Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 07:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Brian Cashman apologized to Marcus Stroman over 2019 remarks the Yankees general manager made before New York negotiated a $37 million, two-year contract with the 32-year-old right-hander. Cashman discussed trading for Stroman with Toronto before the Blue Jays dealt the pitcher
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Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 08:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN FRANCISCO — Dusty Baker is back for a third stint with the San Francisco Giants. The longtime manager will return as a special adviser to baseball operations and work on both the baseball and business sides, the team announced Thursday. “I’ve enjoyed my
Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent is making a multimillion dollar donation to Yale to endow the baseball coach’s position there in the name of his father. Francis T. Vincent Jr. was baseball commissioner from 1989 to 1992 and is a 1963 graduate of Yale
Associated Press Jan 18, 2024, 02:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox are in “serious” discussions with the owner of a plot of land in the city’s South Loop about building a new ballpark a few miles north of their longtime home at Guaranteed Rate Field, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Associated Press Jan 17, 2024, 03:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden thought back to what might have been, how their starry accomplishments would have been so much greater had they not succumbed to the drugs and alcohol that shattered their careers. On the day the New York
ESPN News Services Jan 17, 2024, 04:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Toronto Blue Jays have reached a four-year, $32 million deal with Cuban right-hander Yariel Rodriguez, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. The deal is pending a physical and the resolution of immigration hurdles. Rodriguez, 26, went 10-10 with a 3.03 ERA in 79 relief
ESPN News Services Jan 17, 2024, 01:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Seattle Mariners have signed right-handed reliever Austin Voth to a one-year contract, it was announced Wednesday. Financial details for Voth, who played high school baseball in the Seattle metro area and went on to pitch for Washington, were not revealed. Voth, 31,
Associated Press Jan 16, 2024, 08:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — The Oakland Athletics were given approval from Major League Baseball and the players’ association to receive revenue sharing money this year even if a binding agreement to construct a ballpark in Las Vegas was not in place by the Monday deadline
Jan 16, 2024, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Houston Astros right-handed reliever Kendall Graveman is expected to miss the 2024 season after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder, the team announced Tuesday. After missing the playoffs due to discomfort in his right shoulder, Graveman, who had the procedure last week, again experienced discomfort while
Associated Press Jan 16, 2024, 02:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Former Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle was hired by the club as a pitching strategist on Tuesday. The Nationals said the 37-year-old Doolittle, who announced his retirement as a player in September, will “serve as a liaison between the analytics department and