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Jacob deGrom’s representatives have set an Opening Day deadline to complete an extension, a source confirmed to MLB.com, giving the sides six more weeks to work something out. deGrom has let the Mets know that he won’t negotiate during the season, though it’s possible he and the team could reopen talks next winter.

Here are the top players in each league who could get the opportunity to show what they can do at the highest level this year, perhaps even contending for Rookie of the Year honors

Francisco Liriano was back in the Pirate City clubhouse on Monday morning, setting up the same locker he occupied three springs ago.

Kyler Murray, via a Twitter post on Monday, said that he has decided to commit himself to becoming an NFL quarterback.

Manny Machado has been one of the game’s best players since debuting in 2012, and he is set to cash in as a first-time free agent this offseason. Here, you will find a list of the latest news and rumors surrounding the infielder.

With seven more weeks to go before Opening Day, predictions are all baseball fans have — and the hunger for detailed projections has probably never been higher. Here are the three teams that the two most prominent projection systems — FanGraphs and PECOTA — are the farthest apart on.

With pitchers and catchers reporting this week, it’s a good time to take a shot at a way-too-early prediction of what the 25-man Opening Day roster will look like for each team. Many unknown variables could change the way the rosters end up looking, but here are predictions from each of the 30 MLB.com beat writers.

At various points in the offseason, sources have said the Dodgers, Padres, Brewers, Yankees and Reds were in contact with the Indians about the possibility of trading for ace Corey Kluber. Recently, the trade conversations surrounding the two-time American League Cy Young Award winner have quieted to a whisper.

After seven seasons with the Nationals in which he won the 2012 National League Rookie of the Year Award, was named NL MVP in 2015 and made six NL All-Star teams, Bryce Harper is now a free agent for the first time. Here, you will find a list of the latest news and rumors surrounding the outfielder.

OK, so this has definitely not been the rip-roaring, head-spinning, “nine figure contracts handed out like Halloween candy” offseason we promised and prophesied several years back. The free-agent market obviously changed in a big way in a short time, and that’s impacted everything.