The search for a new stadium site for the Tampa Bay Rays is heating up again. Major League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred is on the campaign trail praising Stu Sternberg as an owner.

Flooding on the service level aside, Minute Maid Park remains “in good condition” in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey, Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan said.

With the city of Houston still reeling from widespread flooding and continued rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Astros’ series against the Texas Rangers this week has been moved to Florida.

The Texas Rangers will be playing in a new $1.1 billion retractable roof ballpark in 2020, but it will have a familiar name. The Rangers announced that the new stadium to be built adjacent to Globe Life Park will be called Globe Life Field.

The kitschy home-run sculpture at Marlins Park can’t be removed by Derek Jeter or anyone else who might buy the team, according to its owner: Miami-Dade County.

Jeffrey Loria has reportedly agreed to sell the Miami Marlins to a group fronted by former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. With the smoke clearing, we’re starting to get more information about the new group and its plans — including one possibility that figures to be unpopular.

Plenty of ink has been spilled over the possible location for the new Oakland A’s ballpark. But what do fans really care about?
An online survey released by the A’s asks the team’s devotees not only to rank the three sites under consideration, but help decide how it should “feel.”

An attorney for the Arizona Diamondbacks says that Major League Baseball is so alarmed at the conditions of Chase Field that the league may require the team to leave the city unless stadium repairs are done.

The dugouts have been removed. The natural-grass baseball field has been turned into an artificial-turf football field. A new grandstand has been constructed in what used to be right field.