3:50 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — First basemen Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves and Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox have won Hank Aaron Awards as the outstanding offensive performers in each league as voted by MLB.com. Freeman, 31, was second in the NL in batting (.341), OBP (.462), slugging
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7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN In a normal year, baseball’s winter meetings are a gathering of team executives of all stripes, player agents and journalists where the hot stove starts gaining steam and the trade and free-agent markets start buzzing. This, of course, is not a normal year. Instead of crowding into the lobby of
12:08 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Chicago White Sox acquired right-hander Lance Lynn in a trade with the Texas Rangers early Tuesday morning, sources told ESPN, bolstering their rotation with a veteran who led the major leagues
3:23 PM ET Former Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox star Dick Allen died Monday at the age of 78. The Major League Baseball Players Association announced Allen’s death. A cause of death has not been announced. Allen was one of MLB’s most feared sluggers in the 1960s and 1970s, hitting 351 home runs and
3:16 PM ET The managing general partner of the Philadelphia Phillies said Sunday afternoon that the team will not trade starting pitcher Zack Wheeler under any circumstances. “If they offered me Babe Ruth, I wouldn’t trade him,” John Middleton said angrily in a phone conversation, adding Ted Williams and Mike Schmidt to Ruth’s name for
10:49 AM ET The Philadelphia Phillies have communicated to other teams that they are facing a financial crunch and are open to offers for their second highest-paid player, starting pitcher Zack Wheeler, according to sources. Slugger Bryce Harper is the team’s highest-paid player, but there is no indication yet that the Phillies will look to
7:49 PM ET Associated Press Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams are suing their insurance providers, citing billions of dollars in losses during the 2020 season played almost entirely without fans due to the coronavirus pandemic. The suit, filed in October in California Superior Court in Alameda County and obtained Friday by
9:58 PM ET The New York Yankees say infielder Gio Urshela is expected to be sidelined three months after having surgery Friday to remove a bone chip in his right elbow. According the Yankees, Urshela had the surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital by head team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad. Urshela, 29, dealt with the bone chip
9:55 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yankees pitchers Zack Britton and Gerrit Cole, free-agent catcher Jason Castro, Cleveland shortstop Francisco Lindor and free-agent shortstop Marcus Semien were elected Friday to the executive subcommittee of the Major League Baseball Players Association. They join St. Louis pitcher Andrew Miller, free-agent pitcher James Paxton and Washington
4:30 PM ET Former major league pitcher Chris Young will be the new executive vice president and general manager of the Texas Rangers, the team announced Friday. Young, a 6-foot-10 right-hander who went 79-67 with a 3.95 ERA for the Rangers, Padres, Mets, Mariners and Royals during his 13-year playing career, had been serving as
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Since mid-2015, when the recent Phillies hit their lowest point — bad, expensive and with a barren farm system — they have had four managers, not to mention five hitting instructors and
11:19 PM ET ESPN News Services MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins and closer Taylor Rogers agreed to terms Thursday on a $6 million, one-year contract, according to multiple reports. Rogers compiled a 4.05 ERA in 21 appearances with nine saves and two blown chances during the abbreviated 60-game season. The left-hander was the last remaining
10:47 PM ET Corey Knebel, a 29-year-old reliever who was seemingly on his way to being let go by the Milwaukee Brewers, was dealt to the Los Angeles Dodgers moments before the non-tender deadline came and went on Wednesday night. The reigning World Series champions will send a player to be named later or cash
8:07 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs non-tendered 2016 World Series hero Kyle Schwarber on Wednesday, making him a free agent after six seasons with the team, while tendering a contract to 2016 National League MVP Kris Bryant as well as shortstop Javier Baez and catcher Willson Contreras. “He wasn’t surprised,” new Cubs president
1:56 PM ET The New York Yankees plan to tender a contract to catcher Gary Sanchez on Wednesday, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney. Wednesday is the deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players for the 2021 season. Sanchez was replaced by Kyle Higashioka as the Yankees’ primary catcher in the playoffs after hitting
6:23 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa is scheduled to change his plea to misdemeanor charges stemming from his drunken driving arrest nine months ago on a freeway in Phoenix. The Hall of Fame manager, who had previously pleaded not guilty to the two drunken driving charges, is
3:43 PM ET Associated Press FULLERTON, Calif. — Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda has been moved out of intensive care, although he remains hospitalized in Southern California. Los Angeles Dodgers spokesperson Steve Brener said Tuesday that the team’s former manager, who is 93, is doing rehab at a hospital in Orange County. Lasorda has
3:14 PM ET The New York Mets have reached agreement on a two-year contract with right-handed reliever Trevor May, sources confirm to ESPN. The deal is pending a physical and could be official as soon as Wednesday, the sources said. May, 31, was 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA and two saves in 24 appearances for