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MLB set to hold first pre-draft combine in June
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Monday, 25 January 2021 12:10
Major League Baseball will hold its first-ever pre-draft combine June 20-28 in Cary, North Carolina, at the USA Baseball National Training Complex.The group of invited players will be chosen in consultation with MLB scouts, and the event will include a tournament involving 88 of those players through the 26th, to give scouts in-game looks of the players in addition to…
Taillon excited to join Yankees, reunite with Cole
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Monday, 25 January 2021 12:17
NEW YORK -- As Jameson Taillon's trade from Pittsburgh to the New York Yankees started to sink in, he thought about reuniting with former roommate Gerrit Cole."Every night you get a five-star cooked meal," Taillon said. "Even if he's cooking for himself, he's going to marinate whatever he's cooking properly. He's going to do everything with the perfect execution. He's…
Union rejects MLB bid for DH in NL, more playoffs
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Monday, 25 January 2021 13:54
The Major League Baseball Players Association has turned down the latest MLB proposal for the universal designated hitter and an expanded playoff format, sources confirmed to ESPN.The news was first reported by MLB Network.The union's stance has been all along that it did not want to talk about a trade of the universal DH -- which benefits a group of…
How timing and circumstance finally allowed the Blue Jays to land a star
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Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:38
All along, the plan of the Toronto Blue Jays had been to start looking for opportunities -- either in trades or in free-agent signings. The priority was to entrench the team's core of promising young players -- Bo Bichette, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Cavan Biggio and others -- in the big leagues, and then add to them. In front-office meetings in…
Predicting 40 active future Hall of Famers and their best Cooperstown comparisons
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Monday, 25 January 2021 09:13
It's Baseball Hall of Fame election week, and with nobody likely to get voted into Cooperstown when ballots are revealed Tuesday night, it seems like a perfect time to look ahead by predicting 40 active players who will eventually be Hall of Famers.Why 40? After all, that feels like a lot of Hall of Famers. History suggests, however, that that…
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