Free-agent outfielder Melky Cabrera has agreed to a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians. The deal is contingent on the 33-year-old’s passing a physical. Cabrera spent last season with the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals, batting .285 with 17 homers and 85 RBIs in 156 games. Cabrera’s […]
New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey has lost his spot in the starting rotation, manager Mickey Callaway announced Saturday. Harvey, who will be available coming out of the bullpen starting Tuesday, was not happy about the decision. “It’s the decision that they made. I have to suck it up and […]
Bartolo Colon, who turns 45 next month, flirted with history Sunday night, taking a perfect game into the eighth inning against the World Series champion Houston Astros. A leadoff walk to Carlos Correa and a Josh Reddick double ended the bid by Colon, who would have become the oldest pitcher […]
After rolling along for nearly two weeks, the New York Mets met their match on the mound. Chase Anderson breezed into the seventh inning on a windy Fireworks Night at Citi Field, and the Milwaukee Brewers stopped New York’s nine-game winning streak with a 5-1 victory Saturday. Jonathan Villar sliced […]
It appears the bad blood in what was once baseball’s most intense rivalry is back. The benches cleared twice in Wednesday night’s game at Fenway Park between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, and Yankees designated hitter Tyler Austin was in the middle of everything. During the second […]
The New York Yankees placed starting pitcher CC Sabathia on the 10-day disabled list Saturday, one day after he left a game against the Baltimore Orioles early due to a hip injury. Sabathia will be joined on the 10-day DL by third baseman Brandon Drury, who also came out of […]
Los Angeles Angels rookie Shohei Ohtani hit his third homer of the season Friday night in his first at-bat against the Oakland Athletics. The two-way star from Japan crushed a 93 mph, two-seam fastball from A’s starter Daniel Gossett to left-center, a 449-foot solo shot onto the fake rocks up […]
Rusty Staub, the orange-haired outfielder who became a huge hit with baseball fans in two countries during an All-Star career that spanned 23 major league seasons, died Thursday. He was 73. He died after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida — hours before the start of […]
The Philadelphia Phillies and free-agent right-hander Jake Arrieta have agreed to a three-year, $75 million contract. Arrieta can opt out of the deal after two seasons, but the Phillies can void that opt-out clause if they first trigger a two-year extension to make the pact a five-year deal, according to […]
The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired All-Star outfielder Corey Dickerson from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for pitcher Daniel Hudson, minor league infielder Tristan Gray and cash considerations, it was announced Thursday. The Rays are obligated to pay about $1 million of Dickerson’s $5.95 million salary for 2018. Dickerson, 28, hit […]
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