8:57 PM ET The St. Louis Cardinals are bringing back Yadier Molina for an 18th season, the team announced Monday. St. Louis agreed to a one-year deal with the catcher, a source told ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, confirming multiple reports. Molina is a rarity, having spent his entire career — 2,025 games — with the Cardinals.
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5:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has slightly deadened its baseballs amid a years-long surge in home runs, a source confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday. MLB anticipates the changes will be subtle, and a memo to teams last week cites an independent lab that found the new balls
4:10 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels and two-way player Shohei Ohtani agreed on a two-year, $8.5 million contract on Monday, a deal that provided both sides with cost certainty for two of Ohtani’s three remaining arbitration years. Ohtani and the Angels exchanged arbitration figures in the middle of January and the midway point was
2:13 PM ET While the Chicago Cubs continue an internal investigation into former executive Jared Porter’s misconduct with a female reporter, the team is planning on making changes to its hiring process. Speaking publicly for the first time since Porter was fired last month as the New York Mets‘ general manager, Cubs president of baseball
12:39 PM ET The Cincinnati Reds signed veteran left-handed reliever Sean Doolittle to a one-year contract Monday. Doolittle, 34, had a down-year last season for the Washington Nationals during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, going 0-2 with a 5.87 ERA in 11 appearances. But he saved 75 games over the previous three seasons and was instrumental
7:00 AM ET Now that Trevor Bauer is heading to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Marcell Ozuna is returning to the Atlanta Braves, and Nelson Cruz is going back to the Minnesota Twins, all of this winter’s top 10 free agents are finally off the board. But there are still some good players available the week
9:58 PM ET Pedro Gomez, an ESPN reporter since 2003 and one of the country’s foremost baseball journalists, died unexpectedly Sunday. He was 58. Gomez, who was based in Phoenix, covered baseball for SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, and other ESPN studio shows, live events and radio. During his 35-year career, he covered more than 25 World
5:51 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Now that he’s locked in to the Atlanta Braves, Marcell Ozuna couldn’t resist a good-natured poke at general manager Alex Anthopoulos. “Alex, I have a question for you,” Ozuma said to Anthopoulos as the two took part in a Zoom call Saturday. “Why didn’t you sign me
5:00 PM ET Weird trades are fun and the Elvis Andrus–Khris Davis trade is definitely fun in a weird sort of way. After all, it’s pretty amazing that the Texas Rangers were able to trade Andrus and the Oakland A’s were able to trade Davis, given they were two of the worst players in the
2:17 PM ET The Oakland Athletics have acquired shortstop Elvis Andrus and another player from the Texas Rangers for designated hitter Khris Davis and a pair of prospects, the teams announced on Saturday. The A’s will also receive $13.5 million, sources confirmed to ESPN, and minor league catcher Aramis Garcia in the deal, while catcher