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On the day they held their first official workout, the Baltimore Orioles announced pitcher Kyle Bradish will open the season on the injured list with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament. Orioles general manager Mike Elias said Bradish received a platelet-rich plasma injection to treat the injury. “He’s going to start his throwing progression tomorrow, but that progression is going to be something that takes some time. Bradish’s injury is particularly notable because the Orioles already are unsure about left-hander John Means’ status for the start of the season. MANUEL RETURNSFormer Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel made his first visit to the ballpark since he suffered a stroke in September.

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José Altuve and the Houston Astros agreed to a $125 million, five-year contract that covers 2025-29. Altuve has a $26 million salary for 2024 in the final season of a $163.5 million, seven-year deal. The eight-time All-Star second baseman would have been eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series. Altuve will have salaries of $30 million annually from 2025-27 and $10 million apiece in 2028 and ’29. Altuve became the first second baseman guaranteed to top $300 million in career earnings.

Persons: José Altuve, Altuve, Daniel Bard, ___ Organizations: Houston Astros, Houston, Altuve, Major League Baseball, Associated Press, Venezuela, Astros

HOUSTON (AP) — Hard-throwing reliever Josh Hader and the Houston Astros finalized a $95 million, five-year contract on Monday. Hader will get a $19 million salary in each of the next five seasons, none of it deferred. He gets a full no-trade provision and would receive a $1 million bonus for winning the Mariano Rivera/Trevor Hoffman Reliever of the Year Award. Houston reached the agreement three days after announcing reliever Kendall Graveman will miss the season after right shoulder surgery. Because Hader turned down a qualifying offer, San Diego will receive an extra pick in next July’s amateur draft.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dusty Baker is returning to the San Francisco Giants for a third stint with the team, this time as a special assistant in the front office, according to a person with direct knowledge of the hire. Back with the Giants, he will serve as a special assistant to President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi and CEO Larry Baer. Baker managed the Giants from 1993-2002 before coming back to work as an adviser to Baer during a break from managing in 2018-19. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesBaker finally won a long-awaited World Series title as a manager with Houston in 2022. He left the Giants on difficult terms following their World Series loss to the Angels in 2002 and took over as skipper of the Cubs.

Persons: — Dusty Baker, hadn’t, Baker, Farhan Zaidi, Larry Baer, Baer, —, Berkeley —, ___ Organizations: FRANCISCO, San Francisco Giants, Associated Press, Fame, Giants, Baseball, Houston Astros, Houston, Cubs, Reds, Nationals, Astros, Angels, University of California, Berkeley, USA Locations: Bay, San Francisco, Granite Bay, Sacramento

☆ You could've made easy money using Ted Cruz and college football
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ted Cruz, an Astros supporter, was in attendance for every game the Astros lost. Overall, Nanni finds little evidence of the Ted Cruz curse — with one important caveat that we'll get to. Of the 34 games Nanni confirmed Cruz attended, the teams Cruz supported won 18 times and lost 16 times. Of the six Houston Rockets games Cruz has attended in the NBA, they won five. And despite the Astros flaming out against the Rangers, of the 17 MLB games Cruz has attended, the Astros have won 10.

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☆ What the Big Ten’s Tony Petitti Learned From the Houston Astros
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jared Diamond | Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tony Petitti had a front-row seat to what had been the biggest sign-stealing scandal in American sports history. He was Major League Baseball’s deputy commissioner in late 2019, when his boss, Rob Manfred, began investigating the Houston Astros’ now infamous trash-can banging scheme. From his spot within the game’s inner circle, Petitti saw up close how Manfred’s probe unfolded, how he decided to impose discipline and how the public ultimately reacted afterward.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The race to add two-way baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani in a blockbuster free agency deal is off to a clandestine start. “Special player, that’s all I’ll say,” said Chris Young, general manager of the World Series champion Texas Rangers. “We may ask some questions, but I can’t tell you we’re diving all in,” Houston Astros general manager Dana Brown said. Privately, they're surely discussing the developing Ohtani sweepstakes, which could cost the winning team upward of $500 million. “You have to have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, so on and so forth.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are hiring Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their manager, according to a person familiar with the decision. Mendoza spent the past four seasons across town as Aaron Boone's bench coach with the Yankees. He replaces Buck Showalter, fired by the Mets at the end of last season after holding the job for two years. Political Cartoons View All 1234 ImagesMendoza becomes the fifth Mets manager since Terry Collins’ seven-year tenure ended in 2017. Showalter took over in December 2021 and led the Mets to a 101-61 record and a playoff berth in 2022, when he was voted NL Manager of the Year.

