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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
MLB players caught with any foreign substance to face 10-day suspension, sources say — Major League Baseball is expected to announce Tuesday that it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league …
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Buster Olney / ESPN:
Sources: MLB finalizing memo on rule against use of foreign substances by pitchers — Major League Baseball is putting the final touches on a memo that will detail the sport's rule against foreign substances, with the expectation among some sources that the document will be forwarded …
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Thomas Harrigan / MLB.com:
Here are the All-Star Ballot standings so far — Phase 1 of fan voting concludes at 4 p.m. ET on June 24 — The races to determine who will advance to Phase 2 of the fan voting for the 2021 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard are starting to take shape.
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Sports Illustrated:
He Made Sticky Stuff for MLB Pitchers for 15 Years. Now He's Speaking Out. — Aces texted him and hurlers across baseball used his “stuff.” After the Angels fired him, this clubhouse attendant wants to know why he's the lone fall guy. — “Bubba, you got a minute?”
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Josh Norris / Baseball America:
Arizona, Gulf Coast Leagues Set To Begin June 28; DSL Slated for July 12 — The minor leagues will move a little closer to returning to normalcy on June 28, when the Rookie-level Arizona and Gulf Coast Leagues are slated to get their seasons underway. Schedules have been made …
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Bleacher Nation, PBN Pirates and Lone Star Ball
FanGraphs Baseball:
2021 MLB Mock Draft: One Month To Go — We're a month away from the 2021 Draft and it's time for our first mock draft of the season. We have also posted an updated ranking of the prospects, which is available over on The Board. In a typical year, the Draft, which usually leads …
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Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
David Peterson bounces back with six one-hit innings in win over Cubs — No matter how bad it got — and it got ugly — the Mets never lost trust in David Peterson. On Monday night against the winningest team in the NL Central, he rewarded that trust with one of his best performances of the year.
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Bradford Doolittle / ESPN:
Stock Watch: MLB trade deadline goals for all 30 teams — With every team but the New York Mets past the 60-game mark, the point at which last season's standings were forever frozen, we have a pretty good idea of how the 2021 MLB playoff races are setting up. — There will be further movement, to be sure.
Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Mets' bullpen finally has a bad day in loss to Padres — Anyone who's watched the Mets this year has gotten an education on several new players. — In their 7-3 loss to the Padres (38-29), it was middle reliever Jacob Barnes' turn to potentially wear the new guy cape.
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Chad Jennings / The Athletic:
Is the timing of Red Sox pitching problems a coincidence, or is it related to MLB's looming substance crackdown? — It was in late May that buzz about major-league pitchers using illegal sticky substances seemed to really take hold throughout the game. Offense was down, spin rates …
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NBCSports.com, MLB Baseball News … and Over the Monster
Joon Lee / ESPN:
Arizona Diamondbacks unveil gold City Connect jersey, referencing Sonoran Desert, Hispanic culture — The Arizona Diamondbacks have unveiled a gold uniform referencing the Sonoran Desert and the state's Hispanic culture as the latest alternate jersey in the City Connect collection.
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Chandler Rome / Houston Chronicle:
Tyler Ivey sidelined by elbow injury he hid from Astros — MINNEAPOLIS — Tyler Ivey's storybook saga concluded in the shower. He spent most of May 21 managing pain and pleasure. He reached the pinnacle of his professional career beneath a crowd of family and friends inside a ballpark he frequented as a child.
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