10:09 AM ET Tristan H. Cockcroft After six long days, the Mookie Betts trade finally appears to be complete. While the original proposal, which included most notably prospect Brusdar Graterol going from the Minnesota Twins to the Boston Red Sox was the more compelling one for all the non-Betts parts involved than the revised one,

8:28 PM ET It looks like Mookie Betts will — finally — be flying west for spring training. The three-way trade that was to send Betts and David Price from the Red Sox to the Dodgers is now just a two-team swap between Boston and Los Angeles, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The new trade

6:46 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers are sending right-hander Kenta Maeda and cash to the Minnesota Twins for right-hander Brusdar Graterol and the 67th pick in the 2020 draft, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. A different version of the deal was originally reported as being part of a three-team trade with the

10:24 PM ET The Tampa Bay Rays traded reliever Emilio Pagan to the San Diego Padres for center fielder Manuel Margot and catcher/outfielder prospect Logan Driscoll, the teams announced Saturday. The Rays boasted one of the deepest bullpens in baseball, and now the same can be said of the Padres, who add Pagan to a

9:31 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Charlie Morton says he regrets not doing more to stop his teammates from illegally stealing signs when he played for the Astros in 2017. In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times at Rays Fan Fest on Saturday, Morton said he was “aware of the banging” Astros players

5:38 PM ET Kiley McDaniel Close ESPN MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel covers MLB prospects, the MLB Draft and more, including trades and free agency. Has worked for three MLB teams. Cuban right-hander Norge Carlos Vera and the Chicago White Sox are in agreement on a deal for a $1.5 million signing bonus that the sides

9:50 PM ET Deposed Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch is currently out of baseball, but he is finally back on the record. Since a completely unenlightening performance at the winter meetings, Hinch made his first public comments during a televised interview with veteran scribe Tom Verducci that aired Friday evening on MLB Network. In the

8:56 PM ET Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch took responsibility for his role in the team’s sign-stealing scandal during an apology-laden interview that aired on MLB TV on Friday evening. “I still feel responsible and will always feel responsible as the man out front,” Hinch said. “As the leader, I was in charge of

5:15 PM ET The Major League Baseball Players Association had a strong message Friday for the three teams involved in the held-up Mookie Betts blockbuster: Resolve it quickly. Those were the words of executive director Tony Clark, who in a statement told the teams to conclude talks or move on. “The proposed trades between the

Feb 4, 2020 Mike Trout has been baseball’s best player for nearly a decade and still has not won a postseason game. We know this, and yet the mere mention of it always seems to make our heads spin. Such a thing is actually a very rare circumstance, even within a sport that so greatly