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• Tracking MLB COVID-19 cases for the 2020 season

  30-07-2020 20:42 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Major League Baseball is currently dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with the Miami Marlins — and, possibly, the Philadelphia Phillies — that is quickly spiraling out of control. Multiple games have been postponed and more seem inevitable. In light of this, let’s start tracking MLB COVID-19 cases for the 2020 season. Tracking MLB COVID-19 cases
  
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• And That Happened: Sunday’s MLB scores and highlights

  27-07-2020 11:00 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Nelson Cruz did some major damage. Shohei Ohtani was damaged, majorly, and every team finished opening weekend with at least one win and one loss.
  
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• MLB’s racial justice efforts from Opening Night were . . . interesting

  24-07-2020 16:39 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  MLB's racial justice efforts are under the spotlight as the new season begins. How have they done so far?
  
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• On Opening Day, a Rarity for M.L.B.: Support for Black Lives Matter

  24-07-2020 05:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Players and coaches knelt before the national anthem, and teams played a message of unity at the first two games of the 2020 season.
  
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• Gabe Kapler explains his ‘responsibility’ to amplify Black voices

  23-07-2020 19:09 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Kapler: "people in positions of privilege in sports have both the responsibility and an opportunity to amplify the voices of Black people"
  
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• Gabe Kapler explains his “responsibility” to amplify Black voices

  23-07-2020 19:09 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Kapler: "people in positions of privilege in sports have both the responsibility and an opportunity to amplify the voices of Black people"
  
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• 2020 MLB season preview

  23-07-2020 18:31 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  And now a 2020 MLB season preview, for the strangest MLB season we’ve every seen. Yes, baseball should be rounding into the dog days and the home stretch on July 23, not just getting started, but all the “shoulds” have been thrown out the window in 2020, so here we are. Let’s break it all
  
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• San Francisco Giants roster and schedule for 2020 season

  22-07-2020 22:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  The Giants will be without future Hall of Fame catcher Buster Posey as well as Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria to start the season. Can they hang in a tough NL West?
  
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• San Francisco Giants roster and schedule for 2020

  22-07-2020 22:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  The Giants will be without future Hall of Fame catcher Buster Posey as well as Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria to start the season. Can they hang in a tough NL West?
  
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• San Francisco Giants roster and schedule

  22-07-2020 22:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  The Giants will be without future Hall of Fame catcher Buster Posey as well as Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria to start the season. Can they hang in a tough NL West?
  
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• Arizona Diamondbacks roster and schedule for 2020 season

  21-07-2020 23:10 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Can the additions of Madison Bumgarner and Starling Marte help the Diamondbacks hang with the Dodgers in the NL West?
  
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• Arizona Diamondbacks roster and schedule for 2020

  21-07-2020 23:10 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Can the additions of Madison Bumgarner and Starling Marte help the Diamondbacks hang with the Dodgers in the NL West?
  
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• Arizona Diamondbacks roster and schedule

  21-07-2020 23:10 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Can the additions of Madison Bumgarner and Starling Marte help the Diamondbacks hang with the Dodgers in the NL West?
  
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• San Diego Padres roster and schedule for 2020 season

  21-07-2020 22:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  While the Padres are unlikely to take down the Dodgers in the NL West, could they contend for the NL Wild Card?
  
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• San Diego Padres roster and schedule

  21-07-2020 22:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  While the Padres are unlikely to take down the Dodgers in the NL West, could they contend for the NL Wild Card?
  
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• Giants manager Gabe Kapler, baseball players kneel during National Anthem

  21-07-2020 14:21 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Giants players Jaylin Davis and Antoan Richardson and Angels reliever Keynan Middleton likewise kneeled during the national anthem
  
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• Buster Posey opts out of the 2020 season

  10-07-2020 18:30 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Posey and his wife recently adopted twins who were born prematurely and who are in the NICU.
  
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• Buster Posey has opted out of the season

  10-07-2020 18:30 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Posey and his wife recently adopted twins who were born prematurely and who are in the NICU.
  
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• Buster Posey misses third workout at Giants camp

  10-07-2020 02:56 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Giants catcher Buster Posey missed his third workout at Giants camp due to personal reasons. There is a chance Posey elects not to play this season.
  
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• 2021 MLB schedule announced

  09-07-2020 19:32 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  MLB has released the 2021 MLB schedule. It's out more than a month earlier than the next season's schedule usually is released. And before 2020 even begins.
  
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• Giants resume workouts after getting July 4 COVID-19 tests back

  08-07-2020 18:15 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  But what about the July 6 tests?
  
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• Giants the latest team to suspend workouts due to delayed COVID-19 tests

  07-07-2020 21:39 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Major League Baseball's COVID-19 battle plan has not survived contact with the enemy
  
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• Giants latest team to suspend workouts due to delayed COVID-19 tests

  07-07-2020 21:39 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Major League Baseball's COVID-19 battle plan has not survived contact with the enemy
  
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• Must-see games on the 2020 MLB regular season schedule

  07-07-2020 01:43 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Find out which games are the most interesting on MLB's 2020 60-game regular season schedule, first revealed on Monday evening.
  
