6:18 PM ET Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Robbie Ray capped a career 2021 season with the Cy Young award on Wednesday, besting Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees and Lance Lynn of the Chicago White Sox. Armed with a four-seam fastball, slider, curveball and change-up repertoire, Ray was 13-7 with a 2.84 ERA (1.04

3:12 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners will induct Ichiro Suzuki into the team’s Hall of Fame during the 2022 season, the club announced Wednesday. Suzuki will be honored on Aug. 27 when Seattle faces the Cleveland Guardians. “Mariners fans were fortunate to have watched Ichiro Suzuki perform his magic at the

4:14 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — A new era of big-league baseball in Cleveland is about to start. The Guardians will be off and running. The hitting and fielding comes in a few months. The Indians will officially transition to Guardians on Friday, completing a name change that has been happening in stages —

8:52 AM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cleveland will have two teams called the Guardians. The Major League Baseball franchise and a local roller derby club have reached a resolution in a lawsuit filed over the use of the name Guardians, allowing both to continue using it. The sides on Tuesday jointly announced an “amicable

7:00 AM ET We’ve been heading in this direction over the past decade, but it’s now official: The Most Valuable Player Award has become, to the delight of analytics aficionados across baseball land, the best player in the league award. Traditionally, the writers based MVP honors on some sort of undefined fusion of on-field performance

7:07 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Fire up the hot dog cannon! The Phillie Phanatic is back in Philadelphia. Not that the mascot largely — large as in that green, furry, bulbous belly — ever really went anywhere. A legal dispute between the Philadelphia Phillies and the mascot’s creator forced the team to give

Nov 15, 2021 Former Boston Red Sox left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez and the Detroit Tigers are in agreement on a five-year deal worth $77 million, sources confirmed to ESPN. Rodriguez, 28, went 13-8 with a 4.74 ERA last season with the Red Sox after missing all of 2020 because of coronavirus-related myocarditis. 1 Related Rodriguez was

5:26 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Yankees hired former Mets manager Luis Rojas as their third-base coach on Monday, a month after he lost his job with the crosstown rivals. Rojas managed the Mets for the past two seasons. The team declined its 2022 option for him on Oct. 4, a day

6:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Julio Lugo, who played for seven teams in a 12-year major league career and was the shortstop for Boston’s 2007 World Series championship team, has died, the Red Sox said. He was 45. The cause of death was presumed to be a heart attack, Lugo’s family told ESPN’s Enrique

12:08 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Even Shohei Ohtani, arguably the best player in the major leagues, feels down at times, particularly when his team isn’t winning. And that has been the case during each of the four seasons he’s been with the Los Angeles Angels, all of which have ended with losing records.