METS, RELIEVER SWARZAK AGREE TO $14M, 2-YEAR DEAL

Free-agent reliever Anthony Swarzak is reuniting with Mickey Callaway, the new manager of the New York Mets.

The 32-year-old right-hander and the Mets have agreed to a $14 million, two-year contract, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday at the winter meetings because the agreement has not been announced and is subject to successful physical.

Swarzak spent the first 2½ months of the 2015 season with Cleveland, making 10 appearances with a 3.38 ERA. Callaway was hired to manage the Mets in October after five seasons as the Indians’ pitching coach.

• The Twins signed former Yankees starting pitcher Michael Pineda, giving a two-year, $10 million contract to the right-hander recovering from Tommy John surgery.

• The Mariners landed two pitchers in a pair of trades in exchange for some of the international slot money the club had acquired in the hopes of landing Shohei Ohtani.

The Mariners got right-hander Shawn Armstrong from Cleveland on Wednesday and picked up minorleague lefty Anthony Misiewicz from Tampa Bay. Misiewicz was previously in the Mariners organization before being dealt to Tampa Bay last season.

• Bob Costas won the Ford C. Frick Award presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame for broadcasting excellence.

Timbers send Nagbe to Atlanta.

ORE.» The Portland Timbers PORTLAND, traded midfielder Darlington Nagbe to Atlanta United in exchange for $1.65 million in allocation money.

Portland is also sending defender Gbenga Arokoyo to Atlanta and receiving a 2018 international spot as part of the trade.

Nagbe, who has become a regular on the U.S. national team, has been with the Timbers since the team joined MLS in 2011. He was selected with the second overall pick in that year’s MLS SuperDraft.

He has 27 goals and 30 assists in 214 matches with the Timbers. His goals are the second-most since the team joined MLS.

LPGA adding two events for 2018.

The LPGA Tour is adding two tournaments in California next year as part of a 34-tournament schedule that offers a record $68.75 million in prize money.

Coming off a year in which 17 players earned at least $1 million, the LPGA Tour put together a 2018 schedule that it hopes to build momentum. While it lost two events — Lorena Ochoa Match Play in Mexico and the Manulife LPGA Classic in Canada — the LPGA replaced them with three new tournaments.

Two of them are in the United States, bringing the number of domestic events to 19.

Horn wins WBO welterweight title.

Jeff Horn followed up his contentious WBO welterweight title win over Manny Pacquiao with a successful first defense against Gary Corcoran.

The former schoolteacher from Australia won by technical knockout in the 11th round when Corcoran’s corner threw in the towel with the England-based boxer bleeding from a deep cut above his left eye.

It was Horn’s first fight since his unanimous decision upset over eightdivision champion Pacquiao in front of more than 51,000 fans in an outdoor afternoon fight at nearby Suncorp Stadium in July in the “Battle of Brisbane — a victory that some critics dismissed as a hometown decision.

Footnote.

Northern Arizona hired Washington State deputy director of athletics Mike Marlow as its next athletic director.