The Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday claimed utilityman Isiah Kiner-Falefa off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Kiner-Falefa, who has played shortstop, third base and outfield, spent 2024 with the Blue Jays before being traded to the Pirates on July 30.
Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz will remain on nondisciplinary paid leave "until further notice" while a gambling investigation continues, Major League Baseball announced Sunday.
MLB said in a statement Sunday that the league and players' association had agreed to extend the leaves of Clase and Ortiz, adding, "We will not comment further until the investigation has been completed."
The Chicago Cubs are signing first baseman Carlos Santana, a source told ESPN on Sunday.
Santana, 39, hit .225 with 11 home runs in 116 games for the Cleveland Guardians this season before being released by the team Friday.
Jonah Tong allowed one earned run in five innings in his major league debut and the New York Mets hit six homers and set a franchise record for runs in a home game in a 19-9 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday night.
Tong (1-0) received a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 42,112 when he took the mound for a six-pitch first inning. The 22-year-old Canadian right-hander had a 5-0 lead when he returned for the second, and the Mets made it 12-0 in the bottom of the inning.
Giants reliever Randy Rodriguez needs Tommy John surgery, the team announced Friday.
Last weekend, the Giants placed Rodriguez on the 15-day injured list with a right elbow sprain. Rodriguez, who turns 26 next week, is 3-5 with a 1.78 ERA in 50⅔ innings this season. He has four saves and 67 strikeouts with just 11 walks.
"There are days that he's been sore, and we've been really careful with him over the course of the season," Giants manager Bob Melvin said Friday. "It just came to a head now."
The Atlanta Braves have reinstated left-hander Chris Sale from the 60-day injured list, the team announced Saturday.
He is expected to start Saturday night's game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released 130 pages of documents relating to Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's career hits leader who was subsequently banned from the game and the Baseball Hall of Fame until earlier this year for betting on baseball.
The documents focus on Rose's deceased bookie, Ronald Peters, and a mid-1980s investigation into narcotics and bookmaking operations that Peters ran. Some of the information in the released Rose file appears to have been covered in the 1989 Dowd report, commissioned by Major League Baseball.
The Boston Red Sox released veteran right-hander Walker Buehler in a series of moves Friday that included calling up top pitching prospect Payton Tolle for his major league debut.
The 31-year-old Buehler, a two-time All-Star who won two World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers, signed a one-year $21.05 million deal with the Red Sox for 2025 with a mutual option for next year.
Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager had an appendectomy Thursday after experiencing abdominal pain during a game the previous night.
Chris Young, the team's president of baseball operations, said Seager had surgery in Texas after the team traveled to California for the start of a series against the Athletics on Friday night.
Young said it was too early to know how much time the two-time World Series MVP will miss.
Carlos Santana's third stint with the Cleveland Guardians has come to an end.
The Guardians announced Thursday that they have released the longtime first baseman, making the 39-year-old veteran available for teams looking to add a veteran bat to their lineup.
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