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“Last year during spring training, José Abreu approached me and he told me, ‘Whatever you need, just reach out to me and I’m here for you,’” Céspedes said. “That’s what I did. Every time that I needed something, I reached out to him and he gave me a lot of advice. That was great. That was really helpful for me.”
In Lake Forest, DeLeone paid $1.13 million for the nine-room house, which was built in 1910 and rehabbed down to the studs in 2014. The house has five full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, four en-suite bedrooms on the second floor with custom built-ins and a primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a marble bathroom with a double vanity. Other features include a white kitchen with marble countertops, a first-floor laundry room and a mud room.
“I tried to get him to hold onto pucks a little more, (but) the feedback’s all positive with this kid,” King said. “It’s a process here. This is not an easy league, obviously, because if it was I’d be still playing right now, but I’m not. It’s more or less, OK, here’s what we feel you’re doing.”
Players who remained from earlier in the week included the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon, the Mets’ Max Scherzer and Francisco Lindor, the Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt, the Chicago Cubs’ Ian Happ, the Brewers’ Brent Suter and free agent Andrew Miller.
“This is a truly horrible situation, and we are greatly concerned about our National Paralympic Committee and Para athletes from Ukraine,” IPC President Andrew Parsons said. “Our top priority right now is the safety and well-being of the Ukrainian delegation, with whom we are in regular dialogue.”
The left-hander’s natural crossfire delivery stood out even as a kid growing up in Fayetteville, N.C.. Baseball, though, wasn’t his only love. A three-sport athlete through high school, Herz also played basketball and football. He credits playing multiple sports for providing a strong foundation in creating a strong, athletic frame.
A day after the union made only small moves in response to management’s incremental proposal of a day earlier, MLB offered players only one change: Teams offered to increase the minimum salary from $570,500 to $640,000, up from their previous proposal of $630,000. The minimum would increase by an additional $10,000 each season during a five-year agreement. Teams withdrew their proposal for a tiered minimum, which players opposed.
“He’s been around for so long, he’s been on different teams, he’s played with different players, but the adjustment period of playing with a new team always takes a little bit of time,” Donovan said. “The terminology will take a little bit of time. He’s got to get that down because he’s very, very vocal.”
“When you draft shortstops or up-the-middle-type players, you are looking for certain qualities,” Sox assistant general manager/player development Chris Getz said Tuesday. “I feel like Colson has that. We know that the amount of baseball he’s played might be a little bit less than some other players coming into our system, but Colson is pretty polished. I noticed that and our scouts did as well when he was an amateur.
“The ‘Cruzer’ was the catalyst of that 1983 Western Division championship team,” Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. “When Roland Hemond acquired him that summer, the team just took off. Julio became our igniter, and his positive energy was contagious in the clubhouse, in the dugout and on the field.”