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Nielsen and Fox said Thursday the World Series averaged 9.11 million viewers, less than the 9.79 million average from the 2020 series, when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays in six games. Wednesday night's game averaged 11.48 million on Fox, a jump of 3 million compared to Tuesday night's audience. The total audience across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming platforms was 11.64 million. Monday night's Game 3 set the record for the least-watched World Series game on record at 8.13 million. “Whenever there's a chance for somebody to clinch, the numbers are usually high.”The World Series also continues to outperform every entertainment program.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Texas' extra-inning comeback victory over Arizona on Friday night was the least-watched Game 1 recorded in World Series TV history. The Rangers' 6-5 win over the Diamondbacks in 11 innings averaged 9.35 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming service. It is only the sixth World Series game that didn't attract at least 10 million viewers. The World Series was the most-watched event on television Friday night by a significant margin. The least-watched World Series game remains Game 3 in 2020, which averaged 8.34 million.

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☆ As Users Abandon X, Sports Twitter Endures
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Hours after the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros on Monday night to advance to the World Series, Adolis García, the Rangers right fielder, posted 29 shushing-face emojis on X, the social platform once known as Twitter. It was a message to the Astros fans who had booed him during his at-bats. Dozens of Rangers fans immediately chimed in. Sports reporters shared the post, and hundreds of other observations about the Rangers’ victory quickly followed. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, many users have abandoned the platform, spurred by a number of unpopular changes.

Persons: Adolis García, Elon Musk Organizations: Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Rangers, Astros, Sports, Elon, Twitter

Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 26 (Reuters) - The 2023 World Series will pit two gritty wild-card teams that have proved deadly on the road against each other when the Texas Rangers play host to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Game One on Friday. The Rangers, who are seeking their first World Series championship, started the playoffs red hot, hammering the Tampa Bay Rays in two road games and emerging victorious from the wild card round. They followed that up by sweeping the 101-win Baltimore Orioles in the Division Series before overcoming the Astros in Game Seven of the ALCS to capture the franchise's third pennant. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy will send ace Nathan Eovaldi to the mound for Game One. The Cuban slugger drove in a postseason series record 15 RBI thanks to a Game Six grand slam and two Game Seven homers to walk away with NLCS MVP honors.

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Yet, there they were back at Globe Life Field on Wednesday getting ready to host Game 1 of the World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Political Cartoons View All 1218 ImagesGame 1 is Friday night in the retractable-roof stadium that hosted MLB’s neutral-site World Series in 2020, the first year the ballpark opened. Texas and Arizona both had to win Games 6 and 7 of their respective League Championship Series on the road to get to the World Series. But it set up the third World Series matching wild-card teams. The Rangers have home-field advantage in the World Series because their 90 wins in the regular season were six more than Arizona had.

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☆ K-pop group STAYC in concert wardrobe mix-up involving wrong Rangers jerseys in Dallas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Wearing the local sports team’s jersey is the perfect way to endear yourself to a regional crowd, but K-pop girl group STAYC was involved in a bit of a wardrobe mix-up during its show in Dallas last Thursday. Marcus Semien, wearing the jersey of the Texas Rangers, during their Game 7 American League Championship Series win over the Houston Astros on October 23. STAYC is currently on the American leg of its ‘Teenfresh’ world tour. Shaun Botterill/Allsport/Getty ImagesThe accidental wardrobe snafu is not the first link between K-pop and a Glaswegian soccer side. The jersey of Rangers’ bitter rival, Celtic, made an appearance during boy band Stray Kids’ ‘My Piece’ music video in 2018.

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☆ Astros manager Baker retiring - report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FILE PHOTO:Oct 23, 2023; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker (12) before game seven of the ALCS against the Texas Rangers for the 2023 MLB playoffs at Minute Maid Park. Mandatory Credit: Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 25 (Reuters) - Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker, one of the most successful and beloved figures in Major League Baseball, has informed the team that he plans to retire, USA Today Sports reported on Wednesday. He went on to manage five different teams over 26 seasons and won the World Series at the helm of the Astros last November. The Astros were eliminated from the postseason when they lost to the Texas Rangers in Game Seven of the ALCS on Monday. A press conference at which Baker will announce his departure is scheduled to be held at Minute Maid Park on Thursday.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has retired as manager of the Houston Astros, ending an illustrious 26-year career as a big league skipper highlighted by a World Series win last season. “I’m very grateful and thankful to (owner) Jim Crane and the Houston Astros for giving me this opportunity, and to win a championship,’’ Baker told the newspaper. The Astros have scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning that Baker, Crane and general manager Dana Brown are set to attend. He played with Hank Aaron in Atlanta and won a World Series with the Dodgers in 1981. Baker made two World Series trips before winning it all with Houston last season.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Coming a win shy of reaching the World Series would be considered a successful season for most teams. “We overcame a lot of stuff… so you hold your head up high, and you think about what you’ve accomplished versus what you’ve lost,” he said. Political Cartoons View All 1218 ImagesAfter coasting to the AL West title in the previous two seasons, the Astros spent most of this season chasing Texas in the standings. The Astros beat Minnesota in four games in the AL Division Series to reach the ALCS for a seventh straight season. Still dealing with this.”The Astros came on late to win the division despite dealing with a spate of injuries.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with 15 in the AL Championship Series and extended his home run streak to four games after going deep twice in Game 7 against the Houston Astros on Monday night. García stretched his RBI streak to six games with a single in the first inning of the pennant-deciding game. He's also the first player with RBIs in six straight games within a postseason series. Cruz had 13 RBIs for the Rangers in the 2011 ALCS against Detroit, which was the last time they went to the World Series. García has 20 RBIs in these playoffs, the most ever by a player before the start of the World Series.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Adolis García homered twice and drove in five runs as the Texas Rangers reached the World Series with an 11-4 blowout of the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series on Monday night. García went deep for the fourth straight game and set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with 15. The defending World Series champion Astros were finally dethroned. Political Cartoons View All 1215 ImagesNo club has won consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees took three straight from 1998-2000. Texas’ win guarantees a third all-wild card World Series, the first since Bochy’s Giants beat Kansas City in 2014.

