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Phillies’ José Alvarado will bring opposing hitters a third pitch this season: a ‘nasty’ curveball

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Last Monday, switch-hitting Pittsburgh slugger Carlos Santana stepped up to the plate against left-hander José Alvarado in the fourth inning of the Pirates-Phillies Grapefruit League game in Bradenton. The first six pitches of the at-bat went about how you’d expect. Alvarado threw Santana a 98 mph sinker,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Connor Joe's career winds back to where it began with Pirates, versatility in hand

BRADENTON, Fla. — Connor Joe's journeyman career wasn't projected to transpire as such, at least not initially.

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Jason Mackey: Milestones such as 30-30 or 40-40 could be the new Statcast for Pirates' Oneil Cruz in 2023

LAKELAND, Fla. — When Oneil Cruz was promoted to the major leagues last season, he essentially put Statcast on notice, warning that “whatever is going to get broken is going to get broken.”

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Orioles, Pirates don’t need umpires to finish game

The teams played an unneeded bottom of the ninth so players could get in more work.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB umpires just accidentally proved in spring training how useless they are

Umpireless games are good!

USA Today Sports Media Group

Spring training strangeness: Orioles, Pirates play without umpires in bottom of ninth inning

BRADENTON, Fla. — Welcome to spring training, where the rules are made up and the games do not matter.

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Orioles, Pirates Play Extra Half-Inning Without Umpires (Video)

The two teams agreed to continue playing after the game was technically over.

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Pirates and Orioles played a sandlot-style inning of baseball after the umpires left the field

A baseball inning ... without umpires?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ron Cook: Steve Cohen's spending is ruining baseball? That's rich.

PITTSBURGH — The New York Mets' opening-day payroll this season is projected to be $345.1 million, according to Cot's Baseball Contracts. That is $74 million more than the New York Yankees will spend as the next-highest-paying team. The Mets also are expected to pay nearly $100 million in luxury tax,…

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Joe Starkey: Pirates have fascinating situation developing at premium position

PITTSBURGH — Could we start talking actual baseball, please?

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Atlanta Braves 2023 Spring Training Schedule, Location and TV/Streaming Guide

The Atlanta Braves will kick off the 2023 baseball season with their first spring training game on Saturday with streaming options.

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Bill Shaikin: Padres' Peter Seidler, baseball's risky spender: 'There's a risk to doing nothing'

PEORIA, Ariz. — These are supposed to be the magical weeks of optimism. No team has lost a game yet, not even an exhibition. As a fan, you can dream that this is the year your team roars into the World Series, or sneaks into the playoffs, or delights in…

Los Angeles Times

Catcher Andrew Knapp had a nomadic upbringing, but he's looking for a home in Detroit

LAKELAND, Fla. — Up until last year, Andrew Knapp enjoyed a fairly stable baseball life. He’d spent the first eight seasons catching for one organization — the Phillies. Drafted in 2013, he debuted in 2017 and was J.T. Realmuto’s back-up catcher from 2019-2021.

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It wasn’t easy, but No. 20 UConn earns 64-55 victory over Seton Hall

STORRS, Conn. — It wasn’t pretty, but the 20th-ranked UConn men’s basketball team used a second-half sprint to avoid another upset against Seton Hall, winning 64-55 in Gampel Pavilion on Saturday.

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Seton Hall at UConn Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Seton Hall at UConn preview, prediction, and breakdown for the college basketball game on Saturday, February 18

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Jason Mackey: What could -- and should -- the Pirates do to address the Bryan Reynolds situation?

BRADENTON, Fla. — Bryan Reynolds' comments Wednesday weren't terribly surprising. He didn't bash the Pirates or rescind his trade request. He simply explained, in his own understated way, where things stood between him and the team.

Chicago Sun-Times

Palatine shocks Rolling Meadows, wins MSL title for the first time in 30 years

Palatine fans engulfed their team to celebrate the school’s first Mid-Suburban League championship in 30 years.

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Bradenton, the Pirates' Florida hub, has been defined by a century of baseball

When what was formerly known as Bradenton's City Park opened in 1923, Major League Baseball's commissioner at the time, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, arrived for pregame festivities on a biplane piloted by a Manatee County official.

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Newcastle Herald

Waratah-Mayfield visit part of Cook's cricket journey

"I got picked in the NSW Country under-19 team so I just wanted to play a bit higher standard of cricket."

Sports Illustrated

Report: Vanessa Hudgens, Rockies’ Cole Tucker Are Engaged

The ‘High School Musical’ star and Colorado’s recent signee are set to tie the knot.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Let These College Hoops Games Fill Your Football Void

It’s a loaded slate this weekend.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trea Turner’s path to Phillies’ $300 million man began as a baby-faced freshman at N.C. State

RALEIGH, N.C. — During Trea Turner’s three years at North Carolina State, the only opponents who could stop him were the ones manning the entrances to the local taprooms. When Turner was a freshman, his buddies on the baseball team would bar-hop on Friday and Saturday nights, many of them…

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SF Giants add catching depth by signing two-time Gold Glove winner: report

With Joey Bart and Austin Wynns left as the only players in the Giants organization who had caught a game in the major leagues, and just Bart left on the 40-man roster, addressing the depth behind the plate was one of the last items left on Farhan Zaidi’s offseason to-do…

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Paul Zeise: Feel-good stories and prospect progress are nice, but the Pirates need to win

PITTSBURGH — The news that Andrew McCutchen had signed with the Pirates was incredible and predictably and rightfully was received with open arms and enthusiasm from fans and observers of all shapes and sizes and from all corners of Pirates nation.

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Jason Mackey: What have the Pirates accomplished during a (surprisingly) busy offseason?

Ben Cherington's first three offseasons as Pirates general manager were marked more by learning or outgoing trades than by any foray into free agency.

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