Florida Marlins News

The Florida Marlins on Thursday signed infielder Dallas McPherson to a one-year contract.

Free agent outfielder Luis Gonzalez and the Florida Marlins have reached a preliminary agreement on a $2 million, one-year contract. Gonzalez must pass a physical for the deal to be finalized, a person familiar with the negotiations said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team had not yet announced the deal.

   With left-hander Dontrelle Willis traded to Detroit, the Marlins lost their most durable starter, a lefty who logged at least 200 innings in each of the past three seasons.
   Someone will have to pick up that slack, and new pitching coach Mark Wiley says he plans to challenge right-hander Sergio Mitre and left-hander Scott Olsen to [...]

His surgically repaired left wrist feels good, so Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman expects to be ready for the start of spring training. He also is ready for new contract negotiations. “We didn’t really talk all offseason. Now is about that time to start talking again about whether we want to do another one-year [...]

While carrying on negotiations with third baseman Ryan Zimmerman and two players in arbitration, the Washington Nationals agreed Friday to one-year contracts with outfielder Elijah Dukes and starters Shawn Hill, Jason Bergmann and Matt Chico. Also agreeing to one-year deals were catcher Jesus Flores, pitchers Saul Rivera, Joel Hanrahan, Tyler Clippard and Enrique Gonzalez, and [...]

There is a glut of players to pick through during MLB’s current free-agent sales spectacular.

For a team whose pitching staff stresses ground balls over strikeouts, the Cardinals could suffer with Troy Glaus at third base instead of Scott Rolen and an overhaul at shortstop.

The Yankees or Red Sox would be foolish to trade top prospects for Twins left-hander, but a deal makes sense for the Mets.

Florida Marlins closer Kevin Gregg agreed to a $2.5 million contract Friday, and two teammates also accepted one-year deals to avoid arbitration. Right-hander Sergio Mitre agreed to a $1.2 million contract, and utilityman Alfredo Amezaga accepted a $945,000 deal. As a result, the Marlins will have no players in arbitration.

The Florida Marlins avoided arbitration on Friday by agreeing to one-year contracts with righthanders Sergio Mitre and Kevin Gregg, as well as utility man Alfredo Amezaga.