6:05 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Right-hander Anthony DeSclafani and the San Francisco Giants agreed to a three-year contract, the team announced Monday. The contract totals $36 million, as the club locked up the 31-year-old who thrived during
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7:48 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey and Baltimore Orioles slugger Trey Mancini were named baseball’s Comeback Player of the Year Award winners on Monday night. Posey, the National League winner, sat out the 2020 season after twin girls adopted by him and his wife were born prematurely.
6:05 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Left-handed reliever Aaron Loup has agreed to a two-year, $17 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels. The club announced the deal Monday for Loup, adding one of the most effective relievers on the free-agent market to right-handed starter Noah Syndergaard in an impressive early offseason haul
6:30 PM ET ESPN News Services Doug Jones, a five-time All-Star reliever who had his best success closing for the Cleveland Indians, has died. He was 64. Jones spent seven seasons with the Indians and ranks third on the club’s career saves list with 129. The club, which officially transitioned to Cleveland Guardians last week,
10:24 AM ET The Boston Red Sox have exercised Alex Cora’s club option through the 2023 and 2024 seasons, the team announced Monday. Cora, 46, is 284-202 in three seasons as Red Sox manager, having led the club to a winning record in all three seasons at the helm, including setting a franchise record with
1:53 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Howard and Tim Lincecum are among 13 first-time candidates on the Hall of Fame ballot of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, joining 17 holdovers. Steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens make their 10th and final appearance on the BBWAA ballot
7:00 AM ET We’re back with the fourth edition of free-agent superlatives — and this year’s free-agent class is certainly the most super we’ve seen in several years. What’s not so super is an offseason that may hit a wall thanks to the impending work stoppage at midnight on Dec. 1, when the owners will
5:10 PM ET Catcher Pedro Severino and the Milwaukee Brewers are in agreement on a one-year, $1.9 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday. The deal is pending a physical. Severino, 28, will join Omar Narvaez at catcher and has incentives in the deal that can earn him another
2:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Outfielder Seiya Suzuki will be posted Monday by his Japanese club and his rights will be available for bidding by the 30 Major League Baseball teams. MLB told its teams Sunday that the posting will start Monday morning and run through 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 22.
Nov 19, 2021 Billy Eppler has had tough jobs before. He has worked in New York, as the assistant general manager of the Yankees. While GM in Anaheim, he worked for an owner generally regarded as an extremely — to use a polite euphemism — challenging, in the Angels’ Arte Moreno. But, as one of