9:15 AM ET If Manny Machado signs a deal for something in the $250 million range with the Padres, you would completely get it from his perspective. The market for him hasn’t been as robust as once expected, but even when you factor in California taxes and any deferrals, that is a life-changing amount of
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12:38 AM ET ESPN News Services WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Veteran shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria and the New York Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training, according to multiple reports. The deal is pending a physical planned for Monday, when Hechavarria is expected to arrive at Mets camp
7:30 AM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — Kenley Jansen wore a wide smile in the moments following this past Friday’s workout. The Rapsodo tracking devices and high-speed cameras set up throughout the bullpens of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ spring training facility had Jansen averaging 2,400 revolutions per minute during his most recent throwing session, far better
10:27 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Major League Baseball is unilaterally starting the use of pitch clocks for spring training games, while brushing off complaints from players about the slow free-agent market. With the sport looking for ways to speed the pace of play, pitchers generally will have 20 seconds to
5:16 PM ET Free-agent third baseman Mike Moustakas is headed back to the Milwaukee Brewers on a one-year deal that will net him approximately $9 million, a league source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday. The Athletic was first to report the agreement. The left-handed-hitting Moustakas batted .251 with 28 homers and 95 RBIs
3:42 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Albert Pujols joined Mike Trout for some on-field batting practice in one of the backfields of the Tempe Diablo Stadium complex at around 10:30 a.m. MT on Sunday, by which point Shohei Ohtani had already left the facility altogether. Pujols and Ohtani reside in noticeably different stages of their
2:53 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — With his once-broken wrist fully healed, New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is reporting to spring training camp this week in peak physical condition, according to manager Aaron Boone. “He’s as healthy as he’s been probably since he’s been in the big leagues,” Boone said Sunday. Yankees pitcher CC
3:04 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — New York Mets infielder Robinson Cano had a youthful perspective after reporting to spring training with the New York Mets. “I feel like I’m 25,” the 36-year-old All-Star second baseman said during a news conference Sunday, a day ahead of the team’s first full-squad workout.
2:32 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Madison Bumgarner was joking when he told manager Bruce Bochy he absolutely refuses to pitch behind an opener. It won’t happen anyway. San Francisco’s ace lefty is hardly a likely candidate to follow someone else to the mound who works the first inning. “If you use an
3:02 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Ryan Zimmerman finds it odd that so many teams now feel the need to announce they are trying to win. “I try and win every day,” the veteran Washington Nationals first baseman said Sunday. “I think that’s kind of the point of sports. That’s kind