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Baseball America:
2022 Top 100 Prospects — Editor's Note: Royals LHP Asa Lacy ranked ahead of C M.J. Melendez and 1B Nick Pratto on our Royals Top 10 Prospects list. As we gathered feedback for our Top 100 Prospects list, we consistently heard suggestions that Melendez and Pratto should rank above Lacy on our Top 100.
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Jeffrey Paternostro / Baseball Prospectus:
The Top 101: Candidates for the 2023 Top 101 — Questions? Drop one (or more) in the queue for Lead Prospect Writer Jeffrey Paternostro's chat, Friday at 1:15 pm — Editor's Note: The below list is searchable, sortable, and downloadable for your convenience. — THANK YOU FOR READING
Ben Badler / Baseball America:
12 Breakout Prospects With Top 100 Potential — With the release of the Baseball America Top 100 yesterday, there are plenty of younger players who didn't quite make the cut this year but have the upside to vault their way up the Top 100 by the end of the 2022 season.
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Bleacher Nation and Fish Stripes
Marc Topkin / Tampa Bay Times:
MLB kills Rays' split-city plan with Montreal — Team officials say they have no immediate plans to explore relocation to another market, and Stuart Sternberg has no plans to sell the team. — Updated Just now — ST. PETERSBURG — The Rays' proposed plan to split seasons in Montreal …
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Tampa Bay Rays say split-season plan with Montreal rejected by MLB — The Tampa Bay Rays' inventive, controversial plan to split their home schedule with the city of Montreal was scrapped by Major League Baseball officials earlier this week, a decision that Rays owner Stuart Sternberg called “flat-out deflating.”
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Associated Press:
Robot umpires at home plate moving up to Triple-A for 2022, one step away from major league baseball — NEW YORK — Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A …
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Bleacher Nation and Cubs Insider
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: MLB Players Association to make counteroffer to league in Monday meeting — The Major League Baseball Players Association plans to make an in-person labor proposal to the league on Monday, sources told ESPN, countering MLB's offer last week that did little to loosen the gridlock …
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True Blue LA, Beyond the Box Score and baseballmusings.com
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Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
MLBPA Expected To Present Next Economics Proposal On January 24 — JANUARY 20: The league and players union are planning to meet next Monday, January 24, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN (on Twitter). At that sit-down, the MLBPA is expected to present a counter-offer to MLB's most recent economics proposal.
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MLB - The Athletic, MLB Daily Dish, Bleacher Nation and NESN.com
Elizabeth Merrill / ESPN:
Deaths of woman, 2-year-old son in fall at San Diego Padres' Petco Park ruled suicide, homicide — A woman who fell to her death at Petco Park while holding her toddler son last September died by suicide, according to a statement Wednesday from the San Diego Police Department.
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Alex Riggins / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Police conclude mother killed herself, 2-year-old son in Petco Park fall
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New York Post, Mercury News and Associated Press
David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Ex-Yankees pitcher Sergio Mitre sentenced to prison for 2020 murder of toddler in Mexico — Former Yankees pitcher Sergio Mitre is going to be behind bars for a long time after he was convicted of murdering his ex-partner's daughter. — Mitre was convicted of femicide after raping …
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Yanks Go Yard and Call to the Pen
Keith Pompey / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Sources: Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris could be traded West as the Kings continue to put on full-court press — How badly do the Sacramento Kings want Ben Simmons? Multiple sources previously said the Western Conference team was willing to complete a deal for Simmons and Tobias Harris.
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HoopsHype, PHILLY SPORTS NETWORK, The Athletic, Hoops Rumors, Sixers Wire, Crossing Broad, The Sixer Sense and NBCSports.com
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Curly W Live:
Kevin Frandsen returns to Washington as MASN Color Commentator — The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) and Washington Nationals today named former player Kevin Frandsen as the network's color commentator for Nationals television coverage. Frandsen joins the MASN booth after four seasons …
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NBCSports.com, Phillies Nation, Nationals Pastime, Federal Baseball and Crossing Broad
Bill Plunkett / Orange County Register:
Friedman: New Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes brings ‘pretty rare executive profile’ — A former pitcher for Friedman in Tampa Bay, the 37-year-old Gomes has risen quickly in the Dodgers' front office — LOS ANGELES — As a pitcher, Brandon Gomes was not a unique talent.
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Evan Drellich / MLB - The Athletic:
MLB owners are testing the players, won't make major concessions without fight — Everything we've seen thus far suggests MLB owners want to test the players. That they intend to wait out the players as long as possible, to see if they'll crack under the threat of losing paychecks.
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Cubs Insider and Talking Chop
