The White Sox on Thursday exercised their $4 million club option on reliever Matt Lindstrom for 2014. The right-hander ranked third among American League relievers this past season with 76 appearances.

Ruben Amaro Jr. estimated it had been nine years since everybody in the Phillies baseball operations department gathered in one place for their organizational meetings. Amaro thought it would be a good idea to get everybody together, particularly because of the coaching changes at the big league level.

The World Series parade will launch from Fenway Park at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday, as the freshly-minted champions keep in line with a recent Boston tradition and gather into duck boats for a tour around what is sure to be a joyous city.

A list of the free agents eligible to negotiate and sign with any club beginning at 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

John Lackey, who won the second Fall Classic clincher of his career, World Series MVP Award winner David Ortiz and Shane Victorino, who drove in four runs in Game 6, helped to lift the Red Sox to their third title in the past 10 seasons.

By which players and moments will the 2013 season be remembered? Many are clamoring to know, and MLB.com has just the way to find out. Voting for the Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards has commenced for the 12th year.

The 2014 season starts now, as teams begin to reshape their rosters in hopes of enjoying their own late-October parties this time next year. Over the course of the days and weeks that will lead us to February and Spring Training, deals will be struck and contracts will be signed.

David Ortiz was named the World Series Most Valuable Player after the Red Sox beat the Cardinals, 6-1, to clinch their third World Series championship since 2004. Boston’s designated hitter batted .688 with a .750 on-base percentage and a 1.188 slugging percentage, bashing two homers and driving in six runs.

Shane Victorino returned to the lineup and made his impact felt, tallying four RBIs to back starting pitcher John Lackey as the Red Sox cruised by the Cardinals, 6-1, in Game 6 to complete Boston’s turnaround and win the club’s third World Series title since 2004.

Fenway Park hadn’t seen a World Series celebration for the home team since 1918. The Red Sox won it on the road in 2004 and ’07, accepting the Commissioner’s Trophy in front of subdued and disappointed opposing fans. This year, the Red Sox celebrated with their own, adding an obvious festive flavor lacking with the last two.

The end of the baseball season wasn’t good enough to reflect on the accomplishments of the 2013 St. Louis Cardinals. It also won’t work as a predictor of this club’s future work.

There are no perfect endings after life and limb are lost, but this was the best thing this great American city could hope for Wednesday night. The Red Sox won the 109th World Series, beating the Cardinals in six games, and took the next step in a healing process that followed the Patriots’ Day bombings at the Boston Marathon.

A day before facing the Red Sox in an elimination World Series game, the Cardinals spent much of their day turning an unexpected inconvenience into a unique bonding experience while stuck on the tarmac at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

An element of statistical analysis was added in a new approach to the Rawlings Gold Glove voting in a year that saw eight new faces among the 18 honored players.

The Red Sox have a chance to win a World Series at home for the first time since 1918, when Babe Ruth was still in a Boston uniform.

On Wednesday night, another chapter of Fenway Park’s rich Game 6 history will be written. There have been only three previously, but they all had some serious pop.

The Orioles have hired Dave Wallace, previously the Braves’ Minor League pitching coordinator, as their new pitching coach.