Jonathan Lucroy, Angels agree to deal

Jonathan Lucroy reportedly agreed to join the Los Angeles Angels.

Yahoo Sports reported the one-year, $3.35 million deal contains incentives that could raise the two-time All-Star's compensation to over $4 million.

The Angels will be Lucroy's fifth team in four seasons. He batted .241 with 51 RBI in 126 games last year for the Oakland Athletics.

Lucroy played his first five seasons with Milwaukee, and he appeared in the All-Star Game in 2014 and 2016 before getting traded to Texas in July 2016. He played briefly for the Rangers and Colorado before joining Oakland in March 2018.

Lucroy, a career .277 hitter, finished fourth in the NL MVP voting in 2014 when he batted .301 with 13 homers and 69 RBI.

He hit his 100th homer last season for the A's. Despite largely struggling at the plate during his sole year in Oakland, he received praise for his management of the A's pitching staff.

The 32-year-old Lucroy will join Jose Briceno and Kevan Smith as the Angels' big-league catchers. The 26-year-old Briceno made his major league debut last season for the Angels, and the club claimed Smith off waivers from the White Sox two months

Free-agent pitcher Matt Shoemaker agreed to a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Blue Jays. Shoemaker went 2-2 with a 4.94 ERA in seven starts with the Angels last season. The righthander has been hampered by right forearm injuries over the past two years. Shoemaker, 32, made his major league debut in 2013 and spent his first six seasons with the Angels. He is 40-32 with a 3.93 ERA in 101 games, including 93 starts. The 6-foot-2, 225-pound Shoemaker had his best season in 2014, going 16-4 with a 3.04 ERA in 27 games.

The Cleveland Browns have agreed to buy the Columbus Crew, guaranteeing the soccer team will not relocate. Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have been working for months with a group headed by former Crew team doctor Peter Edwards to keep the Major League Soccer franchise in Ohio while exploring the possibility of buying the team.

Before the Haslams became involved, there was a strong chance the Crew, one of the MLS's founding franchises, was moving to Austin, Texas.

Notre Dame's Brian Kelly won the Dodd Trophy as coach of the year. Kelly also was honored as the Associated Press Coach of the Year this month. The award honors scholarship, leadership, integrity and success on the field. It is named for Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd and is presented annually by the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. First-year coaches and winners of the award from the previous two years are not eligible.

Women's skiing: Petra Vlhova of Slovakia won her first World Cup giant slalom after first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin dropped to fifth in Tsemmering, Austria. Vlhova was fourth after the opening run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.06 seconds, but posted the second-fastest time in the final leg to land her first victory in the discipline.