Athletics owner John Fisher and his family will invest $1 billion into the construction of a stadium in Las Vegas while U.S. Bank and Goldman Sachs will offer a $300 million loan, club executive Sandy Dean said Thursday.
Dean made his remarks to a special meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board.
The Baltimore Orioles acquired outfielder Daz Cameron from the Oakland Athletics on Thursday in exchange for cash considerations.
Cameron, 27, played the 2024 campaign with Oakland after three years (2020-22) with the Detroit Tigers. Cameron was in the Orioles' organization in 2023, spending the whole season with Triple-A Norfolk.
After 42 seasons, Bob Costas is retiring from baseball play-by-play.
Costas had done games the past couple seasons for MLB Network and TBS Sports. His final games were the American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals.
Costas' contract with TBS expired at the end of the season, but his plans to retire from baseball play-by-play had been in the works for over a year.
Eight members of the Baltimore Orioles elected free agency on Thursday, including Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes and slugging outfielder Anthony Santander.
The right-handed Burnes, 30, was 15-9 with a 2.92 ERA in 32 games in his first season with the Orioles after being traded by the Milwaukee Brewers, with whom he won the National League Cy Young Award in 2021.
The Mets made their first move of the offseason, agreeing Thursday to a one-year contract with 33-year-old right-hander Dylan Covey.
Covey went 0-2 with a 2.66 ERA, 19 strikeouts and nine walks over 20 1/3 innings in 18 games this year with Philadelphia's Triple-A Lehigh Valley, Double-A Reading and Class A Clearwater farm teams.
The Atlanta Braves traded outfielder Jorge Soler to the Los Angeles Angels for right-hander Griffin Canning on Thursday, kicking off the hot stove season with a deal that sends a power bat to Los Angeles and adds pitching depth to Atlanta's rotation, the teams announced.
The New York Yankees hold a 2025 club option on manager Aaron Boone's contract.
Boone said Wednesday that he hadn't had any talks with the club about his future.
According to a report, the Yankees are expected to "at least" pick up Boone's option for next season.
Boone, 51, has managed the Yankees for the last seven seasons. They've made the postseason in six of those seven years, but have reached one World Series despite high expectations.
Cuban left-hander Naykel Cruz will hold a showcase for interested clubs next week in the Dominican Republic, according to a report.
It had been speculated that Cruz would sign as a professional rather than an amateur and had interest from six Major League teams.
Cruz has tossed 241 1/3 innings in Cuba, allowing 4.18 earned runs per nine. He struck out 205 of the 1,074 batters he faced, a rate of 19.1%.
Per MLB rules, players coming from foreign leagues are considered "amateurs" until they are both 25 years old and have played six professional seasons.
Cruz turned 25 in September and started playing in the Cuban National Series in 2019.
Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Daniel Hudson announced his retirement just moments after the club won the World Series on Wednesday night.
Hudson is a veteran of 15 Major League seasons.
"This was the only reason I came back -- to go out on top," he said. "And that's what's happening."
Hudson, 37, didn't appear in the deciding Game 5 despite warming up. He was on the mound when the Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series.
Juan Soto will hit free agency in a few days after the New York Yankees fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series on Wednesday night.
"It's going to be exciting," said Soto, who turned 26 last week. "It's going to be a good experience. I think every player in the big league wants to experience this. So it's exciting to see how it's going to be."
He posted a .288 batting average, 41 home runs and 129 walks and a .989 OPS in his first season with the Yankees after coming over in a trade with the San Diego Padres.
"I'm really happy with the city, with the team, but at the end of the day we will see," Soto said of returning to the Yankees. "We're going to look at every situation, every offer that we get. I don't know what teams want to come after me, but definitely I'll be open to listen to every single team. I don't have any doors closed or anything like that, so we're going to be available for all 30 teams."
Soto is expected to receive a deal worth roughly $600 million in total.
"I think everybody in this room wants him back. ... He just does a lot of the little things that people don't notice that truly make him one of the best players, if not the best player in the game," Aaron Judge said.
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