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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Fritz Peterson, Yankee Pitcher in an Unusual ‘Trade,’ Dies at 82 — He was a leading light on an undistinguished team. But he became known less for his achievement on the field than for exchanging wives with a teammate. — Fritz Peterson, who was a stalwart pitcher for the ineffectual Yankees …
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Michael Blinn / New York Post:
Ex-Yankee Fritz Peterson, who swapped wives with teammate Mike Kekich, dead at 82 — Ex-Yankees pitcher Fritz Peterson, a winner of 109 games for the Bronx Bombers and a 1970 All-Star, has died. — He was 82 years old. — Peterson, who overcame prostate cancer and revealed to The Post …
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Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
Fritz Peterson Passes Away — Former All-Star pitcher Fritz Peterson has passed away at age 82. The Yankees announced the news this evening and offered their condolences to Peterson's family. … A Chicago native, Peterson attended Northern Illinois before signing with the Yankees.
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ESPN:
Salvador Perez homers, Bobby Witt Jr. scores 4 times as Royals beat Mets 11-7 — NEW YORK — Salvador Perez hit his milestone 250th homer and Bobby Witt Jr. scored four times to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 11-7 win over the New York Mets on Saturday.
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Mets stop Royals' 7-game winning streak with 6-1 victory behind Severino, Baty and Alonso — NEW YORK — Pete Alonso homered and Luis Severino earned his first win for the New York Mets, who snapped Kansas City's seven-game winning streak Friday night with a 6-1 victory over the Royals.
Ken Rosenthal / The Athletic:
Free-agent outfielder Tommy Pham close to minor-league deal with White Sox: Sources — Tommy Pham, the free-agent outfielder who helped the Arizona Diamondbacks reach the 2023 World Series last season only to be unemployed for the next five months, finally is on the verge of finding a new club.
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Brady Farkas / Sports Illustrated:
New York Yankees' Duo Doing Something Not Done in More Than 50 Years in Early Going — The New York Yankees are out to a fantastic start with Aaron Judge and Juan Soto leading the way offensively. Together, the pair is doing something that hasn't been done in the last 50 years of team history in the early going.
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MLB Trade Rumors, Pinstripe Alley and New Jersey Online
Associated Press:
Red Sox's Kenley Jansen says slick baseballs hard to control — BOSTON — Kenley Jansen is upset with the quality of baseballs. — “I got to get better, but also if you're playing in the cold weather, windy, and you get pearls balls out there that's not rubbed well, I don't know where the ball's going …
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Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal:
How the Biggest Agency in Sports Got Blindsided by the Shohei Ohtani Scandal — The Japanese superstar entrusted almost every aspect of his life to his representatives at CAA, but according to prosecutors, the infrastructure they built around him was easily compromised by Ohtani's interpreter
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Slate and True Blue LA
ESPN:
Sources: Bad Bunny-led agency faces MLBPA sanctions — William Arroyo, the main baseball agent for the Bad Bunny-led agency Rimas Sports, had his Major League Baseball Players Association certification revoked after a union investigation into complaints from other agents about improper benefits provided …
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The Athletic, True Blue LA, The Good Phight, MLB Trade Rumors, Yahoo Sports, Associated Press and New York Post
Jack Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Shohei Ohtani grateful for investigation into ex-interpreter: ‘Id like to focus on baseball’ — Just hours after Shohei Ohtanis ex-interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, surrendered to authorities Friday on charges that he stole more than $16 million from the Dodgers' two-way star …
Rob Longley / Toronto Sun:
‘ANGEL ON HIS SHOULDER’: How Blue Jays' Davis Schneider got his family to smile again — It is indeed the day the Schneider family started to smile again and it was so much more than a long-shot son and a brother making a Major League Baseball debut for the ages. — STORY CONTINUES BELOW
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