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NewsJesse Sanchez, who has been a reporter for MLB.com since 2001, is a national reporter based in Phoenix.
 | The gap that separates the pros from the amateurs this week at the Mets' academy is about 10 yards wide. It's lined with 15-foot palm trees and manicured hedges with an orange sidewalk running through the middle of it.
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 | Cuban shortstop Yolbert Sanchez is eligible to sign a contract with a Major League club starting today, but it's unclear if he will sign with a team during the current international signing period that ends June 15 or wait until the next signing period that starts July 2.
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 | The 2019 Caribbean Series, originally scheduled to start Saturday in Venezuela, has been relocated to Panama because of problems in the South American country.
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 | The 2019 Caribbean Series in Venezuela is in jeopardy of being canceled because of political and civil unrest amid advisories by the U.S government and Major League Baseball to avoid travel to the country.
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 | A new Cuban prospect is officially on the market, and the potential landing spots are already starting to take shape. Shortstop Yolbert Sanchez, who will be 22 in March, was cleared by Major League Baseball on Tuesday and will be eligible to sign starting Feb. 5.
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 | The third annual Dream Series, an initiative from MLB and USA Baseball that features a diverse group of some of the nation's top high-school pitching and catching prospects, concluded Monday with batting practice, bullpen sessions and defensive drills at the Spring Training home of the Angels.
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 | Growing up in Southern California, Malachi Moore never imagined that standing behind home plate and calling strikes could be as gratifying as crouching in the batter's box and swinging at them.
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 | The Dream Series, which runs in connection with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is an initiative designed to develop the 60 participating pitchers and catchers for a career in baseball.
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 | It takes only a few minutes for former Major League infielder Ernest "Junior" Spivey to find his young son on the field at this week's Dream Series at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
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 | Reds left-hander Amir Garrett spent Friday morning grinding at the club's Spring Training complex in Goodyear. But his biggest delivery of the day came during his lunch break, 30 miles east of the club's complex and nowhere near a mound.
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 | Former big league manager Jerry Manuel adjusted the bill of his cream-colored hat, dusted off the front of his white hoodie and then glided from his front-row seat in the hotel amphitheater to the podium.
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 | It's been a year since he first heard the words on the back fields outside Tempe Diablo Stadium, but when Christian Little closes his eyes, he can still hear Junior Spivey's voice.
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 | Baseball in the Bahamas is on the rise and while it may never rival countries like the Dominican Republic and Venezuela in terms of quantity, there's an argument to be made that the quality of talent coming from there is on par with other international baseball hotbeds.
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 | This week, 120 prospects in the program from the Dominican Republic showed off their skills in front of hundreds of Major League scouts at the San Francisco Giants' academy in Boca Chica.
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 | The Trainer Partnership Program continues to make progress on the international scene, and the initiative is expected to expand in 2019.
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 | The Trainer Partnership Program, a new MLB initiative with trainers from Latin America, will host its second showcase for participants in the program, this time for international prospects and trainers from Venezuela, starting Tuesday at Stadium Nadi Croes/Crismo Angela on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
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 | The Arizona Fall League's first Pride Night on Wednesday was a celebration of the sport, acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community.
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 | Timed in conjunction with the Arizona Fall League's Fall Stars Game, the latest edition of Play Ball featured close to 300 local participants at the Surprise Recreation Campus, the Spring Training home of the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers.
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 | Sunday's game ended with Manny Machado on one knee, buckled by a wicked slider from Boston left-hander Chris Sale for strike three and the final out of the World Series. The next big chapter in his professional career starts in less than two weeks.
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 | David Freese drove David Price's first pitch of Sunday's Game 5 of the World Series over the fence in right-center to open the bottom of the first.
More» Freese crushes a leadoff homer to right |
