The Latest Breaking News from Major League Baseball

CHICAGO — If anyone expected a great outcry from players after Major League Baseball announced major rule changes for 2023 on Friday — a pitcher’s clock, enlarged bases and severe restrictions on defensive shifts — well, just take the temperature of P.J. Higgins’ reaction as an example.

The Major League Baseball Players Association launched the unionization drive on Aug. 28 and told MLB on Tuesday it had obtained signed authorization cards from the approximately 5,000 to 6,500 players with minor league contracts.

Major League Baseball announced a huge set of rule changes on Friday, which will go into effect for the 2023 season.

The Padres can take comfort in knowing they still lead the race for the third wild card that Major League Baseball adopted this year, despite their offense stinking up Petco Park once again Monday afternoon in a 5-0 loss to a loose Diamondbacks team.

When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all.

The Oakland A’s suffered a gut-punch loss to the worst team in Major League Baseball.

SAN DIEGO — Padres infielder Fernando Tatis Jr. has served 17 of his 80-game doping suspension by Major League Baseball and forfeited the first installment of what could be $2.9 million in lost wages. He’s met with the owner, the general manager, teammates, the media, apologizing profusely for “my mistakes,”…

CHICAGO — Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”

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LOS ANGELES — The Astros and Yankees in Los Angeles. Mookie Betts returning to Fenway Park. And, for the first time since interleague play was introduced in 1997, the Dodgers facing all 29 other Major League Baseball clubs at least once over the course of the year.

BALTIMORE — Even without rookie catcher Adley Rutschman leading Major League Baseball’s top prospect lists, the Orioles have the best farm system in the sport.