The Angels have agreed to a one-year, $2.5 million deal with right-hander Kyle Hendricks, a source confirmed on Wednesday.

The Angels have not yet announced the deal, which will also require a corresponding 40-man roster move before it’s official.

Hendricks, who turns 35 next month, is coming off a season in which he posted a 5.92 ERA with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Carlos Santana and his wife Susannah stood outside of the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles, gazing at the casket of Fernando Valenzuela, the beloved Mexican-born pitcher for the Dodgers.

Santana and his wife watched as Valenzuela’s family made their way inside the cathedral, followed by the pallbearers ...Read more

NEW YORK — Juan Soto is the most coveted free agent in this year’s class, but don’t be surprised if he takes his time settling on a new home.

It’s not uncommon for Scott Boras clients to go through long free agency periods. Just last winter, four of the agent’s top clients — Cody Bellinger, Matt Chapman, Blake Snell and Jordan ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO — Before most of the Dodgers front office had arrived in San Antonio on Monday for Major League Baseball's annual general managers meetings, pressure already was being applied on Andrew Friedman and Co.

Less than a week removed from winning the World Series, several Dodgers voiced their desire for the team to keep its core intact ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Turns out, Shohei Ohtani was playing through more than just a partially dislocated shoulder in the World Series.

The Dodgers announced Tuesday that Ohtani also suffered a torn labrum when he injured his left shoulder sliding into second base in Game 2 . The slugger underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair the tear, the team said...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Catcher Ben Rortvedt has a sense for what it could feel like if the Rays spend the 2025 season playing in one of the state’s spring training/minor-league stadiums:

About 15-20 pounds lighter.

Rortvedt was a 20-year-old, second-year pro in early June 2018 when he was promoted within the Minnesota organization. He went from the...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Dave Parker got his hopes up and then had them smashed like one of the homers he and his boys used to bop way out of Three Rivers Stadium. Now, he keeps stuff like this at an emotional distance, careful to not get fooled again.

The longtime Pirates outfielder has seen the numbers ... wait, no. He created the damn numbers, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At the team’s World Series celebration on Friday, future Hall of Fame pitcher Clayton Kershaw declared himself a “Dodger for life.”

To be a Dodger in 2025, however, he and the team will have to work out a new contract.

Though Kershaw had a player option for at least $10 million next season, he evidently declined it Monday...Read more

SAN ANTONIO – The Braves extended the one-year, $21.05 million qualifying offer to Max Fried, they announced on Monday — the deadline to do so.

Fried has until 4 p.m. on Nov. 19 to accept or decline it. He’ll almost certainly turn it down and become a free agent.

By extending the qualifying offer, the Braves can receive a compensatory ...Read more

NEW YORK — The housecleaning has started and the Mets, as well as other teams, are clearing space off the 40-man roster and clearing money from the payroll gearing up to pursue free agent outfielder Juan Soto.

After all, he said he’s available to all 30 teams right?

Obviously, a superstar like Soto isn’t going to go to a place like ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers extended a qualifying offer to outfielder Teoscar Hernández on Monday, according to multiple reports.

The real news, however, was their decision not to extend the $21 million offer for next year to Walker Buehler, officially making the pitcher a free agent.

Had the Dodgers extended a QO to Buehler, he would have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole is staying put.

It took some time for that to become official, but the ace will stick with the Yankees for the four years and $144 million he has remaining on the nine-year, $324 million contract he signed before the 2020 season. Cole initially opted out of that deal over the weekend.

The Yankees could have nullified ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Steve Garvey is on the ballot Tuesday — and again next month.

On the Election Day ballot: Garvey, the longtime Dodgers star, against Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) for a U.S. Senate seat representing California.

Garvey is expected to lose handily. He spent one of the final days of the campaign attending the Dodgers' World ...Read more

NEW YORK — In an unsurprising move, the Yankees declined their $5 million, 2025 club option on Lou Trivino on Sunday.

The decision, which was not attached to a buyout, sends the reliever to the open market.

Trivino, 33, has not pitched in a major league game since the 2022 ALCS thanks to Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in May of 2023....Read more

Los Angeles Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said it on the Yankee Stadium field late Wednesday night, after the team had sewn up the World Series with its improbable Game 5 comeback from a 5-0 deficit: This is a “golden era of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball.”

It’s hard to argue with that. In fact, anyone who ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals announced a new contract for right-handed starter Michael Wacha on Sunday afternoon.

Wacha, 33, was set to decide on a $16 million player option this offseason. The Royals had expressed optimism in retaining Wacha for 2025, and on Sunday, both sides agreed to a new three-year contract with a club ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — So that was (expletive) fun. See you back here next year? And the year after? And the year after that …

Mookie Betts is banking on it.

“When I became a Dodger, it was for 12 years, and we got two (World Series rings) so far,” the Dodgers outfielder told fans on Friday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, where the team’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — To the Yankee legions licking their wounds from their heroes’ ignominious pratfall in the just completed “Checkbook World Series” with the Los Angeles Dodgers, when putting it in perspective their season must still be considered a success. After all, who among them wouldn’t have signed up for a season that ended up with ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Even in its potential demise, Tropicana Field has proven to be problematic.

One of the most ridiculed stadiums in the history of Major League Baseball, the Trop’s shredded roof has served as the symbol of Hurricane Milton’s destructive path through the west coast of Florida. And now a baseball team, a city, a county...Read more