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700! With two homers in LA, Cardinals great Albert Pujols launches himself into exclusive club.

LOS ANGELES — With one swing, that familiar snap of his shoulders, and the signature glare as a baseball vanishes in the distance, Cardinals great Albert Pujols launched himself into one of the most exclusive clubs in baseball.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB

Players were already fuming over their treatment. Enter a motley crew of career minor leaguers with a plan.

Sports Illustrated

Gabe Kapler: Tigers' new president is 'very, very driven,' and values other people's opinions

DETROIT — Gabe Kapler first met new Tigers president Scott Harris in the fall of 2019, when Kapler was interviewing for the Chicago Cubs' managerial opening.

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Mets honor Roberto Clemente before Thursday’s matchup against his former team

NEW YORK — Thursday was Roberto Clemente Day across Major League Baseball.

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Trevor Bauer argues new video shows accuser 'smirking and uninjured' after encounter

LOS ANGELES — The video lasts nine seconds, with no sound. Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer appears to be asleep in bed, with a mask over his eyes. Next to him in bed, his attorneys say: the woman whose sexual assault allegations against Bauer triggered the investigation that resulted in his…

Los Angeles Times

Jurgen Klopp is not a fan of Chelsea owner Boehly’s ‘North vs South’ game idea

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has sarcastically responded to Chelsea counterpart Todd Boehly's Premier League 'North vs South' match proposal.

Evening Standard

Former MLB pitcher turned cop Varvaro dies in car crash

Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car accident on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan

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Cubs offer mixed reactions to MLB rule changes: ‘Some of the little things ... would’ve helped players get behind a little bit more’

CHICAGO — If anyone expected a great outcry from players after Major League Baseball announced major rule changes for 2023 on Friday — a pitcher’s clock, enlarged bases and severe restrictions on defensive shifts — well, just take the temperature of P.J. Higgins’ reaction as an example.

Chicago Tribune

MLB will recognize minor league players union

The Major League Baseball Players Association launched the unionization drive on Aug. 28 and told MLB on Tuesday it had obtained signed authorization cards from the approximately 5,000 to 6,500 players with minor league contracts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pitch clocks and a ban on defensive shifts coming to MLB in 2023 as part of major rule changes

Major League Baseball announced a huge set of rule changes on Friday, which will go into effect for the 2023 season.

Tribune News Service

Tom Krasovic: Padres can't expect to hold wild-card lead playing like this

The Padres can take comfort in knowing they still lead the race for the third wild card that Major League Baseball adopted this year, despite their offense stinking up Petco Park once again Monday afternoon in a 5-0 loss to a loose Diamondbacks team.

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America's next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball

When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all.

The Conversation

Nationals’ Meneses delivers gut-wrenching loss to Oakland A’s

The Oakland A’s suffered a gut-punch loss to the worst team in Major League Baseball.

Tribune News Service

Mark Zeigler: As prior offender, Padres' Tatis now faces the teeth of MLB’s drug testing program

SAN DIEGO — Padres infielder Fernando Tatis Jr. has served 17 of his 80-game doping suspension by Major League Baseball and forfeited the first installment of what could be $2.9 million in lost wages. He’s met with the owner, the general manager, teammates, the media, apologizing profusely for “my mistakes,”…

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Minor-leaguers and their advocates hope Congress will revoke MLB’s antitrust exemption. Here’s how they are pushing for change.

CHICAGO — Rob Manfred’s response to a question last month about minor league salaries before the All-Star Game took off when the Major League Baseball commissioner said “I reject the premise that they’re not paid a living wage.”

USA Today Sports Media Group

Shane McClanahan struck out Mike Trout with a silly 100 mph pitch that looked like a wiffle ball

Are we sure this wasn't a wiffle ball?

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers release 2023 schedule: Here are 10 key dates

LOS ANGELES — The Astros and Yankees in Los Angeles. Mookie Betts returning to Fenway Park. And, for the first time since interleague play was introduced in 1997, the Dodgers facing all 29 other Major League Baseball clubs at least once over the course of the year.

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Orioles’ farm system ranked No. 1 in baseball after trade deadline and draft acquisitions

BALTIMORE — Even without rookie catcher Adley Rutschman leading Major League Baseball’s top prospect lists, the Orioles have the best farm system in the sport.

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Mark Zeigler: Fernando Tatis Jr. and the doping epidemic of Dominican Republic baseball

SAN DIEGO — Maybe you're surprised that a star infielder would test positive for a banned substance and be suspended for 80 games just as he was about to return from injury in the heat of a playoff race, with his team bolstered by trade-deadline acquisitions primed to make a…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Took ’em long enough: Breaking down the Phillies’ road to 10,000 wins

More than 15 years after the Phillies earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first franchise in Major League Baseball history to lose 10,000 games, the team has finally joined baseball’s 10,000-win club.

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Angelos family lawsuits raise prospects for sale of Orioles, but John Angelos wants to keep majority control in family’s hands, sources say

The lawsuits that have revealed the Angelos family’s struggles over the control and future of the Orioles laid out preparations for a sale of the team, including the hiring of a law firm and investment bank, but team chairman and CEO John Angelos wants to retain his family’s control of…

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KC Royals pitcher Garrett receives a 3-game suspension from MLB for throwing drink at fan

Kansas City Royals left-handed reliever Amir Garrett expressed regret multiple times for throwing his drink at a fan who heckled him from the stands in Chicago earlier this month, but Major League Baseball’s central office decided to impose disciplinary action anyway.

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Mark Zeigler: Fernando Tatis Jr.'s ringworm explanation is plausible but is it probable?

There was the Dutch cyclist who blamed a failed a drug test on his father-in-law, who fed him pigeon pie purportedly made from doped-up racing pigeons.

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Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. is suspended 80 games for a positive drug test

Tatis won't play this season. MLB said he tested positive for clostebol, an anabolic steroid. Tatis said he accidentally took a medication to treat ringworm that contained the banned substance.

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Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. suspended 80 games for drug violation; A.J. Preller cites ‘trust’ issue

WASHINGTON — Fernando Tatis Jr. will not play for the Padres this season.

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