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Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Juan Soto rejects $440 million offer; Nationals will entertain trade proposals: Sources — Juan Soto is available. — The All-Star outfielder recently turned down an offer from the Washington Nationals that would have made him the highest-paid player in baseball history …
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Bradford Doolittle / ESPN:
Who would Juan Soto help most? We traded him to all 29 other MLB teams to find out — We're still about two weeks away from the trade deadline and the scuttlebutt that always precedes the anticipated date has ramped up. And yet one prominent name — who might or might not even be a candidate …
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NBCSports.com
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
All-Star outfielder Juan Soto rejects record $440 million offer from Washington Nationals — LOS ANGELES - The Washington Nationals are telling teams they are now willing to trade All-Star outfielder Juan Soto after he rejected a record 15-year, $440 million contract extension …
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MLB Baseball News … and MLB Trade Rumors
Eric Longenhagen / FanGraphs Baseball:
2022 MLB Mock Draft — Here is a mock draft compiled using a combination of industry rumors, deductive reasoning, and pattern recognition of teams' past behavior. I go down to pick 40 so that I get to touch on every team at least once, but there is only verbiage explaining why I've mocked a player to a team for the first round.
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Camden Chat, Lone Star Ball and Battery Power
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MLB.com:
Mock draft: MLB Pipeline's final predictions — This is it, folks, our last official mock drafts before we finally get to hear who the Orioles take No. 1 overall Sunday. Throughout the Draft season, we've been alternating weeks with our first-round projections.
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Lone Star Ball and Battery Power
Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Reliever Miguel Castro won't throw for up to 4 weeks with shoulder strain, Yankees say — The wreckage keeps piling up in the Yankees' bullpen. One day after saying Miguel Castro would need some time on the injured list to deal with a shoulder issue, manager Aaron Boone gave some more clarity on the righty's situation.
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Denver Post
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Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Matt Carpenter's remarkable Yankee season continues with pair of 3-run homers; Aaron Judge adds 2 more — On May 19, the Texas Rangers released Matt Carpenter from their Triple-A team because they didn't see a place for him on their big-league roster. The decision was described as mutual …
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Newsday and Pinstripe Alley
Nathan Ruiz / Baltimore Sun:
Orioles' 10-game winning streak ends with 5-4 loss to Rays in AL East wake-up call — ExpandAutoplay — 1 of 11 — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Orioles have pledged that they show up to the ballpark each night expecting to win. Friday night brought a reminder that the other teams in the American League East feel the same way.
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Camden Chat and Denver Post
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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
2022 MLB Mock Draft 3.0: Kiley McDaniel predicts the first two rounds — The 2022 MLB draft is just days away, and it's time for my third mock draft projecting the full 80-pick first day of this year's event. — The draft will take place July 17-19 in Los Angeles, and I'd estimate …
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TalkNats.com, Union-News, NBCSports.com, True Blue LA, Twinkie Town, Detroit Free Press and New Jersey Online
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Carlos Collazo / Baseball America:
2022 MLB Mock Draft V 6.0
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Battery Power, Prospects Live, Bleacher Nation, Lone Star Ball and CBSSports.com
Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Desperate Red Sox head to Yankee Stadium to try and build momentum before the break — The Yankees are mired, if you can call it that, in the worst stretch of their season. — After losing two of three against a Cincinnati team whose front office is actively not trying to win …
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Orange County Register
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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Yankees drop series finale to Reds after 10th inning rally falls short
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Mercury News and Orange County Register
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB to pay $185 million in settlement with minor league players over minimum-wage and overtime violations — Major League Baseball will pay $185 million to settle the federal class-action lawsuit filed by minor league players who sought pay for minimum-wage and overtime violations by teams …
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Associated Press, Bless You Boys, True Blue LA, Purple Row, South Side Sox, Sports Illustrated and MLB Trade Rumors
Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Sources: Diamondbacks may dangle Christian Walker as trade chip as trade deadline nears — SAN DIEGO — Christian Walker has never been the subject of intense trade rumors, but the Diamondbacks first baseman has seen enough teammates who have been to learn a thing or two from their experience.
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MLB Trade Rumors
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Mets earn another doubleheader sweep with pair of extra-inning wins against the Cubs — CHICAGO — The Mets could not have taken Game 1 of a doubleheader at Wrigley Field without J.D. Davis, who can pick it. — In the bottom of the 10th inning of a tied game, Adam Ottavino had the pressure turned …
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Newsday and Faith and Fear in Flushing
Ken Rosenthal / MLB - The Athletic:
How Reds ace Luis Castillo became the darling of the MLB trade deadline — Matt Carpenter had 32 career plate appearances against the Reds' Luis Castillo to draw upon, a catalog of sequences from competing against him in the NL Central. But the Castillo that Carpenter faced with the Yankees …
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Pinstripe Alley, Sports Illustrated, MLB Trade Rumors and New Jersey Online
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Jon Heyman / New York Post:
Yankees, Dodgers early favorites for Reds' Luis Castillo
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Sports Illustrated, MLB Trade Rumors, Brew Crew Ball, Bleacher Nation and New Jersey Online
