BOSTON -- Between social media and mainstream media, a lot of negativity swirled around the Red Sox in the hours that passed after Thursday’s 6 p.m. ET Trade Deadline. Why couldn’t chief baseball officer Craig Breslow add a frontline starting pitcher? Why didn’t the team acquire another bat? Were righty

PHILADELPHIA -- Jhoan Duran is the Durantula. He got the nickname a few years ago in Minnesota. It suited him. He has a spider tattoo. He has spiders on his spikes. He has spiders, well … “Everywhere,” he said Friday afternoon.

TORONTO – When the Royals traded for four players in three deals ahead of Thursday’s Trade Deadline, there was a small but very important part of the conversation as team officials welcomed each one to the organization and figured out the next steps. Do you have your passport with you?

WASHINGTON -- Too often, August can slip away like a moment in time -- especially in baseball season, when the push down the stretch is what teams are playing for.

TAMPA -- After nearly two months of frustration, Freddie Freeman is beginning to look much more like his normal self.

BOSTON -- The third and fourth hitters in the Astros’ first lineup post-Trade Deadline were Jesús Sánchez, who started in left field and hit third, and Carlos Correa, who started at third base and hit cleanup against the Red Sox, and both had been acquired in trades a day earlier.

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MIAMI – Aaron Judge resumed taking on-field batting practice before the Yankees’ game against the Marlins at loanDepot park on Friday night, and manager Aaron Boone said the club hopes to activate the American League’s reigning Most Valuable Player on Tuesday or Wednesday at Texas. Judge is on the 10-day

NEW YORK -- After offloading three core pieces -- setup man Tyler Rogers, closer Camilo Doval and outfielder Mike Yastrzemski -- ahead of Thursday’s Trade Deadline, the Giants seemed to signal a change in priorities. Losers of 12 of their last 14 games entering Friday, the Giants’ front office grimly

SAN DIEGO -- On the heels of the Trade Deadline and the Cardinals' decision to focus on rebuilding instead of contending, the club placed struggling star third baseman Nolan Arenado on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder strain on Friday. Arenado, a 10-time Gold Glove Award winner and

That, friends, was a wild Trade Deadline. They always turn out that way, don’t they? We all spend the last few days leading up to it wondering if this is the year where nothing much big is going to happen, and then the time arrives and we’re all, “A.J. Preller

MIAMI – Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara spent Thursday’s off-day with his family, checking his phone every two seconds while watching TV. Alcantara kept finding his name being mentioned in trade rumors, a recurring theme since last offseason. When 6 p.m. ET came and went, Alcantara was finally able to breathe

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The busiest month on the prospect calendar has concluded, with the Draft and Futures Game taking place in mid-July and the Signing Deadline and the Trade Deadline making for a newsy final week.

MIAMI – The Yankees staked Marcus Stroman to a seven-run lead early on Thursday afternoon, then grew unsettled as the right-hander faced eight Rays in the fourth inning, surrendering four runs. It was to be Stroman’s final start in pinstripes. Facing a rotation crunch with Luis Gil due back from

On Sept. 12, 1954, the largest crowd to witness a regular-season MLB game packed Cleveland Stadium and saw Cleveland sweep the Yankees in a doubleheader. The 84,587 fans in attendance that day set a mark that hasn’t been matched in more than 70 years. But on Saturday, that record might

We don’t do dull Deadlines in MLB. The move to “one true Trade Deadline” with the elimination of the August waiver trade period in 2019 and the expansion of the postseason format in the current CBA have combined to make the midseason trade market reliably fun and fruitful. Even when

CHICAGO -- In the early hours ahead of Friday’s afternoon game at Wrigley Field, utility man Willi Castro headed out to shortstop to field some ground balls at his new ballpark. Behind him, relievers Taylor Rogers and Andrew Kittredge walked out to left field together to get some work in.

CINCINNATI -- Brady Singer, Will Benson and a workhorse bullpen did all they could to send the Reds racing toward Bristol Motor Speedway in winning fashion. All of the above will be critical pieces for the Reds, as they try to cross the finish line at the end of the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Mother Nature must’ve had the players at Rickwood Field in mind when she stopped dumping buckets of rain into the steamy Alabama atmosphere on Wednesday afternoon. The grounds crew at the historic ballpark was busy in the moments leading up to the Hank Aaron Invitational Showcase, also

NEW YORK -- Maybe manager Carlos Mendoza said it best: The Mets “are a lot better” after acquiring relievers Ryan Helsley and Tyler Rogers and outfielder Cedric Mullins before Thursday's Trade Deadline. “I’m super excited, especially in the bullpen. That unit there … is pretty solid and to add someone

SAN DIEGO -- In the span of about seven hours Thursday before the Trade Deadline, the Padres swung five trades involving 22 players -- then added five of those players to their active roster before their series opener Friday against the Cardinals at Petco Park. A whirlwind? Sure. But it’s

MIAMI – Hours after learning separately that they had been acquired by the Yankees, David Bednar and Jake Bird found themselves just a couple of rows apart on the same commercial flight, rocketing across the country from Denver to join their new teammates. They landed in Miami around 6 a.m.

CHICAGO – With its ivy-covered walls and storied history, Wrigley Field has long been considered one of the crown jewels of baseball. And over the past decade-plus, the Cubs have worked to transform not only the ballclub, but also the neighborhood surrounding the Friendly Confines. The Cubs already ended a

During the 2023-24 offseason, the Mariners traded Eugenio Suárez, their third baseman of the previous two seasons, to Arizona. Less than two years later, the night before Thursday's Trade Deadline, they worked out a deal to bring him back to Seattle for the team's playoff chase. Now, let's think back