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Paul Lukas / Uni Watch:
2024 MLB Batting Practice Cap Collection Appears Online — A handful of this year's MLB batting practice caps (not to be confused with the spring training caps or clubhouse caps) appeared on a lifestyle website earlier this week. Now almost the entire set — for every team but the Mets — has appeared on ShopJustSports.com.
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Michael Scotto / HoopsHype:
NBA Trade Deadline Intel: Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Cavs, Mavs, Nets, Pistons, Wizards, Grizzlies, Wolves — With the start of NBA trade deadline week upon us, here's the latest intel gathered by HoopsHype on the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers …
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Keith Law / The Athletic:
Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law's rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1 — Welcome to this year's ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I've been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who've read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past.
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Keith Law / The Athletic:
The 10 MLB prospects who just missed Keith Law's top 100 ranking: Abel, Jones and more — Every year that I produce a top-100 ranking, I go through an iterative process where I start with more than 100 players, circulate the first cut to industry sources, move some guys around …
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Bleacher Nation and Covering the Corner
Daniel Myrick / Front Office Sports:
Las Vegas Mayor: A's Plans 'Don't Make Sense' — Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman applauds the city's rise as a sports destination with one exception: the Oakland A's. Mayor Goodman told Front Office Sports that she believes the team's plans at the Tropicana site don't make sense and that the team ought to stay in Oakland.
Jake Fischer / Yahoo Sports:
Andrew Wiggins appears to be Warriors' biggest trade chip, but a deal remains a challenge — If you haven't been to Warriors games in a minute, let us say it's quite easy to forget the pregame spectacle that still comes with Stephen Curry's joyful warmup. His schoolyard routine …
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: Bobby Witt Jr. agrees to 11-year, $288.8M deal with Royals — Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and the Kansas City Royals are in agreement on an 11-year, $288.8 million contract extension, sources told ESPN, a staggering guarantee that will keep the young star in Kansas City as the Royals attempt …
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Associated Press:
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. wins record $19.9M in arbitration vs. Jays — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. won a record $19.9 million in salary arbitration Wednesday when a three-person panel picked his request rather than the Toronto Blue Jays' $18.05 million offer.
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Sources: Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers reach agreement — Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers have reached agreement on a new contract, ensuring that one of the greatest players in franchise history will remain with the only organization he has ever pitched for, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
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Andrew Porter / audacy.com:
Dombrowski admits Phillies ‘were very involved’ in Yamamoto, but he wanted Dodgers — Exclusive interview with the 94WIP Morning Show — Philadelphia Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski spent 20-plus minutes talking with Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie on Wednesday's 94WIP Morning Show.
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Phillies Nation, The Good Phight and Crossing Broad
Marc Stein:
My Wednesday latest from NBA Trade Season — Let's discuss everything we're hearing from around the league with Thursday's NBA trade deadline almost here — The NBA trade deadline, as of this posting, is just 24 hours and change away.
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Netflix film crew will follow Red Sox in '24 — BOSTON — The 2024 season will be one in which the Red Sox will allow viewers worldwide a rare chance to sneak behind the curtain and see what the grind of a Major League season is all about. — It was announced on Wednesday that Netflix …