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Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal:
Baseball's Pitcher Injury Crisis Reaches Maximum Velocity — Spencer Strider and Shane Bieber are the latest aces to go down as major league pitchers keep pushing for more velocity and increasingly dramatic breaking pitches — No one knows more about the pitcher injury crisis sweeping …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Why MLB must act now on alarming rate of pitching injuries — It's all so ugly. Every day, it seems, another ulnar collateral ligament falls prey to the mere act of throwing a baseball. In a recent 48-hour period, Eury Perez, Shane Bieber and Spencer Strider — the best young pitcher in baseball …
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Jorge Castillo / ESPN:
Yankees Gerrit Cole ‘disheartened’ by pitching injury discourse — NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole threw a baseball for the first time in four weeks Monday. He threw it 25 times from 60 feet. He noted 22 of the 25 tosses hit his target. — The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week …
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New York Times:
Ohtani's Former Interpreter Is Said to Be Negotiating a Guilty Plea — Ippei Mizuhara stands accused of covering his gambling debts by stealing millions of dollars from Shohei Ohtani's bank account. — Ippei Mizuhara, the former translator for Shohei Ohtani who was fired late …
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Ex-Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias charged with five misdemeanors — Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias has been charged with five misdemeanors in the wake of his September arrest on suspicion of felony domestic violence. — The charges, filed to Los Angeles Superior Court …
Tim Keown / ESPN:
Inside the meetings that officially moved the A's from Oakland to Sacramento — THIS WAS John Fisher's moment. It was a cold and rainy morning at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, with the microphone glitching whenever Kings owner Vivek Ranadive tried to heap praise upon the Oakland Athletics owner …
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Source: Orioles calling up top prospect Jackson Holliday — The Baltimore Orioles are calling up infielder Jackson Holliday, the No. 1 prospect in baseball, after a torrid start at Triple-A this season, a source told ESPN on Tuesday night. — The 20-year-old Holliday …
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Fernando Tatis Jr. HR caps Padres comeback from 8-run deficit — MLB, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs — SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a go-ahead, two-run home run with two outs in the eighth — two innings after the Padres scored seven runs — and San Diego stunned the Chicago Cubs 9-8 Monday night.
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ESPN:
Framber Valdez (elbow) scratched from start, as Astros win — ARLINGTON, Texas — The Houston Astros scratched All-Star left-hander Framber Valdez from his scheduled start Monday night against the Texas Rangers because of left elbow soreness. — Manager Joe Espada said Valdez played catch Sunday and reported soreness in the elbow.
ESPN:
Nationals star pitcher Stephen Strasburg officially retires at 35 — Stephen Strasburg, the 2019 World Series MVP whose pitching career was derailed by injuries, has officially retired from baseball. — Strasburg, 35, was a hard-throwing right-hander who was the No. 1 overall pick …
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