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MLB Rank 2024: Ranking baseball's top 100 players — Opening Day is almost here, which means it's time to ask the question that's on everyone's mind: Who will be the best player of the 2024 MLB season? — To create our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in the sport …
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Gordon Wittenmyer / Cincinnati.com:
‘I assumed I was coming back’: Joey Votto ‘grateful’ for Blue Jays, chance to prove himself — DUNEDIN, Florida — The practice fields were empty, the big-league side of the Toronto Blue Jays spring training complex quiet except for a groundskeeper who watered a back field and another …
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Keegan Matheson / MLB.com:
Votto agrees to non-roster invite deal with Blue Jays (source) — DUNEDIN, FLA. — Joey Votto is coming home. — One of the greatest Canadian players in baseball history has signed a non-roster deal with the Blue Jays, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand.
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Reds' Noelvi Marte suspended 80 games after testing positive for PED — Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte has received an 80-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Boldenone, a performance-enhancing substance, the league announced Friday.
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Charlie Goldsmith / Cincinnati.com:
How Noelvi Marte's suspension will impact the Reds' lineup — GOODYEAR, Ariz — Before Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte received an 80-game suspension for violating MLB's performance-enhancing drug policy, he was in line to receive about six-to-nine starts out of every 10 games.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Trevor Bauer dominates in pitching appearance vs. Los Angeles Dodgers minor leaguers — PHOENIX — It's only a quarter-mile walk from the clubhouse to Field 6 on the back fields of the Los Angeles Dodgers' spring-training complex, but on Sunday afternoon, it might as well have been to the moon and back.
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Ranking all 30 farm systems — We rank farm systems twice a year, and while we spend a lot of time breaking them down, evaluating the talents of 5,000 players across 30 different organizations is a fairly impossible task. We often joke that one team congratulates us on placing them perfectly …
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Tim Healey / Newsday:
Mets contemplating moving Brandon Nimmo from leadoff spot — PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Brandon Nimmo, leadoff hitter extraordinaire, soon might abandon that part of his identity. — The Mets are considering batting Nimmo somewhere other than first, he said, and he is very much open to the possibility.
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Jordan McPherson / Miami Herald:
Watch Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara throw for first time since Tommy John surgery — Sandy Alcantara said he couldn't sleep Friday night. He was too excited about what was going to happen the next day. — For the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery five months ago in early October, Alcantara threw a baseball.
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Alice Callahan / New York Times:
Don't Let Daylight Saving Time Ruin Your Sleep — Here's how to feel well rested when the clocks spring forward on Sunday. — Daffodils are blooming, temperatures are rising, days are lengthening — all sure signs of spring. But another, less welcome change is afoot: At 2 a.m. on Sunday …
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Eric Samulski / NBCSports.com:
Post hype hitters for fantasy baseball 2024 — When it comes to fantasy sports, we love a breakout. We spend days analyzing (or reading about) metrics that might suggest a player who's set to hit a new level or emerge into a role we never saw coming for them.
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Laura Albanese / Newsday:
Francis Mendoza, wife of Mets manager Carlos, sacrificed her career as dentist in Venezuela so husband could chase dream — Francis Mendoza spent six years in college following in her father's footsteps. She spent one year working alongside him at his dental practice in Venezuela …
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar sidelined by torso soreness, undergoing evaluations — In today's 10 a.m. “Ten Hochman” video from Cardinals spring training — brought to you by Siteman Cancer Center — Ben Hochman discusses Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar, who arrived to camp on Thursday.
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