New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone hopes his team does this year what the Dodgers did last season — win a championship.

If that happens, however, Boone doesn't want his players to behave in the same manner as some Dodgers players have in the aftermath of beating the Yankees in the 2024 World Series.

Boone spoke with reporters Tuesday as ...Read more

PHOENIX — Last year, Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s season debut was a cause for alarm.

This year it will signal just how much trust the Japanese right-hander has earned entering his second season with the Dodgers.

Even though the team added a two-time Cy Young Award in Blake Snell, a 23-year-old phenom in Roki Sasaki, and returns last year’s ...Read more

PHOENIX — He turns 37 next month. He’s the most decorated pitcher of his generation and one of the most decorated pitchers in history. He’s won an MVP award and three Cy Young Awards. He’s a two-time World Series champion.

So why is Clayton Kershaw still doing this?

“I don’t know,” Kershaw playfully replied. “Why do you still ...Read more

BOSTON — Alex Bregman is coming to Boston.

After months of waiting and hoping, fans finally got the news they were waiting for late Wednesday night as the Red Sox reportedly agreed to a three-year, $120 million deal with the former Houston Astros star. Bregman’s deal reportedly includes opt-outs after each season as well as some deferred ...Read more

MESA, Ariz. — Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer felt the situation was right to make his case to ownership.

While former Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman’s free agency stretched through the offseason and into February, Hoyer got the green light from the Ricketts family to pursue the two-time All-Star, which meant pushing the budget ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Marcus Stroman reported to Yankees camp and took his physical when fellow pitchers and catchers were supposed to on Tuesday, but that’s about all he’s done so far this spring training.

The pitcher, the subject of offseason trade rumors and an odd man out in the Yankees’ rotation, has been absent from official on-field ...Read more

PEORIA, Ariz. — Early Wednesday, on the day pitchers and catchers conducted their first official workout of spring training, the Padres said they were focused inward in search of starting pitching depth.

Later, they woke from their winter slumber.

The team agreed Wednesday to a four-year, $55 million deal with right-hander Nick Pivetta, who ...Read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. – After months of interest and exploring their options, the Boston Red Sox have found their right-handed bat in free agent Alex Bregman, according to published reports.

The longtime Houston Astros third baseman is coming to Boston on a three-year, $120 million deal, which includes a pair of opt-outs.

The Red Sox went into ...Read more

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A week ago, David Stearns and Steve Cohen sat down with Pete Alonso and his agent, Scott Boras, at a tony social club in Tampa. It was an “impressive” venue according to the Mets president of baseball operations, and while the two parties didn’t exactly close the deal there, they came close enough.

Soon after, ...Read more

PHOENIX — Which Los Angeles newcomer will have a better season, Roki Sasaki or Luka Doncic?

"Being biased," Dave Roberts said with a hearty laugh, "I hope it's Roki."

The safer pick would be Doncic, of course, the Lakers' trade-deadline prize already a consensus top-three player in the NBA. That Roberts could even fantasize of the ...Read more

PHOENIX — In his first batting practice session of spring training on Wednesday, it took just four swings for Shohei Ohtani to look like himself.

Barely three months removed from the left shoulder surgery he underwent this offseason to repair the torn labrum he suffered in last year's World Series, Ohtani arrived at camp this week in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Despite a brief opt-out scare early this past offseason, Gerrit Cole said that he always planned on remaining the Yankees‘ ace.

Cole, who signed a record-setting nine-year, $324 million contract before the 2020 season, opted out of the final four years and $144 million left on his deal on Nov. 2. The Yankees had the ability to...Read more

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers prepared for the 2025 season Wednesday on opposite ends of the Camelback Ranch complex, just like any other spring training since 2009.

But this year the Dodgers had a tent erected outside the ballpark to accommodate the dozens of Japanese reporters on hand to chronicle the ...Read more

TEMPE, Ariz. — The annual saga of Anthony Rendon’s health began before Rendon even arrived at camp this year.

Rendon will undergo surgery on his left hip, which will make him unavailable for a significant amount of time, general manager Perry Minasian said Wednesday, the day Los Angeles Angels pitchers and catchers held their first workout ...Read more

One of the more peculiar sights in the Texas Rangers’ World Series champion celebration was watching a guy who had not played since late April standing in the alcohol-soaked clubhouse as if he had been there the entire time.

It was not Jacob deGrom’s fault he couldn’t do a thing since his elbow went “pop,” on April 28, 2023. DeGrom ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — For a quiet offseason, the Pirates sure made a lot of noise.

As pitchers and catchers reported to Pirate City on Wednesday, I couldn't help but reflect a little on the past few months: increased fan frustration (for understandable reasons) mixed with an amalgamation of events that even 10,000 simulations could never have ...Read more

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Yes, Junior Caminero has seen the video more than a few times of his most epic bat flip during the Dominican league championships.

“Like 20,000,” he said.

And he’s heard about it from more than a few of his Tampa Bay Rays bosses and teammates.

“Oh, everybody.”

As for what was running through his mind when ...Read more

PHOENIX — As the Dodgers officially opened spring training at Camelback Ranch on Tuesday, reminders of the team's 2024 World Series title were everywhere.

On the side of the hitting facility building, a banner had been added to the seven other championship markers. On a grass hill behind one of the backfields, a large painting of the club's ...Read more

PHOENIX — The Los Angeles Dodgers have fielded stacked teams during the previous 12 years, but none of them were as stacked as the team they have now.

A $1.4-billion winter last year was followed by a $465-million winter this year, the continued investments in the roster offering them a chance to do more than become the first team to defend ...Read more

Clayton Kershaw is ready for another run with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In a long-expected move, Kershaw agreed to return to the Dodgers for an 18th season, according to ESPN.

The contract is pending a physical for Kershaw, who missed the final month of the 2024 regular season and all of the Dodgers’ World Series run with a ruptured plantar ...Read more