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Padres' Soto to make $23 million, Hader $14.1 million in '23; team agrees to terms with multiple arbitration-eligible players

SAN DIEGO — To keep Juan Soto beyond the next two seasons, the Padres may eventually have to make him the highest-paid player in MLB history.

Tribune News Service

Dodgers avoid arbitration with Julio Urías, Walker Buehler and Will Smith

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers agreed to terms Friday with their three biggest arbitration-eligible players, finalizing deals with Julio Urías, Walker Buehler and Will Smith in order to avoid arbitration hearings with each, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Los Angeles Times

Andrew McCutchen Heads Home As Pirates Continue Intriguing Offseason

When I woke up this morning, I had no intention of writing about the Pirates for today’s newsletter. Why would I? I have mentioned them in previous editions—such as when I’ve written that they should trade their best player and when they gave up Aaron Judge’s 60th home run—but only…

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So you want to own a professional sports franchise. You sure about that?

As Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts and others know, ridicule of owners is the city’s top sport.

Chicago Sun-Times

Report: Soto, Padres Avoid Arbitration With $23 Million Deal

He enters his first full season with San Diego after last year’s trade.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Andrew McCutchen, Pirates Agree to One-Year Deal

The outfielder spent nine years on Pittsburgh to begin his career.

Sports Illustrated

Two doppelganger baseball stars with same name take DNA test to see if they are related

Baseball players Brady Feigl, 32, and Brady Feigl, 27, are both 6ft4in tall with vibrant red hair and glasses and have been getting mixed up for years.

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John Henry ties up £257m contract as Liverpool 'looking at defender'

Your Liverpool morning headlines as John Henry secures new Red Sox deal, plus the Reds are linked with a potential defender signing

Liverpool Echo

Report: Electronic Strike Zone to be Used by All 30 Triple A Teams

The Automatic Balls and Strikes system will be used throughout the highest level of Minor League Baseball.

Sports Illustrated

Jason Mastrodonato: Red Sox go all-in on Rafael Devers, but 2023 season still looks bleak

One day after the Red Sox announced that Xander Bogaerts’ replacement, Trevor Story, would miss most of the 2023 season with an elbow injury, they turned their attention to the future.

Boston Herald

Dylan Hernandez: Dodgers' brass still won't take accountability for Trevor Bauer fiasco

LOS ANGELES — On one side there are the Dodgers, who have a complicated relationship with the truth, and on the other is Trevor Bauer.

Los Angeles Times

Lingering questions after Carlos Correa finalizes contract with Twins

Carlos Correa was finally able to shed some light on his six weeks of contract negotiations after his six-year, $200 million deal with the Minnesota Twins was finalized this week.

Tribune News Service

Trevor Bauer Becomes Free Agent After Dodgers Couldn’t Find Trade

Bauer is now free to sign with any team, and is immediately eligible to pitch in 2023.

Sports Illustrated

Matt Holliday resigns as Cardinals bench coach; 'Super' Joe McEwing joins staff

As planning for the 2023 season accelerated and the start of spring training appeared on the next page of the calendar, it became clearer to Matt Holliday the time he would miss now with his kids to start chasing a future as a coach in a major-league dugout.

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Carlos Correa’s Return Makes the Twins a Contender. Now They Must Add More

Minnesota won back its star shortstop, but it has more work to do in its lineup in order to set its sights on October.

Tribune News Service

Bryce Miller: Padres' decision to sign Nelson Cruz likely to deliver positive Fernando Tatis Jr. results

Counting the ways that the Padres' signing of aging slugger Nelson Cruz makes sense is easy. Until a season ago, he was one of the most dependable sluggers in baseball. He curb-stomps left-handers, hitting .295 with a gaudy .939 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dodgers release pitcher Trevor Bauer

Los Angeles designated Bauer for assignment on Jan. 6 after arbitrator Martin Scheinman reduced Bauer’s suspension over sexual misconduct allegations

Los Angeles Times

Will Trevor Bauer play Major League Baseball again? What executives around the league are saying.

LOS ANGELES — Trevor Bauer became a free agent on Thursday, but the market will be a lot more hostile toward the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner than it was two winters ago, when Bauer signed a three-year, $102 million deal with the Dodgers after turning down a…

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Chicago Sun-Times

How Marquee Sports Network will cover its first Cubs Convention

It will air 13½ hours of live coverage Friday to Saturday from the Sheraton Grand Chicago, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday with the “Red Carpet Special.”

Daily Mirror

Two strangers with exactly the same name and near-identical looks take DNA test

Doppelgängers Brady Feigl, 32, and Brady Feigl, 27, were first mistaken for one another in 2015 when they both had the exact same elbow surgery performed by the same doctor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From his home in California, Nolan Arenado says he wants to be a lifelong Cardinal

LAKE FOREST, Calif. — He’s propelled enough swings in his career and already in this workout Friday to know the one he’s chasing. When he connected, the echo from the crack of contact had only just faded when Nolan Arenado, head down and hands already circling back for his next…

Tribune News Service

Dieter Kurtenbach: Carlos Correa’s Twins deal doesn’t vindicate the Giants — it makes them look worse

The third time is the charm.

The Times of India

2 identical looking men with the same name got DNA tested to see if they were long lost siblings!

Even ran into your lookalike or heard people saying they saw you somewhere you never went? Well, what if your doppelganger had the same name and even the job!? No, this is not the plot of a film.

Liverpool Echo

Tom Werner makes 'not for sale' admission as FSG insiders hint at Liverpool takeover stance

Your Liverpool FC morning headlines look at FSG's interests both on Merseyside and in America

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers acquire shortstop Miguel Rojas from Marlins

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers fortified their infield defense by acquiring veteran shortstop Miguel Rojas from the Miami Marlins for infield prospect Jacob Amaya on Wednesday, a move that could push Gavin Lux to more of a second-base role and utility man Chris Taylor to more of an outfield role.

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