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The new movie "42" about Jackie Robinson opens up Friday night. I haven't seen it yet but expect I'll go watch it at some point this weekend. Jerry Crasnick has a piece on director Brian Helgeland's two-year odyssey to make the movie and Jerry, Jim C...

Jerry Crasnick has a story today on Aroldis Chapman's conversion from the bullpen to the Cincinnati Reds' rotation. It's a two-park risk equation, of course: 1) Losing Chapman's dominance out of the bullpen (38 saves, 1.51 ERA, 15.3 K's per nine, ...

You can call it an overreaction to one blown save ... but it was one big blown save. Sources told ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick that the Washington Nationals signed free-agent closer Rafael Soriano to a two-year, $28 million contract, with a third-yea...

Jerry Crasnick has a nice story on Dale Murphy and the push his family made for him on his final year on the Hall of Fame ballot. Murphy has no shot at getting elected after receiving just 14.5 percent of the vote a year ago; his family needed to ...

Jerry Crasnick reports that the Los Angeles Angels have signed Ryan Madson to a one-year deal, pending a physical. The Reds are also reportedly close to re-signing Jonathan Broxton, a move that would allow them to move Aroldis Chapman into the rotati...

Jerry Crasnick has a story up on minor league stolen base phenom Billy Hamilton, and Eric Karabell and myself talk a little about Hamilton and how speed is again becoming a bigger element in the game....

It's Hall of Fame induction weekend, so congratulations to Barry Larkin and the late Ron Santo for their honor. Jerry Crasnick has a nice story about covering the young Larkin with the Reds. On a related topic, Graham Womack of the Baseball: Past ...

Over the weekend, Jerry Crasnick wrote an excellent piece on the struggles of the Colorado Rockies this season -- specifically, the issues with the starting rotation and the team's decision to go to a four-man rotation with 75-pitch limits. One qu...

Mark Simon and Jerry Crasnick talk about the weekend that was on Monday's Baseball Today podcast . Or in the case of the National League East, the weekend that wasn't. Plus, Aaron Boone stops by. 1. It was a disastrous weekend for the NL East, esp...

Umpires. Can't live with them, can't live without them. Well, maybe we could live without them, but I'm not quite ready to move to robotic umpires and computerized strike zones just yet. Jerry Crasnick has a story on the state of umpiring in the m...

Jerry Crasnick has a story today on Jose Altuve, the exciting spark plug for the Houston Astros. Yes, I just wanted to write "spark plug." At 5-foot-5, Altuve looks like a player better suited to 1896 than 2012. But the dude can hit. Anyway, here's a...

Eric Karabell and myself hosted Wednesday's Baseball Today podcast while ESPN.com senior writer Jerry Crasnick made a guest appearance. 1. Jerry has a story up on Orioles pitching prospect Dylan Bundy -- who has allowed one hit in 17 innings so f...

ESPN.com's very own Jerry Crasnick joined us on Thursday's Baseball Today . Some of the items we discussed: 1. Here come the Angels! But should the Angels start Jered Weaver on three days' rest? Jerry and I disagreed. 2. Will Alex Rodriguez's i...