Dee Gordon trade begins Marlins firesale, Mariners playoff aspirations  —  MLB awards season is here.  Take a look at all the 2017 winners.  USA TODAY Sports  —  CONNECT  —  The Seattle Mariners and Miami Marlins, separated by 2,732 miles and going in complete opposite directions …

Report: Giancarlo Stanton won't OK trade to Giants or Cardinals  —  MLB awards season is here.  Take a look at all the 2017 winners.  USA TODAY Sports  —  CONNECT  —  Reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton is not willing to accept a trade to the San Francisco Giants or St. Louis Cardinals …

Orioles pitcher Gausman changes number to honor Halladay  —  BALTIMORE (AP) Orioles pitcher Kevin Gausman will wear No. 34 next season as a tribute to Roy Halladay, who was killed in a plane crash last month.  —  Gausman announced the switch Thursday on his Twitter account.  The right-hander wore No. 39 last year.

The challenge for Ohtani's new team: What comes next  —  Baseball agents have gone to progressively greater lengths to pitch their free-agent clients in recent years.  Scott Boras has received lots of attention for his binders, and other big agencies have ramped up their presentations …

Five trades we'd love to see at the winter meetings  —  Let's make a deal!  The real general managers certainly haven't been, that's for sure.  It has been the slowest offseason in memory, as teams wait for free agents to bring down their prices and Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton to make their decisions.

Cubs Sign Tyler Chatwood  —  6:35pm: Jon Heyman of FanRag passes along further details on Chatwood's deal (Twitter links).  He'll earn $12.5MM apiece in each of the first two years and $13MM in the third.  —  By operation of an escalator provision, that $13MM salary for 2020 will climb …

Tigers reportedly sign veteran pitcher Mike Fiers to 1-year deal  —  The Detroit Tigers have reached a one-year deal with veteran right-handed starter Mike Fiers, ESPN reported late Thursday.  —  Fiers has pitched seven years in the big leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros.

Joe Girardi wasn't hard enough on Gary Sanchez, Yankees sources say  —  The perception coming out of the Aaron Boone press conference is that the Yankees want the new manager to shower players with love as a way of getting the most out of them, none more so than Gary Sanchez.

Column: Remember Brooks Kieschnick, the Cubs power hitter who also could pitch?  —  Chicago Cubs' Brooks Kieschnick and Montreal Expos catcher Darrin Fletcher watch as Kieschnick hits his second home run of the game during the third inning of a game on April 29, 1997, at Wrigley Field.

Cardinals World Series star Reyes fighting California wildfires  —  ST. LOUIS  • Back in 2007, in the bright afterglow of his role in the Cardinals' shocking 2006 World Series victory, Anthony Reyes sat in the team's spring training clubhouse and told me all about the man who shaped him, and the bucket he needed to sit on.

Cardinals' front office complete a series of promotions, name Morales int'l director  —  ST. LOUIS  • When players acquired by the Cardinals' international scouts arrive in Jupiter, Fla., to take the next step in their professional career, one of the people they get to know best is Luis Morales.

Phillies remove two from 40-man roster  —  The Phillies cleared two spots on their 40-man roster to provide some flexibility ahead of next week's Winter Meetings.  The team, according to a source, placed outfielder Cameron Perkins and infielder Engelb Vielma on waivers.