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Byline: Steve Gardner and Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY 2021 National League Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes has reached an agreement with the Arizona Diamondbacks on a six-year, $210 million free [...]

Byline: Steve Gardner USA TODAY Free agent outfielder Juan Soto has begun narrowing his list of possible landing spots, with the price tag on a contract likely topping the $600 [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Nov. 2Ben Cherington declared that there was no part of the Pittsburgh Pirates' roster he won't examine and aim to improve upon a last-place team that has [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour USA TODAY The NWSL is scrapping its draft and moving to unrestricted free agency in its new collective bargaining agreement, a first for a major American professional [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, USA TODAY The NWSL is scrapping its draft and moving to unrestricted free agency in its new collective bargaining agreement, a first for a major American professional [...]

Byline: MIKE STEPHENS; ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto Blue Jays' general manager Ross Atkins, coming off one of the busiest trade deadline periods in team history, spoke with the media Tuesday night [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The NBA's summer free agency period officially opened Sunday, when eligible players were able to start agreeing to deals with teams. The biggest move came early Monday [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Apr. 22The Pittsburgh Penguins have 20 players who are scheduled to become free agents this upcoming offseason. Here is a look at every player listed in alphabetical [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Four months had passed since Blake Snell secured a second Cy Young Award, adding to the kind of résumé that would normally inspire teams to swarm to [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Mar. 14There was once a time via unofficial team policy that the Pittsburgh Steelers refused to give one-year contracts in free agency, instead insisting on multi-year deals. [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 14The Pittsburgh Steelers are keeping one of their own from leaving in free agency. Nose tackle Montravius Adams has agreed to a two-year deal to return [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY Kirk Cousins has struck again. No, news that the biggest prize in free agency landed with a four-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons worth [...]

Byline: ROB MAADDI; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kirk Cousins will be a free agent for the first time since the Vikings gave him the first fully-guaranteed quarterback deal in the NFL. [...]

Byline: Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY A star-studded group of NFL free agent running backs will officially be led by Saquon Barkley, who will not receive the franchise tag from the [...]

Byline: Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY Before NFL free agency begins, teams have some in-house business to address. March will no doubt give rise to some notable spending sprees, with a [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jan. 28In the hours between the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers' playoff loss in Buffalo and when Levi Wallace went to bed the night of Jan. 15, [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes SEATTLE - The chants were loud and clear and constant during Tuesday night's MLB All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park, audible from the moment Shohei Ohtani stepped into [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt and Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY With the draft in the books, it's time for one of the most unpredictable times on the sports calendar - NBA free [...]

Byline: JOHN WAWROW; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE -- Bill Guerin didn't need to be reminded of how thin the upcoming crop of NHL free agents is regarded, or how numerous [...]

The Mets have struggled (but may be fine), stolen bases are cool again (but runners, beware), and it's too early to judge (most of) the off-season's free-agent signings. There is [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Apr. 30The morning after completing a draft that has gotten rave reviews, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced the addition of seven undrafted free agents. Of note are four-year [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Apr. 29A record-setting quarterback and a fullback named 'Monte the Mullet' highlight the group of rookie free agents reportedly signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers after the draft [...]

Byline: Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY The NFL's two major avenues for roster improvement are inextricably linked yet quite different from each other. Free agency, of course, is rooted in teams' [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Mar. 27A lot has been made about how active the Pittsburgh Steelers have been in free agency this offseason. In my opinion, too much. Let's be real. [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Mar. 18Late on the sixth day since NFL teams were free to negotiate with this offseason's free agents, the Pittsburgh Steelers nabbed one of the biggest names [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Mar. 15Roughly 12 hours after news broke that Robert Spillane left via free agency, the Pittsburgh Steelers reportedly agreed to terms with his apparent replacement. Former Washington [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 13Less than two hours into the NFL's legal tampering period, the Pittsburgh Steelers learned they will be losing their top free agent cornerback. Cam Sutton, a [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 11Once viewed as a prototypical new-wave NFL inside linebacker speedy with an ability to make plays sideline to sideline Devin Bush was valued so highly by [...]

Byline: Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY With a little more than one week left to go before free agency officially opens, one of the biggest names available has already settled on [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 8Thanks to the allocation of their top two picks of the 2021 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers have their starting running back and tight end under [...]

The free agency of Shohei Ohtani, baseball's only two-way superstar, looms for the Los Angeles Angels, but Ohtani wants to focus on winning games. TEMPE, Ariz. -- For the Los [...]

Byline: Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY Breanna Stewart is taking her talents to the Big Apple. The former MVP announced Wednesday, the first day of WNBA free agency, that she is [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Feb. 2There might not be any greater 'bro-mance' in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room than Zach Gentry and Pat Freiermuth. So when the Steelers posted a sideline [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY One franchise player took a $150 million haircut - but is still plenty rich. Two clubs thought they had that guy on their roster - [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Major League Baseball's offseason party is still humming. It's just that the band has gone home, the spread is obliterated and it might take some [...]

Carlos Correa, Trea Turner and Xander Bogaerts were each signed to deals of 11 or more years this off-season. History suggests they could be on the move relatively soon. Throughout [...]

Baseball was in a spending mood at the winter meetings, where the Mets added Justin Verlander, the Yankees kept Aaron Judge and San Diego splurged on Xander Bogaerts. SAN DIEGO [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY SAN DIEGO - The Philadelphia Phillies, who targeted free agent shortstop Trea Turner immediately after their World Series loss, signed him Monday to an 11-year, [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, Columnist, USA TODAY SAN DIEGO - It's another gorgeous, serene day in San Diego, but stroll inside the Manchester Grand Hyatt, there is turbulence and a lobby [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The Philadelphia 76ers have been docked a pair of draft picks after an NBA investigation concluded that the franchise made improper contact with two free agents last [...]

Byline: Seth Rorabaugh Oct. 16Although the Pittsburgh Penguins spent $100,075,000 a figure that could rival the gross domestic product of a handful of sovereign states in re-signing incumbent players on [...]

Byline: Cydney Henderson and Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY You win some, you lose some. The same can be said about NBA free agency. The free agency moratorium officially opened Thursday [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski May 1Donovan Jeter and Jake Dixon are players with local ties among the 10 undrafted free agents the Pittsburgh Steelers added to their rookie class in the [...]

Byline: Mike Jones, USA TODAY This NFL offseason has featured one of the most active and fascinating quarterback carousels in league history, with five passers traded to new teams, two [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY The labor acrimony is over, and now, after nearly two weeks of furious transactions, MLB's unprecedented offseason nearly is, too. With just more than two [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 20For the second year in a row, the Pittsburgh Steelers will begin offseason workouts next month not certain about the identity of their starting center. Unlike [...]

Byline: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY The NHL trade market has been mostly quiet with less than a week left before the 3 p.m. EDT March 21 deadline, but perhaps Colorado [...]

Byline: Nicki Jhabvala The Washington Commanders, if anything, have a way of keeping it interesting. After a slow start to the NFL's 'legal tampering' period, the team used the final [...]

Byline: Pete Caldera, Northjersey.com | USA TODAY Network TAMPA, Fla. - In one bold trade late Sunday night, the New York Yankees resolved their shortstop dilemma and closed the book [...]

Byline: Nicki Jhabvala The Washington Commanders are in a bit of a predicament. In a year that Coach Ron Rivera billed as ripe for a big leap in production and [...]