The Baltimore Orioles hired Brandon Hyde to be their new manager Friday, hoping his experience as Cubs bench coach will help the team move forward while in rebuilding mode.
The winter meetings wrapped up Thursday with a three-team trade involving Cleveland, Seattle and Tampa Bay, plus a couple more relievers reached free-agent deals.
Longtime closer Lee Smith and smooth-swinging Harold Baines were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Washington Nationals managing principal owner Mark Lerner told 106.7 The Fan that the team won’t be offering more to free agent superstar Bryce Harper than the 10-year, $300 million deal they proposed at the end of the 2018 season.
How can Washington compete for coveted pro athletes like Patrick Corbin with other Northeast megalopolises like New York and Philadelphia? Mike Rizzo might have found a trick.
The St. Louis Cardinals have struck gold in their search for a big hitter, getting All-Star first baseman Paul Goldschmidt from the Arizona Diamondbacks in a multiplayer trade.
Boston should be happy to pay this tax bill.
The Cleveland Indians have made another offseason move, trading first baseman Yonder Alonso to the Chicago White Sox.
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First baseman Yonder Alonso was traded to the Chicago White Sox by the Cleveland Indians on Friday in a deal between AL Central rivals that could have broad implications for both teams the rest of the offseason.
Oakland Athletics third baseman Matt Chapman had surgery Friday on his left shoulder, his second operation this offseason.
Right-hander Jimmy Nelson agreed to a $3.7 million, one-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers after missing all of the 2018 while recovering from surgery on his pitching shoulder.
Shortstop Jordy Mercer and the Detroit Tigers have finalized a $5.25 million, one-year contract agreed to at the winter meetings this week.
Jeurys Familia and the Mets finalized a $30 million, three-year contract on Friday, bringing the reliever back to New York, where he figures to serve as a setup man for newly acquired closer Edwin Diaz.
Atlanta United's second-division team will have a new home in 2019.
The Chicago White Sox answered one of their offseason questions on Friday, agreeing to a $2.5 million, one-year contract with catcher James McCann.
The Seattle Mariners have pledged $3 million for a new effort to prevent low-income renters facing eviction from falling into homelessness.
Joan Steinbrenner, the wife of late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, died Friday. She was 83.
The World Series champion Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees will open Major League Baseball's first series in Britain with a night game and conclude the next day in the afternoon.
Authorities in North Carolina say a fifth-grade teacher who was also the daughter of baseball star Jim "Catfish" Hunter died after falling ill during a school fire drill.
Leading by two late in the third period, the Nashville Predators nearly let this one get away.
Outfielder Alex Dickerson, who hasn't played in a regular-season game since 2016 because of two major injuries that required surgery, has agreed to a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres.
The Toronto Blue Jays are leaving Las Vegas with Elvis.
Free agent right-hander Lance Lynn and the Texas Rangers reached agreement on a $30 million, three-year contract during the winter meetings, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement said.
