10:26 PM ET Former Astros reliever Will Harris has reached an agreement on a three-year deal with the Washington Nationals, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Harris should jump into an eighth-inning role and could get save opportunities, too. USA Today reports the deal is worth $24 million. Harris, 35, was one of manager
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9:08 PM ET Catcher Jason Castro has agreed to a one-year, $6.85 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Thursday. The contract for the left-handed-hitting Castro is pending a physical. A nine-year veteran, Castro, 32, hit .232 with 13 homers and 30 RBIs in 79 games with the Minnesota
7:00 AM ET One hundred years ago, baseball underwent changes that writer and historian Bill James described as “the most sudden and dramatic of the 20th century.” A number of things happened around the same time. The fallout from the Black Sox scandal descended upon the sport during the latter stages of the 1920 season.
3:02 PM ET New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German has been given an 81-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy, commissioner Rob Manfred announced Thursday. German, who had already been placed on administrative leave for the final 18 games of the 2019 season, including nine postseason games, will sit out the first 63 games
10:28 PM ET ESPN News Services Don Larsen, who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, died Wednesday at the age of 90, his representative, Andrew Levy, tweeted Wednesday night. Levy said the former pitcher died of esophageal cancer in Hayden, Idaho. Larsen was a journeyman pitcher, playing for seven teams over a
7:00 AM ET John Cordes/Icon Sportswire Hopefully everyone’s holidays went well. In the MLB offseason, stuff happened while we were distracted by all the festivities. You might have caught some or all of these tidbits in the peripheral of your attention span. Or you might have been completely focused on other things, non-baseball things. That’s
12:22 PM ET The Minnesota Twins have added two veteran arms to their starting rotation, signing free agents Rich Hill and Homer Bailey to one-year deals, the team announced Tuesday. Sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan that Bailey’s deal is for $7 million, while Hill gets $3 million. Hill, who will turn 40 on March 11,
5:51 PM ET There’s a mantra in Las Vegas: “Good teams win, great teams cover.” Well, no NFL team covered the spread more often this past decade than the New England Patriots, ESPN Chalk’s best team to bet of the 2010s. The Patriots covered the spread in a remarkable 60% of their games (108-72-2 ATS)
5:29 PM ET The Miami Marlins have reached an agreement with free agent outfielder Corey Dickerson on a $17.5 million, two-year contract, sources have confirmed to ESPN. MLB Network first reported on the deal between the sides. The 30-year-old Dickerson hit .304 with 12 homers and 59 RBIs last season for the Pittsburgh Pirates and
11:55 AM ET When the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve in the midst of baseball’s past offseason, a total of 54 free agents had signed, according to the research of MLB.com’s Sarah Langs. The pace of the action is dramatically different this winter. If you include the Miami Marlins‘ agreement with