Baseball

TAMPA, FLORIDA – The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal with Yoshitomo Tsutsugo who was made available to major league teams through the posting system by the DeNA Baystars. The Rays, who will pay a 20 percent release fee of approximately $2.4 million to Tsutsugo’s […]

TAMPA, FLORIDA – The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal with Yoshitomo Tsutsugo who was made available to major league teams through the posting system by the DeNA Baystars. The Rays, who will pay a 20 percent release fee of approximately $2.4 million to Tsutsugo’s […]

BURLINGTON, IOWA – Take Bernie out to the ball game? Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of […]

CLEVELAND – Corey Kluber led by example and excellence in Cleveland. The Texas Rangers are hoping he can do the same for them. The Indians traded the two-time Cy Young Award winner — and their unquestioned ace — over the past six seasons to the Rangers on Sunday, a blockbuster […]

SALVO, NORTH CAROLINA – Babe Ruth may have died more than 70 years ago, but the baseball slugger is still turning out big numbers. The bat he used to hit his 500th home run in 1929 has sold for $1,000,800, officials for SCP Auctions announced on Sunday. The bat, a […]

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – Anthony Rendon and agent Scott Boras had just wrapped up the third baseman’s $245 million deal to join the Los Angeles Angels last Wednesday when Mike Trout began blowing up his phone. “Based on his exclamation points in his texts, he seemed really excited,” Rendon said with […]

LOS ANGELES – Yokohama BayStars slugger Yoshitomo Tsutsugo has agreed to a two-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, according to a Friday report on MLB.com. The deal, not yet announced by the American League club, will reportedly be worth around $12 million once finalized, and will also involve a […]

NEW YORK – Yoenis Cespedes’ salary for 2019 was cut in half and his pay for 2020 reduced as part of a settlement of a grievance between the injured outfielder and the New York Mets. Cespedes agreed to a $110 million, four-year contract in December 2016 but hasn’t played since […]

Ichiro Suzuki, who retired from professional baseball in March, attended a workshop Friday to become qualified to coach students. The former Seattle Mariners outfielder was one of roughly 130 people with professional baseball experience who attended the session in Tokyo. Under Japan Student Baseball Association rules, professional players and club […]

SAN DIEGO – Bruce Bochy isn’t quite done managing after all. Bochy might have just retired after a decorated 25-year career in the dugout with San Diego and San Francisco. But he is already embracing a new challenge: Trying to guide his native France to the next World Baseball Classic […]