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• Brandon Guyer announces retirement

  06-07-2020 22:30 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  On Monday, outfielder Brandon Guyer announced his retirement. The 34-year-old spent parts of 7 seasons in the majors, most recently with the Indians.
  
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• Giants to put cardboard photo cutouts of fans in stands at Oracle Park

  26-06-2020 16:54 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Free for season ticket holders who took credit for 2020 tickets. $99 for anyone else.
  
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• Farhan Zaidi on politician who mocked George Floyd, masks: “F**k that guy”

  26-06-2020 13:17 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  That politician is from Scottsdale, Arizona, where the Giants train. Zaidi accuses him of making it less safe for his players and staff.
  
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• Mike McCormick, Comeback Cy Young Award Winner, Dies at 81

  19-06-2020 23:55 via nytimes.com
  
  He was an All-Star fastball pitcher with the Giants until he developed a sore arm. He salvaged his career by learning to throw a screwball.
  
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• Former Cy Young winner Mike McCormick dies at 81

  16-06-2020 20:52 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Longtime Giants pitcher Mike McCormick, who won the Cy Young Award in 1967, has died. He was 81.
  
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• 2020 MLB Draft Results, First Round

  11-06-2020 01:02 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  The 2020 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft will be held on Wednesday, aired at 7 PM ET on MLB Network and ESPN/ESPN2, and live streamed on MLB.com. Per the March agreement between the league and the MLB Players Association, the draft has been shortened to five rounds. The first round and Competitive Balance Round
  
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• At least 16 MLB teams pledge more stipends to minor leaguers

  30-05-2020 12:22 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Those stipends pay minor leaguers $400 per week.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: Dodgers, Giants, given approval to move to California

  28-05-2020 20:23 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  One of the biggest reasons O'Malley moved the Dodgers: pay-per-view TV. Which never happened.
  
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• Former MLB All-Star, GM and executive Bob Watson dies at 74

  15-05-2020 13:50 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Bob Watson, a two-time All-Star as a player who later became the first black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died. He was 74.
  
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• Former MLB All-Star, GM and executive Bob Watson dead at 74

  15-05-2020 13:50 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Bob Watson, a two-time All-Star as a player who later became the first black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died. He was 74.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: Willie Mays hits four homers in one game

  30-04-2020 17:21 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  This photo shows Mays hitting his fourth dinger of the afternoon. Who else has hit four in one game?
  
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• Teams announce ticket refund policies for games postponed by coronavirus

  29-04-2020 22:45 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  MLB let individual teams decide how to handle refunds for games postponed by coronavirus. Some of those teams announced their refund policies today.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: The game with no fans

  29-04-2020 17:38 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Civil unrest in Baltimore gave us a game without fans in April 2015. It's a sight we may get very used to seeing pretty soon.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: Barry Bonds joins the 300-300 club

  27-04-2020 17:58 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Barry Bonds is the only member of the 500-500 and 400-400 clubs. But who else has joined him in the 300-300 club?
  
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• Today in Baseball History: the Indians trade Rocky Colavito

  17-04-2020 17:42 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  And with it, "The Curse of Colavito" is visited upon the Indians. Allegedly.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: Oakland’s Mustache Gang is born

  15-04-2020 17:12 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  No one had worn a mustache in a regular season game since 1914 before Reggie Jackson did on this date in 1972
  
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• Which teams would benefit the most from plan to play in Florida and Arizona?

  11-04-2020 00:50 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  We might get a totally reimagined baseball landscape at some point later this year. Who stands to gain the most from it?
  
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• And That Happened: Texas Rangers vs. Detroit Tigers: April 10, 1984

  10-04-2020 12:50 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  I live-blogged the home opener for the 1984 Tigers as they took on the Texas Rangers. Warning: this is VERY long.
  
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• Today in Baseball History: The “Screen Monster” is erected in Los Angeles

  07-04-2020 19:14 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  That was one short porch out in left field. And it required a radical solution.
  
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• And That Happened: Classic!

  27-03-2020 11:35 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  April 11, 1967: Bob Gibson was dominant, Juan Marichal was not, and your writer journeys to the center of his mind!
  
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• MLB Network to air a marathon of memorable Opening Day games on Thursday

  24-03-2020 20:33 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Including the Tuffy Rhodes game against the Mets from 1994!
  
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• Bracket: Best baseball moments of 2019

  23-03-2020 22:19 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  Eight of the best moments of the 2019 season go up against each other, bracket-style. Which moment was the best of them all?
  
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• Dodgers minor leaguer Connor Joe had surgery for testicular cancer

  18-03-2020 18:34 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  Joe: "the good news is that we caught it early, and cases like mine are very curable." He is undergoing treatment.
  
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• California recommends the suspension of large gatherings

  12-03-2020 12:32 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  
  The Dodgers, Giants, Padres, and Athletics all have home games scheduled in March
  
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• San Francisco bans gatherings of 1,000 or more people, sporting events included

  11-03-2020 18:05 via mlb.nbcsports.com
  The Giants have a March 24 exhibition game at Oracle Park and open their home schedule there on April 3
  
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• Landing Madison Bumgarner Gave Arizona an Ace and a Mentor

  05-03-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At least one of the Diamondbacks’ young pitchers is soaking up all he can from Bumgarner, whose career has been defined by brilliant World Series performances for the Giants.
  
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