3:45 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Red Sox have exercised the 2019 option on ace left-hander Chris Sale. The World Series champion Boston Red Sox returned to Fenway Park on Monday, carrying the trophy they won a night earlier. Sale will earn $15 million in the final season of the five-year contract he
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3:33 PM ET New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen says Mickey Callaway will remain New York’s manager and hopes ace Jacob deGrom stays with the team “for a long time.” Van Wagenen was officially introduced as the Mets GM on Tuesday, switching roles to the front office after being an agent at CAA
10:15 AM ET Sarah Langs There are plenty of deserving candidates among the finalists for the 2018 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards. Let’s take a look at the fielding merits of the finalists, and some potential historic accomplishments that are on the board. The winners will be announced on Nov. 4 (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET) on
4:03 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Edgar Martinez is stepping down as the hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners and moving into a new role as a hitting adviser for the entire organization, the club announced Tuesday. General manager Jerry Dipoto said Martinez approached the team after the end of the regular season seeking
8:30 AM ET LOS ANGELES — On one side, there were raised arms, clenched fists and warm hugs. There was jumping and cheering and screaming and laughing, the typical bedlam that follows a World Series championship. On the other side, there was Manny Machado, who had just flailed at a Chris Sale slider toward his
8:33 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks picked up the $14.5 million option on Paul Goldschmidt‘s contract for the 2019 season on Monday. The club option was attached to the five-year, $32 million deal Goldschmidt signed in 2014, a deal considered one of the most team-friendly in baseball considering Goldschmidt’s production through
8:38 AM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox have declined their $16 million option on James Shields and exercised a $2 million buyout, making the veteran right-hander a free agent. Chicago also exercised a $4.65 million team option on reliever Nate Jones and reinstated right-hander Michael Kopech from the 60-day disabled list
11:55 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright became a free agent Monday, then finalized a $2 million, one-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals that allows him to earn $8 million in performance bonuses as a starting pitcher, $3 million in bonuses for relief appearances and $4 million more in bonuses for
8:00 AM ET One of the great misnomers of the baseball lexicon is the offseason. There is no offseason anymore. The World Series leads immediately to critical roster decisions and contract options, including that of Clayton Kershaw. Then come the GM meetings, relentless trade talk, postseason awards, Hall of Fame voting, an apocalyptic free-agency season
11:29 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The World Series champion Boston Red Sox have returned to Fenway Park, carrying the championship trophy they won a night earlier. A caravan of buses arrived at Fenway on Monday night, less than 24 hours after the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to win the