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• ESPN insiders rip Yankees fans for booing Aaron Judge

ESPN MLB insiders Buster Olney and Jeff Passan are among noteworthy members of the baseball community displeased with New York Yankees fans who booed Judge....2024
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• Outside The Confines: Ohtani sets a new record

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The superstar now has the most home runs by a Japanese-born player. This weekend, Shohei Ohtani continued his quest to add every possible record and history-making milestone to his career record. On Sunday afternoon before a hometown crowd, he hit his 176th career home run. Combined with eight innings of stellar pitching to help win the game, it also...2024
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• Baseball has an injury problem with plenty of questions and no real answers

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Star pitchers are going on the injured list for extended periods of time at an alarming rate. It’s the worst kind of problem: One with no clear and immediate solution. The sport of baseball — and this includes not just Major League Baseball but all levels of the sport — is in a serious pickle at the moment. After seeing the likes of Shane ...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 2

Kansas City’s hot start has it at holding the top run differential in the league and just barely behind the Cleveland Guardians for the AL Central lead. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Strikeouts for days, Yankees continue their reign, and the AL Central has two teams in the top five — just like we expected It’s just the second week of the season, but teams are already battling hard for divisi...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black addresses the “pandemic” of pitcher injuries

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Monday, April 15, 2024 Every day, in the early part of the 2024 MLB season, it’s the same. Wake up in the morning. Check the headlines. Notice another pitcher is probably headed to the IL with an arm issue. For Colorado Rockies fans, it feels a bit like the rest of baseball is finally catching up to a 2023 that saw first ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The Mets retire Dwight Gooden’s number. Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter surrenders. Some early-season storylines. Jackie Robinson Day and other news from MLB. One of the nice things about being old is that I can now look back at Doc Gooden and say “You know what? He was a really good pitcher” and not hate him with the burning fire of a thousand suns. A...2024
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• Baseball has an injury problem with plenty of questions and no real answers
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• Outside The Confines: The butcher’s bill

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Injuries are everywhere and no one knows what to do about it. The Red Sox lock up a rookie outfielder. And other news from MLB. I hope everyone feels better today. And that no one has an elbow injury. This big story in baseball is injuries, in particular to pitchers. Jeff Passan writes that MLB and the Players Association must work together to do something about...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2024

Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images Did the sun come back? Craig Brown recaps the weekend’s games, including Friday’s thriller. I don’t think it’s overstating things to say that this felt like a season-defining moment. Maybe that sounds ridiculous—this was just the eighth game of the season—but this is where we found the Royals. Another brutal loss—it would’ve been the third game out of fou...2024
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• Sources: Rangers call up Foscue for injured Jung

With Josh Jung suffering a fractured right wrist Monday, the Rangers are calling up top prospect Justin Foscue, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Tuesday....2024
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• Can Chris Sale push the Braves over the top in October?

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are betting the 2024 version of Chris Sale can help them clear some October hurdles. After consecutive years of having a 100+ win team unceremoniously knocked out of the playoffs in the divisional round, it felt like the Braves needed...something. Something more, something different. They are undoubtedly one of, if not the most, talented team in b...2024
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• Devin Williams to miss three months with stress fractures in back

Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports A tough early test for the Brewers’ bullpen On Monday, we got word that Brewers’ All-Star closer and reigning National League Reliever of the Year Devin Williams was visiting a specialist to address lingering back soreness. Tonight, Jeff Passan reports that Williams has two stress fractures in his back and will miss around three months. Milwaukee Brewers sta...2024
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• Devin Williams To Miss Roughly Three Months With Back Fractures
Brewers star closer Devin Williams has been diagnosed with two stress fractures in his back, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN (X link). He’ll be shut down entirely for six weeks and is expected to be out of MLB action for around three months. It’s a massive hit to the Milwaukee bullpen two weeks before Opening Day.…...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024

Ok, that’s pretty funny | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images There are baseball players doing real baseball things in Arizona and Florida! Baseball is back (!), which means Anne Rogers newsletter is back! She looks at three storylines for this spring: Vinnie Pasquantino’s return to the lineup It’s been eight months since Pasquantino appeared in the Royals’ lineup after rig...2024
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• Ex-MLB pitcher busted with over 20 kilos of cocaine
It’s always surprising when former athletes break the law for asinine reasons, which was recently the case in an arrest involving a former MLB pitcher.Esteban Loaiza, who spent 14 years in the league, and nearly won the Cy Young award back in 2003, was arrested for possessing over 20 kilograms of cocaine in San Diego on Friday, according to police records obtained by Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. N...2018
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• Dee Gordon Suspended 80 Games for PEDs: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Dee Gordon Suspended 80 Games for PEDs: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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"Cox/Getty Images The long-awaited deal has happened as Cody Bellinger returns on a three-year deal with opt-outs The Chicago Cubs and Cody Bellinger have agreed to a three-year, $80 million deal for the outfielder/first baseman to return to Chicago, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN."

