9:07 AM ET After Tuesday, baseball’s Hall of Fame will be a little more crowded. Probably. According to the baseball internet’s most popular January locale — Ryan Thibodaux’s Hall tracker — Mariano Rivera continues to race toward Cooperstown with a 100 percent success rate on known ballots. Less than half the ballots are accounted for,
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6:50 AM ET The results of the second stage of the annual Hall of Fame voting process will be announced Tuesday evening with the Baseball Writers’ Association selections, and we can safely say not to expect any stunning news along the lines of what happened in December with the Today’s Game Era committee. In other
7:55 PM ET The long-rumored trade of Sonny Gray to the Cincinnati Reds came through on Monday, with Gray and minor league reliever Reiver Sanmartin going to Cincinnati, infielder Shed Long going to the Seattle Mariners, and outfielder Josh Stowers and a 2019 competitive balance pick (from the Reds) going to the New York Yankees.
7:17 PM ET Hey, at least the Cincinnati Reds will be interesting for the first time in five years. I don’t know if they’ll be good, but they’ll be interesting. The Reds continued their whirlwind offseason, acquiring Sonny Gray from the New York Yankees for second-base prospect Shed Long and a compensation draft pick. As
5:36 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Yankees have traded starting pitcher Sonny Gray to the Cincinnati Reds, the teams announced Monday, finalizing a days-in-the-making deal that ends Gray’s topsy-turvy stint with New York. Both sides completed a
6:55 AM ET CHICAGO — Talk to a Chicago Cubs fan these days and you’re likely to find mixed emotions. That’s been the theme of the offseason right up to, and through, this past weekend’s annual winter fan convention. Mixed emotions. Conflicting thoughts. Excitement and angst. Those are all part of the Cubs experience right
6:42 PM ET In Mariano Rivera’s playing days, he believed, as a general rule, that you shouldn’t fraternize with opposing hitters. At All-Star Games, he was polite to his temporary teammates, especially the pitchers, but he wasn’t really into hanging out with the sluggers. Rivera — who became on Tuesday the first player ever elected
8:09 AM ET Bill Ballou has covered baseball for the Telegram and Gazette for more than three decades, and in December, he explained why he was not voting for Yankees closer Mariano Rivera — or anybody else, out of respect for Rivera. Ballou believes that the value of closers doesn’t match that of other positions,
4:07 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals won’t see each other until early May, but the heat has already been turned up on one of baseball’s best rivalries. Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant called St. Louis “boring” during a comedic moment at the team’s annual fan convention this weekend. When
9:35 PM ET CHICAGO — Cubs star Kris Bryant expressed frustration for free agents Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, who remain unsigned with less than a month to go before spring training begins. With the offseason providing few answers for baseball’s superstar free agents, we shed some light on where things stand and where they’re