SEATTLE (AP) — Outfielder Randy Arozarena and the Seattle Mariners agreed Thursday to a $15.65 million, one-year contract, a raise from $11.3 million last year.
Arozarena, 30, is on track to be eligible for free agency after the World Series.
Acquired from Tampa Bay in July 2024, he hit .238 with a career-high 27 homers and had 76 RBIs and a .760 OPS in his first full season with the Mariners.
A seven-year big league veteran and two-time All-Star, Arozarena has a .250 average with 118 homers and 390 RBIs. He was MVP on the 2020 AL Championship Series.
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FILE - Seattle Mariners' Randy Arozarena connects for a solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the eighth inning in Game 3 of baseball's American League Championship Series, Oct. 15, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
TOKYO (AP) — He turns 59 in February, and the globe's oldest professional soccer player has a new club as he gets set for his 41st season.
This is of course Kazuyoshi Miura who is known in Japan as “King Kazu."
Miura announced his signing this week with third-division J-League team Fukushima United. He is moving on loan from Yokohama FC and spent last season on loan with fourth-division club Atletico Suzuka.
He failed to score in seven matches with Suzuka.
Miura has played professionally in Brazil, Italy, Croatia, Australia and Portugal. And of course in Japan. He made his debut in 1986 with Santos in Brazil, a club made famous by Brazilian star Pelé.
In 2017 at age 50, he became the oldest player to score in a professional match. That topped the record held by highly decorated England international Stanley Matthews.
Miura was one of the first big names in Japanese soccer. He scored 55 goals in 89 appearance and was a star with Japan’s national team in the 1990s.
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Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura speaks during a press conference as he joins third-division J-League team Fukushima United in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (Yuya Shino/Kyodo News via AP)
Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura poses with uniform of third-division J-League team Fukushima United. during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 9, 2026. (Yuya Shino/Kyodo News via AP)
Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura speaks during a press conference in Suzuka, central Japan, on Nov. 30, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)
