Major League Baseball's offseason cleared another important threshold at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, when the deadline for teams to tender 2026 contracts to their arbitration-eligible and pre-arbitration players passed.

Two years after they played big roles in a World Series title, the Texas Rangers have cut ties with outfielder Adolis García and catcher Jonah Heim.

Infielder Sung-Mun Song, one of Korea’s best hitters over the past two seasons, will have a chance to pursue an MLB opportunity this offseason. The Kiwoom Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization are set to make Song available via the posting system on Saturday at 8 a.

The shakeups in the agreement mostly see NBC and its parent company, NBCUniversal, commanding a larger share of baseball coverage, picking up several key games and events previously aired by ESPN, including “Sunday Night Baseball.” And, for the first time in 26 years, NBC will once again air baseball games on its broadcast network.

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Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced three new media rights deals that will reshape how the sport is consumed. Over the next three seasons, MLB will spread its games across new partners and an array of streaming services, including Netflix, NBC/Peacock and ESPN.

Whitmore has won two silver medals representing the United States at the Women’s Baseball World Cup and won gold at the 2015 Pan-Am Games in Toronto.

The Yankees have been in contact with free-agent outfielders Kyle Tucker and Cody Bellinger, among others, general manager Brian Cashman confirmed. "We'd love to have Bellinger come back," Cashman told the media Thursday.