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PHOENIX (AP) Catcher J.T. Realmuto lost his salary arbitration case against Miami and first baseman Justin Bour beat the Marlins to leave players with a 3-1 record this year. Realmuto was given a $2.9 million salary Friday instead of his request for $3.5 million. The decision was made by arbitrators Andrew Strongin, Elizabeth Neumeier and Allen Ponak, who heard arguments ...

Spring Training is quickly approaching, and although the spotlight will soon be on the Padres big league club, the organization’s minor league system has received some well-deserved recognition from prospect evaluators in the past few weeks. Last Monday, Baseball America revealed their top 100 MLB prospects for the 2018 baseball season. The Padres had six players crack the list in total, which ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Catcher J.T. Realmuto lost his salary arbitration case against Miami and first baseman Justin Bour beat the Marlins to leave players with a 3-1 record this year. Realmuto was given a $2.9 million salary Friday instead of his request for $3.5 million. The decision was made by arbitrators Andrew Strongin, Elizabeth Neumeier and Allen Ponak, who heard ...

PHOENIX (AP) Pitcher Shelby Miller won his salary arbitration case on Thursday against Arizona after missing most of last season because of a torn elbow ligament, a decision that gave players a 2-0 record this year. Miller was awarded a $200,000 raise to $4.9 million by arbitrators Robert Herzog, Gary Kendellen and Sylvia Skratek, who heard the case Wednesday. The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Major League Baseball has offered to ditch its proposal for a pitch clock this year and also would go without one in 2019 if the average time of a nine-inning game drops to at least 2 hours, 55 minutes this season. Speaking after a quarterly owners meeting ended Thursday, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said owners authorized him ...

The No. 1 overall pick of the 2013 draft has walked away from baseball without every throwing a pitch in the major leagues. Mark Appel, a hard-throwing pitcher from Stanford taken by the Houston Astros with the No. 1 pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, has announced his intention to leave the game. He was released by Philadelphia ...

NEW YORK (AP) Mets general manager Sandy Alderson anticipates a flurry of roster moves as a large number of players find teams in the next few weeks. J.D. Martinez, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Jake Arrieta, Alex Cobb, Greg Holland and Lance Lynn remain among the dozens of unsigned players with the Feb. 14 start of spring training less than two ...

PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona Diamondbacks have finalized an $8.25 million, two-year contract with free agent catcher Alex Avila. Avila fills a roster spot vacated by Chris Iannetta, who shared the catching duties last year and left for an $8.5 million, two-year deal with Colorado. The 31-year-old Avila, a son of Detroit general manager Al Avila, hit .264 with 14 homers ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Catcher J.T. Realmuto went to salary arbitration with Miami on Wednesday and asked that he be given a raise to $3.5 million instead of $2.9 million. Arbitrators Andrew Strongin, Elizabeth Neumeier, Allen Ponak are expected to decide Friday. Realmuto made $562,500 last year and hit .278 with 17 homers and 65 RBIs in his third full season. ...