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Boston’s Mookie Betts trade (and 2022 offseason overall) looks so much worse after Jeter Downs DFA

The Red Sox continue to pretend they're a serious baseball team

USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 15, 2022

Joe Starkey: Please stop believing MLB's future is bleak. It's actually quite rich

PITTSBURGH — You know the drill. Every time Major League Baseball has a labor squabble, or another 3 1/2-hour game, or a dip in attendance, or a low-rated World Series game, the doomsayers do their thing.

Tribune News Service · Dec 15, 2022

Where Carlos Correa’s Contract Ranks Among Shortstops All-Time

His massive deal with the Giants is reportedly for 13 years.

Sports Illustrated · Dec 14, 2022

MLB’s Top 25 Free Agents Still Available, With Signing Predictions

After a flurry of huge signings this month, here is an updated list of the best remaining players on the market.

Sports Illustrated · Dec 12, 2022

Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

Tribune News Service · Dec 11, 2022

Former MLB Pitcher T.J. House Comes Out as Gay

The former Cleveland and Toronto pitcher is the first former MLB player to come out publicly in over two decades.

Sports Illustrated · Dec 11, 2022

Willson Contreras Pushes Cardinals Closer to World Series Contention

A few hours after Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on Wednesday morning, and before A.J. Preller added Xander Bogaerts at the end of the night in his latest push to field an entire roster of shortstops, the Cardinals agreed to a five-year, $87.5 million contract with ...

Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022

Ranking the Five Best Fits for Dansby Swanson

The former Braves shortstop has plenty of suitors. Where should he sign?

Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022

Report: OF Brandon Nimmo Signs Eight-Year Deal With Mets

The veteran outfielder and former first-round pick will reportedly stay in New York after garnering interest from several teams.

Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022

Seidler, Padres playing long and short game with Bogaerts deal

Padres chairman Peter Seidler spoke with a childlike enthusiasm about his interactions with fans, especially children, during the postseason.

Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022