The 36-year-old was set to become a free agent after the 2023 season.
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In an offseason that’s already seen them spend nearly $400 million on big-league free agents, the Padres made another nine-figure commitment on Thursday—this time for a player who was already on the roster.
San Diego has reportedly agreed to a six-year contract extension with starting pitcher Yu Darvish, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
Negotiations are all about leverage. Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs created some leverage in contract talks by leading the NFL in rushing this season.
But, he gave some of it back by announcing just how badly he wants to remain a Raider.
“For me, I got the Raiders seal tatted on me,” Jacobs said. “It’s always something I wanted to be a part of. I just bought a house in Vegas. It’s definitely a place that I want to be.”
.@Raiders RB Josh Jacobs on @gmfb @nflnetwork on returning to the team: “For me, I got the Raiders seal tatted on me.
The Chiefs are loaded with talent. From former Undrafted Free Agents, to first round NFL Draft picks, to mid-season trade acquisitions, the 2023 AFC Champion’s roster is diverse and deliberate.
Building An AFC Champion: How Each Kansas City Chiefs Player Got To Super Bowl LVII, From High School To The NFL
However, when the average football fan thinks of Kansas City, a few players come to mind— especially on offense. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and JuJu Smith-Shuster are the best known athletes on the team.
Fox NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw said the new Denver coach did not want to coach in Arizona because of the quarterback.
Broncos coach Sean Payton has addressed a report that stated he didn’t want the Cardinals coaching job because of quarterback Kyler Murray.
Payton, who was linked to Arizona’s coaching vacancy, allegedly “didn’t want to work with that quarterback” in reference to Murray, according to Payton’s former Fox Sports coworker, Terry Bradshaw.
This was some classic Deion.
Deion Sanders is a Hall of Fame cornerback who will always be known as one of the greatest athletes of all time. What he did in the NFL and in MLB, all at the same, was incredible.
So when he sat down with Sports Illustrated on Radio Row at the Super Bowl on Thursday we had to ask him if he would be able to lock down any of today’s star wide receivers – like Minnesota’s Justin Jefferson – if he faced them.
Wall reached a contract buyout agreement with the Houston Rockets on June 28
CJ McCollum, Patrick Beverley and Kyle Kuzma are just a few of the players who shared their wit and wisdom amid a flurry of deals.
This year’s NBA trade deadline has been one of the wildest and wooliest in recent memory.
The Nets and Mavericks got things started in earnest when Brooklyn agreed to send Kyrie Irving to Dallas on Sunday. Things got much hotter when Russell Westbrook, D’Angelo Russell and Mike Conley Jr. reportedly were involved in a three-team swap Wednesday night.
Sanders took a trip down Cowboys memory lane ahead of Super Bowl LVII.
Deion Sanders played for five different teams during his his 14-year Hall of Fame career. But he’s perhaps best remembered as a Cowboy.
Sanders arrived in Dallas as a high-priced free agent in 1995, and immediately became the Cowboys’ newest star. He earned three first-team All-Pro selections and made four Pro Bowls in his five years with Dallas, helping the team win Super Bowl XXX over the Steelers. That remains the most recent championship for the franchise, which has yet to advance past the divisional round since.
The split between Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant in Brooklyn happened all of 17 seconds ago, yet ESPN NBA insider Brian Windhorst is already suggesting the duo could pair up again as early as next season.
READ: KYRIE IRVING REACTS TO KEVIN DURANT TRADE TO SUNS, TAKES ONE FINAL SWIPE AT NETS
Irving is set to be a free agent this summer, so if the Dallas Mavericks don’t drum up a deal for the point guard then there’s a chance he lands with the Suns.
The blockbuster trade brings a clean slate to both KD and Phoenix.
At a time like this, on the last day NBA teams are eligible to swap players throughout the league, there’s generally an intense fixation on every last detail of every single deal. Even fans on Twitter ask: What did the pick protections look like? How has Player X shot the ball from deep over the last month? What does this trade mean for the team’s long-term cap situation?
If those things matter to armchair fans, they obviously matter even more to the teams who are finalizing the high-stakes deals to begin with.
