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Here are 7 potential Lindor trade proposals

Who says no to these hypothetical deals involving star shortstop?
November 15, 2020

Set to become a free agent a year from now, Indians superstar shortstop Francisco Lindor is expected to be put on the trade block this offseason. In fact, multiple industry sources told MLB.com’s Jon Paul Morosi that Lindor is likely to be dealt before Opening Day, and the Mets, Yankees,

Bauer praises Mets, 'brilliant' Cohen

November 15, 2020

Trevor Bauer has always been one of MLB's most analytical and outspoken players, but strictly in terms of performance, he hardly could have put up a stronger platform season (11 starts, NL-best 1.73 ERA, 100-to-17 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 73 innings) before his first foray into free agency. His stellar campaign

Hall of Fame manager Lasorda hospitalized

@mattkellyMLB
November 15, 2020

Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda is resting comfortably after he was hospitalized at an intensive care unit in Orange County, Calif., the Dodgers announced on Sunday. Lasorda, 93, was last seen publicly at the Dodgers’ title-clinching victory in Game 6 of the 2020 World Series at Globe Life Field

'There she is': Women in baseball react to Ng

@anne__rogers
November 13, 2020

When longtime Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman received word that Kim Ng was about to make history as the first woman general manager in baseball, she had to confirm the news herself. She sent a text message to a friend in the Marlins organization that said, “Please, please tell me this

Behold the glory of position players pitching

@mike_petriello
November 15, 2020

The oddity of the position player pitching, the sight of a backup catcher or reserve outfielder or -- in those rare occasions where we found ourselves so lucky, a legitimate slugging superstar -- taking the mound was once reserved for the descriptive bin of "weird baseball," the kind of thing

Ng joins Marlins as MLB's first woman GM

She is also the second person of Asian descent to lead an MLB team
@JoeFrisaro
November 13, 2020

MIAMI -- The Marlins have pledged to build as diverse an organization as possible. On Friday morning, they made history by announcing Kim Ng as their new general manager. Ng is the first woman to become an MLB general manager. She is also believed to be the first woman hired

Rumors: Bauer, Mets, Odorizzi, Cubs

November 15, 2020

MLB.com is keeping track of all the latest free agent and trade rumors right here.

Wrigley's near-'ban' from WS explained

@castrovince
November 15, 2020

It was just after midnight when Anthony Rizzo caught the final out. The Cubs -- a franchise so long synonymous with day baseball -- celebrated their 108-years-in-the-making World Series glory not beneath the sun at iconic Wrigley Field but beneath the glow of Progressive Field’s distinctive “toothbrush lights.” History was

New GM Ng an unflappable, 'really sharp' star

@jonmorosi
November 13, 2020

Kim Ng is the general manager of the Miami Marlins, and the sports world has changed forever. For the first time, girls and women look at the general manager of a major U.S. men’s professional sports franchise and see someone who reminds them of themselves. The same is true for

Too soon? Predicting the '21 division winners

@castrovince
November 14, 2020

One year ago, I had a revelation: Why wait until March to make flawed predictions about the upcoming baseball season when I can get out in front of everybody else and make flawed predictions in November? That’s why I wrote way-too-early division predictions for the 2020 season. This was an

Experts split on where Ozuna will land

November 14, 2020

The Hot Stove season is underway, and much of the free-agent attention is focused on five players: J.T. Realmuto, Trevor Bauer, George Springer, DJ LeMahieu and Marcell Ozuna. Where will these players land? MLB.com reporters gathered a roundtable to discuss. In this installment, we debated Marcell Ozuna. Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter,

Semien might be trickiest FA to evaluate

Subpar 2020 followed MVP-caliber '19 performance
@mattkellyMLB
November 14, 2020

Does any free agent represent the unpredictable and difficult-to-interpret 2020 season more than shortstop Marcus Semien? Here are the twists and turns that teams have to consider when evaluating Semien on this winter’s market:

Every move of 2020-21 offseason, tracked

November 12, 2020

Every winter, there are dozens upon dozens of interesting player moves, and as we've done in the past (2018-19, 2019-20) we're going to catalog all of them here, in a giant running list. (All of the Major League signings and trades, anyway. Even we're not going to get into every

