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Good morning baseball fans!
Here’s a roundup of what’s going on in the National League East.
- MLB is pushing to stream games on Facebook now, because apparently people still use Facebook?
- The Cubs sign Pedro Strop to a one-year extension.
- During Saturday’s Cincinnati - Cleveland spring training game, everything was going as well as it could...until the sprinklers went off.
- Javier Baez got the tattoo we all wish we could get.
- Aaron Judge is setting himself up to be super human, so there’s that.
- Adrian Beltre and Carlos Gomez honor Yordano Ventura at spring training.
- Marlins pitcher Jeff Locke underwent an MRI for a shoulder injury, but the club doesn’t seem to be too concerned, according to Clark Spencer of The Miami Herald.
- These rule changes would make baseball significantly faster...so that’s one way of putting it.
- Colby Rasmus’ neck beard is some next level facial hair.
- Spring training is here, but gasp, that also means that spring training yips are here too.
- We’re really, really going to miss intentional walks.
- Breaking, Shocking, News: Gleyber Torres is good. Like, really good.
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Today in baseball: On February 27th, 1912, The Yankees announce they will begin wearing pinstripes on their uniforms. Who would have thought that’d ever catch on?