12+ hour, 20+ min ago (274+ words) The New York Mets acquired second baseman Marcus Semien from the Texas Rangers for outfielder Brandon Nimmo and cash considerations, both teams confirmed Monday. Semien has three seasons remaining on a seven-year, $175 million deal. The 35-year-old missed the final 5 1/2 weeks of the 2025 season due to a broken left foot. He fouled a pitch off the foot on Aug. 21. Nimmo has five seasons left on an eight-year, $162 million contract. The 32-year-old waived his no-trade clause to accommodate this deal. Semien, a three-time All-Star, spent the past four seasons with the Rangers and was a key cog on their 2023 World Series championship team. He had 29 homers and 100 RBIs while playing all 162 games in the regular season that year. Last season, he batted .230 with 15 homers and 62 RBIs in 127 games before the foot injury. Overall, Semien has a .253 average, 253 homers and 801 RBIs in 1,629 career…...

51+ min ago (279+ words) Shohei Ohtani, a two-time World Series champion, will attempt to add a second World Baseball Classic title to his haul when he competes for the defending champion Japanese team again next year. The 31-year-old two-way superstar made the announcement Monday on social media that he would again participate in the international tournament. Ohtani is fresh off another spectacular season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was the unanimous selection as the National League's Most Valuable Player after going 1-1 with a 2.87 ERA in 14 pitching starts while leading the league at the plate with a .622 slugging percentage, a 1.014 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and a career-high 146 runs scored. In 158 regular-season games this year, Ohtani batted .282 with 55 home runs and 102 RBIs en route to his fourth career MVP honor. Then Ohtani helped the Dodgers complete a run to their second straight World Series championship. He hit…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago (411+ words) The New York Yankees last won the World Series 16 years ago, and while owner Hal Steinbrenner maintains his club is still "championship or bust," he would not mind spending a little less money on payroll next season. Steinbrenner fielded questions from reporters during a video conference call Monday and bristled at the assumption that the Yankees, Major League Baseball's most valuable club, are turning an annual profit. "I don't want to get into it, but that's not a fair statement or an accurate statement," Steinbrenner said. "Everybody wants to talk about revenues. They need to talk about our expenses, including the $100 million expense to the city of New York that we have to pay every Feb. 1, including the COVID year. It all starts to add up in a hurry. "Nobody spends more money, I don't believe, on player development, scouting,…...