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"Detroit starter Eduardo Rodriguez invoked his no-trade clause to block a trade that was in place between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tigers, killing the deal ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"MLB and the players' association reached a tentative agreement on a new CBA Thursday, ending the league's 99-day lockout and salvaging a 162-game season, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"The Yankees are finalizing a deal to acquire first baseman Anthony Rizzo from the Cubs, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"The Boston Red Sox have agreed to trade star outfielder Mookie Betts and starter David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers, sources tell ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"Prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees have agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports (via Twitter) reported the sides were nearing a deal."

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"The Rockies have agreed to a deal with Wade Davis, the biggest-name closer on the free-agent market, according to a report from Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan on Friday."

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" Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports first reported Cain and the Royals were nearing an agreement on a deal that will pay the All-Star $17."

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"com's Phil Rogers noted, his bat could be of interest to the Phillies: Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan provided a brief scouting report on Williams and Alfaro: In 2015, Hamels has posted a 3."

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"com's Jesse Sanchez: Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reported the details of the tragic development: Taveras was just 22 years old."

• ESPN insiders rip Yankees fans for booing Aaron Judge
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• Baseball has an injury problem with plenty of questions and no real answers
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black addresses the “pandemic” of pitcher injuries
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• Outside The Confines: The butcher’s bill
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• Orioles To Promote Jackson Holliday
The Orioles are calling up Jackson Holliday, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN (X link). The sport’s top prospect will step into Baltimore’s infield a couple weeks into the season. Holliday, the #1 overall pick in 2022, has destroyed minor league pitching. Despite being a high school draftee, he reaches the majors after just a year…...2024
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• Dodgers, All-Star Catcher Will Smith Agree to 10-Year Contract Extension

The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a 10-year, $140 million extension with All-Star catcher Will Smith. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was among those to report the news. BREAKING: Catcher Will Smith and the Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a 10-year, $140 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN.— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) March 27, 2024 Smith, 28, …...2024
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• Dodgers, Will Smith Finalizing Ten-Year Extension
The Dodgers and catcher Will Smith are working on a long-term extension, per a report from Juan Toribio of MLB.com. It will be a ten-year contract, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. It comes with a $140MM guarantee, per Jeff Passan of ESPN, who adds that the two sides are finalizing the deal. The…...2024
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• Montgomery Finds a Home
The Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to a deal with pitcher Jordan Montgomery: Left-handed starter Jordan Montgomery and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a free agent deal, pending a physical, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Tuesday night. Montgomery, 31, started 32 games this past season while compiling a combined 10-11 record with a […]...2024
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• Jordan Montgomery to Sign With Dodgers’ NL West Rival Diamondbacks: Report

The last major free agent has officially signed. On Tuesday, left-handed pitcher Jordan Montgomery agreed to a free agent deal with the Dodgers’ NL West rival, the Arizona Diamondbacks, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan. BREAKING: Left-handed starter Jordan Montgomery and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a free agent deal, pending physical, a source tells …...2024
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• Source: D-backs, lefty Montgomery agree on deal

Jordan Montgomery and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a free agent deal, pending a physical, a source told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Tuesday night....2024
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• Baseball has an injury problem with plenty of questions and no real answers
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• Cub Tracks turns the page

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. All about Bellinger, more about Bellinger, and some stuff about Bellinger. Plus news. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cub...2024
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise preview, Monday 2/26, 2:05 CT

Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports Another away game for the boys in blue. There have been a few questions raised about when Cody Bellinger might play in a spring game. First, we only know about the signing through Jeff Passan and some Cubs reporters who confirmed it via a source. The team has not officially announced the signing, though it was reported that Bellinger was in Cubs camp Sunday tak...2024
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• A few thoughts on the Cubs’ re-signing of Cody Bellinger

