December is almost upon us. We can’t assign every player to the Los Angeles Dodgers, even if seemingly every free agent might want to play there and every free agent might fit there. Perhaps Hart, a former Red Sox farmhand who posted a 2.69 ERA in 157 innings for the league’s NC Dinos last year, could do the same. Earlier …
SAN FRANCISCO — Some major-league players will use a hand truck after boxing up their lockers at the end of the season. “Sure, we would have liked him to,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin, who also managed Snell in San Diego last year. He opted against taking the mound after “talking about it with people very close to me and …
Former Dodger Cody Bellinger had a remarkable comeback season with the Chicago Cubs last year and would be a good fit for the Angels, but he remains a free agent. Those voids could be nicely filled with two pricey free agents the Angels have been linked to, veteran left-hander Blake Snell, who won the National League Cy Young Award with …
The Athletic has live coverage of MLB free agency and the Winter Meetings in Nashville. Note: Only major-league signings and trades and top hires are listed under “What they’ve done so far.” GO DEEPER MLB trade and free-agent targets: Bowden on solutions for each AL team's key needs Arizona Diamondbacks Needs: Starting pitching What they’ve done so far: Traded RHP …