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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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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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Union-News, Lone Star Ball and Battery Power
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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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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Lookout Landing, Federal Baseball, Covering the Corner, Phillies Nation and Lone Star Ball
Carlos Collazo / Baseball America:
2022 MLB Mock Draft V 6.0
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Battery Power, Prospects Live, Bleacher Nation and Lone Star Ball
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
2022 MLB Mock Draft 3.0: Kiley McDaniel predicts the first two rounds
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TalkNats.com, Federal Baseball, Union-News, NBCSports.com, True Blue LA, Twinkie Town, Detroit Free Press and New Jersey Online
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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Washington Post, MLB Baseball News … and MLB Trade Rumors
Nathan Ruiz / Baltimore Sun:
Orioles select high school infielder Jackson Holliday, son of former All-Star, with first overall pick in 2022 MLB draft — High School shortstop Jackson Holliday on being selected the No. 1 overall pick by the Baltimore Orioles. (Baltimore Sun) — When the Orioles last had the MLB draft's first pick …
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Sports Illustrated, Orange County Register, The Oklahoman, NBCSports.com and MLB Trade Rumors
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Texas Rangers shake up first round, take Kumar Rocker third, after Baltimore Orioles open MLB draft by picking Jackson Holliday — MLB, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals — LOS ANGELES — The Baltimore Orioles …
Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale exits in first inning vs. Yankees with mangled finger — Making his first start at Yankee Stadium in nearly three years, Red Sox's pitcher Chris Sale had to leave in the first inning with a gnarly finger injury. — Facing Yankee left fielder Aaron Hicks …
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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
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Mercury News and Orange County Register
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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