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images It happened. First of all, a big thank you to Josh for writing up the news of the signing in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. The Daily Belli watch ended as Cubs Spring Training games began, but now we have actual contract terms for Cody Bellinger and the Cubs to discuss. Details from ESPN’s Jeff Passan: Bellinger, 28, has opt-outs after th...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2024

Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Spring Training games begin today! ICYMI, Eric Hosmer is hanging it up: “Really proud of Hoz’s career and everything he did for our organization,” general manager J.J. Picollo said. “His legacy is going to live forever as part of that world championship team, being one of the leaders. The big hits, the big moments that he had personally that affected our ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: How do you spell relief?

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Three relievers find new homes. Some teams still have work to do. The Hall of Fame vote will be announced tomorrow. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. We start out on a bad note today, but things get better after that. Except there are no Cubs trades or signings. That headline sort of pegs me as being of a certain age, doesn’t it? Jeff Passan a...2024
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• Roundup: The ‘superteam’, the pitching lab, CBT stuff, Teoscar takes, Busch/Ferris trade, and lots of prospect content
(Via @Dodgers) A bit of a lull in the news seems like a great time to catch up on a whole lot of writing that’s been done in the Dodgers since the last time we left off. ====== ESPN: Jeff Passan points out that while the Dodgers may be forming a superteam, now comes the …...2024
• The deadline for MLB arbitration agreements is today. Seven Cubs are arb-eligible.

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports And here are some possible numbers they might sign for. With the signing of Shõta Imanaga making big Cubs news this week, I didn’t want to forget — nor let you all forget — that the deadline for arbitration-eligible players to sign contracts is at hand. Originally, that deadline was supposed to be this Friday, but last month owners and players agreed to mo...2024
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• Sources: Reds player tests positive for COVID-19
A Cincinnati Reds player has tested positive for the coronavirus, sources confirmed to ESPN. As a result, Saturday night's scheduled game against the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates is likely to be postponed, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan....2020
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• Outside The Confines: Ohtani sets a new record
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• Baseball has an injury problem with plenty of questions and no real answers
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• MLB Roundup: Week 2
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Snell yeah!

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Former Cy Young winner Blake Snell has finally found a home. After being rumored to go to multiple different clubs over the past months, one of the biggest remaining names on the free agent market has finally found a home, just in time for the regular season to get underway. Former Cy Young winner Blake Snell who has spent time with the Tampa Bay Rays a...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Spring awakenings

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Ohtani hits his first home run in a Dodger uniform. The Dodgers make a couple more moves. A Giants legend moves to St. Louis. Ichiro’s relationship with Cooperstown and other news from baseball. Good morning. Jeff Passan just ordered two “LISA WAS RIGHT.” shirts which is even more proof why Jeff Passan is the absolute best there i...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Elly De La Cruz demonstrates the dangers of spring training

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Or, more specifically, parking in the wrong place. This week, wunderkind Elly De La Cruz managed to demonstrate why no one should drive a nice car to spring training games, when the chances of a wayward home run or foul ball might have a greater chance of destroying your windows. That very thing happened on Tuesday when a De La Cruz fou...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024
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• Sources: Cole to join Yankees for 9 years, $324M
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• Sources: Red Sox trading Betts, Price to Dodgers
The Boston Red Sox have agreed to trade star outfielder Mookie Betts and starter David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers, sources tell ESPN's Jeff Passan. Boston's return includes outfielder Alex Verdugo, sources said....2020
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• Sources: MLB, union reach tentative CBA deal

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• Sources: Betts, Dodgers near long-term contract
The deal, which could be agreed upon as soon as Wednesday, would keep Mookie Betts with the Dodgers for at least a decade, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan....2020
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• Sources: MLB plans to suspend spring training
Spring training is expected to be suspended Thursday, sources tell ESPN's Jeff Passan, and the start of the season is likely to be delayed....2020
• Major League Baseball Expected To Suspend Spring Training
As sports entities throughout the world take action to minimize the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Major League Baseball appears poised to cease play of Spring Training games. MLB Network’s Jon Heyman tweets that officials with Grapefruit League clubs in Florida are expecting games to be suspended, and ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports that executives throughout…...2020
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• Bauer warned about his 'FREE JOE KELLY' cleats
MLB contacted the Reds this week to inform them the cleats that Trevor Bauer planned to wear in support of Los Angeles' Joe Kelly were "against footwear regulations," sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan....2020
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• Sources: Twins land Donaldson for 4 years, $92M
Third baseman Josh Donaldson and the Twins have agreed to a four-year deal that includes $92 million guaranteed, with a chance to increase to $104 million in value if Donaldson hits escalators on a fifth-year club option, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan....2020
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 26, 2024

