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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: Japanese star Yamamoto goes to Dodgers for 12 years, $325M — Japanese star Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a 12-year, $325 million contract, sources told ESPN on Thursday, ending a frenzied free agency with the largest deal for a pitcher in years and value in Major League Baseball history.
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Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Thoughts on Yoshinobu Yamamoto's Dodgers deal and where the market goes now — Thoughts on Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto's 12-year, $325 million free-agent contract with the Dodgers, which according to a league source includes a $50 million signing bonus and no deferred money:
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The Athletic:
Yoshinobu Yamamoto's free agency: The latest on each team still in the mix — As the MLB offseason rolls on, 25-year-old Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto remains a free agent. While his timeline for making a decision remains unclear — he has until Jan. 4 to do so based on his posting window …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
MLB competition committee tinkers with pitch time, basepaths — Major League Baseball's competition committee approved several rule changes for the 2024 season, including subtracting two seconds from the pitch timer with men on base — from 20 to 18 seconds — while also widening the runner's lane to first.
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
MLB Announces Modifications To Pitch Clock, Other Rule Changes — 1:27pm: In a statement, Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark announced that the players on the Competition Committee voted against today's slate of changes.
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Matt Monagan / MLB.com:
Billie Eilish's bizarre jersey choice gives Peavy ‘huge street cred’ — The latest episode of Saturday Night Live had just ended. — The crew got together on stage to say their thank yous and goodbyes to the audience watching both inside the NBC studio and on TVs around the world.
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Yoshinobu Yamamoto's free agency pits Yankees against Mets — In the more than six decades they have shared New York, the relationship between the Yankees and Mets has been mostly polite — strangely polite — with the notable exception of that jagged bat barrel Roger Clemens bounced across …
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Eno Sarris / The Athletic:
Honoring the best MLB pitches of 2023: The good, the sweepy and the nasty — It's nearing the end of the year, which means it's time for us to look back on the good and the bad we saw this season. Between the last-minute gift shopping and travel planning, productivity at work has probably not been the highest this week, right?
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Aaron Wilson / Click2Houston.com:
Sources: C.J. Stroud dealing with concussion symptoms, set to miss Browns game, with Case Keenum to start again — Texans add former Jets quarterback Tim Boyle to practice squad — HOUSTON - Texans starting quarterback C.J. Stroud is still dealing with concussion symptoms and is expected …
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ESPN:
Pirates bring back Andrew McCutchen with one-year deal — Andrew McCutchen, who needs just one home run to reach 300 for his career, will return to the Pittsburgh Pirates on a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday. — The deal is worth $5 million deal, a source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
