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The Rangers’ managerial search has come to an end, with Dodgers third-base coach Chris Woodward set to be named the club’s next skipper, a source told MLB.com’s Jon Paul Morosi on Friday night.

Seven free agents received qualifying offers from their 2018 clubs on Friday, giving them 10 days to decide whether to accept a $17.9 million deal for 2019 or test the free-agent market.

The Dodgers are reportedly optimistic that they will reach a contract extension with ace Clayton Kershaw on Friday, according to reports by MLB Network insiders Joel Sherman and Ken Rosenthal. According to Sherman, there is a strong belief that Kershaw will not opt out of his current contract by the 4 p.m. ET/1 PT deadline and he will remain with Los Angeles.

The Cubs have decided to exercise their $20 million option for 2019 on left-hander Cole Hamels, and will trade pitcher Drew Smyly to the Rangers in a related move, according to a report Friday by Jerry Crasnick.

If you read the tea leaves, listen to executives, pick the brains of scouts and fellow media members, you can, at the very least, make an educated guess of where players will land. And that’s what I’m going to do here with these nine bold — and, yes, flawed — predictions for the 2018-19 Hot Stove season.

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.

J.T. Realmuto is an All-Star who may just be baseball’s best catcher, and now it seems that the Marlins may need to make him available via trade.

Nelson Cruz enters free agency both as one of baseball’s best sluggers and as a 38-year-old designated hitter. Can he keep this production up? Let’s look back at similar hitters to him from the recent past to find out.

The Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw agreed to extend the deadline for the pitcher’s contract opt-out until Friday at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT), presumably to allow the two sides to continue talks to rework his current contract.

Willie McCovey, one of the great left-handed power hitters of all-time, a first-ballot inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986 and a beloved member of the San Francisco Giants family, passed away peacefully Wednesday after a battle with health issues. He was 80 years old.