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1:50 PM ET, April 1, 2021

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Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
Nationals-Mets opening day game postponed due to Washington's COVID-19 issues  —  As Major League Baseball gradually approaches something resembling a finish line with the coronavirus, its most joyous day of the year - opening day - was waylaid by the postponement of the nationally televised …
Discussion: NBCSports.com and Washington Times
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Jesse Dougherty / Washington Post:
Mets-Nationals postponed in Washington as coronavirus issues disrupt Opening Day  —  The Opening Day matchup between the Washington Nationals and New York Mets that was scheduled for Thursday has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
ESPN:
2021 MLB season preview: Power rankings, best (and worst) case and most exciting player for all 30 teams  —  After a shortened 60-game schedule in 2020, Major League Baseball returns to a full 162-game season in 2021.  —  The Los Angeles Dodgers ruled last year's unusual campaign …
Associated Press:
Umpire Angel Hernandez loses race discrimination lawsuit against MLB  —  NEW YORK — Umpire Angel Hernandez lost his lawsuit against Major League Baseball alleging racial discrimination.  —  The Cuba-born Hernandez sued in 2017 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, with the case later moved to New York.
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Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
At 21, Fernando Tatis Jr. already carries the ‘Face of Baseball’ label, even as MLB aims to diversify the field  —  For all its modernization, baseball remains the most deliberate of pastimes, where patience is rewarded, seven-month sample sizes outflank isolated moments of brilliance …
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
2021 MLB expert predictions, award picks: Can Dodgers win another World Series?  —  No Major League Baseball team has won back-to-back World Series titles in 20 years, but the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers head into 2021 as the favorite to reign again in October.  —  But things won't come easy for the Dodgers.
Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
The $1 billion quintet: Breaking down MLB's epic free agent shortstop class
Discussion: MLB Baseball News …
ESPN:
New York Mets and All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor agree to 10-year, $341 million deal, source says  —  The New York Mets and shortstop Francisco Lindor have agreed to a 10-year, $341 million deal, a source told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Wednesday.  —  Lindor's deal will be the third largest based …
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Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Pete Alonso wants Mets to open the checkbook for Francisco Lindor: 'Pay him 400′ million  —  Francisco Lindor received a polar bear-sized endorsement - his biggest one yet - from a teammate who wants the Mets to open their checkbook and give the shortstop whatever he wants.
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Francisco Lindor rejects 10-year, $325 million offer Mets call ‘best and final’  —  The Mets have made their “best and final offer” for Francisco Lindor, according to a source.  But it's well below the shortstop's asking price.  —  The team offered Lindor a long-term deal to stay in New York for 10 years …
Justin Toscano / NorthJersey.com:
Talented 2021 NY Mets hope to make a run and win World Series
Discussion: The Journal News
Jackie Bradley Jr / The Players' Tribune:
Dear Red Sox Nation  —  Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images  —  As a 21-year-old entering the 2011 draft, I could never have imagined how the next 10 years would unfold.  —  But I know now that I'll never forget them.  —  My journey started like it does for many young Red Sox prospects: in Lowell with the Spinners.
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The Ringer:
The New Baseball Still Seems Juiced  —  MLB is debuting a ball this season that's supposed to decrease the distance of deep fly balls and by extension, quite possibly the volume of home runs.  Yet the data from spring training appear to tell a different story.  —  SHARE All sharing options
University of North Carolina Athletics:
Roy Williams To Retire From Coaching After 48 Years  —  CHAPEL HILL—Roy Williams, who led the University of North Carolina to three NCAA championships, is retiring after 33 seasons and 903 wins as a college basketball head coach.  —  The 2007 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee will address …
 
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David Purdum / ESPN:
Scoring, home runs down in spring training with new balls in play
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Major League Baseball relaxing COVID-19 protocols for fully vaccinated players, staff
Discussion: ESPN and Sports Illustrated
 

 
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