Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Twins Caravan makes stop at event for new affiliateRhett Bollinger, MLB.com The first leg of the 53rd annual Twins Caravan came to a close on Thursday night with a special ceremony involving the club's new Class A affiliate: the Cedar Rapids Kernels. |
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Jesse Rogers, ESPN.com Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza has agreed to a one year deal worth $10.25 million, avoiding arbitration, according to a source familiar with the situation. Garza's agents from CAA also tweeted about the deal. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Rick Ankiel and the Houston Astros have agreed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. |
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Gary Cotton, MLB.com The Indians and Drew Stubbs have avoided arbitration with a one-year, $2.825 million contract that reportedly carries $50,000 worth of possible performance-based bonuses. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Relief pitcher Drew Storen has agreed to a $2.5 million, one-year contract with the Washington Nationals, avoiding arbitration. |
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Ken Gurnick, MLB.com Matt Kemp will serve as celebrity grand marshal for the 28th annual Kingdom Day Parade in recognition of Martin Luther King Day. The parade will be held Saturday in South Los Angeles. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com After giving Rafael Soriano a $28 million, two-year contract filled with deferred payments to be their go-to guy in the ninth inning, the Washington Nationals figure they have three closers now. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Gio Gonzalez got bounced around a lot early in his career before eventually winding up with a home in Washington. |
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Richard Durrett, ESPN.com Texas Rangers pitcher Neftali Feliz has agreed to terms on a one-year contract for the 2013 season. |
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Bill Ladson, MLB.com On Thursday, Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo discussed the players his club received in exchange for Michael Morse as part of a three-team deal. |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com There was some concern on Wednesday when it was reported that San Francisco Giants star and World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval had been hospitalized in his native Venezuela with abdominal discomfort. That concern grew a little more on Thursday when we lear… |
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Wallace Matthews, ESPN.com The New York Yankees and relief pitcher Joba Chamberlain have agreed on a one-year contract worth $1,875,000 for 2013, avoiding arbitration. |
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Gary Cotton, MLB.com Right-hander Bobby Parnell, 28, appeared in a career-high 74 games with the Mets last season. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com A person familiar with the diagnosis says Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was found to have relatively minimal cartilage damage in his left hip during surgery this week. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Outfielder Carlos Gomez and the Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to a $4.3 million, one-year contract, more than doubling his salary. |
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Paul Hagen, MLB.com Tommy Joseph and Ethan Martin have gone from being virtual strangers to batterymates and roommates, and the Phillies hope they'll spend a lot of time together in Philadelphia in the future. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Outfielder Will Venable and the San Diego Padres have avoided salary arbitration by agreeing to a one-year contract worth $2,675,000, a raise of $1.2 million. |
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Hal Bodley, MLB.com Even though Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington has had a busy offseason, climbing out of last place seems like a Herculean task. |
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Carrie Muskat, MLB.com Cubs top prospect Javier Baez has been on the fast track, and on Thursday he completed one week of the team's first rookie development camp. |
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Richard Durrett, ESPN.com Alexi Ogando is on the preliminary roster for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, but he has informed the Texas Rangers that he won't participate. |
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Dick Kaegel, MLB.com The Royals Caravan -- featuring several players, including Billy Butler -- got under way on Thursday with a visit to the University of Kansas Hospital, where the players visited with children in the neonatal medical home and the pediatrics unit. |
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Adam McCalvy, MLB.com The Brewers and center fielder Carlos Gomez avoided arbitration on Thursday by agreeing to a one-year contract, one day before teams and their arbitration-eligible players were set to formally exchange figures. |
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Todd Wills, MLB.com Matt Harrison earned his hefty pay raise from the Rangers on Thursday by developing as a front-line starter at the Major League level. Harrison doesn't plan on letting up after signing a five-year, $55 million contract, solidifying another key piece of … |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Toronto's R.A. Dickey heads a starting pitching staff missing David Price, Justin Verlander, Jered Weaver, Clayton Kershaw and Matt Cain on the preliminary U.S. roster for the World Baseball Classic. |
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Mark Bowman, MLB.com There will be a sense of familiarity this season, as five of the Braves' six Minor League affiliates will have the same manager as last year. The one newcomer is Randy Ready, who was announced as Triple-A Gwinnett's manager in November. |
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The Indians lost some mainstays but have added intriguing new pieces like Trevor Bauer that should help them be better than they've been in years, writes Jay Jaffe. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com The provisional roster for the United States team in the World Baseball Classic might not contain the best of the best at every position — as some have called for — but it's still full of elite ballplayers. Enough talent to make the U.S. competitive f… |
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Carrie Muskat, MLB.com The Ricketts family, owners of the Cubs, reportedly have signed an agreement to build a hotel across from Wrigley Field on the northwest corner of Clark and Addison streets. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The Pittsburgh Pirates and right-handed pitcher Jeff Karstens have agreed to a one-year contract. |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling - whose video game company underwent a spectacular collapse into bankruptcy last year - is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series. |
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Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com In a quiet winter, the Orioles had yet to use their news conference room. And while there was no big-name free agent or trade to unveil Thursday morning, the official announcement of extending executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette… |
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Second baseman Brian Roberts has been working out at the Orioles' Spring Training facility in Sarasota, Fla., and while the organization remains cautiously optimistic that he will be able to stay healthy, it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for the ve… |
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Barry M. Bloom, MLB.com All 16 provisional rosters for the upcoming World Baseball Classic were revealed Thursday with a bevy of big-name Major Leaguers committing to the third edition of the international tournament. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com On opening day of the winter meetings back in December, the Boston Red Sox and Mike Napoli tried making a splash by agreeing to a three-year, $39 million contract for him to play first base. But first word of the deal, tweeted by Jon Heyman of CBS Sport… |
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Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com With the release of the provisional rosters last month came All-Star lists from Team USA and the Dominican Republic, to name two, but the rosters also include several prominent prospects who will experience the Classic. |
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Corey Brock, MLB.com The Padres have come to terms on a 2013 contract with outfielder Will Venable. Venable will make $2.675 million this season after making $1.475 million in '12. |
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Rhett Bollinger, MLB.com The Twins avoided arbitration with catcher Drew Butera, signing him to a one-year deal worth $700,000, the club announced Thursday. |
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Adam Berry, MLB.com Rays senior baseball advisor Don Zimmer won't be quite as visible at Tampa Bay's Spring Training this year, though he plans on making a few trips per week from his condo in Seminole, Fla. |
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Tom Singer, MLB.com The Pirates extended invitations to big league Spring Training camp to four players on Thursday, including top prospects Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Free-agent pitcher Vicente Padilla has signed with The Softbank Hawks of Japan's Pacific League. |
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The Mariners, A's, and Nationals pulled off a three-way trade, one that likely improves just one of the three teams this year, and potentially makes o... |
