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Boone to join Yankees group meeting with Soto
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Monday, 11 November 2024 11:02
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsNEW YORK -- Now that Aaron Boone knows he's returning to the New York Yankees as manager for the 2025 season, his focus will be on convincing Juan Soto to join him.Boone on Monday confirmed he will join the Yankees' delegation -- led by owner Hal Steinbrenner -- traveling to California next week for a meeting with Soto,…
Pete Rose's posthumous Baseball Hall of Fame argument
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Monday, 11 November 2024 11:02
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsTHIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a single sentence from baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti still reverberates: "The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed." Those words, which cemented Pete Rose's lifetime ban for gambling on the team he managed, landed like a gavel in August 1989: authoritative, unambiguous, final -- and yet wholly untrue.Rose was 83 years old when he…
Police: Franco arrested in D.R. after altercation
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Monday, 11 November 2024 07:43
EmailPrintTampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was arrested Monday in San Juan de la Maguana, 100 miles west of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic after what two police sources said was an altercation Sunday in the parking lot of an apartment complex in which guns were drawn.Police sources confirm that Franco and an unnamed woman are being held for…
Trout vs. Harper in October? No Astros title in 2017? What if every World Series was between No. 1 seeds?
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Monday, 11 November 2024 04:15
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsFor just the third time since 2012, the teams with each league's best regular-season record met in the World Series. What if that happened every year?For decades, that was how Major League Baseball worked. The best players on the best teams went from the top of the standings on the final day of the regular season directly to…
Source: Marlins tab Dodgers' McCullough manager
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Sunday, 10 November 2024 15:33
EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsThe Miami Marlins are hiring former Los Angeles Dodgers first-base coach Clayton McCullough as their new manager, a source familiar with the situation told ESPN on Sunday.McCullough, 44, spent the past four seasons on Dave Roberts' coaching staff in L.A., the last of which ended in a championship. He succeeds Skip Schumaker, who was not brought back at…
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