Michael King’s first big league spring training is going to have to wait. With pitchers and catchers reporting on Wednesday, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced that the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders starting pitcher experienced elbow […]
CHICAGO — As they dive headfirst into the 2019 season this week in Arizona, Cubs manager Joe Maddon and White Sox counterpart Rick Renteria are entering crossroads of sorts. Maddon, coming off a 95-win season […]
PHILADELPHIA — We learned long ago and many times over that the team that wins the offseason does not always win the actual season. The Atlanta Braves, for example, spent less money during the offseason […]
MIAMI — In October, J.T. Realmuto’s agent predicted the Miami Marlins’ All-Star catcher would be with another team by spring training. He was right. After months of speculation over what they’d do, the Marlins traded […]
As a lifeless Super Bowl officially ended the football season Sunday, baseball’s buzz-free winter limped toward the finish line. Camps open across Florida and Arizona next week, though dozens of free agents remain unsigned, including […]
Gabe Kapler has spoken. The Phillies manager has told his side of the sordid story that unfolded four years ago near the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring-training facility in Glendale, Ariz. He used his own website, […]
Regardless of what you have read or heard about the futures of Bryce Aron Max Harper and Manuel Arturo Machado, this is really all we know for certain: To date, neither player has received an […]
Kyler Murray, the first-round Major League Baseball draft pick and Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma quarterback, declared himself eligible for the NFL draft on Monday. Murray announced his decision in a tweet , ending his brief and […]
MILWAUKEE — Infielder Cory Spangenberg and the Milwaukee Brewers have finalized a one-year contract that pays $1.2 million in the major leagues and $250,000 in the minors. The deal announced Friday had been agreed to […]
PHILADELPHIA — Reliever David Robertson and the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a $23 million, two-year contact. Robertson gets $10 million this year and $11 million in 2020, and the Phillies have a $12 million […]
PHILADELPHIA — Manny Machado and his agent, Dan Lozano, have laid their cards on the table. Even if there is a mystery team — isn’t there always a mystery team? — it is clear that […]
PHILADELPHIA — For years, Phillies officials ogled Manny Machado from afar. They lusted after him in trade talks last summer. But it wasn’t until Thursday that they were able to express their admiration face to […]
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