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• Scott Boras fires back at rumor about Alex Bregman

Top MLB agent Scott Boras went out of his way to address a rumor about free-agent third baseman Alex Bregman....2025
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• Scott Boras shames MLB teams for sitting out free agency: 'They're making more, but they're not spending'

Three of CBS Sports' top 10 free agents remain unsigned...2025
• Pete Alonso free agency: Would a short-term contract actually make sense for former Mets slugger?

Alonso and agent Scott Boras have reportedly pitched the Mets on a three-year deal...2025
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• Who will play shortstop for the Brewers in 2025?

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The loss of Willy Adames leaves a hole at shortstop; how can GM Matt Arnold fill that hole on a budget? Shortstop Willy Adames, acquired from Tampa Bay in 2021, quickly became one of the best players on the Brewers. After a somewhat down season in 2023, Adames’ 2024 was a different story. He hit .251 with 32 home runs and 3.1 WAR, finishing 10th in NL MVP v...2025
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• Could Orioles sign multiple players to extensions? | MAILBAG

Question: Gunnar Henderson, Jordan Westburg and Jackson Holliday are all represented by Scott Boras, who has said that he wants his young, talented clients to go into free agency. How will the Oriole deal with the potentially very large salaries in 2026, 2027? It seems to me that they will have to offer these three […]...2025
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• MLB insider warns Boston Red Sox ‘playing a game of chicken’ with agent Scott Boras for this All-Star free agent

One top MLB insider warns Boston about playing chicken with this top free agent and it could come back to bite them....2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?

Photo by Alex Bierens de Haan/MLB Photos via Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs should try to sign Alex Bregman on a short-term deal It’s another Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see all of you here, safe and sound. Please come in and join...2025
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’

Marquee Sports Network The outfielder was re-introduced as a Cub Wednesday afternoon. The Cubs re-introduced newly re-signed outfielder Cody Bellinger Wednesday afternoon to a group of media that was already quite familiar with him from his year with the team in 2023. And Bellinger referenced last year a couple of times, saying that the team had “unfinished business” from 2023 from missing...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Baseball at Sloan Park on Friday! First, I want to remind everyone that these posts exist mainly as an open thread to discuss baseball every day. They’re not exclusively about Cody Bellinger, and this series is going to end Friday when games begin. Perhaps Bellinger will sign with the Cubs by then, perhaps not, obviously if it happens it’ll be covered here. Sec...2024
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• Looking at projections for the 2024 Chicago Cubs

Jed Hoyer introduces Shōta Imanaga in January | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images This team seems incomplete at the moment. Every offseason I wait until the Cubs look like a quasi-finished project before writing up my thoughts on the new team. This year I waited longer than usual. Cubs Convention came and went. January turned into February. The ZiPS projections were released, so wa...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 17 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images We have all been here before. Today’s song selection: Or perhaps you’d like your déjà vu this way: The rest of this article is going to look very familiar. Déjà vu, if you like. This is a repeat from last Wednesday, because as of this morning, 15 of MLB Trade Rumors’ Top 50 Free Agents remain unsigned, just as they were last week. Here’s my best gues...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 23 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Let’s do something different today! Maybe I am a crowded mindI watch your eyes glaze overStared down at the floorYou were amazing to meI was amazing to youBut here we go again — O.A.R., “Love And Memories” Indeed, here we go again! The Cubs are the most likely landing spot for Cody Bellinger, multiple people in the baseball industry told me this week, although...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 32 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images And yet, many top free agents remain unsigned. This helpful list was posted last Thursday, January 18. I share it with you now because it’s still (mostly) up to date: MLBTR Top 50 FA unsigned on 1/18/23:ProfarChafinWachaon 1/18/24:BellingerSnellMontgomeryM. ChapmanHaderSolerJ.D. MartinezHoskinsStephensonClevingerA. ChapmanLorenzenUrshelaRosarioMerrifiel...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins discuss baseball operations

Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins outside Wrigley Field | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Cubs baseball operations brass had a morning session at CubsCon. Day two of the 2024 Cubs Convention kicked off with the baseball operations panel featuring Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer and General Manager Carter Hawkins. Like last year, the panel...2024
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• Cubs swing for the fences with Michael Busch

