes an overarching set of starting bids from its side of the bargaining table.

6/26/2026 |  MCWS among most-watched on record despite low for OU-UNC Final (Sports Media Watch) The Men’s College World Series finished among the most-watched on record, but that did not extend to the Final.
The complete NCAA Men’s College World Series averaged 1.5 million viewers across the ESPN family of networks, up 24% from last year and the third-highest average on record behind 2023 and 2024, but the three-game Oklahoma-North Carolina MCWS Final was the least-watched in four years with an average of 2.0 million — down 21% from last year’s two-game Final between LSU and Coastal Carolina.

6/25/2026 |  2026 MLB All-Star Team Picks: Full 32-Player Rosters For American & National Leagues (Fox Sports) Obviously, every MLB All-Star Game is filled with star players. However, the 2026 MLB All-Star Game might feature the greatest collection of pitchers that a league has ever assembled.
Nine starting pitchers in the National League have a sub-3.00 ERA entering Tuesday's slate (among pitchers with enough innings to qualify), and that doesn't include the likes of Shohei Ohtani (1.47 ERA), Kyle Harrison (2.50 ERA) and Zack Wheeler (2.11 ERA). Which begs the question: Who will be the 12 pitchers selected in the National League? 

6/25/2026 |  NBC nears season-high for Mets-Phillies on “Sunday Night Baseball” (Sports Media Watch) Getting a lift from the U.S. Open, NBC’s “Sunday Night Baseball” delivered the largest MLB audience outside of Opening Day last weekend.
Airing immediately after the final round of the U.S. Open, the latest edition of NBC’s “Sunday Night Baseball” (Mets-Phillies) averaged a combined 3.00 million viewers across a Nielsen-measured linear audience and streaming viewership tracked by Adobe Analytics — the largest audience for a Sunday night game since the 2017 season opener (Cubs-Cardinals: 3.6M), and the largest excluding season openers since Yankees-Red Sox in 2013 (3.1M).

6/23/2026 |  2026 MLB All-Star Ballot Second Update: Clement Leads AL, Ohtani Leads All (Fox Sports) The Blue Jays' Ernie Clement has surged to the top of the American League in the second update of the 2026 MLB All-Star ballot, overtaking the Angels' Mike Trout, the Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Astros' Yordan Alvarez, who led the AL in the first update.