3:47 PM ET Infielder Mike Moustakas and the Cincinnati Reds are in agreement on a four-year deal worth $64 million, league sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Moustakas, who turned 31 in September, was a free agent for the third straight offseason after earning $18.7 million in a pair of one-year deals. He hit .254 with
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4:19 PM ET Associated Press COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Hall of Famers George Brett, Rod Carew and Dennis Eckersley are among seven holdovers on the Hall of Fame’s 16-man modern era committee, which meets Sunday to consider nine players plus former union head Marvin Miller for election. Former Kansas City Royals owner David Glass, former New
2:53 PM ET The Oakland Athletics have traded infielder Jurickson Profar to the San Diego Padres for catcher Austin Allen and a player to be named later, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Profar was likely to be nontendered before the 8 p.m. ET deadline Monday, and Oakland wound up getting the 25-year-old Allen, who has
12:27 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Indians have acquired veteran catcher Sandy Leon in a trade from the Red Sox. Cleveland sent minor league right-hander Adenys Bautista to Boston on Monday for the 30-year-old Leon, who has split his eight-year major league career between Boston and Washington. Leon batted just .192 last season
8:09 AM ET Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale has been cleared to begin throwing. Chaim Bloom, the team’s chief baseball officer, told WEEI Radio in Boston that Sale saw Dr. James Andrews last week in Pensacola, Fla., and got permission to being throwing, with the goal of participating in spring training. Sale last threw
9:00 AM ET Once during every winter meetings, agent Scott Boras descends from his suite to answer media questions about his clients or some larger issue hovering over baseball. At least that’s the billing this session is given. But really, it’s a performance, with some lines seemingly prepared and practiced, perhaps even laundered through some
12:11 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — The Hanshin Tigers of Japan’s Central League are set to acquire major league free agent Justin Bour. Per the Kyodo News agency, Tigers general manager Osamu Tanimoto said this week the team has reached a basic agreement with the 31-year-old Bour, who played first base for the Los
Nov 30, 2019 ESPN News Services TOKYO — The Hanshin Tigers of Japan’s Central League are set to acquire major league free agent Justin Bour. Per the Kyodo News agency, Tigers general manager Osamu Tanimoto said this week the team has reached a basic agreement with the 31-year-old Bour, who played first base for the
7:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Seymour Siwoff, the statistics maven who turned the Elias Sports Bureau into the place to go for exact information on teams and athletes for more than a half-century, died Friday. He was 99. Siwoff owned Elias for more than 70 years before selling it to his grandson in March
4:16 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The number of major leaguers allowed to use otherwise-banned drugs to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder dropped to the lowest level since the sport started issuing annual reports in 2008. The results come in a report issued Monday by Thomas Martin, the Independent Program Administrator for the