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The memo was released Friday afternoon, just prior to the Giants taking the field for their first rookie minicamp practice. It appeared the coaches got the news midway through, because they started practice with masks on, but some took them off later in the session.
Pujols was in the final season of a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Angels, who didn’t win a playoff game during his tenure. The slugger is making $30 million this season, and the Dodgers will pay him only the prorated portion of the major-league-minimum salary for the rest of the season, roughly $420,000. The Angels will pay the rest.
What might sting most is that playoff spots were up for grabs in the Eastern Conference this season. The Atlanta Hawks fired their coach at the beginning of March and entered Saturday as the conference’s No. 4 seed. Former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau has resurrected the New York Knicks, along with some key contributions from Derrick Rose and even Taj Gibson, to secure a top-six seed in the conference. At the very least, a berth in the play-in tournament, for the Nos. 7-10 seeds in each conference, was not a very high bar to clear.
The bill came to $31,082.64, and Lester added a 34% tip (his uniform number) of $16,012.27 for a total of $47,094.90. The Cubs did not re-sign him, and Lester wound up with a one-year, $5 million deal with the Nationals, playing under manager Dave Martinez, his former coach with the Cubs.
It was former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell’s cross that looked to have been deflected into his own net by veteran captain Wes Morgan. But video replays detected an offside that ensured, after four losing finals, Leicester would finally win world football’s oldest cup competition by 1-0 in the 140th final.
“Our group doesn’t get very emotionally high or emotionally low, they stay pretty even keeled,” Dames said. “If we go there and get a result, that’d be great. But all that means is we get on a plane and come home and get ready for Gotham the next weekend. And if we go there and lose it’ll not be so great, but we’ll get on the plane and we’ll get ready for Gotham the next weekend.
After a six-inning, two-run performance against the Tigers, Arrieta didn’t show signs of being hampered by a cut on his thumb that cost him a start. Instead, through seven starts, Arrieta has been the Cubs most consistent starter. Take away Arrieta’s outing in Cincinnati when he unsuccessfully tried to pitch with the cut (seven runs in 3 ⅓ innings) and he has a 2.65 ERA.
“First off, I’m extremely proud, it’s been hard, first one in my family so I owed it to them to follow through with this,” Marshall said during a conference call Wednesday. “I didn’t do anything for five or six years so it made going back even harder, one or two, three classes at a time, first semester quietly getting them done.
If we can vote on reality TV show contestants with ease, why can’t we make the office of MLB Commissioner an elected position with a four-year term? Rob Manfred would be free to run again, of course, but so would any former player, manager, general manager, executive, sportswriter or broadcaster.
“In the first couple of innings I was not really commanding the plate,” Kopech said. “Not having the comfort to go straight to a slider or a breaking ball, to make up for spraying a fastball, really puts you two steps behind. If you’re not throwing a fastball for a strike or your secondary for a strike, you’re just fighting yourself.