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Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Spring training: How Red Sox built MLB's best prospect trio — FORT MYERS, Fla. — Inside the batting cages at the Boston Red Sox's spring training complex, where the future of hitting is playing out in real time, the best trio of position prospects in a generation blossomed.
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Joel Reuter / Bleacher Report:
MLB State of the Position 2025: Every Team's 5-Year Plan at Second Base — Veterans Jose Altuve, Ketel Marte and Marcus Semien remain the cream of the crop at second base, though there are some young up-and-comers capable of joining that top-tier group in the coming years.
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Keith Law / New York Times:
The 25 MLB rookies most likely to have an impact in 2025 regular season — When I rank prospects every offseason here at The Athletic, I'm considering the players' eventual peaks and their long-term values, which is why you'll see prospects who were just drafted or have only played …
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Phillies Nation, Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Nation
Tim Healey / Newsday:
Mets' Tyler Zuber ‘found my love for baseball again’ during stint with Long Island Ducks — PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Tyler Zuber, new Mets reliever, is an easy-going, sweeper-throwing country boy from an Arkansas town tiny enough that the entire population would fill just one out of every eight seats at Citi Field.
Associated Press:
Cleveland Guardians owner Lawrence Dolan dies at 94 — CLEVELAND — Lawrence J. Dolan, owner of Cleveland's major league baseball team since 2000, has died at age 94. — The Cleveland Guardians put out a statement Monday saying Dolan died Sunday night of natural causes.
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Tim Healey / Newsday:
Mets still view Jose Iglesias as ‘not a fit’ after Nick Madrigal's injury, source says — JUPITER, Fla. — The aftermath of Nick Madrigal's severe shoulder injury likely will not include the Mets revisiting the Jose Iglesias option. — They still view Iglesias as “not a fit” for their roster …
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New York Post:
Giancarlo Stanton returns to NY from Yankees camp for ‘personal’ issue — Access the Yankees beat like never before — Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees from spring training
