9:38 AM ET The Boston Red Sox have rehired former manager Alex Cora, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Cora led the Red Sox to the 2018 World Series title, but mutually agreed to part with the club amid the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. He was suspended for one season by Major League Baseball
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2:59 PM ET Free-agent pitcher Robbie Ray and the Toronto Blue Jays have reached agreement on a one-year contract worth $8 million, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Ray was in the midst of his sixth season with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2020 when they traded him to Toronto. Ray was 1-4 with a 7.84
3:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Yankees will move minor league affiliates out of Staten Island and Trenton, New Jersey, in 2021 as part of a reorganization that is affecting teams across the majors. The Yankees’ Double-A Trenton team will shift to Somerset County, New Jersey. The Class A club
3:21 PM ET ESPN News Services General manager Brodie Van Wagenen and much of his front office are leaving the New York Mets, the team announced Friday. The moves were announced less than an hour after hedge fund manager Steve Cohen completed his $2.4 billion purchase of the team. Special assistant to the general manager
3:26 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner will not be disciplined for returning to the field to celebrate his team’s championship after testing positive for COVID-19. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred issued a lengthy statement on Friday — alongside one from Turner and another from Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten
12:15 PM ET Nine months after the Boston Red Sox and manager Alex Cora parted ways following revelations about his involvement in the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, the two sides are back together. A last-place finish in a season shortened by COVID-19 meant Ron Roenicke’s run as skipper wouldn’t continue into 2021. On Friday, Boston
7:00 AM ET This is not the offseason to make predictions. As Buster Olney and Jeff Passan have already outlined, due to the financial conditions in the sport due to the shortened season with no fans in the stands — and the uncertainty of what will happen in 2021 — there will be big rollbacks
7:37 PM ET Four Atlanta Braves players highlighted this year’s Silver Slugger Awards, which were unveiled Thursday by Major League Baseball in honor of the best offensive players at every position in each league. Winning from the Braves were Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman and Marcell Ozuna, who each won the award for the second
5:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Catcher Bruce Maxwell, the only major league player to kneel during the national anthem in 2017 to protest racial injustice, has agreed to a minor league contract with the New York Mets for next year and will report to major league spring training. Maxwell was in the
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” Before the year began, when we wondered whether the World Series champion would get an asterisk for the season being so short/anomalous/weird, I offered this prediction: The winner would be seen as
2:44 PM ET Free-agent right-hander Trevor Bauer has rejected the Cincinnati Reds‘ $18.9 million qualifying offer for the 2021 season, agent Rachel Luba announced on Twitter. Luba, however, said Bauer remains open to discussing a return to Cincinnati and “all other interested teams thru Free Agency.” “Why wait for the QO to expire to state
10:40 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Technically, free agency in Major League Baseball began Sunday evening. There was no deluge of activity like the NBA or NFL offer, no dopamine hit of excitement and activity and possibility to
12:17 PM ET CHICAGO — If free agent hurler Jon Lester has pitched his last game for the Chicago Cubs, he’s going out on a high note with the fans. Lester, 36, bought beers for patrons over Halloween weekend at four Chicago bars, tweeting out his tab which included a 34 percent tip, the same
8:56 PM ET After watching Mookie Betts make spectacular play after spectacular play in the postseason — including two home run robberies and a key catch of a sinking liner in Game 5 of the NLCS — it should come as no surprise that Betts is the National League Gold Glove winner for right field.
9:15 AM ET The Los Angeles Angels and Major League Baseball moved Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by former Angels visiting clubhouse attendant Brian “Bubba” Harkins. Harkins was fired March 5 after an internal investigation confirmed suspicions that he was providing sticky ball-doctoring substances to opposing pitchers. According to the Los Angeles Times, Harkins filed
7:16 PM ET Associated Press Cleveland Indians ace Shane Bieber moved one step closer to winning the AL Cy Young Award when he was announced Monday as one of the top three finishers in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Bieber joined Minnesota Twins right-hander Kenta Maeda and Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Hyun-Jin
4:58 PM ET Associated Press RUNNEMEDE, N.J. — A Honus Wagner rookie baseball card has sold for more than $1.4 million. The price was a record for the rare T-206 card of the Pittsburgh Pirates great, the highlight of the Goldin Auctions October Legends Auction. Also fetching a record price was the basketball rookie card
6:27 PM ET Six major league baseball players were given qualifying offers before free agency began Sunday afternoon, including pitchers Trevor Bauer (Cincinnati Reds), Marcus Stroman (New York Mets) and Kevin Gausman (San Francisco Giants). Position players DJ LeMahieu (New York Yankees), George Springer (Houston Astros) and J.T. Realmuto (Philadelphia Phillies) also received offers that