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Walker Buehler has signed with the San Diego Padres after the right-hander spent the first eight seasons of his major league career with their archrivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Buehler was in the Padres' clubhouse Tuesday morning after agreeing to a minor league deal with an invitation to big league camp. "Yeah, it feels a little weird," Buehler told reporters in Arizona after pulling on a brown and gold uniform. […]

Giancarlo Stanton feels his Yankees career is lacking. "It’s definitely incomplete," he said Tuesday ahead of his ninth season in pinstripes. "The point of being a Yankee is being a champion." Now 36 and entering the final two guaranteed seasons of a $325 million, 13-year contract he signed with the Miami Marlins, Stanton has gone on the injured list in seven consecutive seasons but has been a force when healthy. […]

We have a big change in Major League Baseball as players are just getting warmed up for the 2026 season. Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), is expected to step down from his position, The Athletic reported on Tuesday morning. Clark, who was involved in the union as a player, had been with the MLBPA since 2010, one season after retiring from the […]

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen likes the vibe in a revamped clubhouse, and says he'll never have a captain in charge of that scene. "As long as I’m owning the team, there will never be a team captain," Cohen said in his first meeting with reporters at spring training Monday. "That was my decision. My view is the locker room is unique. And let the locker room sort it […]

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was the last person to leave the Toronto dugout after the Game 7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series last fall because the star slugger wanted that to be the moment when he moved on. The first full workout for the Blue Jays at spring training Monday brought some clarity to that plan. "When I left, I felt like I had faced reality, […]

Aaron Judge fretted like many Yankees fans as big-name free agents kept signing elsewhere. "It was brutal," the New York captain said Monday after the year's first full-squad workout. "Early on it was pretty tough to watch. I'm like: Man, we’re the New York Yankees. Let's go out there and get the right people." Judge spoke at length about the lack of a World Series title last year despite winning […]

Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper said onSunday "it's kind of wild to me still" that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski suggested in October the two-time NL MVP may no longer be an elite player. Harper said he wasn't motivated by Dombrowski's comments. He added he didn't understand why Dombrowski made public his review of Harper's season and postseason. "I don’t get motivated by that kind of stuff, for […]

This season, MLB players will be tapping their cap to signal that they're challenging a pitch call with the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System. However, Atlanta Braves left-hander Chris Sale won't be among the players doing so. "I will never challenge a pitch," Sale said Friday when asked about the ABS Challenge System. "I'm not an umpire; that's their job. I'm a starting pitcher. I've never called balls and strikes in […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Alex Vesia closed his eyes, turned his head to the side and paused for a moment to compose himself Friday morning as he prepared to speak publicly for the first time since the loss of his newborn daughter during last year’s World Series. "Bear with me," the Dodgers reliever said before looking down at his phone and beginning an emotional six-minute statement, during which he thanked the […]