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NewsBarry M. Bloom has been a national reporter for MLB.com since 2002 and has more than 35 years of experience covering sports.
 | Todd Frazier will get a chance to build on his numbers with the New York Yankees -- his favorite childhood team -- playing at Yankee Stadium just about a 75-minute drive north on the New Jersey Turnpike from where he was once a Little League World Series winner.
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 | The Marlins have one of the best young lineups in the Major Leagues, and with the non-waiver Trade Deadline looming on July 31, manager Don Mattingly is hoping upper management will keep the team together.
More» Ozuna crushes a solo homer to left |
 | The first half of the Giants season is thankfully behind them and manager Bruce Bochy is healthy and bullish about his club's play the rest of the way.
More»Posey, Bumgarner lead team in first half |
 | The All-Star break begins Monday, and with 58 wins each, the Dodgers and Astros are on a blistering pace to run away with their respective leagues. The Dodgers are 44-17 since April and Thursday night's come-from-behind stunner in the ninth, with four runs off D-backs closer Fernando Rodney for a 5-4 win at Dodger Stadium, was really a microcosm of their season to date.
More» Forsythe cranks a solo homer to center field |
 | With Dodgers star left-hander Clayton Kershaw out of next Tuesday's MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard at Marlins Park, the obvious replacement should be his teammate, Alex Wood.
More» Wood blanks the D-backs, improves to 10-0 |
 | After 35 years, there's obviously still a love affair there between Jim Bouton and his wife, Paula Kurman. The two have been together so long they can finish each other's sentences, which now for Kurman is an imperative. Five years ago, the former pitcher was struck with what his wife said was a "devastating" stroke.
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 | With the All-Star break and non-waiver Trade Deadline fast approaching, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson was at his most glib and forthcoming to a crowd of about 700 SABR members, who gathered at Citi Field hours prior to a New York win over the Phillies on Friday.
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 | Jorge Guzman is a hard-throwing 21-year-old right-hander starting for the short-season Staten Island Yankees. On Monday in the picturesque Ballpark at St. George, Guzman touched 102 miles per hour and threw consistently in the 100s as he went six innings.
More»Yankees get a pair of young righties for Brian McCann |
 | All Yankees teams have their own flair and personality, but the back-to-back World Series winners of 1977-78 had the most guts.
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 | The Marlins are about to host the All-Star Game for the first time since the franchise's inception in 1993. That also means that Marlins Park hasn't yet gotten its hands on an All-Star Game either. But the ballpark has welcomed several games during the World Baseball Classic, which boasts all the pomp and circumstance of an All-Star Game or postseason tilt.
More»Yelich joins Morosi to discuss Team USA's win |
 | When the Yankees signed Matt Holliday to a one-year, $13 million contract this past December, they knew they were getting a prototype 37-year-old right-handed swinger perfectly suited to the role of designated hitter. They just didn't realize what kind of presence Holliday would have in the clubhouse.
More» Holliday breaks the deadlock with solo shot |
 | The Angels are 38-38, nearing the halfway point of the season. And the job manager Mike Scioscia's doing, keeping them at .500 considering injuries to Mike Trout, plus most of the starting rotation and bullpen, may be his masterpiece.
More» Scioscia on Chavez's outing, comeback win |
 | Ray Negron has been with the Yankees for 44 years. He started as a bat boy and has grown into one of the club's most trusted community relations advisors. Now Negron Is taking on one of his most important roles: as agent and advisor to his son, Ricky, a power-hitting third baseman who was selected earlier this month by the Braves in the 34th round of the Draft.
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 | Yankees pitching prospect James Kaprielian visited the big league club prior to Monday night's 5-3 win over the Angels at Angel Stadium. The Southern California native is two months removed from Tommy John ligament replacement surgery after missing almost the entire 2016 season with a right flexor strain.
More» Marakovits on Kaprielian at Angel Stadium |
 | Josh Hader has this whole Jacob deGrom thing going. Long, stringy blond hair flowing to his shoulders from beneath his Brewers cap.
More» Hader gets Lamb looking for first career K |
 | Hall of Famer Rod Carew believes he's a walking, talking miracle. When he had a heart attack on a golf course near his Orange County, Calif., home on Sept. 20, 2015, he went down for the count three times.
More»Carew discusses successful heart transplant surgery |
 | When the D-backs called up center fielder Rey Fuentes from Triple-A on May 15 to replace the injured A.J. Pollock, it called to mind the Padres' blockbuster trade of Adrian Gonzalez to the Red Sox after the 2010 season.
More» Fuentes extends the lead with RBI groundout |
 | Albert Pujols has a slew of milestones directly ahead of him. Perhaps the most significant is 3,000 hits. He's 124 hits away and could certainly become the 31st player to do it this season. On the homer list, Sammy Sosa at 609, Jim Thome at 612 and Ken Griffey Jr. at 630 are all within reach this season.
More» Pujols receives a standing ovation in 8th |
 | Three months later, Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant is still laughing about it. On a University of Nevada field in February, Bryant took batting practice against Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. But he didn't know it was Maddux.
More»Phil Rogers on Maddux's pranks as a player |
 | Every season has a different texture to it, as Cubs manager Joe Maddon is acutely aware. Thus, despite their position on Memorial Day at 25-25 and 1 1/2 games behind the Brewers in the National League Central, it's way too early to worry about the defending World Series champions.
More» Heyward drives two in with a single |
