Morning news and notes: 1/4

Tuesday was yesterday. It was a day in January. The third one of 2023, to be specific. Not much happened in Major League Baseball, but if you’re a fan of one of these people, we’re here to feed you some news:

• The Red Sox and Rafael Devers avoided arbitration. It’s a one-year, $17.5M contract.
• The Cubs are almost done negotiating the world’s slowest ever courtship with Eric Hosmer. I can only assume they keep asking themselves “Wait, why are we doing this?”
• The Yankees have hired Brian Sabean.