On Thursday, the veteran skipper has come out and said that he expects veteran hurler Kenley Jansen to be the club’s closer come Opening Day. As you might imagine, the LA supporters are less than enthusiastic about this update.Boston Red Sox

Ross said just from watching videos from Kimbrel’s offseason throwing program, “He looks real polished already.”

Dozier made the All-Star team in 2015 and won a Gold Glove award in 2017. He hit 42 homers in 2016 and matched Rogers Hornsby for the second-highest single season total by a second baseman in major league history. The only Twins player to ever top that was Harmon Killebrew, who did so six times. Dozier's 28 leadoff home runs remain a club record.

I tell this winding, self-indulgent story as a way of saluting another guy with a ridiculous, unrealistic baseball dream — a guy who, unlike me, had the means and the access and the barest hint of talent necessary to make that dream a sort-of reality:Arizona Diamondbacks

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Mather shoved his own foot in his mouth, then his other foot, and then the feet of five other people. He said things that no baseball executive ever wants to get caught saying, and the apology he released Sunday night reflected just how badly he'd messed up.

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Add Manny Machado, Will Myers and Eric Hosmer at a combined $75.5 million this year—a total more than the entire projected payrolls of nine Major League teams at the moment—and San Diego has a luxury tax payroll of $155.3 million, hefty for the market, but not out of line considering owner Peter Seidler has a net worth of $3.3 billion. It’s still $101.2 million less than the Dodgers are spending, and may not be enough to close the talent gap.Los Angeles Angels