Baseball

12/19/2025 |  How MLB teams are approaching new ball-strike challenge rules (ESPN) As the hot stove season plays out and we wait to see where the top remaining free agents sign, MLB teams are already looking ahead to how they'll use a major rule change coming to the sport in the new season.

12/17/2025 |  Behind the Plate: Tony Vitello Is Setting Example To 'Marry' MLB and College Baseball (ESPN) Tony Vitello was a fish out of water at his first ever Winter Meetings.
"I don't know what I'm doing at this thing, to be honest with you," the new San Francisco Giants manager admitted last Tuesday to a gaggle of reporters at the onset of his news conference. 

12/16/2025 |  Dodgers owe $1.06 billion in deferred money to 9 players through 2047 after Edwin Díaz deal (Associated Press (AP)) NEW YORK (AP) — Edwin Díaz won’t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047, with the closer’s deal raising deferred payment obligations for the two-time World Series champions to more than $1.06 billion due to nine players.

12/16/2025 |  Updated contract projections for top four free agent hitters (ESPN) The market for free agent hitters got a jolt last week at the winter meetings when 32-year-old designated hitter Kyle Schwarber agreed to a five-year, $150 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, and that was followed by 31-year-old first baseman Pete Alonso getting a five-year, $155 million deal from the Baltimore Orioles a day later.

12/16/2025 |  How David Stearns is remaking Mets after historic collapse (ESPN) The New York Mets arrived in Orlando, Florida, for the winter meetings last week with a chance to re-sign closer Edwin Diaz and first baseman Pete Alonso.
Díaz had already received two contract offers -- one of three years from the Los Angeles Dodgers and another of five years from the Atlanta Braves. Díaz, though miffed by the Mets not alerting him before signing free agent reliever Devin Williams a few days before, still wanted to wait for an offer from his longtime team, sources told ESPN.