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Joe Starkey: Please stop believing MLB's future is bleak. It's actually quite rich

PITTSBURGH — You know the drill. Every time Major League Baseball has a labor squabble, or another 3 1/2-hour game, or a dip in attendance, or a low-rated World Series game, the doomsayers do their thing.

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David Murphy: Phillies have raised their floor in free agency. Their ceiling will depend on three familiar faces.

PHILADELPHIA — A lot of scouting directors will roll their eyes when you talk about Top 100 prospects. There’s a good reason for that. Back when Baseball America first popularized the genre, an organization could mostly take pride whenever one of its minor league hopefuls earned national accolades. It was…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Paul Sullivan: The Chicago Cubs’ front-office intrigue is much more interesting than their offseason

I’m admittedly a sucker for any story that includes the words “internal tensions between the business and baseball sides,” no matter what organization is being discussed.

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Sam McDowell: The Royals offered a peek into stadium plans. But we have so much more to learn.

Some 454 days ago, as he announced a reshuffling of his front office, Royals chairman and majority owner John Sherman acknowledged intentions to explore downtown baseball.

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Dieter Kurtenbach: Carlos Correa is exactly what the Giants needed, making him worth every penny of his new $350 million deal

Carlos Correa bet on himself last season when he signed what turned out to be a one-year deal with the Twins.

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Carlos Correa agrees to $350 million, 13-year deal with Giants

Correa’s guarantee will be the fourth-largest in baseball history.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry’: You Need to Know Joe Donnelly

Tom Verducci says goodbye to his friend and mentor, who died Sunday at 87.

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Murder suspect says she didn't know 'drinking partner' was hurt until ambulance arrived

Cheryl O'Callaghan is accused of beating Adrian Swift with baseball bat and pushing him down stairs

Liverpool Echo

Braves acquire Oakland catcher Sean Murphy in three-team trade

Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos comes with a special uniqueness possessed by few in his position. Where and when others zig, he zags. You might think you know what he may do to improve his club at a given point in time, but he always reminds you of…

Tribune News Service

More than just the Tumblers

As he nears retirement, Jesse White reflects on his time in baseball, the military, 1955 Montgomery, as secretary of state and his work with a certain well-known gymnastics group.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’

NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted.

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This baseball quiz is no Mission: Impossible

Accept the challenge and do your best not to self-destruct.

Chicago Sun-Times

The U.S. will bring the star power to World Baseball Classic

SAN DIEGO — The World Baseball Classic has been played four times, a classic attraction in baseball-loving countries except one. Finally, a cast of megastars — MVPs and Gold Glove winners, and the like — have signed up to represent the United States.

Los Angeles Times

Derek Jeter reveals he bribed his daughters with ice cream to sit through baseball game

Former Yankee’s three daughters attended their first baseball game in September

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Aaron Judge Could Join an Exclusive Yankees Club

With his new contract in hand, the slugger could earn the franchise’s most prestigious honor.

The Guardian - UK

‘Hate landlords’: slogan baseball caps turn heads on social media

Socially conscious young people are snapping up political merchandise that sums up mood of frustration

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'An amazing love story': When it comes to wife of 72 years, Pirates legend Vernon Law thrilled to pitch in

The mental picture is not one VaLynda Mooney will soon forget.

Los Angeles Times

How Zoom has helped Major Baseball adjust to free agency since the pandemic

SAN DIEGO — It was Tuesday afternoon, just about halfway through Major League Baseball's first in-person winter meetings in three years, and Andrew Friedman wasn't sure how to assess the three-day affair.

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MLB Tightens Protocol, Requires Uniform Technique to ‘Muddy’ Baseballs

The league is officially setting a standard for muddying baseballs, which teams do before games to reduce the slickness of the leather.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernandez: Dodgers' puzzling offseason strategy can be justified by signing Shohei Ohtani next year

SAN DIEGO — Back in the city where their season ended, the Dodgers resorted to familiar behavior this week. Like their hitters in October, their executives froze in the batter's box at baseball's winter meetings.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Passes Protective Netting Requirements at Minor League Parks

The new policy is a win for advocates who have long warned of the dangers of foul balls.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phillies dominated the winter meetings, and showed they plan on more Red Octobers

SAN DIEGO — As Dave Dombrowski packed his garment bag Wednesday and checked out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, he might have considered borrowing a line from Michael Corleone near the end of The Godfather.

Daily Mirror

Sport's highest earners including MLB and NFL stars as Aaron Judge inks massive contract

Major League Baseball superstar Aaron Judge was given a nine-year extension on Wednesday after a legendary season in which he set the new single-season American League home run record with 62

Chicago Tribune

Pat Hughes, longtime Cubs radio voice, wins the Ford C. Frick Award — the Baseball Hall of Fame’s top broadcasting honor

CHICAGO — Longtime Chicago Cubs radio voice Pat Hughes was named the winner of the Ford C. Frick Award on Wednesday, joining Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray among the all-time broadcasting greats.

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Bill Madden: In bringing back Aaron Judge for nine years, Hal Steinbrenner signs off on a dumb deal

NEW YORK — In the wee hours of Wednesday morning a beleaguered and resigned Hal Steinbrenner firmly cemented his membership in baseball’s One Dumb Owner club by re-signing soon-to-be 31-year-old Aaron Judge for an astounding nine years and $360 million.

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