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Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami is going to be posted by the Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com. It has long been expected that this would be the case, as it was reported three years ago that the plan was for Murakami to make the MLB move after 2025, but this report confirms that Murakami will …

The Yankees bowed out of the postseason derby two rounds earlier than last year. So naturally we have some suggestions (plus a scout’s view):  1. The outfield  Scout’s view: “[Cody] Bellinger seems to love NY and performed decent. … Don’t trust [Trent] Grisham. He’s like a medium bullpen guy — one year good, next year he could be [bad]. … …

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ offseason has started earlier than they hoped. They lasted a week into October before the Toronto Blue Jays eliminated them from the postseason by winning Game 4 of the American League Division Series 5-2 and embarrassing them at Yankee Stadium with a wild on-field celebration. For Yankees fans, there will be anger. There will …

Boston Red Sox The Red Sox need to add another established starter and a power bat in the middle of their lineup. Jarren Duran could be on the move this offseason as Boston figures out its outfield logjam. (Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff) By Conor Ryan October 3, 2025 | 2:27 PM 6 minutes to read The 2025 Red Sox punched their …

LOS ANGELES — There was no brooding from LeBron James at Lakers media day. Quite the opposite, in fact. The 40-year-old who expressed so much uncertainty about his future with the franchise in late June, and wasn’t offered a contract beyond this season in the talks with team officials which preceded that revealing messaging, beamed with all the joy of …

For the latest example of a major-league manager’s volatile existence, look no further than the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Torey Lovullo. True, Lovullo is the fourth-longest tenured manager, behind only the Tampa Bay Rays’ Kevin Cash, Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dave Roberts and Atlanta Braves’ Brian Snitker. But during a 1-9 stretch that dropped the DBacks in late May, it occured to me …

Lineup: Devin Booker, Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, Ryan Dunn, Mark Williams Dunn is the biggest question mark here, as the Suns could opt for Royce O’Neale to add a little more spacing. But if Booker and Green are going to man the guard spots, it’d help to have another load-lightening defender next to Brooks. That way, Dunn and Brooks could …

College Football Overtime: Oklahoma’s offseason gamble, USF’s upset over Florida top Week 2 takeaways  247Sports The SEC brought some unexpected surprises to Week 2  ESPN College football upsets yesterday: Florida, Arizona State highlight Week 2 losses  USA Today College football winners and losers: Get-right weekend doesn’t work out for everybody  Yahoo Sports College football grades: Ohio State earns ‘A’ mark, LSU gets ‘D’ for …

Basketball fans all over the world who were holding out hope that Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark would suit up in her number 22 jersey before the end of this WNBA season were heartbroken when the superstar delivered the news that she would not be able to join her teammates for the remainder of the 2025 season. In a heartfelt …

Marcel Louis-JacquesSep 1, 2025, 12:02 PM ET Close Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018. MIAMI …