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New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton will begin the season on the injured list because of elbow injuries.
Stanton has received platelet-rich plasma injections in both of his elbows, according to the New York Post. The 2017 NL MVP has been away from the team while dealing with a personal matter, but he is expected to rejoin the Yankees in Tampa in the next week.
The 35-year-old Stanton hit .233 with 27 homers and 72 RBIs in 114 games last season. He had seven homers and 16 RBIs in 14 postseason games and was the ALCS MVP when the Yankees eliminated the Cleveland Guardians.
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Reporting by The Associated Press.
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President Trump says he will posthumously pardon baseball legend Pete Rose
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President Donald Trump says he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose,” baseball’s late career hits leader who was banned from MLB and the Hall of Fame for sports betting.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday night to say Rose, who died in September at 83, “shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.”
Trump did not specifically mention Rose’s tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.
The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose “over the next few weeks.”
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MLB and Rose agreed to a permanent ban in 1989 after an investigation determined he had bet on games involving the Cincinnati Reds from 1985-87 while playing for and managing the team. The Hall of Fame board of directors in 1991 adopted a rule preventing people on the permanently ineligible list from appearing on the hall ballot.
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Travis Hunter vs. Shohei Ohtani: Whose two-way play is more impressive?
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Colorado Buffaloes two-way superstar — and the potential No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft — Travis Hunter is a one-of-one player on the football field right now, as he has played both cornerback and wide receiver at a high level over the past three years.
Perhaps the only fair comparison in sports right now to Hunter would be Los Angeles Dodgers superstar and three-time league MVP Shohei Ohtani, who has both hit and pitched at a high level throughout parts of his MLB career.
But which one of the two has a more challenging task in their respective two-way play?
“Probably me and what I do in football [is more impressive] because it’s a lot on your body. Ohtani, he’s a great player, but you got to do a lot in football,” Hunter said at the NFL Scouting Combine Thursday when asked whether his or Ohtani’s two-way play is “more difficult.”
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While present for meetings with NFL teams, Hunter isn’t doing drills at the combine this week in Indianapolis.
As a wide receiver, Hunter reeled in 96 receptions for 1,258 yards and 15 touchdowns at Colorado last season. His reception and touchdown totals led the Big 12. As a defensive back, Hunter totaled four interceptions, 11 passes defended and 36 combined tackles, helping him win Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors. Furthermore, Hunter, a two-time All-American, won the 2024 Heisman Trophy Award.
Hunter spent the previous two seasons in Colorado, preceded by playing one season with the Jackson State Tigers; he followed head coach Deion Sanders from Jackson State to Colorado in 2023.
On the other hand, Ohtani just had one of the best offensive seasons in MLB history, highlighted by becoming the first player to accomplish a 50-50 season (50 stolen bases and 50 home runs). The overwhelming, left-handed hitter finished the 2024 regular season with 54 home runs, 130 RBIs and 59 stolen bases, while posting a .310/.390/.646 slash line and helping the Dodgers win the 2024 World Series in what was his first season with the franchise.Â
Ohtani hasn’t pitched in an MLB game since suffering a UCL tear in his pitching arm with the Los Angeles Angels in August 2023, merely serving as a designated hitter. That said, over the 86 career MLB starts that Ohtani has made, he has posted a 3.01 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 608 strikeouts over 481.2 innings; when Ohtani makes a start, he also hits.
Both being the center of a defense’s attention in the passing game and shutting down the opposition’s best receiver (Hunter), or both hitting and pitching at an All-Star level (Ohtani)? It’s a fascinating debate. Granted, Hunter plays both ways more consistently, while injuries have unfortunately gotten in the way for Ohtani.
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Mets infielder Nick Madrigal could miss 2025 season with fractured left shoulder
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New York Mets infielder Nick Madrigal could miss the entire 2025 season with a fractured left shoulder.
Manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters Friday that Madrigal needs surgery to repair his non-throwing shoulder, which the player dislocated Sunday when he fell to the ground after throwing a ball to first base against the Washington Nationals.
An MRI on Monday revealed the extent of the injury, with Mendoza saying at the time that Madrigal would likely be out for an extended period. The club immediately placed Madrigal on the 60-day injured list and acquired Alexander Canario from the Chicago Cubs for cash considerations.
