Ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, fired after sign-stealing scandal, sues team  —  Jeff Luhnow sued the Houston Astros for breach of contract on Sunday, alleging that Astros owner Jim Crane and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred negotiated penalties for the sign-stealing scandal …

Dodgers organization has 9 positive coronavirus tests days after World Series win  —  Nine members of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and one family member have tested positive for the coronavirus, county health officials said.  —  The announcement comes barely more than a week after the team won the World Series.

MLB free agents who will make a difference without busting budgets  —  The numbers in the contract offers this winter are going to be shocking for a lot of free agents, reflecting how far team payrolls will be scaled back for 2021.  Club officials can't change the terms of existing long-term deals …

Francisco Lindor, Nolan Arenado, GM openings and more offseason storylines  —  If Opening Day was tomorrow and the coronavirus was surging the way it is right now, some in Major League Baseball believe playing a 162-game season would be impossible.  But Opening Day is five months away.

San Francisco Giants  —  What they could do: Roll the dice on some second-tier starting pitchers.  —  What we predict they will do: Sign Rich Hill and Jose Quintana.  —  The Giants finished 21st in the majors with a 4.99 rotation ERA, which, given their pitcher-friendly home park, means the rotation was worse than 21st.

New York Yankees move minor league teams out of Trenton, Staten Island  —  NEW YORK — The New York Yankees will move minor league affiliates out of Staten Island and Trenton, New Jersey, in 2021 as part of a reorganization that is affecting teams across the majors.

Brodie Van Wagenen ‘leaving’ the Mets as new team president Sandy Alderson announces front office moves … Brodie Van Wagenen's time with the Mets is done.  —  The Mets announced on Friday afternoon that the GM and executive vice president is “leaving the organization.”