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Scott Ostler / San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland in talks with MLB to get expansion team, if city extends A's lease — There is a glimmer of hope for Oakland's future as a home for a major-league baseball team, and for the development of the Coliseum site. — Although the Athletics intend to leave town forever …
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Bleed Cubbie Blue, Athletics Nation and NBC Sports Bay Area …
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Evan Drellich / The Athletic:
Sacramento emerging as front-runner to host Oakland A's from 2025-27 — Sacramento is the front-runner to host the A's from 2025-27 before they move to Las Vegas, a person briefed on the team's search process told The Athletic on Friday. — Salt Lake City and a return to the Oakland Coliseum …
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NBC Sports Bay Area …, MLB Trade Rumors, Mercury News and Athletics Nation
Tim Keown / ESPN:
Athletics discuss potential lease extension with local government — The Oakland Athletics, still seeking a temporary home as they await their move to Las Vegas, met with officials from the city of Oakland and Alameda County on Thursday to discuss the possibility of extending their lease …
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NBC Sports Bay Area … and Mercury News
Rob Longley / Toronto Sun:
Will new routine, new look lead to better version of Blue Jays' Vlad Guerrero, Jr.? — DUNEDIN, Fla. — Blue Jays position players aren't due to report here for full-on spring training duty until Monday, though that hasn't stopped many keeners from getting to the player development complex for an early start.
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Rob Longley / Toronto Sun:
Trimmed-down Alek Manoah ready to kick butt, rather than the other way around
Trimmed-down Alek Manoah ready to kick butt, rather than the other way around
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The Athletic and Bluebird Banter
Alex Pavlovic / NBC Sports Bay Area & California:
Giants fan favorite Sandoval to join camp as non-roster invitee — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Giants will honor their 2014 team in August, and with Brandon Crawford still a free agent, they have been without any members of that roster for the first time. That's about to change.
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Chicago Tribune, The Athletic, MLB Trade Rumors and Covering the Corner
Lynn Worthy / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals' highly touted prospect Tekoah Roby will introduce himself in big-league camp — Video by Allie Schallert, aschallert@post-dispatch.com — JUPITER, Fla. — Tekoah Roby and Tink Hence were just two high school baseball players whose pursuit of big-league dreams brought them to Hoover, Alabama, in the summer of 2019.
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Viva El Birdos
Tanya Basu / Morning Call:
Why did the Lehigh Valley get so much snow from sleeper winter storm? Here's what happened. — A perfect storm of weather events led to part of region getting more than a foot of snow — For the second time this week, Lehigh Valley residents woke up to snow.
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Delaware County Times and New Jersey Online
Thomas Harrigan / MLB.com:
College player hit by pitch 7 times in 8 plate appearances over 1 doubleheader — Sacramento State's Matt Masciangelo happy to ‘take the on-base-percentage bump’ — Sacramento State outfielder Matt Masciangelo won't soon forget his performance to open the 2024 season …
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Sacramento State, New York Post and Yahoo Sports
Associated Press:
Phillies' Alec Bohm to earn $4M after winning arbitration case — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Alec Bohm beat the Philadelphia Phillies in salary arbitration Friday, clinching the players' first winning record since 2019. — The third baseman and first baseman was given a $4 million salary rather …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Phillies Nation, Associated Press and MLB Trade Rumors
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
MLB's hottest commodity, White Sox ace Dylan Cease opens up about trade rumors — “I just don't know where I'll end up,” said Cease, the 2022 AL Cy Young runner-up. — GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dylan Cease plopped down on the picnic bench Thursday afternoon outside the Chicago White Sox's clubhouse …
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MLB Trade Rumors
Associated Press:
Padres shift Xander Bogaerts to 2B, tab Ha-Seong Kim as SS — PEORIA, Ariz. — Xander Bogaerts is moving to second base to clear the way for 2023 Gold Glove utilityman Ha-Seong Kim to take over as the San Diego Padres' shortstop. — This move comes one year after the Padres signed Bogaerts to an 11-year, $280 million contract.
Dan Szymborski / FanGraphs Baseball:
ZiPS 2024 Top 100 Prospects — Cubs VP of Scouting Dan Kantrovitz on the Amateur Draft and His Evolving Role — How's My Driving? — A Visual Scouting Primer: Pitching, Part One — Blake Butera Is Understandably Bullish on Tampa Bay's Prospect Pipeline — 2024 Top 100 Prospects
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Red Reporter, Athletics Nation, Bleacher Nation, Battery Power, Lone Star Ball and Covering the Corner