Madrigal was looking for a fresh start with the Mets, who signed him to a one-year deal in January after he was non-tendered by the Cubs following a season in which he hit just .221 in 51 games.
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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani hits solo home run in his first AB of spring training
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Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani hits solo homer in first at-bat of 2025
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Shohei Ohtani is back.
The Dodgers star hit a solo home run against his former team, the Angels, in his first at-bat of spring training on Friday. As if that wasn’t impressive enough on its own, he homered to opposite field.
It’s a promising sign for the 30-year-old slugger, who underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder this offseason.
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Last season, Ohtani hit 54 home runs and stole 59 bases, which made him the first season in MLB history to reach at least 50 home runs and 50 steals in a single season. Time will tell if he can replicate that success this season, but he’s off to a strong start.
Ohtani and the Dodgers will start their 2025 regular season campaign with the Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs on March 18-19. The game will be broadacst on FOX/FS1.
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Top MLB prospect Samuel Basallo launches ball over scoreboard in Spring Training
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The Samuel Basallo hype train made a stop at Ed Smith Stadium on Thursday.
Basallo, the No. 1-ranked catching prospect in Major League Baseball and the No. 13-ranked prospect overall, blasted a home run over the center field scoreboard that landed in the outfield of one of the back fields during the Baltimore Orioles‘ Spring Training game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Basallo called the home run one of the “top three” longest hits of his career, according to The Baltimore Sun, with the ball having traveled just under 500 feet.
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The Orioles came out on top, 11-8, and the 20-year-old Saballo had a home run in his lone at-bat.
Basallo, who was born in the Dominican Republic, signed with the Orioles as an international free agent in 2021. He was promoted to the triple-A Norfolk Tides in August after spending the majority of the year with the double-A Bowie Baysox.
The Orioles finished the 2024 season as the runner-up in the AL East, trailing only the New York Yankees.
Baltimore will open their MLB regular season against Toronto on March 27.
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After striking out in talks with Matthew Stafford, the New York Giants are including Aaron Rodgers in their search for a veteran quarterback, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday.
Rodgers is set to be a free agent after the New York Jets announced earlier this month that they would be moving on from the quarterback after two seasons.
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Nestor Cortes says Yankees were ‘the better team’ in 2024 World Series vs. Dodgers
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In the 2024 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees, the better team lost — at least that’s what former Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes believes.
Cortes, who was traded from the Yankees to the Milwaukee Brewers in December, recently spoke with The Athletic and said that not only did New York deserve to win Game 1 — which ended with Freddie Freeman hitting a walk-off grand slam off of Cortes — but that they should have won the series in six games.
“We had done enough to win that game,” Cortes said. “They can talk whatever they want to talk, but we win Game 1 — which we should have — we lost 2 and 3, we win Game 4 and we should have won Game 5. Then we go back to LA up 3 to 2.
“So people can say it slipped away from us, people can say we made a lot of mistakes, which we did. But at the end of the day, we were the better team. I see it that way, and I’m sure everybody in that clubhouse sees it that way. “The reality (could have been) going back to LA leading 3-2.”
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But Cortes also gave the Dodgers credit for taking care of business and not letting the series go back to Yankee Stadium, where New York was undefeated in the ALCS.
“It didn’t happen that way and they deserve all the credit in the world, they won the World Series,” Cortes said. “At the moment, they showed they were the better team.”
The Dodgers and Yankees will go head-to-head in a rematch of the 2024 World Series starting May 30 at Dodger Stadium. The second game of that series will be broadcast on FOX.
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Bryce Harper leaves game after being hit by pitch, but Phillies ‘not really over-concerned at all’
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Phillies manager Rob Thomson said the team is “not really over-concerned at all” about Bryce Harper after the Philadelphia slugger left Wednesday’s exhibition game against Toronto when he was hit on an arm by a pitch.
Thomson told reporters Harper had a bruise on his right arm after getting hit by the 92 mph from Blue Jays left-hander Richard Lovelady.
“We’ll check him tomorrow but it’s a contusion in the triceps area,” Thomson said, according to NBC Sports Philadelphia, which said Harper had previously been scheduled for a day off on Thursday.
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Four players were hit by pitches in the game. Lovelady also was charged with a wild pitch.
“It’s early spring training so guys don’t have their command down,” Thomson said. “There were a bunch of guys hit today. I can’t speak for the kid but maybe he was a little nervous, it’s Bryce Harper. It’s baseball.”
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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