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Good morning baseball fans!
Here is a roundup of what’s going on around the American League East.
- Sonny Gray is out with a lat strain, which is pretty bad news for the Athletics.
- The Nationals were very sneaky in assembling a World Series caliber team this offseason.
- Blue Jays pitcher T.J. House was taken to the hospital after being struck by a line drive.
- The Orioles didn’t do the offseason work that they should have.
- Ian Desmond has a broken hand and it’s hard to see who the loser in this situation really is.
- Orioles and Alvarez agree to minor-league deal.
- The Red Sox are out to win the AL East again with a powerhouse pitching rotation.
- The Yankees still need young arms if they want to have any success this season.
- Trevor May has torn ligament and will likely get season ending Tommy John surgery.
- Reds pitcher Anthony Disclafani has a strained elbow.
- The World Baseball Classic is getting extremely exciting, just in case you needed us to tell you.
- The things go very wrong, very fast for the Royals...expect a mass exodus of player
- Tim Tebow got a hit in a real, live baseball game and it was glorious.
- Gagne enthused after first comeback test.
- Cleveland fans: Don’t panic yet.
- The Cubs had a very special guest visit them at spring training.
- What teams are building themselves to be better later and will actually fulfill that destiny?
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Today in baseball: On March 15th, 1999, the Yankees name Don Zimmer to be the club's interim manager while Joe Torre receives treatments for prostate cancer.