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Jim Souhan: Twins pitcher Varland ready to wrestle for roster spot

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The skills of big league pitchers translate well into golf, or basketball. If they played football, they probably became quarterbacks. They excel at long, loose, jangly, coordinated motions, mimicking the deceptively smooth windup that produces a fastball.

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Padres, new starting pitcher Michael Wacha get creative with contract

PEORIA, Ariz. — Michael Wacha wanted a multi-year deal and wanted to play for a contender.

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Corbin Burnes Has Harsh Words for Brewers After Arbitration Hearing

Burnes: ‘There’s no denying that the relationship is definitely hurt.’

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Tim McCarver, former standout Cardinals catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81

ST. LOUIS — He had a stellar baseball career, a bulldog of a catcher who won two World Series with the Cardinals in the 1960s and played in three. He had an even more decorated run after his playing days ended, an unparalleled marathon as a network television analyst on…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yankees’ Cole Shares Honest Opinion of ALCS Loss to Astros

The five-time All-Star didn’t shy away from sharing his thoughts on New York’s ending to last season.

Sports Illustrated

Baseball Great Tim McCarver Dies at 81

Before his award-winning broadcasting career, he was a two-time World Series champion in St. Louis.

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Tim McCarver, Major League Baseball catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

McCarver’s death was announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame, which said he died Thursday morning in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was with his family.

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Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

The famed broadcaster and former St. Louis Cardinals star Tim McCarver has died

The Independent UK

6 important MLB rule changes from the shift ban to the pitch clock you need to know ahead of 2023

The new MLB rules for 2023, explained.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fantasy Baseball 2023: First-Round Breakdown

As she prepares to draft in an experts league, Jen Piacenti examines how the first round might go.

Sports Illustrated

Inside Shohei Ohtani's contract stand-off as Mike Trout sends plea to MLB's biggest star

Arguably baseball's two biggest stars in Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout will be hopeful that they can continue to play together, with the former in a contract dispute with the Los Angeles Angels

Daily Mirror

La Velle E. Neal III: Ghost runners are now real in baseball, and the game is worse for it

MINNEAPOLIS — Red Sox manager Alex Cora has quite the way of explaining baseball. When the league decided in 2020 that extra-inning games would include placing a base runner on second base to start each half-inning, Cora pushed for chaos.

Tribune News Service

Hometown hero Joe Musgrove prizes his role on Padres

The hometown hero is here.

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Dave Roberts Says 2018 Dodgers Didn’t Illegally Steal Signs

Roberts made the comments after a new book alleged that the team engaged in sign-stealing in 2018.

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Los Angeles Times

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred calls Angels owner Arte Moreno 'a good steward'

PHOENIX — On a day Arte Moreno made his first appearance at Angels spring training, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred shared his thoughts on the Angels owner and his decision to take the team off the market last month.

Sports Illustrated

Mike Trout Opens Up About Shohei Ohtani’s Future With Angels

Ohtani is heading into his final under contract with the Halos.

Los Angeles Times

Dave Roberts denies Dodgers cheating accusations, says MLB probe found ‘nothing’

PHOENIX — Dave Roberts hasn’t yet read “Winning Fixes Everything,” Evan Drellich’s wide-ranging book released this week that detailed the Houston Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs president Jed Hoyer not setting deadline for extension talks with Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner

Cubs spring training Day 1 notes: Codi Heuer could be heading for 60-day IL, Marcus Stroman applauds WBC.

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Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: Chicago White Sox camp opens with the cloud of the Mike Clevinger investigation — and it’s only just beginning

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Mike Clevinger wanted to speak with the media on opening day of Chicago White Sox camp to address what he called the “elephant in the room.”

Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox’ Liam Hendriks ‘in good spirits’ but no timeline for return

Manager Pedro Grifol says it’s “too early to tell” what White Sox will do with closer role.

Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox’ spring opens to darkness, gloom — and it has nothing to do with the weather

With pitcher Mike Clevinger in camp, general manager Rick Hahn faced many unpleasant questions.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Indicates Path for Potential End of Local Blackouts for Some Teams

The move may happen if the financially troubled parent company of Bally Regional Sports networks defaults its MLB broadcast rights.

Tribune News Service

Braves’ Ian Anderson: ‘I feel the motivation’ after a year of struggles

NORTH PORT, Fla. — For Ian Anderson, the struggles spiraled out of control. One thing turned into another, creating a snowball effect he never overcame.

Los Angeles Times

Will Dodgers pick a closer, center fielder? Five spring-training storylines to watch.

Exactly four months removed from their calamitous elimination in last year's postseason, the Dodgers will begin a new trek that they hope will end differently come this October.

Tribune News Service

Justin Verlander on being reunited with Max Scherzer: 'I’m really looking forward to being here with him again'

In an alternate universe, maybe the lunch that Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer sat down to have together earlier this week in Florida doesn’t happen. The last time the two played on the same team was in 2014 when Scherzer was 29 and Verlander 31 and if you believe what…

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