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MLB competition committee tinkers with pitch time, basepaths — Major League Baseball's competition committee approved several rule changes for the 2024 season, including subtracting two seconds from the pitch timer with men on base — from 20 to 18 seconds — while also widening the runner's lane to first.
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MLB Announces Modifications To Pitch Clock, Other Rule Changes — 1:27pm: In a statement, Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark announced that the players on the Competition Committee voted against today's slate of changes.
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Billie Eilish's bizarre jersey choice gives Peavy ‘huge street cred’ — The latest episode of Saturday Night Live had just ended. — The crew got together on stage to say their thank yous and goodbyes to the audience watching both inside the NBC studio and on TVs around the world.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto's free agency: The latest on each team still in the mix — As the MLB offseason rolls on, 25-year-old Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto remains a free agent. While his timeline for making a decision remains unclear — he has until Jan. 4 to do so based on his posting window …
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Pirates bring back Andrew McCutchen with one-year deal — Andrew McCutchen, who needs just one home run to reach 300 for his career, will return to the Pittsburgh Pirates on a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday. — The deal is worth $5 million deal, a source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto's free agency pits Yankees against Mets — In the more than six decades they have shared New York, the relationship between the Yankees and Mets has been mostly polite — strangely polite — with the notable exception of that jagged bat barrel Roger Clemens bounced across …
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Honoring the best MLB pitches of 2023: The good, the sweepy and the nasty — It's nearing the end of the year, which means it's time for us to look back on the good and the bad we saw this season. Between the last-minute gift shopping and travel planning, productivity at work has probably not been the highest this week, right?
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Sources: C.J. Stroud dealing with concussion symptoms, set to miss Browns game, with Case Keenum to start again — Texans add former Jets quarterback Tim Boyle to practice squad — HOUSTON - Texans starting quarterback C.J. Stroud is still dealing with concussion symptoms and is expected …
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Counsell, Cubs to finalize staff with addition of bullpen, catching coaches: Sources — Sources confirmed to The Athletic that Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell has added bullpen coach Darren Holmes and catching coach Mark Strittmatter to his coaching staff.
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$1 billion boon? How Shohei Ohtani's contract could make Dodgers MLB financial kings — There is an old saying in business that you need to have money to make money. — The Dodgers are one of baseball's richest teams, and thanks to the highly unusual structure of their contract with Shohei Ohtani …
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Which teams could land top slugger Cody Bellinger? — When agent Scott Boras has multiple puns ready about a free agent of his, it usually means he has a good one. That certainly is the case for 28-year-old Cody Bellinger, who possesses the best left-handed production of any player left available.
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Red Sox hire former Yankees hitting coach as coordinator — Dillon Lawson, the New York Yankees' former big-league hitting coach, has joined the Boston Red Sox as a hitting coordinator, Lawson told The Athletic. His focus will be on working with the club's upper-level minor leaguers.
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2023 MLB Pre-Arbitration Bonus Pool — The allocation of the 2023 Major League Baseball pre-arbitration bonus pool, as determined by the collective bargaining agreement. An eligible player gets $2.5 million for winning a MVP or Cy Young Award, $1.75 million for second in the voting …