6:55 PM ET Associated Press Jesús Aguilar and the Miami Marlins reached agreement Tuesday on a one-year contract that guarantees him $7.5 million. The 31-year-old first baseman will get a $7.3 million salary this season. The deal includes a mutual option for 2023 with a $200,000 buyout. Aguilar hit 22 home runs with 93 RBI
Month: April 2022
4:17 PM ET ESPN News Services The Cincinnati Reds released outfielder Shogo Akiyama on Tuesday, two days after he was told he wouldn’t make the team’s Opening Day roster. The Reds still owe him $8 million, his salary for 2022 as part of a three-year contract he signed with the team in 2020. A productive
3:15 PM ET Bobby Witt Jr., regarded as one of the top prospects in the major leagues, will break camp with the Kansas City Royals as the team’s starting third baseman. Witt, who is ranked No. 2 in ESPN’s top prospects for the 2022 season, was given the news Tuesday by Royals manager Mike Matheny
11:59 AM ET Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf announced on Tuesday he will retire from the NHL following this season. Getzlaf, 36, played his entire 17-year career with the Ducks and has captained the team for the past 11 seasons. He is currently injured but plans to play a few more games to close out
7:10 PM ET Longtime anthem singer for the Portland Timbers and Thorns, Madison Shanley wore a t-shirt that read ‘You knew’ before Sunday’s game against the Galaxy. Kayla Plummer Madison Shanley has been singing the national anthem at Portland Timbers games since 2009. She’s done the same for the Portland Thorns since the team’s inaugural season
7:01 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Suzanne Johnson’s thoughts often turn to her late parents when she sees the heartbreaking video clips and news reports out of Ukraine. Sometimes it’s too much to take. And she just desperately wants to help. It all hits close to home for Johnson, the wife of New
12:52 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving has played in some of the most pressure-packed atmospheres the game can offer, but as his team prepares for next week’s play-in tournament and tries to solidify its playoff seeding with just four regular-season games left, Irving admits he has never felt this kind
1:18 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Zion Williamson‘s stepfather, Lee Anderson, said he expects Williamson to return to play this season, but understands that it’s a decision that has to be made with the New Orleans Pelicans‘ medical staff with a look not only toward the present but the future as well. Anderson made the comments
6:50 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN CHICAGO — After another setback while ramping up the rehab of his left knee, there is increasing pessimism that Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball will return to the lineup this season, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. No final decision has been made, but a meeting in the coming days
5:28 PM ET A day after openly criticizing LeBron James for some acts that he considers to be “embarrassing” and “beneath him” considering James’ stature in both the sport of basketball and society at large, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar issued an apology to the current Lakers star. “All I have to say is