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Yankees Plan to Present Aaron Judge Contract Extension

The franchise hopes to get a deal done with their star right fielder, who is eligible for free agency following the 2022 season.

Sports Illustrated

Aroldis Chapman still the Yankees closer, but will occasionally take the 8th-inning role

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Aroldis Chapman is still the Yankees' closer. Manager Aaron Boone made that clear before Friday’s game. It’s just that the Yankees want to expand his role this season by using him in the eighth inning at times.

Tribune News Service

Rachel Balkovec Shares Nasty Photo of Her Eye After Spring Training Injury

The Tampa Tarpons skipper will take some time off while she recovers.

Sports Illustrated

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The Cubs Are Better Than You Think

When the Cubs executed their trade-deadline fire sale last July—after they had traded Yu Darvish and nontendered Kyle Schwarber in December 2020—it appeared that they would be entering a multiyear transition. Perhaps this wouldn’t be the type of long rebuild they endured a decade ago, but it was ...

Sports Illustrated

Nets' Kevin Durant on NYC lifting vaccine mandate: ‘Mets and Yankees have a lot of power in our city’

MIAMI — Kevin Durant understands the impetus for changing the mandate was baseball, not Kyrie Irving.

Tribune News Service

NYC Exempts Wealthy Athletes From Vaccine Mandates: "A small number of people have an outsized impact on our economy"

The government undermines its compelling interest to mandate vaccinations for everyone else.

Reason

Donny Sands was once homeless. Now he’s trying to make the Phillies.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — It took Donny Sands three weeks to convince his mother, Alma, to sell her car. The Phillies catching prospect had just bought her a brand new Mercedes Benz with his signing bonus. It was pristine, but that was the problem. She didn’t want to drive it anywhere.…

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‘Lunatic’ fringe: Rangers prospect Josh Smith brings the relentless energy that Chris Woodward loves

MESA, Ariz. — Josh Smith is in his first spring training with the Rangers. He is making team officials take notice.

Tribune News Service

Mets players applaud mayor's decision to lift NYC vaccine mandate for athletes

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Mayor Eric Adams gained some critics with his controversial decision regarding New York City’s vaccine mandate. But he won’t find any of that backlash in the Mets clubhouse.

Tribune News Service

Cardinals All-Star Pitcher Andrew Miller Retires From MLB After 16 Seasons

The two-time All-Star transformed the role of a relief pitcher in postseason moments.

Sports Illustrated

Clint Frazier says he hid concussion from Yankees in 2020

While he’s no longer part of the organization, Clint Frazier is still finding ways to make Yankee news.

Tribune News Service

White Sox claim lefty Yoan Aybar off waivers

Righty Jonathan Stiever lands on 60-day IL.

Chicago Sun-Times

Unvaccinated athletes can play home games in New York

Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at Citi Field where the Mets play, said Thursday that he had signed the order. The exemption was effective immediately.

Chicago Sun-Times

NYC mayor allows unvaccinated athletes play home games

New York City’s mayor exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate following weeks of pressure from the sports world after the rule kept Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving from playing in home games and was expected to block several baseball players from taking the field in their upcoming…

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SI:AM | Kyrie’s Return to Brooklyn Appears Imminent

There are major baseball implications, too.

The Independent UK

Is winning the offseason worth it? Depends on the year

It has been 13 years since the big-spending New York Yankees “bought” their 27th World Series championship with free agents CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira

Tribune News Service

Yankees’ Rachel Balkovec hit in face by batted ball during drills, will miss Tampa Tarpons spring opener

TAMPA, Fla. — The next glass ceiling will have to wait. Rachel Balkovec, who will become the first woman to manage an affiliated baseball team, was injured in a hitting drill on Tuesday and will not be in the dugout on Thursday when her team plays its first spring training…

Sports Illustrated

Report: Irving, Unvaccinated Yankees Could Play at Home As NYC Expected to Change Mandate

Mayor Eric Adams is reportedly considering lifting New York City’s vaccine mandate Thursday.

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Tribune News Service

Where Yankees, Aaron Judge stand with arbitration and extension

TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Judge was disappointed, but not surprised that he could not come to an agreement on a deal to avoid arbitration on Tuesday. The Yankees slugger is still hopeful that something — a one-year deal or a contract extension — can be worked out in the next…

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Trae Young Had Another Great Villain Moment at MSG

This could be a great rivalry for years to come.

Sports Illustrated

NYC Mayor Addresses Vaccine Mandate As NBA Playoffs, MLB Opening Day Near

He said sports teams will have to wait their turn for the vaccine mandate to be loosened.

Tribune News Service

Matthew Roberson: Let’s kill the idea of the ‘overpaid’ baseball player

A prevailing mantra at the end of a baseball offseason — both from fans and front offices — is that a certain player has been “overpaid” or was undesirable at a certain price point.

Tribune News Service

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SEC to require climate-change risk disclosures under new plan

Tribune News Service

DJ LeMahieu on Trevor Story’s new deal: ‘It’s the one team I didn’t want him to go to’

TAMPA, Fla. — DJ LeMahieu watched Trevor Story’s free agency closely. The two were teammates in Colorado, of course he had some interest where the shortstop would end up.

Tribune News Service

This spring is a little different for Yankees’ Nestor Cortes

TAMPA, Fla. — It took Nestor Cortes a while to figure it out. The Cuban native, who grew up outside of Miami and was picked by the Yankees in the 36th round of the 2013 draft, spent the first five years of his professional pitching career just trying not to…

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