Red Sox Exercise $15 Million 2019 Option on Ace Chris Sale  —  The Red Sox have exercised their $15 million option for next season on ace left-hander Chris Sale.  —  BOSTON (AP) — THE RED Sox have exercised their $15 million option for next season on ace left-hander Chris Sale.

Mickey Callaway has ‘support’ of the Mets' new GM … The Mets' new general manager is intent on keeping the old manager.  —  Mickey Callaway will meet with new GM Brodie Van Wagenen this week, at which time he will be told he's still the Mets' field boss.

Column: As Cubs consider Manny Machado and Bryce Harper, the answer is simple: Neither  —  Chicago Tribune  —  As Dodgers slugger Manny Machado admired the longest single of the World Series in Game 3, he cost himself more than a double by dogging it down the first-base line.

Moose is loose from Brewers; Soria also elects free agency  —  Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Mike Moustakas is becoming a free agent again, and so is reliever Joakim Soria.  —  In addition, the Brewers exercised a US$3,175,000 option on All-Star right-hander Jeremy Jeffress …

Biggest plays from the Red Sox's 11 postseason wins  —  The Boston Red Sox capped off an amazing season with an amazing postseason run, going 11-3 against the 100-win New York Yankees, 103-win Houston Astros and a loaded Los Angeles Dodgers team.  Only three teams in the wild-card era …

Nationals Reportedly “Finalizing” Contract With Trevor Rosenthal  —  12:58pm: Unsurprisingly, Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets, it'll be a MLB deal that's structured similarly to the contract that Greg Holland signed with the Rockies for the 2016 campaign.

Cubs decline Brandon Kintzler option  —  CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have declined a $10 million team option on right-hander Brandon Kintzler, who now must decide this week whether to exercise a $5 million player option.  —  A 34-year-old right-hander, Kintzler was 3-3 with a 4.60 ERA …

Mariners again are stuck in the middle entering baseball's offseason  —  The Mariners are too good to break apart, not good enough to go all-out for it, and the best-case scenario likely is claiming the AL's second wild-card.  That's a tenuous landscape upon which to enter the offseason.

It's time to rip up Alex Cora's contract  —  Alex Cora deserves to make more money.  —  I know, it's a bit uncomfortable to read or write those words when talking about any human being who is pulling down a nice $800,000-a-year paycheck.  But this is the world of professional athletics …