Could the Dodgers add Freddie Freeman and Nelson Cruz?  Is Matt Chapman a fit for the Phillies?  —  Exactly how much payroll flexibility are the Dodgers operating with, anyway?  —  With Trevor Bauer's status in question, club officials cannot be sure.  Including Bauer, the club's cash payroll stands …

MLB lockout: MLB, MLBPA agree on new CBA  —  More than three months after the MLB lockout began on Dec. 2, it finally came to an end on Thursday.  —  How did we get here?  Why did it take so long?  Here's a look back at the key moments in the negotiations between the owners and players on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Baseball is still king in New York, as Yankees and Mets vie for the crown  —  The last New York City baseball we got was the top of the 9th, Fenway Park, Tuesday night, Oct. 5, a Wild Card game between the Yankees and the Red Sox that had really been lost for the Yankees when their $324 million ace …

Rangers trade INF Kiner-Falefa to Twins for catcher Garver  —  Isiah Kiner-Falefa, the starting shortstop for the Texas Rangers who was supplanted by the blockbuster addition of Corey Seager, was traded Saturday to the Minnesota Twins for catcher Mitch Garver.

‘The system worked’: MLB players didn't get everything they wanted, but union touts new CBA as a win … Major League Baseball players started arriving to spring training camps Friday morning, with three-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, who had been involved in the labor negotiations …

Joe Buck expected to leave Fox Sports for huge ESPN deal  —  Joe Buck is expected to leave Fox Sports for ESPN, where he will become the voice of “Monday Night Football,” The Post has learned.  —  Buck, 52, has called the World Series for nearly a quarter century and was Fox's play-by-player on six Super Bowls.

AP Exclusive: HR Derby could decide All-Star Game winner  —  NEW YORK (AP) — If the next All-Star Game in Major League Baseball goes deep into the night, a slugger may get a chance to decide it by going deep — in a Home Run Derby.  —  That's right, say going, going, goodbye to extra innings in the Midsummer Classic.

GM Nick Krall: Cincinnati Reds have not been in talks with free agent Nick Castellanos  —  The Cincinnati Reds are not engaged in contract talks with free agent Nick Castellanos, general manager Nick Krall said Saturday, closing the door on a reunion with the team's All-Star outfielder.