McCullers Jr. spent 11 seasons in Houston and waived no-trade clause in deal.

Major League Baseball’s playoffs now move into the Division Series this weekend.

Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy won National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday night after a stellar debut season with the Brewers, while Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt took home AL honors after leading the Guardians to 92 wins and a division title in his first year as a skipper at any level.

The Arizona Diamondbacks added an extra bat for the World Series, putting Jace Peterson on the roster and dropping pitcher Slade Cecconi for the matchup against the Texas Rangers.

The surging Cardinals will try for a franchise-record 15th consecutive win in a game at Wrigley Field.

(AP) Three Major League Baseball games were postponed Wednesday as players across the sports landscape drove the decisions in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin. Our team voted unanimously not to play tonight.Other MLB games had finished, were in progress or just about to start as the announcements were made. There was the possibility, too, that other games around the majors could affected two days before MLB was set to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. NBA officials later announced that all three of the days scheduled playoff games had been postponed. The shooting of the 29-year-old Blake was captured on cellphone video Sunday and ignited protests in Kenosha and elsewhere.