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De La Cruz showed promise early in his career with Miami, hitting .269/.318/.430 with 18 homers, 27 doubles and a pair of triples in his first 574 plate appearances from 2021-22. He popped 19 homers in 2023, but poor glovework and an OBP barely north of .300 made him a roughly replacement-level player. De La Cruz had a better start in '24, connecting on 18 long balls through his first 454 turns at the plate.

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Berra debuted in 1946 but played only seven games that season. He wore No. 38 and No. 35 during his debut season and 35 in 1947, while Bill Dickey, who won eight World Series titles as a Yankees catcher, wore No. 8. Dickey retired as a player following the 1946 season and Aaron Robinson, a 1947 All-Star, inherited No. 8 before Berra. The Yankees retired No. 8 in 1972 to honor both Dickey and Berra.

Sears blew away all expectations for him this year. He made just five appearances for Augusta, including two starts, pitching to a 1.93 ERA and 1.02 WHIP with a 31 strikeout to four walk ratio in 18.2 innings before being promoted to Rome. His time with Rome was even shorter, as he made just three starts there, pitching to a 2.00 ERA and 0.67 WHIP with 17 strikeouts to two walks in 17 innings.

He continued to struggle making contact which resulted in a .213 walk rate, and struck out a ton with a strikeout rate sitting at a mammoth 35%. His walk rate was still outstanding, though it was a career low 14.9%. The result - a batting average of .213 but an OBP of a respectable .343. The power also saw a minor uptick as he hit a career high 7 homers, and an ISO of .129.

Brooklyn detectives are questioning a man after a building superintendent was found beaten to death following a dispute over stolen packages Wednesday. Officers from the 66th Precinct rushed to 1199 Ocean Ave. in Midwood just after 8 a.m. on Nov. 12, where they discovered the victim, a 41-year-old man, with head trauma. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police have withheld his identity, pending proper family notification.

"We have put ourselves in a position based on the improvement we made in 2025," Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix said, per The Athletic. "We think we can put together a really exciting team for 2026 and also continue our quest to build a foundation of talent at all levels that will allow us to stay good for a long period of time."

Both men are among a wave of young, progressive, charismatic candidates calling for change, amid a backlash to not only Donald Trump's second-term agenda, but also a historically unpopular Democratic Party that many feel are doing too little, too late. That list of progressives also includes Arizona representative-elect Adelita Grijalva; Robert Peters, who is running in Illinois' 2nd district; and Graham Platner, a democrat running for senate in Maine in a bid to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins.

Dan Fiorito, the club's minor league outfield/infield coordinator, will be promoted to the big league staff. It was reported last month that the Yankees would be moving on from a few coaches, including first base and infield coach Travis Chapman. Per Joyce, Fiorito has been hired to replace Chapman at first and is expected to take over the infield coaching duties as well.

One of the key storylines this offseason that everyone will be closely monitoring will be whether or not star shortstop Bo Bichette will return to the Toronto Blue Jays. As one of the main driving forces of the Blue Jays offense in each of the past seven seasons, the lasting impact of Bichette departing from the organization can not be underestimated.

He could be the leader of the most expensive collection of talent in baseball history. He could be the two-time World Series champion manager. He could be part of a dynasty. Don Mattingly said he never viewed his departure from the Dodgers in that context, however. And when he returns to Dodger Stadium this week as the bench coach of the Toronto Blue Jays, he doesn't expect to feel anything he wouldn't feel in a World Series game played at any other stadium.

Ha-seong Kim has a player-only option at 16 million dollars for 2026. Everything right now suggests that he will opt out and search for a new contract. In 2025, Kim picked up 0.3 WAR through 191 PAs. He had a .234/.304/.345 line with a 82 wRC+ overall. However, most of that was injury-riddled. In 98 post-IL-stint Braves PAs, he picked up 73 more points of OPS versus before. Still, he was 26th of 30 in shortstop WAR post-injury aka September.

It was a good season for the Reds in 2025, on balance. Hunter Greene replicated his excellent 2024 andcemented himself one of the game's top young starters, Andrew Abbott enjoyed a career-year that saw him make his first trip to the All-Star game, and despite winning just 83 games the club managed to squeak into the postseason for the first time in a full season since 2013.

New York can't be Europe, folks. I don't know what is wrong with people. You see what's playing out in other countries because countries because of Islamic extremism. Not Muslims let's not mix this up but those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings and that is what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the family of New York.

The days of George Steinbrenner seem like a distant memory in the Bronx. The New York Yankees last won the World Series in 2009, while he still stood at the helm. But most, if not, all Yankee fans still openly echo his philosophy, believing there is no such thing as a good season; you either win or you lose. If you did not win, then you lost. And if you lost, how can it be a good season?

Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- a disease that would later be known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- in 1939 and played only eight games that season before being forced to retire. His then-record streak of 2,130 consecutive games played would end, but he stayed with the Yankees and delivered lineup cards to umpires. The uniform sold at auction was photo-matched by MeiGray Authenticated to Oct. 5, 1939, the last time Gehrig wore a Yankees uniform at home.

What we are going to do through this agenda of curing procurement is to ensure that every single dollar we spend within the Department of Education is $1 that is furthering our mission of delivering excellent education to students across the five boroughs, he said, during a Tuesday news conference on the Upper West Side in which he unveiled the plan.

As the World Series approaches, fans might take a moment to appreciate an era that has given us baseball players, like the Yankees' slugger Aaron Judge and the Dodgers' pitcher-hitter Shohei Ohtani, who will go down in history with Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle. Some things have changed between the eras. Aaron earned about two million dollars in his career; Ohtani's current contract is worth seven hundred million.

A Macon, GA native, Cox was a fifth round draft choice in 2018 by the Kansas City Royals out of Mercer University. He made his major league debut with the Royals in 2023 and after bouncing around in the minor league system for a couple of years, Cox signed with Atlanta on May 5, a day after the Royals let him go.

Elly De La Cruz has led the league in errors the past two seasons, but the Reds intend to keep him at shortstop, at least for the time being. President of baseball operations Nick Krall spoke to Mark Sheldon of MLB.com for a piece about Cincinnati's top prospects. With shortstop prospect Edwin Arroyo knocking on the door of the majors, Krall was asked if there were plans to move De La Cruz off the position. " As of right now, no," Krall told Sheldon.

New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe is going to miss the start of the 2026 season after undergoing surgery Tuesday to repair a partially torn labrum in his elbow. That manager Aaron Boone and general manager Brian Cashman can agree on. Everything else is murky. The Yankees' brain trust put forth mixed messages on Volpe's injury, which he played with throughout the season, and even missed five games because of it in September.