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☆ Cramer on 5 risks facing markets — and why it's not the 'most dangerous time'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

It is, however, by all appearances not a great time to be long stocks. But before that could happen, the markets would fall in response to Iran's actions and the U.S. commitment to defend Israel. All three enemies — Iran, Russia and China — are, indeed, being challenged by the U.S. in some capacity. But is it really too much to argue that multiple compression is not on par with "the most dangerous" of times? As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

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The defending World Series champion Astros were again felled by a subpar start from Framber Valdez and lackluster play at home. But the Rangers got some insurance from an RBI double by Garver with one out in the eighth off Abreu. Josh Sborz walked Alex Bregman to start the Houston eighth and struck out Alvarez before José Abreu singled with one out. Abreu singled on a grounder to right field before Tucker grounded into a force out that left him out at second and sent Alvarez to third. Heim, who had a career-high 18 home runs in the regular season, also homered off Valdez in Game 2 of this series.

Persons: — Nathan Eovaldi, Mitch Garver, Jonah Heim, Adolis García, Eovaldi, Framber Valdez, Valdez, Bryan Abreu, García, Stanek, Yordan Alvarez, Garver, Heim, Mauricio Dubón, Abreu, It’s, Cliff Lee, They’d, José Leclerc, Jose Altuve, Josh Sborz, Alex Bregman, Alvarez, José Abreu, Leclerc, Kyle Tucker, Jon Singleton, Jeremy Peña, Houston’s, Tucker, Dubón, Altuve, Brantley, barehanded, Nathaniel Lowe, Josh Jung, Garcia, Bryan Abreu's, John McHale Jr, Rob Manfred, Evan Carter, Adolis Garcia, ___ Organizations: HOUSTON, Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Rangers, Astros, The Rangers, Houston, The Astros, Tampa, Eovaldi, Valdez, Major League Baseball Locations: Houston, García, Arlington, Washington, Valdez, Texas, Tampa Bay

☆ Jose Altuve Wins the Wildest Baseball Game of the Year, Of Course
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Jared Diamond | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ARLINGTON, Texas—As the ninth inning of a wild American League Championship Series game progressed on Friday night, the players in the Houston Astros’ dugout could see the future. The events unfolding on the field conjured memories of the past. Game 5 of the ALCS at Globe Life Field had already featured an electric home run, a bench-clearing scuffle and three ejections—with a trip to the World Series at stake.

Organizations: American League, Houston Astros Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas

☆ ALCS: Houston Astros narrowly beat Texas Rangers in Game 5 as benches cleared in tense matchup
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Both benches cleared as tempers flared in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS) between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers on Friday. García immediately dropped his bat and turned to confront Houston catcher Martín Maldonado, with the pair exchanging words. Although no punches were thrown, Abreu, García and Houston manager Dusty Baker were all ejected after a delay of almost 12 minutes. They now hold a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven series, having won the last three games, and are one win from a spot in the World Series. The winner will face either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Arizona Cardinals in the World Series.

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jose Altuve thrives under pressure for the Houston Astros, able to stay calm in the biggest October moments even after another bench-clearing fracas against the Texas Rangers. “This dude is one of the baddest dudes I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some greats.”Baker wasn't in the dugout when Altuve hit his 26th career postseason homer, second in major league history behind Manny Ramirez (29). García, Abreu and Baker were all ejected. “The guy hits a three-run homer; the next time up he gets smoked,” Texas manager Bruce Bochy said. The 5-foot-6 Altuve, playing in his 101st postseason game for Houston, then pulled an 0-1 changeup over the left-field fence, just beyond the glove of a leaping Evan Carter.

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That includes their 8-5 win in Game 3 of the first postseason series between the instate AL West rivals. Seager was MVP in both the NLCS and World Series. He hit five homers in that seven-game NLCS, two in the World Series and has two here this postseason. OPEN ROOFA game was played at Globe Life Field with the roof open for the first time in nearly five months. The roof was open for 13 of the 16 neutral-site postseason games in 2020, including three of the six World Series games.

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