'Is he crying?' Cain HRs, taunts kids in yard

@MannyOnMLB
November 14, 2020

There's no crying in baseball. We've all heard the phrase, and Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain had occasion to recall it when he launched a ball over the fence and out of the backyard against his three sons Friday. The moment was captured on video and posted on Instagram by

Here's the state of the Cubs' farm system

@JimCallisMLB
November 15, 2020

At the beginning of 2015, the Cubs had the best farm system in baseball and perhaps the game's best collection of position prospects in decades. They ended a streak of five straight losing years and advanced to the National League Championship Series that season, then vanquished their 108-year World Series

Every first-ballot Hall of Famer in MLB history

November 15, 2020

Among the tens of thousands of players, managers, owners, executives and other personnel that have made their marks on baseball, only a select 329 are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, 232 of them players. And among that elite group, 57 players have been granted an even more

Why this is the No. 1 projected free agent

@_dadler
November 14, 2020

Last week, MLB.com data architect Tom Tango released his "WARcel" projections for the 2020-21 free agent class. One name stood out on top of the list: DJ LeMahieu. Projection systems can be complicated. Sometimes too complicated. WARcel is pretty simple: it projects every player's Wins Above Replacement for the next

Everything to know about Marlins GM Kim Ng

@SlangsOnSports
November 13, 2020

The Marlins named Kim Ng as their next general manager on Friday, marking a historic hire for Major League Baseball and the rest of the professional sports landscape. Ng is believed to be the first woman to be the general manager of a major North American men’s sports team. •

The 7 HOFers elected in final year on ballot

@mattkellyMLB
November 15, 2020

Some Hall of Fame candidates are no-doubt picks, cruising into Cooperstown on the first ballot. Other cases aren't so simple, requiring years of debate, hand-wringing, and consternation, as supporters try to change minds, and doubters dig in their heels. Sometimes progress is incremental, and sometimes it comes all at once.

Here's each team's top 2021 ROY candidate

@GoldenSombrero and @JimCallisMLB and @JonathanMayo
November 13, 2020

On Monday night, Kyle Lewis of the Mariners and the Brewers’ Devin Williams were chosen as the 2020 Jackie Robinson Rookies of the Year. Now that that’s been decided, we can start looking at who will win the hardware in each league in 2021. Some of the 30 candidates below

These women broke barriers in baseball

@AndrewSimonMLB and @_dadler
November 13, 2020

Kim Ng made history Friday when she was named the Marlins' general manager, becoming the first woman GM in MLB history. But she's far from the first woman trailblazer in Major League Baseball, or baseball period. Women have been doing amazing things to break barriers in baseball throughout the history

Cashman: Ng was 'indispensable' with Yanks

@_dadler
November 13, 2020

Kim Ng's historic achievement of becoming MLB's first woman general manager was a long time in the making. One of the most important steps came with the Yankees, who first made Ng an assistant GM in 1998. At the time, Ng was only the second woman to hold that position,

Here's a to-do list for Angels' new GM

Minasian will try to build Halos' 1st playoff team since '14
@AndrewSimonMLB
November 14, 2020

Perry Minasian beat out a sizable field of candidates to land the Angels’ general manager job on Thursday. Now, he really has his work cut out for him. The 40-year-old baseball lifer, who most recently served as an assistant GM with the Braves, takes over a team with significant talent

Four favorites to lure LeMahieu from Yanks?

November 13, 2020

Following two superstar seasons with the Yankees -- capped by a second MLB batting crown this season -- DJ LeMahieu enters free agency. After finishing fourth in the American League MVP Award voting in 2019, LeMahieu hit .364 with 10 home runs in 2020 and led the AL with a

Position by position: Top free agents available

@feinsand
November 6, 2020

Teams around the Majors will spend the next few months tuning up their rosters for 2021. Some will be major overhauls, while others will be small tweaks. As always, the free-agent market includes a little bit of everything, but which players around the diamond figure to see the most action?