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Infielder Amed Rosario and the Tampa Bay Rays are in agreement on a one-year, $1.5 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Rosario, 28, will bring a strong bat against left-handed pitching and should get at-bats at shortstop, second base and potentially corner-outfield spots.

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This is the longest MLB has gone between expansion franchises since a 60-year gap between 1901 and 1961. But two new teams are coming.

At ESPN+: What is the timeline?Who are the favorites? And what could realignment look like when it finally does happen? espn.com/mlb/insider/st…

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Mike Trout just said he does not want to be traded now — he called it “the easy way out” — and that he’s been pushing Angels owner Arte Moreno and general manager Perry Minasian to sign one of the remaining big free agents.

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Liam Hendriks deal with the Red Sox, after the physical: 2 years, $10 million guaranteed, with additional performance bonuses.

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Trade news: The Kansas City Royals are acquiring right-handed reliever John Schreiber from the Boston Red Sox for minor league right-hander David Sandlin, sources tell ESPN. Royals get an arm for a pen that needed it, Sox get a pitching prospect with strikeout stuff.

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Outfielder Randal Grichuk and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a one-year, $2 million contract that includes a mutual option for 2025, sources tell ESPN. The deal will pay Grichuk $1.5M this year and has a $6M option with a $500,000 buyout and performance bonuses.

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Rob Manfred says he has five years left as Major League Baseball's commissioner. If true, it's the best opportunity yet to escape the politics of the job and burnish his legacy with truly substantive change. Column, free and unlocked at ESPN: espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

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Rob Manfred held court in Tampa today and talked about retirement, expansion, the new jerseys, a signing deadline, injury manipulation, Diamond Sports Group, the A's and the O's.

Here's the story from David Schoenfield ...

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Tough news out of Orioles camp: Right-hander Kyle Bradish, who had the best second-half ERA in the American League among starters at 2.34, is hitting the injured list with a tear in his UCL. Bradish had a PRP shot, plans to continue throwing and will try to pitch through it.

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Reliever Liam Hendriks has multiple offers and has set a deadline of Thursday to sign with a team, sources tell ESPN. If Hendriks doesn't sign now, he would keep rehabbing from Tommy John surgery on his own and throw for teams in late July before signing for the stretch run.

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Outfielder Jorge Soler and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a three-year, $42 million contract, a source familiar with the deal tells ESPN.

Soler opted out of a $13 million contract -- and gets more than that over three years. First with the deal was Susan Slusser.

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Before this offseason, Clayton Kershaw said, “I’d never really made a big decision in my life.”

He ultimately chose pitching, chose surgery, and ultimately, chose the Dodgers.

On all of that …

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In this story, along with the A’s, Manfred talks in-market streaming next season, new stadiums, mlb players in the Olympics and a quick mention re expansion.

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The minor league collective-bargaining agreement signed last year continues to generate change: The MLBPA is now certifying agents who represent only minor league players, per sources. In order to be certified previously, an agent needed at least one player on a 40-man roster.

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Second baseman Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros are in agreement on a five-year, $125 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN. Altuve was set to hit free agency after this season but will remain with the team for which he has played since his debut in 2011.

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Right hander Jakob Junis has a deal with the Brewers pending physical, per source.

He's being signed as a starting pitcher after having served as both starter and reliever for the Giants over the last two seasons.

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