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Rockies sign slugger Cron to minor league deal
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Monday, 15 February 2021 10:08
The Colorado Rockies signed first baseman C.J. Cron to a minor league contract Monday. Cron also received an invitation to major league spring training.The Rockies' addition of the right-handed-hitting Cron follows the team's signing of first baseman Greg Bird, who bats left-handed, last week. Bird also signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.Josh Fuentes and Ryan…
Dog sleds, magic tricks and autographs: What spring training is and what it won't be now
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Monday, 15 February 2021 04:23
Spring training has arrived. It might sound cliché, even corny, but for those who love baseball, these are the best four words in the English language:Pitchers and catchers report.Spring training signals that winter and cold weather soon will be gone, ahead is sunshine, warmth, hope, grass as green as a highway sign and road trips to and across Florida and…
One 2021 breakout prospect for all 30 MLB teams
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Monday, 15 February 2021 03:45
For the breakout prospects portion of this year's look at the top young players in baseball, I'm looking at prospects ranking below a 45+ future value (FV sums up the total future value of a player into one number). Drawing the line there removes the top 167 prospects in baseball and pinpoints the best candidates to move up in 2021…
A's bring back Petit; add Romo, too, sources say
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Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:16
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veteran reliever Yusmeiro Petit has agreed to a $2.55 million, one-year contract to stay with the Oakland Athletics, pending a physical, his agent said.The deal could pay the right-handed Petit up to $3 million based on incentives for games pitched, agent Rafael Godoy said Sunday night."He's excited to return. It was his first choice all along,'' Godoy…
Dollars and years are disappearing from MLB free agents
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Sunday, 14 February 2021 04:50
As negotiations between MLB players and owners reached their apex last summer, the union held together strongly, with Max Scherzer and Jack Flaherty and others taking to social media to collectively reflect the group's insistence on 100% pay.But it seemed even then that inevitably the owners would find ways to offset revenues that were diminished by conducting games without fans…
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