NATHAN J. FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs and Dodgers pulled off a rare prospect-for-prospect trade as Jed Hoyer gambles on a potentially game-changing bat. The Cubs made a bold move yesterday, dealing two promising, but very young, prospects for a major-league ready slugger. Yes, the Cubs also picked a right-handed reliever in Yency Almonte, but make no mistake, this deal ...2024
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• A few thoughts about how MLB free agent rumors are reported

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images They aren’t always what they appear to be. It seems to me that I’ve written an article like this before, though I can’t find anything specific to this topic right now. But even if I have, I think this sort of thing bears repeating. Every day I see articles written about teams “linked” to a certain free agent, or “interested” in that player, or “would make...2024
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• It's No Joke: The New-Look Cubs Are Ready to Win and Win Big in 2015
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"Pete Alonso’s market hasn’t come together the way he and agent Scott Boras had hoped just yet, though there’s still more than a month until pitchers and catchers report to spring training, leaving ample time for a deal to come together and still afford Alonso a normal spring training."

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"It’s just a matter of waiting out the staring contest between Jed Hoyer and Scott Boras."

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"According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Bellinger and agent Scott Boras…"

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"Bryce Harper is expected to return in the early months of 2023, according to his agent, Scott Boras."

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"Scott Boras, one of baseball's most influential agents, said the Atlanta Braves' World Series title was a direct result of tanking around Major League Baseball."

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"Scott Boras honors one of Kobe Bryant's final wishes by hiring Alexis Altobelli for internship"

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"Castellanos is one of the many Scott Boras-repped players populating the upper reaches of the open market."

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"The Padres and agent Scott Boras have “engaged in regular dialogue” regarding Eric Hosmer over the past few days, reports Dennis Lin of The Athletic."

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"With two of his Miami Marlin clients possibly on the trading block, agent Scott Boras says of the team, "we've seen one of our major-league jewelry stores become a pawn shop."

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"It’s a one-year deal (pending physical) for the Scott Boras client, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports adds on Twitter."

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"1 innings in 2015, has seen his agent, Scott Boras, advocating for a limit of 180."

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"As Max Scherzer assumes center stage on the MLB free-agent pitching market, agent Scott Boras is skipping the Jon Lester comparisons and likening him to a certain NFL Hall of Famer-in-waiting."

• Scott Boras shames MLB teams for sitting out free agency: 'They're making more, but they're not spending'
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• Pete Alonso free agency: Would a short-term contract actually make sense for former Mets slugger?
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• Who will play shortstop for the Brewers in 2025?
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• Could Orioles sign multiple players to extensions? | MAILBAG
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• MLB insider warns Boston Red Sox ‘playing a game of chicken’ with agent Scott Boras for this All-Star free agent
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• MLB rumors: Pete Alonso, Scott Boras pitch Mets on three-year contract, Yankees looking to move Marcus Stroman

Here are your hot stove rumors for Friday, Jan. 10...2025
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• MLB rumors: Pete Alonso, Scott Boras pitch Mets on three-year contract, Orioles add veteran reliever

Here are your hot stove rumors for Friday, Jan. 10...2025
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• Insider addresses wild Pete Alonso contract request report amid Mets rumors

It was reported earlier this week that agent Scott Boras had been using the nine-year, $214M deal that former slugger Prince Fielder received from the Tigers in 2012 as a comparison for what Alonso should get this offseason....2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?
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• Even for ‘Big-Spending’ Cubs, Pete Alonso Not a Consideration with Scott Boras Reportedly Seeking $200M+
The Cubs have done so little over the last week and change that the only columns I’ve written in the last five days have been about their offer to Hyeseong Kim and interest in Yoán Moncada. And they don’t even have the recent blizzard to blame because their inactivity has gone on longer than my … The post Even for ‘Big-Spending’ Cubs, Pete Alonso Not a Consideration w...2025
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• Who will play shortstop for the Brewers in 2025?
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports An uneven start to the season. I didn’t set out to be a baseball writer. I just kind of fell into it. I was sitting in the same spot that you, the reader, occupied back in 2017 and even before. I loved this space from its creation and was a commenter on a regular basis. When its previous writer rode off into the sunset after the 2016 championship, I was just ...2024
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• Cub Tracks just wants the year over with

Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. There are a few things to read and talk about. Happy end of year. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then...2023
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• A Cubsmas Advent Calendar: Cody Bellinger was the NL Comeback Player of the Year

Cody Bellinger hits a home run against the Diamondbacks in September | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Will he continue to thrive in 2024 — and if he does, will it be with the Cubs? This is Day 11 of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. Yesterday I wrote about the impact Adbert Alzolay’s emergence as a closer had on the 2023 Cubs. I...2023
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• Braves among finalists for Dylan Cease, per report

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images As talks intensify, the White Sox ace could even be dealt before the Winter Meetings. And...Here...We..Go!!!!! With the Winter Meetings just a few days away and many teams ready to start taking care of their major offseason needs, the rumor mill is starting to churn as it routinely does this time of year. Sources: Dylan Cease trade talks have intensi...2023
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• Outside The Confines: The future is foretold by the Cards

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Cardinals make two free agent signings. Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been posted. The Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes are mysterious. And other news from MLB. Good morning. I hope you are all ready for a great holiday weekend. Normally, when I hear that the Cardinals have a pitcher with the last name of “Gibson,” I get scared. But in this case, the Cardina...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ son of abridged too far

Getty Images Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, cooked just the way you like them. How is it all going to come down? Speculation is all we have to cling to, and it’s a slippery rock to hold. There’s no scrying in baseball. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB ba...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 99
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports And it begins to get interesting. Cubs win 7-2. The Cubs will wake up Monday 6½ games out of first in the National League Central and just 5½ back in the wild card race. They’ll enjoy a day off on Monday and maybe have a few minutes to take in a little bit of Monday’s Reds/Brewers game in Milwaukee. One of them will lose. The Reds just finished their 10-game h...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 60
Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Meltdown in Anaheim Well, that was a frustrating night. My bowling team got its brains bashed in. Then I caught more of the debacle last night than was good for what had been a long day. These West Coast games are even more killer now that I’m on the east coast and the elongated games have taken their toll on me. I’m just worn out. Which is fair, because s...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener
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• The Daily Belli watch: 4 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Cody Bellinger plays for the Cubs in a 2023 Spring Training game in Mesa. Will we see him in this uniform at Sloan Park this year? | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Cubs players will take the field in a spring game this Friday. As I have previously in this series, I present to you this list, which is still accurate today though it was posted Saturday: Today is February 17th. The follo...2024
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• Looking at projections for the 2024 Chicago Cubs
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• The Daily Belli watch: 28 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Another day, another Cody Bellinger watch. Four weeks from today, Friday, February 23, the Cubs — or some players wearing Cubs uniforms — will take the field at Sloan Park against the White Sox for their 2024 Spring Training opener. We do, of course, hope that Cody Bellinger is one of those Cubs players, even if he only plays a couple of innings and get...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 29 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images We wait. And watch. And count days. Is it spring yet? There’s actually a bit of Cody Bellinger news, via this NBC Sports Chicago article from late Wednesday: One MLB insider recently updated Bellinger’s free agency, confirming the Cubs are considered the leading favorites. “Cubs need to make a move ... I do believe, at this point, that is the likelihoo...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: Jed Hoyer and Carter Hawkins discuss baseball operations
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• Matt Harvey Won't Be on Strict Innings Limit, Will Pitch in Playoffs
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• Matt Harvey Appears Ready to Turn His Back on Mets When They Need Him Most
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• Lefty Chen may be best remaining free-agent value
Wei-Yin Chen never gets a lot of press, and Scott Boras' attempt to paint him as a $100 million pitcher seemed surprising. Then again, Chen is the best lefty remaining, and his production compares very favorably with pitchers who just scored huge contracts....2015
• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Kershaw Can Bring 300 Strikeout Feat Back from Dead
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• Market for Scherzer is an unconventional course
The Max Scherzer free-agent market has defied what we think of as normal procedure. The righty's market may currently be in the range between enigma and mystery, but there remains a widespread belief that Scherzer and his agent, Scott Boras, will end up with a contract very much like the one that they want....2015
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• Harvey: Andrews gave me 180-innings limit
Mets ace Matt Harvey spoke about his innings-limit topic prior to Saturday's game at Marlins Park for the first time since his agent, Scott Boras, told CBS Sports on Friday that he shouldn't exceed 180 innings to protect his health....2015
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• Harvey: Andrews gave me 180-innings limit
Mets ace Matt Harvey spoke about his innings-limit topic prior to Saturday's game at Marlins Park for the first time since his agent, Scott Boras, told CBS Sports on Friday that he shouldn't exceed 180 innings to protect his health....2015
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• Scott Boras honors one of Kobe Bryant's final wishes by hiring Alexis Altobelli for internship
Kobe reached out to Rob Pelinka to help a family friend...2020
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• Who will play shortstop for the Brewers in 2025?
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• Latest On Pete Alonso
Pete Alonso’s market hasn’t come together the way he and agent Scott Boras had hoped just yet, though there’s still more than a month until pitchers and catchers report to spring training, leaving ample time for a deal to come together and still afford Alonso a normal spring training. One element that’s likely impacted things,…...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should the Cubs offer Alex Bregman a pillow?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 7, 2025

