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Mariners Hire Yankees' Tanner Swanson as Bench Coach
Seattle pulls one of the game's sharpest catching minds away from the Bronx, and it says plenty about where the Mariners think their next edge is hiding.
MLB Betting News Today: What I'm Eyeing Before the Lockout Clock Runs Out
No games on the board, but Cleveland's closer walking into federal court changes next year's bullpen math more than any opener could.
Four criminal counts, a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, and a bullpen that just lost its floor before anyone touched the win total market.
MLB Hot Stove Heats Up: Dodgers, Yankees, Braves Chase Winter's Biggest Names
Nearly half of baseball is reportedly circling a 19 year old Japanese flamethrower, while Atlanta eyes a three time All Star to pair with Chris Sale.
A lawyer for five retired umpires says the pension gap tops two million dollars, while 28 players, including a Blue Jays closer and a Dodgers outfielder, enter the Super 2 arbitration class.
Andy Pages, Louis Varland Among 28 Named to 2026 Super 2 Arbitration Class
Three young building blocks, three different contenders, one shared paperwork problem their front offices now have to solve a year earlier than planned.
Randy Flores steps into Houston with a loaded roster and a thin farm system, while three Super 2 arbitration cases in Toronto, Texas and L.A. quietly reshape winter math.
Flores spent a decade building scouting depts for the team that once hacked Houston's database, now he runs the Astros' front office from the other side of that story.
Braves Reportedly Shopping a Longtime Fan Favorite as Hot Stove Season Turns Loud
The same offseason wave has the Yankees striking out on a Brewers champion and the Mets getting pulled into Tarik Skubal trade leverage talk.
Seattle hands the dugout to a numbers guy, Cleveland's bullpen ace sits through a fraud trial, and Albert Pujols gets his first real managerial look.
Terry Francona just pulled a familiar face out of Cleveland's dugout, and the move says plenty about how he wants Cincinnati's staff to sound.
Albert Pujols Set to Interview for Astros Manager Job
Houston's search for its next manager now includes a franchise icon with four decades in the sport and zero days as a big league skipper.
Cam Castro's jump from Milwaukee's front office to Oakland's GM chair is the loudest line on a quiet week, and it says more about value than any Cubs rumor does.
The league's latest CBA offer pushes a salary cap to 2028, Tarik Skubal is officially unemployed for the first time in seven years, and a three-time All-Star just won a seat in Congress.
The lefthander who won the American League Cy Young now faces the open market for the first time in seven years, and the early comparison isn't to another pitcher.
The Brewers manager admitted he crossed a line talking to Jake Bauers about New York, but the actual words still haven't surfaced anywhere.
No games on the board tonight, just a labor deadline, a new manager in Seattle, and a $352 million arm about to change two rotations.
Milwaukee's World Series run didn't just end with a parade, it ended with four names on award ballots, and Misiorowski's is the one turning heads.
A labral repair and hip impingement procedure now shadow the Rangers' outfield picture, with Carter unlikely back for the opener and no firm return date yet.
Randy Flores inherits a roster at a crossroads, and the futures market on Houston won't hold still once he starts making actual calls.
Chicago walked away from $7.5 million on a back-end starter, and the move lines up with a wider winter story about where the Cubs find pitching next.
Braves Reportedly Weighing Blockbuster Trade For Phillies' Two-Time MVP, And the Hot Stove Just Caught Fire
Atlanta is said to be exploring a deal that would send Ronald Acuña Jr. out of town for a $330 million Phillies MVP, the kind of division trade front offices almost never actually make.
San Diego let three rotation arms walk into free agency in one Sunday afternoon while Boston bought back a sub-2.00 ERA for $8.25 million, and the Gold Glove ballot handed Arizona and Boston three trophies apiece.
Christian Walker and Matt Olson each picked up their fourth gloves at first base while Boston's Wilyer Abreu made it three straight in right, with the full Arizona slate still filling in.
Milwaukee's bullpen has thrown shutout relief behind back-to-back comebacks while Tampa's relievers are walking more hitters than they're retiring: that's the gap I'm tracking before anything clears.
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