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Cubs’ Ian Happ in arbitration limbo as extension questions loom

When asked about potential extensions for Happ and Nico Hoerner, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said the club has “started the process.”

Chicago Sun-Times

As the Cubs Convention opens, Chairman Tom Ricketts talks long-term free-agent contracts and the smaller national reach on Marquee

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs could not afford to sit on the sideline in free agency.

Chicago Tribune

Out with the old Cubs; in with Dansby Swanson, Cody Bellinger and all the new

It was still warm and fuzzy at the last Cubs Convention in 2020. It’s different now, isn’t it? There’s a wafting sense of a desperate need to become good and win again.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Andrew McCutchen, a franchise legend, is returning to the Pirates

PITTSBURGH -- Neil Walker was visiting family in Colorado on Friday morning when his phone began buzzing with news and excitement. As the Rocky Mountains provided a picturesque backdrop, Walker glanced down and saw what he sort of suspected had come true — Andrew McCutchen, the Pirates' franchise pillar for…

Tribune News Service

Braves agree to contracts with all arbitration-eligible players except Max Fried

ATLANTA — The Braves and Max Fried could not come to an agreement on a contract for 2023 before Friday’s deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to exchange salary figures. The Braves and Fried presumably will head to an arbitration hearing in the near future.

Tribune News Service

Padres' Soto to make $23 million, Hader $14.1 million in '23; team agrees to terms with multiple arbitration-eligible players

SAN DIEGO — To keep Juan Soto beyond the next two seasons, the Padres may eventually have to make him the highest-paid player in MLB history.

Tribune News Service

Dodgers avoid arbitration with Julio Urías, Walker Buehler and Will Smith

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers agreed to terms Friday with their three biggest arbitration-eligible players, finalizing deals with Julio Urías, Walker Buehler and Will Smith in order to avoid arbitration hearings with each, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Los Angeles Times

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Andrew McCutchen Heads Home As Pirates Continue Intriguing Offseason

When I woke up this morning, I had no intention of writing about the Pirates for today’s newsletter. Why would I? I have mentioned them in previous editions—such as when I’ve written that they should trade their best player and when they gave up Aaron Judge’s 60th home run—but only…

Sports Illustrated

So you want to own a professional sports franchise. You sure about that?

As Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts and others know, ridicule of owners is the city’s top sport.

Chicago Sun-Times

Report: Soto, Padres Avoid Arbitration With $23 Million Deal

He enters his first full season with San Diego after last year’s trade.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Andrew McCutchen, Pirates Agree to One-Year Deal

The outfielder spent nine years on Pittsburgh to begin his career.

Sports Illustrated

Two doppelganger baseball stars with same name take DNA test to see if they are related

Baseball players Brady Feigl, 32, and Brady Feigl, 27, are both 6ft4in tall with vibrant red hair and glasses and have been getting mixed up for years.

Daily Record

John Henry ties up £257m contract as Liverpool 'looking at defender'

Your Liverpool morning headlines as John Henry secures new Red Sox deal, plus the Reds are linked with a potential defender signing

Liverpool Echo

Report: Electronic Strike Zone to be Used by All 30 Triple A Teams

The Automatic Balls and Strikes system will be used throughout the highest level of Minor League Baseball.

Sports Illustrated

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Boston Herald

Jason Mastrodonato: Red Sox go all-in on Rafael Devers, but 2023 season still looks bleak

One day after the Red Sox announced that Xander Bogaerts’ replacement, Trevor Story, would miss most of the 2023 season with an elbow injury, they turned their attention to the future.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernandez: Dodgers' brass still won't take accountability for Trevor Bauer fiasco

LOS ANGELES — On one side there are the Dodgers, who have a complicated relationship with the truth, and on the other is Trevor Bauer.

Tribune News Service

Lingering questions after Carlos Correa finalizes contract with Twins

Carlos Correa was finally able to shed some light on his six weeks of contract negotiations after his six-year, $200 million deal with the Minnesota Twins was finalized this week.

Sports Illustrated

Trevor Bauer Becomes Free Agent After Dodgers Couldn’t Find Trade

Bauer is now free to sign with any team, and is immediately eligible to pitch in 2023.

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Matt Holliday resigns as Cardinals bench coach; 'Super' Joe McEwing joins staff

As planning for the 2023 season accelerated and the start of spring training appeared on the next page of the calendar, it became clearer to Matt Holliday the time he would miss now with his kids to start chasing a future as a coach in a major-league dugout.

Sports Illustrated

Carlos Correa’s Return Makes the Twins a Contender. Now They Must Add More

Minnesota won back its star shortstop, but it has more work to do in its lineup in order to set its sights on October.

Tribune News Service

Bryce Miller: Padres' decision to sign Nelson Cruz likely to deliver positive Fernando Tatis Jr. results

Counting the ways that the Padres' signing of aging slugger Nelson Cruz makes sense is easy. Until a season ago, he was one of the most dependable sluggers in baseball. He curb-stomps left-handers, hitting .295 with a gaudy .939 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dodgers release pitcher Trevor Bauer

Los Angeles designated Bauer for assignment on Jan. 6 after arbitrator Martin Scheinman reduced Bauer’s suspension over sexual misconduct allegations

Los Angeles Times

Will Trevor Bauer play Major League Baseball again? What executives around the league are saying.

LOS ANGELES — Trevor Bauer became a free agent on Thursday, but the market will be a lot more hostile toward the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner than it was two winters ago, when Bauer signed a three-year, $102 million deal with the Dodgers after turning down a…

Chicago Sun-Times

How Marquee Sports Network will cover its first Cubs Convention

It will air 13½ hours of live coverage Friday to Saturday from the Sheraton Grand Chicago, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday with the “Red Carpet Special.”

Daily Mirror

Two strangers with exactly the same name and near-identical looks take DNA test

Doppelgängers Brady Feigl, 32, and Brady Feigl, 27, were first mistaken for one another in 2015 when they both had the exact same elbow surgery performed by the same doctor

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