Feb 21, 2016 5 min read

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers and Cuban pitcher Yaisel Sierra finalized a $30 million, six-year contract.

The 24-year-old right-hander will get a $6 million signing bonus in the deal announced Sunday.

Half of the bonus is payable 15 days after the contract is approved by Major League Baseball and Sierra obtains all permissions needed to enter and work in the United States. The other half is payable Dec. 15.

The team said Sierra is expected to report to the team’s spring training camp in Glendale, Ariz., in a few days after his visa issues are resolved. The sides agreed to the deal last month.

He will earn $1 million this year, $2.5 million in 2017, $3.5 million in 2018, $4 million in 2019, $5.5 million in 2020 and $7.5 million in 2021.

Sierra pitched five seasons in Cuba’s Serie Nacional with Holguin (2010-14) and Sancti Spiritus (2015), going 16-21 with 25 saves and a 4.23 ERA in 131 games. He pitched for the country’s gold medal-winning national team in the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Braun moving to left field: Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun is on deck to shift back to left field.

Brewers manager Craig Counsell said Sunday that Braun will switch this spring from right field to his former position.

Braun spent two seasons in right field after moving over from left. The slugger was the NL Rookie of the Year in 2007 as a third baseman.

Counsell said the shift will benefit both the 2011 NL MVP and the team.

“We talked it over and discussed it, and I think with the players that we have on our roster this year, it’s an advantageous decision for both Ryan and the players we have involved,” Counsell said on the first day Milwaukee pitchers and catchers officially reported to camp.

Counsell said the Brewers are looking to make room for Domingo Santana, who played 38 games for Milwaukee last year after being acquired in July from Houston in the trade for Carlos Gomez.

Mattingly says no to Marlins’ facial hair: For the first time in his major league career, Don Mattingly’s team has a policy of no facial hair.

And as the Miami Marlins’ new manager, he’s the one enforcing the rule.

The Marlins allowed players to have beards the past two years, but that changed under an organizational policy adopted after Mattingly was hired.

“Initially, not too many guys were happy about it,” said reliever Mike Dunn, who shaved off his goatee before reporting to spring training. “You can fight it, or you don’t. Obviously I shaved, so it’s OK.”

Mattingly said he didn’t care whether players were allowed to have beards, goatees or mustaches, but supported the new rule.

“Guys will whine,” Mattingly said Sunday. “Some guys like it, some guys won’t. As long as we’re consistent, I think it’s not that big of a deal.”

But it’s new for Mattingly. The Dodgers allowed facial hair when Mattingly was their manager for five seasons, and he wore a mustache when he was an All-Star first baseman for the Yankees.

In 1991, he was benched for refusing to cut his hair, and said his complaint was the rule was not being enforced equitably among everyone on the Yankees.

“It wasn’t really that complicated,” he said.

Gallardo gets $35 million from Orioles: A person familiar with the deal confirms that free agent pitcher Yovani Gallardo and the Baltimore Orioles agreed on a three-year contract worth $35 million.

Gallardo went 13-11 with a 3.42 ERA for Texas last season. The right-hander turns 30 later this month.

The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity Saturday night because the deal hadn’t been announced.

Other media outlets reported the agreement earlier in the day.

Gallardo would fill the hole left in the Baltimore rotation when Wei-Yin Chen became a free agent and signed with Miami.

The Orioles will forfeit their first-round pick in the June draft, the 14th choice overall. Texas had made a qualifying offer of $15.8 million to Gallardo that he turned down.

Gallardo has pitched at least 180 innings in each of the last seven seasons. An All-Star in 2010 with Milwaukee, he is 102-75 in his major league career.

Rangers add Guthrie: Jeremy Guthrie, who started Game 7 of the 2014 World Series for the Kansas City Royals, signed a minor league contract with a spring training invitation with the Texas Rangers on Sunday.

Guthrie, who was 8-8 with a 5.95 ERA in 30 games last season, was not placed on the Royals’ postseason roster last year. He had a 6.10 ERA in 24 starts, but made only one start after Aug. 18.

Guthrie, who turns 37 on April 8, has a 91-108 record with a 4.37 ERA in 305 major league games with Cleveland, Baltimore, Colorado and Kansas City.