5:55 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The Marlins have declined their $16 million option on infielder Starlin Castro for 2020 and will pay him a $1 million buyout, allowing him to become a free agent. The move confirmed Friday had been expected as the Marlins rebuild. Castro, 29, batted .270 while playing all 162
5:46 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Two days after winning their first World Series title, the Washington Nationals declined a $4 million mutual option for 2020 on backup first baseman Matt Adams. Adams gets a $1 million buyout and becomes a free agent following Friday’s decision. The 31-year-old hit .226 with 20 homers and
7:00 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. On the night before he was scheduled to meet his new best friend, Jack Callahan built him a bed. Sitting on the twin mattress within his family’s suite on the second floor of the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald
4:08 PM ET Tom Brady has praised Formula One’s Lewis Hamilton as the British driver looks set to join him as a six-time world champion. Hamilton must finish eighth or higher at Sunday’s U.S Grand Prix in Austin, Texas to clinch another championship, which would move him to within one title of Michael Schumacher’s all-time
3:27 PM ET The University of Southern California is expected to name Cincinnati’s Mike Bohn its new athletic director, sources confirmed to ESPN. Bohn, the athletic director at Cincinnati for five years, will replace Lynn Swann, who resigned in September after three years as AD at his alma mater. Bohn, 58, is likely to be
4:15 PM ET NEW YORK — The New York State Athletic Commission will take disciplinary action against UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum after it determined the fighter “made contact with another person while on the scale” during the UFC 244 official weigh-in Friday. Gastelum’s middleweight bout against Darren Till on Saturday is not in jeopardy. Gastelum
3:59 PM ET Associated Press CINCINNATI — Infielder Freddy Galvis‘ $5.5 million option for next season has been exercised by the Cincinnati Reds. Galvis, who turns 30 on Nov. 14, was claimed by the Reds off waivers from Toronto on Aug. 12 and hit .234 with five homers and 16 RBI in 32 games. Overall,
3:45 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard has cleared concussion protocol and is set to return Monday night against the Dallas Cowboys. Rookie cornerback Corey Ballentine (concussion) was also cleared. Shepard has missed the past three games since suffering his second concussion in four weeks on Oct. 6
3:35 PM ET Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry underwent surgery on his broken left hand/second metacarpal Friday and will miss at least three months, the team announced. Curry had the surgery the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles. The Warriors said he is expected to make a full recovery and will update his status
3:28 PM ET Oklahoma State receiver Tylan Wallace, a Biletnikoff Award finalist in 2018, suffered a torn ACL in practice Wednesday and will miss the rest of the season, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. An MRI on Thursday confirmed the injury, and it’s unclear when Wallace will undergo surgery. The Oklahoman first reported the