The Latest Breaking News from AL Central

MINNEAPOLIS — The reaction when it was revealed on Dec. 20 that agent Scott Boras had rebounded from San Francisco's cold feet on the signing of Carlos Correa to land a similar deal with the New York Mets was two-fold:

The former Royals bench coach will be third White Sox manager in four seasons.

CLEVELAND — Sonny Gray got hurt, and the Twins got hammered. It's hard to imagine a more symbolic sendoff against the first-place Guardians.

Cleveland comes to town this week for a critical three-game series against the White Sox.

The Braves and the Mets are still neck and neck, but the gap in the AL Central widens as just 15 teams in MLB are left fighting for 12 October playoff spots.

CLEVELAND – The Minnesota Twins lost both games of a doubleheader to the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday, all but ending their chase for an AL Central championship. But if they succumbed meekly in the first game, a 5-1 defeat, they did everything they possibly could to stave off the sweep…

CLEVELAND – For all the determined talk, for all the sincere intent, the Twins' chances of winning the AL Central are fading away in a shockingly hushed manner this weekend.

CLEVELAND — The Guardians hadn't hit Jhoan Duran all year. On Friday, they discovered they don't need to.

We are three weeks away from the start of the playoffs, with the first game of all four wild-card series scheduled back-to-back-to-back. You can be sure that MLB will market the event as baseball’s version of the first day of March Madness. (Fall Frenzy, anyone?) But regardless of how well…