3:48 PM ET Major League Baseball will play regular-season games in Mexico City for the first time in 2020. MLB announced Tuesday that the Arizona Diamondbacks will play the San Diego Padres on April 18-19 at the new Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium. “The D-backs are committed to spreading our game internationally and specifically throughout Mexico,
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2:53 PM ET The New York Yankees have offered Gerrit Cole a contract worth more than the record-breaking seven-year, $245 million deal that Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals agreed to Monday, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney. It is unclear specifically what the Yankees offered to Cole, who also reportedly has attracted interest from the
1:21 PM ET SAN DIEGO — Longtime Boston Globe sportswriter Nick Cafardo was selected as the 2020 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award on Tuesday in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Cafardo will be honored posthumously in July during Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, New York. Cafardo, 62, died during
12:15 AM ET The Major League Baseball amateur draft is being moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in the days immediately before the College World Series, sources confirmed to ESPN. The first day of the draft will now be June 10, with the CWS set to begin three days later. The idea behind the move is to
7:00 AM ET SAN DIEGO — The Los Angeles Dodgers could do everything and nothing. They could draw from their abundant prospect capital to pull off a major trade or take advantage of a more flexible payroll to sign a star free agent or sit out the winter entirely, reconvene in the spring and field
11:10 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The San Francisco Giants would sure like to add a pitcher at this week’s winter meetings. It just might not be Madison Bumgarner. San Francisco president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi plans to meet with agents for the free agent left-hander, but there are few signs the
10:13 PM ET Left-hander Joely Rodriguez and the Texas Rangers have agreed to a two-year, $5.5 million deal, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal includes a club option for a third year. The 28-year-old Rodriguez spent the past three years with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan. He was one of the league’s top
9:35 PM ET SAN DIEGO — Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein is confident in the pending outcome of star third baseman Kris Bryant‘s service time grievance and doesn’t believe it’s impacting any trade discussions for the team. “We’re fairly confident in what the outcome is going to be, but the timing is a bit frustrating,”
9:34 PM ET SAN DIEGO — It was here, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego, during the 2014 winter meetings that Joe Maddon landed the ace he coveted for his new team. The team was the Chicago Cubs, and the ace was Jon Lester. Maddon got word late on a Tuesday night,
9:34 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Japanese two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels has resumed throwing bullpen sessions, and new pitching coach Mickey Callaway is impressed. Ohtani got back on the mound last week and pitched a bullpen in front of Callaway in Anaheim on Monday, general manager Billy Eppler