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‘Such an improvement’: How 18-time Gold Glover Greg Maddux is helping Rangers’ pitchers

SURPRISE, Ariz. – Greg Maddux came to Arizona to teach fielding and hit golf balls.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2023

Larry Stone: Finally healthy, Evan White looking to revive career with Mariners by just playing baseball

PEORIA, Ariz. — Evan White likes to look at the hidden blessings of the two-year ordeal that brought his promising Mariners’ career to a screeching halt. Like being able to be there for the birth of his son, Kade, last August. It’s a healthy way to process a miserable stretch…

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2023

Easy and breezy: Jacob deGrom throws first bullpen of Rangers spring training

SURPRISE, Ariz. — It was basically playing catch from a mound. Not much effort at all. Still, it was silky smooth and left the Rangers exhaling.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2023

Rockies’ Pierce Johnson, Brent Suter counted on to cure bullpen blues

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — “Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night long.”

The Denver Post · Feb 23, 2023

Paul Sullivan: It’s Ian Happ’s year to deal with free-agency questions. Will Cubs reach an extension this time?

MESA, Ariz. — Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Báez spent the first half of the 2021 season answering questions about their uncertain futures as Chicago Cubs.

Chicago Tribune · Feb 23, 2023

Bryce Miller: No shortage of shortstops for deep-gloved Padres at spring training

PEORIA, Ariz. — The Padres will not run into a shortage of shortstops this season, which is the long and – cue the groans – short of it.

Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2023

Retired Albert Pujols joins Angels camp: It’s good to ‘put the uniform back on’

TEMPE, Ariz. — Albert Pujols found himself in a familiar setting Tuesday, back at Angels spring training. Now happily retired from playing, Pujols, 43, is a special assistant to the club under his 10-year personal services contract.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 22, 2023

New rules could drastically alter look, length of MLB games

PEORIA, Ariz. — Oh yeah, change is coming.

Tribune News Service · Feb 22, 2023

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 · Feb 22, 2023

SF Giants: It’s David Villar’s time, and he knows it

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A brand-new BMW 5 series is a big-league car. In other words, the 2022 graphite gray sedan was an appropriate offseason splurge for the 26-year-old who enters his first big-league camp as the Giants’ incumbent third baseman.

Tribune News Service · Feb 21, 2023