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MLB Trade Rumors Former Indians reliever Bryan Shaw is returning to the team on a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training, Zack Meisel of The Athletic tweets. The Indians have also added fellow righty reliever Heath Hembreeon a minors pact, per MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Hembree will earn a $1.25MM salary and could also make incentives if he gets back to the majors. Now 33 years old, Shaw enjoyed his best seasons as an Indian from 2013-17. He was good for 60-plus innings per season then, totaling 358 2/3 in 378 appearances, and logged a 3.11 ERA/3.41 SIERA ...

The New York Mets introduced new shortstop Francisco Lindor to the media today via a zoom call. The video has …

MLB Trade Rumors The Indians and right-hander Nick Wittgren have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $2MM salary for the 2021 season, The Athletic’s Zack Meisel reports (Twitter link). The 29-year-old Wittgren was making his second of three trips through the arbitration process this winter.  MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected Wittgren to earn between $1.4MM-$2.2MM after the righty earned $1.125MM last offseason in another arb-avoiding deal. Acquired in something of a steal of a trade from the Marlins in February 2019, Wittgren built off the promise he showed in Miami to become a key...

The report said Cleveland could announce its overall plans this week. One source said Cleveland could keep the name on its uniforms for the 2021 season as it moves toward a new name for the 2022 campaign. The team already moved away from the cartoon mascot Chief Wahoo and toward a block "C" logo on its hats and jerseys. "Native American groups usually appear at Cleveland's home opener each spring, sometimes in the face of withering verbal abuse from fans as they enter the stadium," Waldstein and Schmidt wrote. "In recent years, the team has worked with the protesters and police to help ensure...