Juan Soto rejects $440 million offer; Nationals will entertain trade proposals: Sources  —  Juan Soto is available.  —  The All-Star outfielder recently turned down an offer from the Washington Nationals that would have made him the highest-paid player in baseball history …

2022 MLB Mock Draft  —  Here is a mock draft compiled using a combination of industry rumors, deductive reasoning, and pattern recognition of teams' past behavior.  I go down to pick 40 so that I get to touch on every team at least once, but there is only verbiage explaining why I've mocked a player to a team for the first round.

Reliever Miguel Castro won't throw for up to 4 weeks with shoulder strain, Yankees say  —  The wreckage keeps piling up in the Yankees' bullpen.  One day after saying Miguel Castro would need some time on the injured list to deal with a shoulder issue, manager Aaron Boone gave some more clarity on the righty's situation.

2022 MLB Mock Draft 3.0: Kiley McDaniel predicts the first two rounds  —  The 2022 MLB draft is just days away, and it's time for my third mock draft projecting the full 80-pick first day of this year's event.  —  The draft will take place July 17-19 in Los Angeles, and I'd estimate …

Orioles' 10-game winning streak ends with 5-4 loss to Rays in AL East wake-up call  —  ExpandAutoplay  —  1 of 11  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Orioles have pledged that they show up to the ballpark each night expecting to win.  Friday night brought a reminder that the other teams in the American League East feel the same way.

Desperate Red Sox head to Yankee Stadium to try and build momentum before the break  —  The Yankees are mired, if you can call it that, in the worst stretch of their season.  —  After losing two of three against a Cincinnati team whose front office is actively not trying to win …

MLB to pay $185 million in settlement with minor league players over minimum-wage and overtime violations  —  Major League Baseball will pay $185 million to settle the federal class-action lawsuit filed by minor league players who sought pay for minimum-wage and overtime violations by teams …

Sources: Diamondbacks may dangle Christian Walker as trade chip as trade deadline nears  —  SAN DIEGO — Christian Walker has never been the subject of intense trade rumors, but the Diamondbacks first baseman has seen enough teammates who have been to learn a thing or two from their experience.

How Reds ace Luis Castillo became the darling of the MLB trade deadline  —  Matt Carpenter had 32 career plate appearances against the Reds' Luis Castillo to draw upon, a catalog of sequences from competing against him in the NL Central.  But the Castillo that Carpenter faced with the Yankees …