8:58 PM ET Shohei Ohtani became the fourth Japanese-born player to win Rookie of the Year, as the Los Angeles Angels‘ two-way sensation beat New York Yankees duo Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres to the American League award. Ohtani earned 25 of 30 first-place votes to run away with the award. The other five votes
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5:32 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu has accepted the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ qualifying offer, but starting catcher Yasmani Grandal has declined it. Ryu will return on a one-year, $17.9 million contract while Grandal will venture into the free-agent market, giving the Dodgers draft pick compensation. The Dodgers will likely seek a
11:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writer Former editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus Co-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” There’s an odd thing about MLB managers: They’re pretty short. They’re even shorter now than they were. They’re shrinking! Or, more accurately, some of the taller managers have been replaced
7:01 AM ET Sarah Langs The Rookie of the Year winners will be announced Monday, and the American League has a particularly unique race among the three finalists. It features two players from the same team, Yankees Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andújar, and one player who did two things this year, then got hurt, and
10:30 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Yadier Molina and J.T. Realmuto both homered Sunday to lead the MLB All-Stars to a 7-3 win over Japan for their first win of the six-game exhibition series. Realmuto hit a solo homer to right in the fourth at Tokyo Dome and Mitch Haniger scored on a throwing
10:15 PM ET Justin Verlander‘s offseason is off to a good start. The Houston Astros ace and supermodel wife Kate Upton welcomed a baby daughter, Genevieve Upton Verlander, to the world earlier this week, the couple announced Saturday. Upton announced the pregnancy on Instagram in July, with a picture of her in a red, high-waisted
8:15 AM ET Late in the regular season, a couple of Houston Astros players paused between their rounds of batting practice to speculate about some negotiations to come in the offseason, about what Bryce Harper and Manny Machado might get in free agency and where they might land. Last winter was tough for older free-agent
7:59 PM ET Boston Red Sox television analyst Jerry Remy tweeted Friday that he is currently cancer-free after being diagnosed with the disease again in August. “Friday was a very good day for me,” Remy, the former Red Sox second baseman, wrote. “Had my first scan since going through treatments. Highly successful. Cancer free for
5:09 PM ET The Houston Astros‘ quest for a second straight World Series title nearly included Bryce Harper. The Athletic reported on Saturday that the Astros and Washington Nationals had a deal in place for the All-Star right fielder at the non-waiver trade deadline only to see it vetoed by Washington ownership. When the Nats’
11:41 AM ET Travis Sawchik wrote an interesting piece for FiveThirtyEight.com recently about how the baseball industry is running away from major investments in players in their early 30s, and this is especially true for position players. Here is the list of infielders, outfielders or catchers who got multi-year deals last winter, at age 32