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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
2024 MLB farm system rankings: Post draft, trade deadline — A great deal has changed since we ranked all 30 MLB farm systems going into the 2024 season, with much of that change coming in the past few weeks with the next wave of prospects from the MLB draft and then front offices adding …
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Bleacher Nation, Dallas Morning News and NESN.com
University of Miami Athletics:
Miami Places Three Receivers on Biletnikoff Award Watch List — CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Three Hurricanes earned a spot on the preseason watch list for the 2024 Biletnikoff Award Watch List, as announced by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation. — Wide receivers Sam Brown …
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Associated Press:
Oakland Athletics agree to sell their stake in Coliseum — SAN FRANCISCO — The departing Oakland Athletics have reached a tentative agreement to sell their half of the Coliseum to a private Black development group for $125 million, paving the way for the group to build a giant entertainment …
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Susan Slusser / San Francisco Chronicle:
A's Billy Beane opens up on Oakland, the fans, the Coliseum and what's next — While the Oakland Athletics play their final season at the Coliseum, the team's largest presence the past two-plus decades is watching in the background, no longer making decisions but feeling the same sense of nostalgia and loss as the fan base.
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Mark Feinsand / MLB.com:
Baseball trailblazer Billy Bean, who dedicated life to inclusion, dies at 60 — Major League Baseball is mourning the loss of one of its own. — Billy Bean, the league's Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, passed away at his home on Tuesday after an 11-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
ESPN:
Manaea pitches scoreless ball in 2nd straight start, Mets beat Cardinals 6-0 in makeup game — ST. LOUIS — Sean Manaea won consecutive starts for the first time this season, Tyrone Taylor hit a three-run double from the No. 2 slot in the batting order and the New York Mets beat …
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New York Daily News, Faith and Fear in Flushing, Yahoo Sports, Amazin' Avenue and Bleacher Nation
Jackson Stone / MLB.com:
Smith's mad dash — and ‘freestyle’ slide — propel Sox in KC — KANSAS CITY — Dominic Smith's speed may have turned the tide of the Red Sox's playoff push. — The 224-pound first baseman isn't known for his legs, or his ability to swim around the tag, but Smith displayed both to steal …
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NBC Sports Boston and Associated Press
Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
MLB power rankings: Losers of 20 in a row, White Sox push for worst record ever — Forget the 1962 Mets and last year's Athletics and the 2003 Tigers and any number of potential WOATs (Worst Of All Time) that Major League Baseball has produced in the past half-century.
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MLB.com, Chicago Tribune, Bucs Dugout, Yahoo Sports and New York Times
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Associated Press:
White Sox lose 20th game in row, one shy of AL record — MINNEAPOLIS — Winless for almost a month, the Chicago White Sox are making the worst kind of history. — The woeful White Sox lost their 20th consecutive game Sunday, the majors' longest skid in 36 years and one short of the American League record …
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New York Times, Athletics Nation, Pinstripe Alley, Awful Announcing and Bleacher Nation
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
11 MLB hot takes with baseball entering dog days of summer — The Major League Baseball trade deadline has come and gone, the pennant races don't shift into high gear for another month, and while the clock is ticking on Chicago's South Side, there hasn't been a managerial or GM firing this season.
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Chicago Tribune
ESPN:
Ben Joyce throws MLB's fastest pitch in Angels' victory — ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ben Joyce retired all four hitters he faced in 1⅓ innings for his first big league save, and concluded the effort with a 104.7 mile per hour fastball, the fastest pitch in the majors this season …
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New York Daily News, baseballmusings.com, New York Post and Newsday
