Thrown beer at Red Sox parade damages World Series trophy  —  This is most definitely the wrong kind of dinger.  —  Security was heavy for Wednesday's duck boat parade carrying the victorious Red Sox through downtown Boston to celebrate the team's fourth World Series title in 15 years — but there was still one problem.

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 …

Brewers Exercise Club Option Over Jeremy Jeffress, Buy Out Jordan Lyles  —  The Brewers made the easy call today to pick up their club option over righty Jeremy Jeffress, MLB.com's Adam McCalvy tweets.  He stands to earn $3.175MM for the 2019 season.  —  Meanwhile, the team declined …

Two Rookie of the Year awards for Acuna, one to go  —  Ronald Acuna Jr. has now won two Rookie of the Year awards.  —  The Braves young sensation was honored by Baseball Digest in the National League on Wednesday.  He was also named by Sporting News several weeks ago.

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.

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 …