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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Friday

The common thread here is that all recommendations are available in over 50% of ESPN leagues. Nestor Cortes Jr. (L), rostered in 31% of ESPN leagues, New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles: The Yankees snapped a four-game losing streak on Wednesday and will look to Cortes to win their second straight contest. The left-hander draws […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes – Pitcher and hitter rankings for Friday

The weekend also is highlighted by an interleague encounter between the two first place teams in the Central divisions, with each affair slated to be a great pitching matchup. Lucas Giolito gets the nod for the visiting Chicago White Sox to be opposed by Freddy Peralta defending home turf for the Milwaukee Brewers. Elsewhere, there […]

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Atlanta Braves make MLB history with 7-homer game with 2 grand slams

ATLANTA — Austin Riley loved being a part of a homer-happy night for the Atlanta Braves. “When this lineup clicks up and down, it’s scary,” he said. Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a grand slam in the second inning off Tyler Anderson, pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza added another slam in the eighth against position player Wilmer Difo […]

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Nationals’ Juan Soto scratched vs. Braves with left elbow soreness

Soto’s exit took away one of baseball’s top hitters and came one day after another Washington outfielder, Adam Eaton, was forced out of Thursday night’s game with a jammed knee. The 21-year-old Soto is hitting .354 with 11 homers and 26 RBIs. He missed the first eight games because of a positive test for the […]

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Washington Nationals fire employee for throwing coffee at woman

In a Twitter video posted Friday night, Jazhiel Morel, who was the administrator of the Nationals’ academy in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, was shown filling up coffee cups before exchanging words with the cashier and then throwing the coffee on her. Morel has agreed to turn himself in to police Monday morning, his lawyer, Rafael […]

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Trea Turner, Nationals avoid arbitration with $7.45M deal for 2020

Turner joined lefty reliever Roenis Elias, who got a $1,975,000 deal, and right-handed starter Joe Ross in agreeing to 2020 contracts on the day of the deadline for teams and players to exchange arbitration figures. Outfielder Michael A. Taylor and Washington settled Thursday on a $3,325,000 salary for next season. The 26-year-old Turner was a […]

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Nationals finalize deals with Asdrúbal Cabrera, Eric Thames

“I’ll never forget that feeling of being heartbroken, seeing Juan Soto‘s base hit over my head,” Thames said. “I thought we had this game.” Three months after the Nationals scored three runs on Soto’s hit for a 4-3 win over the Brewers and went on to the franchise’s first World Series title, Thames joined the […]

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