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8:40 AM ET Nolan Arenado need not worry about the impact of the free-agent market on his financial future, nor should Aaron Hicks or any of the other players who have landed multiyear deals recently. You can debate whether they could’ve gotten more money by waiting until next fall, but the newly signed players at
8:05 PM ET Spring training has seen its share of weird injuries — players sidelined by tripping over sprinklers or toweling their head too hard or throwing out their gum. New York Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo added a new one on Wednesday. Nimmo was sidelined by food poisoning, brought on by eating undercooked chicken he
6:06 PM ET Bryce Harper is still a free agent, but one Las Vegas sportsbook has him as the favorite to win the National League MVP regardless. Odds for MVP, Cy Young Awards NL MVP Bryce Harper, FA 6-1 Nolan Arenado, COL 7-1 Paul Goldschmidt, STL 10-1 Kris Bryant, CHC 12-1 Freddie Freeman, ATL 18-1
5:15 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — San Francisco Giants pitcher Pat Venditte figures he has an advantage if Major League Baseball and the players’ association adopt a three-batter minimum for pitchers starting in 2020: The 33-year-old reliever is a switch-pitcher. The rule, if adopted, might cause less use of left-handed relief specialists. That
7:41 PM ET The San Francisco Giants held a second meeting with free-agent slugger Bryce Harper in Las Vegas on Tuesday, ESPN has confirmed. Giants CEO Larry Baer and president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi were in the meeting with Harper and his agent, Scott Boras, according to the Mercury-News, which was first to report
6:56 AM ET Once the regular season starts, there are 750 players on major league rosters, not counting guys on the injured list or the four Dodgers en route at any given time from Triple-A Oklahoma City to Los Angeles. You can’t talk about all of them! But here’s a list of 30 players, one
12:29 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Colorado Rockies slugger Nolan Arenado says “at the end of the day my heart was here” and he wants to emulate Todd Helton and Derek Jeter by spending his entire career with one team, explaining why he gave up a chance to become a free agent after
11:25 AM ET Major League Baseball audio-visual game feeds as well as official real-time statistics will be distributed to international sportsbooks beginning this season through a wide-ranging partnership with data intelligence provider Sportradar, announced on Wednesday. Official real-time statistics will be collected at every ballpark by MLB and distributed by Sportradar to both media companies,
10:52 AM ET Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora says a member of the team is dealing with a “family emergency” without disclosing further details. Cora’s comments were preceded by the Red Sox canceling media availablity for the rest of the team. No details about the emergency or the player affected have been released. David