Mark Taylor/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Negro League Baseball Museum is free next month - take a look! Jared Perkins at Farm to Fountains considers the trade market for closers, which could include Boston’s Kanley Jansen. It’s also hard to see Jansen being a fit, but for a team that just spent $105 million this offseason, they might be willing to take on a sal...2024
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• Why Is 2013 AL ROY Wil Myers Suddenly on the Trading Block?
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• MLB Roundup: Week 2
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house
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• Can Chris Sale push the Braves over the top in October?
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• Devin Williams to miss three months with stress fractures in back
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• Padres acquiring Dylan Cease!

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images A.J. Preller loves to makes splashes and this is another one The San Diego Padres had questions going into their season about how they were going to get enough innings from their rotation. Dylan Cease should help ease those concerns, as he’s on his way to the Padres from the Chicago White Sox, according to various reporters. The Padres plane for South ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The A’s Opera House

Oakland Athletics The A’s unveil their plans for a Las Vegas stadium and it looks... similar to something else The A’s moving to Las Vegas has been a limbo-state story for months now. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of certainty about when or if the A’s are moving, because right now they’re still in Oakland and exploring ways to extend their stay, but they have also unveiled stadium renderi...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 5, 2024

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Daniel Lynch IV talks pitching. Jeff Passan writes about the players impressing in spring training, including Cole Ragans. The comparison sounded too ridiculous to be true. One evaluator, smitten by the 26-year-old pitcher, said of Ragans: “He’s left-handed deGrom.” To comp a pitcher who has thrown all of 136 major league innings with Jacob deGrom...2024
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise preview, Monday 2/26, 2:05 CT
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• Outside the Confines: The Twins and Mariners make a trade

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Orioles are being sold. Justin Turner heads north of the border. More trouble in Las Vegas. And other news from around baseball. The College Baseball season starts in 16 days. The Mariners and Twins made a reasonably major trade as Minnesota shipped second baseman Jorge Polanco to Seattle for right-handed reliever Justin Topa, right-handed starter Anth...2024
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• Braves to Acquire Chris Sale

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images Vaughn Grissom will be heading to Boston in the deal. While many may have thought business in baseball could slow down a bit during the holiday season, the busy offseason for the Braves continued on Saturday. And this time, it was a noteworthy move to give their starting rotation some needed depth. BREAKING: The Atlanta Braves are acquiring seven-ti...2023
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• Dodgers Designate Trevor Bauer For Assignment
The Dodgers have cut ties with Trevor Bauer. Los Angeles announced this evening he will no longer be part of the organization, shortly after Jeff Passan of ESPN reported (Twitter link) he was being designated for assignment. “The Dodgers organization believes that allegations of sexual assault or domestic violence should be thoroughly investigated, with due process…...2023
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• Giants To Acquire Kris Bryant
The Giants made a major splash at the trade deadline buzzer, acquiring slugger Kris Bryant from the Cubs for prospects Alexander Canario and Caleb Kilian. ESPN’s Jeff Passan broke news of the trade, while Francys Romero of LasMayores was first on Canario and journalist Marc Delucchi had Kilian. Drafted second overall in 2013 out of the University…...2021
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• Mike Moustakas royally screwed up his free agency
Few players screwed up their free agency situation more than Mike Moustakas.The third baseman on Thursday agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Kansas City Royals, according to Yahoo’s Jeff Passan, who says there is a mutual option for a second year. Passan reports that the deal guarantees Moustakas $6.5 million and can max out at $22.7 million if the sides agree to the $15 million option nex...2018
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• MLB Reportedly Bans 'Offensive' Hazing: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Chris Correa Sentenced to 46 Months for Hacking Astros' Computer System
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• Ken Griffey Jr. Robbed of Being Baseball's First-Ever Unanimous Hall of Famer
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