Daniel Murphy Rejects Mets’ Qualifying Offer
By TYLER KEPNER
Turning down a one-year, $15.8 million deal makes the 2015 slugging star of the National League playoffs a free agent.
Kansas City first baseman Eric Hosmer, with the ball still in his glove, after catching the last out of Game 4 of the World Series.
Eric Hosmer, Salvador Perez and Alcides Escobar were in New York again — this time to honor their defensive prowess, one of the key factors in Kansas City’s World Series victory over the Mets.
Turning down a one-year, $15.8 million deal makes the 2015 slugging star of the National League playoffs a free agent.
Commissioner Rob Manfred picked the team at random from several Major League Baseball franchises eager to compete in Havana during spring training.
Liberty Media, which owns the Atlanta Braves, said it would offer a tracking stock specifically for the team.
The San Diego Padres traded Kimbrel, who had 39 saves in 43 chances after joining the team last season from Atlanta, for four of Boston’s minor league prospects.
In his first major move with his new team, Billy Eppler acquired Andrelton Simmons from the Braves in exchange for the veteran shortstop Erick Aybar and two top pitching prospects.
Dave Dombrowski is now president of baseball operations for Boston, and, as the Yankees’ Brian Cashman said, the Yankees and the Red Sox “don’t do deals.”
The organization is weighing whether the slide that wiped out Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada’s season will be outlawed.
In what may be a prelude to a bigger trade, the Yankees sent the backup catcher John Ryan Murphy to the Twins for center fielder Aaron Hicks.
Reyes, a shortstop for the Rockies, was arrested in Hawaii last month, and Rob Manfred, the baseball commissioner, said he had begun an inquiry.
Hanson, considered a promising young talent before his career was derailed by shoulder injuries, had a 49-35 career record with a 3.80 earned run average.
Complete coverage of the 2015 World Series between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals.
New York Times writers who covered the Mets’ loss to the Royals in the Series offered their final thoughts.
What drove these Royals was their unshakable commitment to replacing the pain of last season’s World Series defeat with a championship.
Loaded with talent and relentless in its play, Kansas City finished off the Mets in its trademark fashion: Put a bat on the ball, and good things will happen.
Like the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner the year before, Wade Davis has been the immovable force of this postseason.
Since Alex Rodriguez broke into the majors in 1996, he has been unable to escape the bizarre and controversial stories that seem to follow him on and off the field, the latest involving performance-enhancing drugs.
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