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3:27 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher Tyler Clippard has a sprained right shoulder and won’t throw for at least the next six weeks. Clippard said the injury was diagnosed as a “capsule sprain” and his shoulder will be reevaluated at the end of six weeks of rest. The right-hander

3:20 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pirates are taking a flier on knuckleball pitcher Steven Wright. The Pirates signed Wright on Sunday and invited him to big league camp. The right-hander last pitched in the majors in 2019, when he was limited to six appearances with Boston after serving an 80-game suspension following

2:14 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Óscar Mercado won’t start the season in Cleveland‘s outfield — or even with the Indians. Struggling in exhibition play, Mercado was optioned to the team’s depth camp on Sunday, continuing his slide after a promising rookie season. Mercado entered spring training as the favorite to win the starting

7:28 AM ET Because Nolan Ryan pitched so well for so long, he was, for many years, a working model for what the ultimate pitcher’s body might look like. He had those powerful legs anchoring a compact, fluid delivery. He is thought to have touched 100 mph in an era when hard throwers were the

6:39 PM ET Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. — Top prospect Josh Jung of the Texas Rangers is set for surgery on a stress fracture in his left foot, and the third baseman is likely to miss about two months. Jung was the eighth overall pick in the 2019 draft out of Texas Tech and was

3:23 PM ET ESPN News Services VAIL, Colo. — A minor league baseball player is facing drug charges after police in Colorado found 21 pounds of methamphetamine and 1.2 pounds of oxycodone pills in his Chicago Cubs duffel bag. The Vail Daily reports Jesus Camargo-Corrales, 25, of Tempe, Arizona, appeared in Eagle County Court on

3:54 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt right-hander Jack Leiter, ESPN’s No. 2 MLB draft prospect, tossed a no-hitter on Saturday in the Commodores’ 5-0 win over South Carolina. Leiter walked a batter in the first inning before recording 27 consecutive outs. He finished with a career-high 16 strikeouts as the No. 2 Commodores improved

9:03 PM ET Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Luis Castillo is set to start on opening day for the Cincinnati Reds, heading a rotation that lost NL Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer to free agency. “Luis is as ready as he’s ever been,” manager David Bell said Friday at the Reds’ spring training complex.

5:39 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has joined the board of directors of the New York Mets. Christie, 58, was New Jersey’s governor from January 2010 to January 2016. His son Andrew has worked for the team since 2018 and is the Mets’ coordinator of international scouting.

4:57 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Washington Nationals reliever Will Harris has a blood clot in his right arm and is leaving spring training camp to be examined by a specialist, manager Dave Martinez said Friday. “I don’t know much about what’s going to happen here. But for me, when somebody

4:56 PM ET Associated Press Brendan Rodgers and his strained right hamstring have the Colorado Rockies searching for a second option at second base. With Rodgers sidelined at least a month, the Rockies may need to shuffle around the infield. The plan could be to move Ryan McMahon from third base to second and Josh

2:08 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — One major league player was positive for COVID-19 during the past week among 14,845 tests, a positive rate of 0.007%. There have been 13 positive tests — 10 for players, three for staff — among 58,733 monitoring tests during spring training, a rate of 0.2%, the commissioner’s

7:00 AM ET Trevor Bauer estimates spending about an hour each day logging his own metrics, a process that produces something in the neighborhood of 50 different data sets related to body composition and vital signs. The work is at the crux of Bauer’s conviction about being able to start every four days. Workload, Bauer

5:52 PM ET Associated Press Jon Lester was back on a mound Thursday, wearing a Washington Nationals uniform while facing opposing batters for the first time in spring training and striking out a couple during his two innings, less than two weeks after surgery to remove a parathyroid gland. “Baseball, for me, is an escape.

3:08 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — New Mets pitcher Carlos Carrasco strained his right hamstring during conditioning after throwing batting practice Thursday and seems certain to miss the start of the season. Carrasco, a right-hander who turns 34 on Sunday, has not appeared in any exhibition games this year. He is

1:20 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Yankees and Mets will be allowed to start the season with a maximum 20% capacity. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced at a news conference Thursday that the Yankees could have up to 10,850 fans for their April 1 opener against Toronto at Yankee

9:50 AM ET Frustration began to mount soon after the 2020 MLB season got underway last summer. Without in-game video available to major league hitters for the first time, many found themselves at a disadvantage at the plate. They struggled. And then they vented. Mostly, players chirped to their agents, and then those agents called

8:10 AM ET Clint Frazier couldn’t wait to show off his latest piece of lumber. Featuring a colorful caricature of his face, his bright red curly locks, a face mask with his jersey number — 77 — a chain and sunglasses, his new bat was everything a typical brown, gray or black bat was not.