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Is the off-season 90 percent complete now? Craig Brown reacts to the Cavan Biggio signing. Biggio’s strength as a hitter comes from his strike-zone recognition. In his career, he’s chased on pitches outside of the zone under 16 percent of the time. That’s an elite chase rate. The league average is generally around 28 percent. It’s a fantastic foundation f...2025
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• Dodgers To Meet With Juan Soto, Scott Boras On Tuesday
The Dodgers are poised to become the latest club to meet with superstar free agent Juan Soto, per a report from MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand earlier this evening. The meeting between the sides is scheduled for tomorrow. The Dodgers will join the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and Blue Jays in having met with Soto already, although…...2024
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• Hal Steinbrenner To Meet With Boras/Soto
Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner is scheduled to fly to Southern California for an in-person meeting with Juan Soto and agent Scott Boras, report Mark W. Sanchez and Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The Post reports that the sit-down will occur in about a week a half — a few days after Boras and…...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• Boras: New Teams Have Reached Out On Snell, Montgomery Since Spring Training Began
Both Blake Snell (Giants, Yankees) and Jordan Montgomery (Red Sox) have had their teams to which they’ve been frequently connected throughout the offseason, but the opening of spring training has brought about some new suitors — at least… according to their agent. Scott Boras tells USA Today’s Bob Nightengale that four clubs who hadn’t been…...2024
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’
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• The Daily Belli watch: 8 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images One week from tomorrow, there will be spring baseball. Pitchers and catchers had their official report date to Cubs Spring Training Wednesday and President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer held a news conference. He had things to say about Cody Bellinger. ‘‘There’s a lot of good free agents out there,’’ Hoyer said. ‘‘Certainly, it’s been a really late-ev...2024
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• Scott Boras shames MLB teams for sitting out free agency: 'They're making more, but they're not spending'
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 7, 2025
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• The Daily Belli watch: 16 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Today I will share a rumor, and tell you why it’s probably nothing. Since we last met here, a day ago, there has been much kerfuffle made about what appears to be a throwaway comment buried way at the bottom of a long Sunday notes column by USA Today’s Bob Nightengale: Several executives think the Philadelphia Phillies could be a sleeper for one of the r...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger
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• The Rays are willing to trade anyone, even Randy Arozarena

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images As all Rays fans should be accustomed to at this point, every single player on the roster is available for trade, and that includes your favorite player. With the Winter Meetings coming up, that means you’re sure to see rumors — verifiable or otherwise — that the Rays are shopping this player or that. Guess what, those tweets will be accur...2023
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• Outside The Confines: The Tigers claim the voice of the White Sox

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images This might be the best offseason move yet. Well, one of the biggest moves of the offseason has nothing to do with players, or even with the shuffle of managers. The Detroit Tigers announced today that after Bally Sports Detroit parted ways with Matt Shepard the new play-by-play announcer for the season will be none other than White Sox great ...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ son of abridged too far
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• Outside The Confines: The Mets got a lump of Correa for Christmas
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Though if he passes his physical, he might be a diamond for the Mets. This will be the last OTC before Christmas, so first and foremost I want to wish everyone reading a very safe and happy holiday. I hope you get some time off and an opportunity to decompress, spend time with family, and just enjoy the offerings of the season. And with the holiday in m...2022
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