7:42 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen has dropped 25 pounds since the end of last season, and on Thursday, he threw his first bullpen session since a heart procedure in November. The procedure, known as an ablation, was Jansen’s second heart operation in six years. It came after he

3:39 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox say they have a strong pitch for Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. Just don’t expect them to sign both star sluggers. With the offseason providing few answers for baseball’s superstar free agents, we shed some light on where things stand and where they’re headed.

6:00 AM ET Fans can leave the money clip and dollar bills at home if they plan to attend a Tampa Bay Rays home game next season. The Rays will no longer seat fans in the upper deck of Tropicana Field, which will reduce capacity to approximately 25,000 to 26,000 — about 10,000 smaller than

11:31 PM ET The Caribbean Professional Baseball Leagues Confederation postponed the announcement of an alternate venue for the 2019 Caribbean Series, which was originally scheduled to be held in Venezuela, to Saturday. ESPN Deportes reported Thursday that the confederation and its member leagues had decided to move the regional championship to a different country in

9:07 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — On his first full day with the New York Yankees, Adam Ottavino tried to explain his insultin’ of the Sultan of Swat. While a free agent last month, the 33-year-old reliever disparaged Babe Ruth, the Yankees’ beloved Hall of Famer, who helped New York win four

4:29 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres say they are switching to a brown and gold color scheme for 2020 and beyond. Wayne Partello, the team’s chief marketing officer, says the Padres have notified Major League Baseball that they intend to make the change. Partello said Friday that the team

12:00 AM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto and director of player development Andy McKay on Thursday strongly denied allegations from the team’s former high performance director that they disparaged Latino players. Answering questions about the allegations for the first time since they surfaced in November, Dipoto and McKay reiterated

11:13 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The member leagues of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Leagues Confederation voted on Thursday to halt plans for the 2019 Caribbean Series in Venezuela and left open a period of 24 hours to find an emergency alternate venue or cancel the event this year, a source told ESPN Deportes. Political

1:26 PM ET The Chicago Cubs and free-agent reliever Brad Brach have agreed to a one-year, $3 million deal, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Thursday. Brach, who will turn 33 in April, had a 3.59 ERA and 12 saves in 69 relief appearances last season for the Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves. To

8:07 PM ET NEW YORK — When the late Roy Halladay is inducted later this summer into baseball’s Hall of Fame, he will go in as neither a member of the Toronto Blue Jays nor the Philadelphia Phillies, the two teams with which he enjoyed a legendary career. Instead, at the wishes of his family,