Marlins get Gordon from Twins; Lowry to sign with 76ers
The Marlins are acquiring outfielder Nick Gordon from the Minnesota Twins, a source confirmed to the Miami Herald on Sunday.
Left-handed relief pitcher Steven Okert is going to Minnesota in return.
Gordon, 28, was the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft by the Twins and is a half-brother of former Marlins infielder Dee Strange-Gordon. Gordon made his MLB debut in 2021 and in 245 games over three seasons has a .250 batting average and .685 on-base-plusslugging percentage with 15 home runs, 80 RBI, 42 doubles, 77 runs scored and 16 stolen bases in 21 attempts.
He had an injury-riddled 2023 season, playing in just 34 games due to a right tibia fracture and hit just .176 in 93 plate appearances.
Defensively, Gordon has primarily played center field (92 games, 66 starts), left field (85 games, 58 starts), second base (64 games, 50 starts) and shortstop (33 games, 15 starts). The Marlins have not yet decided what position he will play.
Gordon is under team control for four years and will make $900,000 in 2024.
Okert spent the past three seasons with the
Marlins, pitching to a 3.51 ERA over 158 appearances, mostly in middle-inning and setup roles.
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NBA: Veteran guard Kyle Lowry announced Saturday night that he will sign with his hometown Philadelphia 76ers for the rest of the season after agreeing to a contract buyout with the Charlotte Hornets. Lowry grew up and played high school and college basketball in the Philadelphia area. Another connection: 76ers coach Nick Nurse was Lowry’s head coach for three seasons with the Toronto Raptors. The Heat traded Lowry and a lottery-protected first-round draft pick to the Hornets to acquire guard Terry Rozier on Jan. 23. The Heat and 76ers face off in Philadelphia on Wednesday. The 76ers stand in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Tennis: Top-seeded Elena Rybakina defeated Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4, the seventh seed, in the final of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open, giving Rybakina her second tour win of the season. Overall, it’s her seventh tour win and fourth on the hard courts. Rybakina, of Kazakhstan, now is 11-2 on the season while Kasatkina fell to 9-4 . ... At the Transylvania
Open, Czech Karolina Pliskova upset homecountry favorite Ana Bogdan, the eighth seed, 6-4, 6-3 to win her first title in four years in the final in Cluj-Napoca, Romania . ... Frenchman Ugo Humbert
delighted the home crowd by winning his fifth ATP Tour title, besting Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-3 at the Open 13 Provence at Marseille, France.
College basketball: Shayeann Day-Wilson
scored 17 points and Jasmyne Roberts added 14 to lead the University of Miami women (16-7, 6-6 ACC) past host Georgia Tech (14-11, 5-8), coming back from a seven-point halftime deficit. Day-Wilson has scored in double-digits in nine-straight games, and the Hurricanes earned their third win this year when trailing at the half . ... Sonia
Citron scored 18 points and hit the game-winning free throw in double overtime as No. 12 Notre Dame (18-5, 8-4) beat host Florida State (17-8, 8-5) 98-94 in double overtime in an uptempo shootout between the ACC’s top two scoring offenses . ... Nebraska held Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark scoreless in the fourth quarter as the host Cornhuskers erased a 14point deficit to upset the No. 2 Hawkeyes 82-79. Clark finished with 31 points on 10-of-25 shooting and also led the Hawkeyes with 10 assists and eight rebounds. She is eight points shy of passing Kelsey Plum’s Division I women’s college basketball all-time scoring mark . ... Vladislav Goldin scored six of his team-high 20 points to help visiting No. 20 Florida Atlantic defeat
Wichita State 95-82 in overtime in American Athletic Conference play at Wichita, Kan. The Owls outscored Wichita State 21-8 in the extra period. The Owls (19-5, 9-2 AAC) had five players in double figures: Brandon Weatherspoon (19 points), Johnell Davis (14), and Bryan Greenlee and Alijah Martin with 11 each.
NFL: The Philadelphia Eagles have granted linebacker Haason Reddick
permission to seek a trade, NFL Network reported. Reddick, 29, recorded a career-high 16 sacks to go along with an NFL-best five forced fumbles in 17 starts during his first season with the Eagles in 2022. He followed that up with 11 sacks in 17 starts in 2023 en route to being named to his second consecutive Pro Bowl.
NHL: J.T. Miller
scored the overtime winning goal with 4.8 seconds on the clock to give the visiting Vancouver Canucks a thrilling 3-2 comeback victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon. Conor Garland and Nils Hoglander also scored for the Canucks, who sit atop the league standings. The Canucks avoided their first threegame losing skid of the season .... Jordan Kyrou
scored two goals, including the 100th of his career, as the visiting St. Louis Blues routed the Montreal Canadiens 7-2. The Blues have won seven of eight games and five straight on the road . ... Vancouver defenseman Nikita Zadorov was suspended two games for his illegal check to the head on Detroit Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond. The league handed down the suspension on Saturday night, hours after the play occurred during the second period of the Canucks’ 4-3 overtime loss in Detroit.
College football: Elijah Burress, the son of former NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl champion
Plaxico Burress, committed to play college football at Notre Dame on Saturday. The younger Burress, who also is a wideout, is a product at DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, N.J. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound player had 25 catches for 434 yards and five touchdowns in 10 games last season and ranks as the 36th wide receiver in the 2025 recruiting cycle by 247Sports.
MMA: Jack Hermansson beat Joe Pyfer by unanimous decision on Saturday night in their main event middleweight bout at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Hermansson (24-8-0) landed 188 total strikes and 121 significant strikes to take the cards 48-47, 48-47, 48-47. Pyfer (12-3-0) lost a fight for the first time since Aug. 11, 2020, when he fell to
Dustin Stoltzfus in Dana White’s Contender Series.