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Fantasy baseball: Head-to-head points mock draft
The 2024 fantasy baseball season is here! Get the group together, or start a brand new tradition. Join or start a league for free >> Default rosters include 16 starters: seven pitchers of any kind along with a C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, three outfielders and a utility player (can be any position, and is […]
Continue readingMets’ Stearns: Pete Alonso deal unlikely before free agency
More Teams. More Games. Relive Pete Alonso padding the Mets’ lead vs. the Giants with a two-run home run. (0:50) PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The New York Mets realize a long-term deal with Pete Alonso is unlikely before the star first baseman is eligible for free agency after the World Series. Alonso agreed last […]
Continue readingMets bring back reliever Adam Ottavino on 1-year deal
Ottavino spent the past two seasons with the Mets, going 1-7 with a 3.21 ERA and a career-best 12 saves in 66 appearances last year. In early November, he declined a $6.75 million player option for 2024 that included $4 million that would have been paid from 2032-35, reducing the present-day value to an estimated […]
Continue readingSources: Rangers reach 1-year deal with David Robertson
The deal is pending a physical, sources said. Robertson, who turns 39 in April, had 18 saves last season between the Mets and the Marlins — he was traded to Miami for two minor leaguers before the deadline. He took over the closer’s role for the Mets at the start of the 2023 season after […]
Continue readingJacob DeGrom makes spring debut for Mets, clocks 97 on fastball
“Still plenty of time to hopefully get that down,” the New York Mets ace said Sunday with a few laughs. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner tossed one inning and gave up Tyler White‘s RBI single on a 97 mph fastball in a 10-1 loss to a split squad of Houston Astros. DeGrom allowed […]
Continue readingYankees cut Jeter Downs to make room for Diego Castillo
Downs was designated for assignment Friday, one month after the Yankees claimed the 25-year-old shortstop off waivers from the Washington Nationals. The Yankees needed the roster spot after claiming infielder/outfielder Diego Castillo off waivers from the New York Mets. Downs, the 32nd overall pick by Cincinnati in the 2017 amateur draft, is named after former […]
Continue readingBold predictions for the rest of the MLB offseason
Where will the top remaining free agents land? Will we see any more blockbuster trades? Will the Boston Red Sox do something big before Opening Day? We asked our MLB experts to go out on a limb and make a bold prediction for how this winter will wrap up. Alden Gonzalez: Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell […]
Continue readingTwins agree to terms with free agent reliever Josh Staumont
Staumont, 30, pitched five seasons for the Kansas City Royals, saving eight games with a 4.01 ERA. The hard-throwing righty has 191 strikeouts in 168 1/3 innings. He had a 5.40 ERA in 21 games for Kansas City last season before landing on the injured list on June 7 and missing the rest of the […]
Continue readingSources: Mets hiring Yankees coach Carlos Mendoza as manager
More Teams. More Games. David Schoenfield reacts to the Mets hiring Carlos Mendoza as their manager. (1:03) The New York Mets are hiring Carlos Mendoza as their new manager, sources told ESPN on Monday. Mendoza, 43, comes to Queens after spending 15 years with the Yankees in multiple roles, including managing in the low minor […]
Continue readingBilly Eppler quits as general manager of the New York Mets
Eppler, 48, was expected to stay on, despite owner Steve Cohen officially handing control of the team’s baseball operations department to Stearns this week. “I wanted David to have a clean slate and that meant me stepping down,” Eppler said in a statement. He does so after one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise […]
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