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Evan Grant / Dallas Morning News:
Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward in midst of fourth straight losing season  —  The Rangers are on pace for another 90-loss season.  —  ARLINGTON — From the time the Rangers finally got to spring training, Chris Woodward was direct.  There would be no excuses.
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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Sources: Texas Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward amid season of dissatisfactory progress  —  The Texas Rangers fired manager Chris Woodward on Monday amid a season of dissatisfactory progress despite the investment of more than half a billion guaranteed dollars in the free agent market over the winter …
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Texas Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward amid season of dissatisfactory progress  —  The Texas Rangers fired manager Chris Woodward on Monday amid a season of dissatisfactory progress despite the investment of more than a half-billion guaranteed dollars in the free agent market over the winter, the team announced.
Associated Press:
Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward after four seasons at the helm  —  ARLINGTON, Texas - The Texas Rangers fired manager Chris Woodward on Monday, with the team on pace for its sixth consecutive losing season and fourth since he took over the team.  —  The move came with Woodward …
Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Fernando Tatis Sr. says ‘all of baseball’ loses with son suspended 80 games for ‘something so insignificant’  —  Fernando Tatis Jr.'s father backed up his son's claim that he violated Major League Baseball's drug policy because of a steroid that was contained within a ringworm medication and called it …
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Associated Press:
San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin says Fernando Tatis Jr. ‘remorseful’ about PED ban  —  WASHINGTON — San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin reached out to suspended All-Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. in a phone call Saturday and said the player “feels remorseful.”
Buster Olney / ESPN:
‘What the hell are they doing up there?’  Making sense of the Boston Red Sox in 2022 and beyond  —  On the eve of the trade deadline, a Red Sox player sat on a table inside the visitors clubhouse in Houston, glancing at his phone and scrolling for news, waiting for some indication of the team's plans.
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Joon Lee / ESPN:
BooBenny?  Hardly.  Andrew Benintendi gets rare ovation for a Yankee at Fenway Park  —  The questions about how Red Sox Nation would receive Andrew Benintendi upon his return to Fenway Park as a member of the New York Yankees were in full force Friday, the day the latest rivalry series was due to begin.
Discussion: Pinstripe Alley
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2022 midseason top 50 MLB prospects  —  We're in the midst of a changing of the guard at the top of minor league prospect lists.  Adley Rutschmann, Bobby Witt Jr. and Julio Rodriguez had ruled these lists for months, and when they graduated early in the year, they left a pretty open field.
Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
Yankees shut out, 4-0, by Rays on Harry Potter night at Stadium  —  On a Harry Potter-themed night at the Stadium, the Yankees offense vanished —  again.  The Rays came in behind opener Jalen Beeks and shut down the Bombers, beating them 4-0 for their second shutout in as many games.
Andy Kostka / Baltimore Sun:
Jorge Mateo's leadoff double in 9th spoils Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen's bid for perfect game in Orioles' 4-1 loss  —  ExpandAutoplay  —  1 of 6  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The anticipation of the moment grew around Tropicana Field.  As Drew Rasmussen trotted to the mound for the ninth inning …
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Kristie Ackert / New York Daily News:
DJ LeMahieu hopes to be able to manage toe issue down the stretch  —  DJ LeMahieu was out of the Yankees lineup for the second straight game Monday.  The veteran infielder had an MRI on the right big toe and he was prescribed orthotics and medicine in hopes he can manage this down the stretch.
Discussion: Newsday and Pinstripe Alley
James Wagner / New York Times:
Precious Leather  —  Major leaguers form deep relationships with their gloves.  You can look, you can touch, but don't even think about trying it on.  —  LOS ANGELES — When Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suárez misses a ground ball, he shoves his face into his glove …
Discussion: True Blue LA and Lookout Landing
David Furones / Sun-Sentinel:
Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill among 20-plus Dolphins sitting out preseason opener at Buccaneers  —  TAMPA — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa indeed is not playing the team's preseason opener on Saturday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  —  The Dolphins listed Tagovailoa among …
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David Furones / Sun-Sentinel:
Here are the highlights — and mishaps — from Dolphins backups in preseason-opening win at Buccaneers
 
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