Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer placed on 15-day IL with right thumb inflammation
Scherzer exited his Blue Jays debut Saturday against Baltimore after just three innings and 45 pitches due to right lat soreness.
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Wed, Apr 9
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s Blue Jays extension includes a $325 million signing bonus
The Jays will pay out 65 percent of Guerrero’s 14-year-contract in signing bonus.
Players:
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Ranking 11 recent MLB extensions: Which teams did the best deals? Who overpaid?
With so many deals this spring, I decided to rank 11 extensions from the club perspective — the best contracts to the riskiest ones.
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Octavio Dotel — the pitcher everybody wanted — left a legacy of strikeouts and smiles
Dotel, who played for 13 teams in his major-league career, died Tuesday after a roof collapse at a club in his native Dominican Republic.
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Tue, Apr 8
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MLB Power Rankings: Braves with a big drop; How about that NL West?
For this week's rankings, we look at one name that’s having an outsized impact on either present performance or our future expectations.
Mon, Apr 7
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What could Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s extension with Blue Jays mean for the Mets’ Pete Alonso?
It’s easier for Alonso to argue for “90 percent of what Guerrero got” — or about $32 million or more per season.
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Vlad Guerrero, Blue Jays finally agree to an extension. Plus, the Giants are surprisingly good
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