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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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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
2022 MLB Mock Draft 3.1: Kiley McDaniel gives final prediction for first two rounds — The 2022 MLB draft is just hours away, so it's time for my final mock draft update, Mock 3.1. I've taken the last of the useful information that has trickled out this weekend — when teams teams finalized plans …
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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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Keith Law / MLB - The Athletic:
MLB Mock Draft 4.0: Keith Law's (updated) final projection before the 2022 No. 1 pick is made — This is my fourth and almost-final mock for Sunday's first round of the 2022 MLB draft. I say almost, since this is going up Saturday morning, so if I hear anything else between …
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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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Carlos Collazo / Baseball America:
2022 MLB Mock Draft V 6.0
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Yankees drop series finale to Reds after 10th inning rally falls short
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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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Jon Heyman / New York Post:
Yankees, Dodgers early favorites for Reds' Luis Castillo
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