ESPN Senior Writer The Reds let go Billy Hamilton go this offseason (he just signed with the Royals), so new manager David Bell doesn’t have an obvious starting center fielder at the moment. “We have options,” he said and one of those could be Nick Senzel, the team’s top prospect who has played third and
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2:22 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Naturally, Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash was the opening manager to speak at the winter meetings. Cash said Monday the Rays will stick with their revolutionary practice of using an “opener” next season. The Rays deviated from baseball tradition this year, regularly using a relief pitcher to begin
1:05 PM ET The Kansas City Royals and speedy outfielder Billy Hamilton have agreed to a one-year deal worth $5.25 million, according to ESPN’s Buster Olney and multiple reports. Hamilton, who spent the first six years of his career with the Cincinnati Reds, can also make an additional $1 million in incentives, according to Olney.
11:02 AM ET ESPN will move up the starting time of the nationally televised Sunday Night Baseball game by one hour, with the first pitch planned for shortly after 7 p.m. ET. Philadelphia hosts Atlanta in the first Sunday night game next season, on March 31, the second game of a television doubleheader that begins
10:44 AM ET The winter meetings are underway in Bryce Harper’s hometown of Las Vegas, where we’re tracking all of the latest Bryce buzz all week long. Key Harper links • Harper sweepstakes could heat up in Vegas• Choose Your Own Adventure, Bryce Harper edition• How Harper, Machado fit on all 30 teams• Why Harper
7:45 AM ET Every big league organization will be at the winter meetings in Las Vegas through the middle of Thursday, and proximity breeds transactions. The end of the meetings provides an artificial deadline. There isn’t a team in baseball that doesn’t have a list of things to do. This week, items on the to-do
11:22 PM ET In an absolutely stunning Hall of Fame announcement on Sunday night, the Today’s Game Era committee elected Lee Smith … and Harold Baines. I just hope this wasn’t the Hall of Fame’s “La La Land/Moonlight” moment. Smith is understandable. He wouldn’t have been my first choice on this 10-person ballot — no
8:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — If they were motivated enough — if they were bored enough — the Los Angeles Dodgers could make the types of moves that would rattle the entire industry. They could pluck from their vaunted minor league system, or strip from a major league surplus, to acquire any of the
9:04 PM ET The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Today’s Game Era Committee selected Chicago icons Harold Baines and Lee Smith for enshrinement in Cooperstown, New York, it was announced Sunday. Baines and Lee were joined by Albert Belle, Joe Carter, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser, Davey Johnson, Charlie Manuel, Lou Piniella and George Steinbrenner as candidates
4:00 PM ET The winter meetings are baseball’s version of the small-town carnival that pops up over a random weekend in the summer. There is much anticipation as the carnival sets up shop, the whole town eagerly attends, everyone says hello to each other as they wait in line for some deep-fried dough, it usually