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Nationals star slugger Soto traded to Padres: reports

Washington (AFP) - Washington Nationals slugger Juan Soto and first baseman Josh Bell were sent to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday at the Major League Baseball trade deadline, according to multiple reports.

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White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson suspended 3 games for making contact with plate umpire

CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson received a three-game suspension and fine from Major League Baseball for making contact with umpire Nick Marley after his ejection during the seventh inning of Friday night’s loss to the Oakland A’s.

Chicago Tribune

MLB to Congress: Without our antitrust exemption, players and fans lose

LOS ANGELES — Would minor league players be paid more if they could negotiate freely with every team?

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Iconic Red Sox slugger Ortiz enters Baseball Hall of Fame

New York (AFP) - Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, whose batting helped spark the club to three Major League Baseball titles, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

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Blue Jays score club-record 28 runs to thrash Red Sox

Washington (AFP) - The Toronto Blue Jays pummelled the Red Sox 28-5 in Boston on Friday, setting a franchise record for runs and coming up just shy of the Major League Baseball modern record for runs in a game.

AFP

Scots baseball player on road to stardom signed by US Major League team

Gabriel Rincones Jr, who plays with a glove emblazoned with a saltire, is on his way to Philadelphia after being drafted by a Major League Baseball (MLB) team.

Daily Record

From Fife to the Phillies – Gabriel Rincones Jr hopes to make MLB impact

The 21-year-old grew up in Glenrothes.

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It definitely paid off for Kyler Murray to choose football over baseball

The Oakland Athletics' are paying $48.5 in salary to their entire team. Murray's extension is worth $46.1 million per year.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Las Vegas Strip Gets Closer to Its Major League Dreams

The city has become the clear favorite to land its next pro sports team.

The Street

Helene Elliott: MLB All-Star Game provides a fun, big league escape for players and fans

LOS ANGELES — Baseball's All-Star Game was a sweet treat, a refreshingly icy blast on a hot July afternoon, a nod to the game's tradition that featured enough new wrinkles and fresh personalities to make it entertaining and help keep the All-Star format vibrant for years to come.

Los Angeles Times

Stanton, Buxton homer as American League keep All-Star Game streak alive

Los Angeles (AFP) - Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton and Minnesota's Byron Buxton hit back-to-back home runs to key the American League's 3-2 victory in the 92nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday.

AFP

2022 MLB draft, Day 3 tracker: Orioles close final day by taking seven pitchers, including a 7-foot left-hander

The Orioles completed the 2022 Major League Baseball draft Tuesday with their picks in the 11th through 20th rounds.

Tribune News Service

Bryce Miller: How Ty France earned singular respect of Manny Machado, baseball

One day in Peoria, Ariz., in the middle of mundane and relentless spring-training drills, Ty France decided to up the ante with one of the most confident and established players in Major League Baseball.

Tribune News Service

Congress asks Rob Manfred for MLB antitrust rationale in letter

The Senate Judiciary Committee got right to the point in a letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred on Monday: If America's other major sports have to follow antitrust law, why should baseball remain exempt from that law?

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Pitch clocks, shift limits, larger bases in MLB's future

Major League Baseball is considering a pitch clock for next year along with shift limits, larger bases and restrictions on pickoff attempts

Tribune News Service

Mets, Yankees make first round draft selections

Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft kicked off on Sunday night, and the Big Apple’s teams made three picks.

Los Angeles Times

Jorge Castillo: Angels should follow Nationals’ Juan Soto blueprint with Shohei Ohtani

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Major League Baseball world was upended Saturday. That’s what happens when a player of Juan Soto’s caliber is said to be on the trade market.

Los Angeles Times

Druw Jones part of a growing class of next-gen stars with last-gen bloodlines

LOS ANGELES — Pull up to Dodger Stadium on Tuesday and you’ll watch the best baseball players in the world on the same field for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. Shohei Ohtani. Aaron Judge. Mookie Betts. Mike Trout.

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Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred says MLB antitrust exemption has one 'meaningful' use. Here's what it is.

NEW YORK — To baseball fans across America, the time-honored cry of summer is this: Kill the ump!

Los Angeles Times

Major League Baseball agrees to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle lawsuit

As Major League Baseball agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the league had violated federal wage laws in compensating minor leaguers, an advocacy group called the settlement a "first step" toward overhauling the minor league pay structure.

Tribune News Service

Rays’ Shane McClanahan furthers All-Star starter bid in win over Red Sox

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If American League/Astros manager Dusty Baker or Major League Baseball officials somehow need any more convincing that Shane McClanahan deserves to start next week’s All-Star Game, he gave it to them Wednesday.

The Conversation

Hotter temperatures increase violent behaviour in Major League Baseball

We normally associate the arrival of warmer weather with positive experiences, such as vacations, walks on the beach and evenings eating on outdoor patios with friends. However, exposure to heat can also generate negative feelings that lead to socially inappropriate behaviour, such as excessive violence in sports.

Tribune News Service

How much baseball do baseball players watch when they aren’t at the ballpark?

NEW YORK — Baseball players work some very strange hours.

Los Angeles Times

Why haven’t MLB and players agreed on an international draft? Money, mistrust and more.

LOS ANGELES — In two weeks, Dodger Stadium, after 42 years, will finally host the MLB All-Star Game again. Stars will descend. Celebrities will surface. Major League Baseball will cash checks.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernandez: Leave Japanese pitching phenom Rōki Sasaki out of proposed MLB international draft

LOS ANGELES — He could be the best pitching prospect to ever come from the same Japanese prefecture that produced Shohei Ohtani.

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