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Teams in minors joining college wood-bat league
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 13:50
The Texas Collegiate League, a wood-bat summer circuit for college players, is being expanded to include several minor league franchises, the league announced Thursday.Five affiliated minor league teams will host newly created teams in the in a 30-game season that begins July 3. While the league is an amateur circuit, the news marks some of the first tangible plans for…
Cora: Astros' sign-stealing wasn't two-man show
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 14:47
Former Red Sox manager and Astros bench coach Alex Cora is taking responsibility for his role in the sign-stealing saga, but he isn't ready to shoulder all the blame.Cora received a one-year suspension after the commissioner's office found he played a pivotal role in the Astros' illegal sign-stealing scheme the year they won the World Series in 2017. He then…
Kiley McDaniel: My favorite and least favorite MLB draft picks
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:30
I was told that the 2020 MLB draft would be wild, and I was lulled into a false sense of security by last year's chalky top of the draft. We had true mayhem on Day 1 and I'll use the favorite/head-scratcher format to break it down, but there wasn't a truly "what in the world are they doing?" pick --…
The 10 best players available on Day 2 of MLB draft
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Thursday, 11 June 2020 05:54
The first night of the 2020 MLB draft is in the books, but there are still several big names left on draft boards whom some expected to be long gone by Day 2. Among them are prep stars expecting bigger money to lure them away from their college commitments and college players with intriguing tools who could be excellent second-day…
Two-time All-Star Claudell Washington, 65, dies
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Wednesday, 10 June 2020 22:26
Claudell Washington, a two-time All-Star outfielder who played 17 seasons in the majors after being called up as a teenager by the Oakland Athletics, has died. He was 65.Washington died early Wednesday morning in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to his friend, A's scout and former major leaguer Shooty Babitt. Washington had been facing prostate cancer.Babitt, who followed Washington's…
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