Author: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY

Three MLB teams will top $200 million in payroll while eight open the 2019 season with payrolls under $100 million.

Milwaukee’s 24-year-old lefty is coming off a historic 2018 and with injuries already hitting the bullpen, the Brewers will be asking even more.

Houston’s 35-year-old righty is nearing a two-year extension worth $66 million that will keep him with the Astros through 2022

Yet to play in a regular-season game for his new team, Goldschmidt is set to sign a nine-figure extension with the Cardinals.

Manny Machado and Bryce Harper both have generated excitement in their respective new city, but none more than Harper in Philadelphia.

Once word leaked that Mike Trout agreed to a 10-year, $360 million, he did not appear at Angels camp, leaving it to his teammates to do the talking.

Mike Trout never wanted to leave Los Angeles, and now he is finalizing a $426.5 million deal that would keep him there for the rest of his career.

Mike Trout and the Angels agreed to a deal the will pay the two-time MVP $426.5 million over the next 12 years, a record commitment in North American sports history.

Bryce Harper, in his Phillies debut, said he’s never seen a team employ four outfielders against him, as Toronto did. He doesn’t want to see it again.

Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz says MLB needs to make drastic changes. He proposes a split-season schedule, just as they do in the minor leagues.