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Yankees Re-Sign Rob Brantly To Minor League Deal
MLB Trade Rumors The Yankees have re-signed catcher Rob Brantly to a minor league contract, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Presumably, the Lagardere Sports client will…
Baltimore mayor tried to place funny bet on Orioles
Larry Brown Sports Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott definitely believes in his city’s MLB team … at least to a certain extent. Scott was on hand…
3 best Jorge Soler free agent destinations
Sportsnaut Jorge Soler is coming off a standout MLB postseason run with the Atlanta Braves. Rewarded with the World Series MVP for his performance at…
Blue Jays Pursued Corey Seager Prior To His Deal With Rangers
Yardbarker Corey Seager’s 10-year, $325M deal with the Rangers prior to the MLB lockout shocked baseball — both because it was the Rangers winning the bidding and…
Bayern Munich target Antonio Rüdiger getting closer to signing with Real Madrid
Bavarian Football Works Chelsea FC star Antonio Rüdiger is one of the most sought-after defenders in the world right now, with rumored suitors like Bayern…
Is Seiya Suzuki MLB’s next Japanese star?
Sportsnet From the all-star-calibre arms of Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka, to MVP winners Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani, the posting system between MLB and…
Buck Showalter should be the New York Mets’ next manager
The Athletic The New York Mets’ search for a manager began this week and while the list of candidates has some impressive names, if owner Steve…
Barcelona out of the Champions League: Explaining how it happened
Sporting News FC Barcelona has been in the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds every year since 2005. That streak was snapped in its final group-stage match…
On MLB-owned media, the players now barely exist. What’s behind that decision?
The Athletic Overnight last week, as Major League Baseball owners implemented a lockout, the league began acting as if its unionized players — those on…
Steve Cohen And Max Scherzer Both Want Buck Showalter To Be The Next Manager Of The Mets
Barstool Sports So I guess Billy Eppler can call it a day for the managerial job search unless he is looking to expense some more…
Liverpool lead Jude Bellingham transfer race and hope Erling Haaland can help complete deal
Mirror Liverpool lead the race to sign Jude Bellingham next summer and hope to exploit Premier League rivals’ obsession with Borussia Dortmund team-mate Erling Haaland. Bellingham has previously been courted by Manchester…
Red Sox, Astros Interested In Trevor Story
MLB Trade Rumors The Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros have expressed interest in free agent shortstop Trevor Story, reports MLB Network’s Jon Heyman in his latest insider…
Mets request to interview Rays bench coach Matt Quatraro
CBS Sports The New York Mets have had a busy couple of weeks: first hiring Billy Eppler to serve as the club's new general manager, then going on…
MLB lockout: 5 teams, 5 players stuck in limbo during work stoppage
Sporting News Winter is here, and the expected long layoff until MLB and the MLBPA agree to a new collective bargaining agreement will be a lot…
Braves Considered Anthony Rizzo Last Month
MLB Trade Rumors The Braves “explored” the possibility of signing free agent first baseman Anthony Rizzo in November, according to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. This could have potentially…
Veteran infielder Freddy Galvis nearing agreement to play in Japan
CBS Sports Freddy Galvis, an infielder with more than nine years of big-league service time, is reportedly nearing an agreement with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks…
Mohamed Salah sends contract message to Liverpool management and makes Barcelona transfer claim
Liverpool Echo Mohamed Salah has urged Liverpool to solve the issue surrounding his new contract while admitting he is "happy" to be linked with a…
Despite A Winning Record And MVP, Bryce Harper And Phillies Right Back Where They Started
MLB Trade Rumors The Phillies did it: they finished with a better than .500 record. The Bryce Harper era began on the heels of an 80-82 season…
For the Blue Jays, stakes are high in first work stoppage since 1994
Sportsnet The stakes from Major League Baseball’s lockout of its players are intriguing for the Toronto Blue Jays, a team striving to continue its recent ascendency…
Giants Sign Jon Duplantier To Minors Deal
CBS Sports Duplantier missed the second half of the 2021 campaign with a lat strain, and it's not yet clear whether he'll be ready to…
Rangers still have a long way to go, even after spending over $500 million in MLB free agency
Clutch Points The Texas Rangers have spent a truly absurd amount of money in free agency so far this offseason, a record in fact. With more than…
Mets have ‘preliminary interest’ in five candidates for manager
SNY TV Prior to the MLB lockout that began on Thursday morning, the Mets were intensely focused on player acquisitions. Now Billy Eppler and Co. are shifting in earnest…
2 reasons why the Yankees couldn’t give up on Gary Sanchez
Clutch Points The New York Yankees recently announced that they had tendered the contract of catcher Gary Sanchez, effectively returning the backstop to the Bronx for another…
Rob Manfred’s letter should be call for players to dig in
The Score Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred wasted no time painting the players' association as the greedier side in collective bargaining negotiations – and…
Brewers tried to trade Jackie Bradley Jr. for Blue Jays’ Randal Grichuk
SI Major league transactions are frozen but offseason news is not dead. In the final minutes before the MLB lockout, the Milwaukee Brewers and Boston…
Three roadmaps for addressing Blue Jays’ remaining off-season needs
Sportsnet Although the MLB off-season has ground to a halt under the weight of a lockout that came into effect on Tuesday, that doesn’t mean…
Yankees Offered Justin Verlander One-Year, $25MM Deal
MLB Trade Rumors
Before he signed a two-year, $50MM deal to return to the Astros, the Yankees made a decent push to sign veteran righty Justin Verlander. The Yankees offered Verlander $25MM for 2022, but they did not offer a second season, per Jon Heyman of the MLB Network (via Twitter). Verlander ultimately got $25MM a year for two years with an opt-out from the Astros.