The two-run home run Ryan O’Hearn belted in his first plate appearance Wednesday was a fitting goodbye to Baltimore. That turned out to be O’Hearn’s final Orioles game, as the club traded him to the San Diego Padres on Thursday, along with outfielder Ramón Laureano, sources said. O’Hearn and Laureano resurrected their careers in Baltimore. O’Hearn is an impending free …
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Image credit: Leo De Vries (Photo by Bill Mitchell) Padres GM A.J. Preller has a well-earned reputation as one of the boldest in the game. On Thursday before the MLB trade deadline, he restaked the claim by making another stunning deal that sends one of the top prospects in all of baseball, Leo De Vries, to the Athletics in a …
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Jorge CastilloJul 30, 2025, 04:27 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. The New York Mets acquired right-handed reliever Tyler Rogers from the San …
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Texas Republicans plow ahead with a plan to redraw congressional maps ahead of schedule, many governors are increasingly grappling with an issue that they didn’t think they’d have to confront until the end of the decade. Texas’ unscheduled redistricting effort — which Republicans hope could help protect their narrow House majority during next year’s midterm …
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Image credit: Spencer Jones (Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images) Baseball America is set to update our Top 100 Prospects list to add 2025 draftees on Monday, July 28. While the update will primarily be for that purpose, we will also use it as a chance to tweak the order, in general. At BA, we continually work to gather more of …
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Spencer Jones may cool off at some point, but that time is not yet here. The surging Yankees prospect continued his ridiculous heater, crushing three home runs in his first three at-bats Thursday afternoon with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, giving him 13 home runs through 19 games since being promoted from Double-A. Jones seems to be playing his way into “untouchable” status …
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Jul 24, 2025, 06:43 PM ET ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York Yankees prospect Spencer Jones homered in his first three at-bats in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s 10-8 loss to Rochester on Thursday. A frequent subject of trade rumors, the left-handed hitting Jones — a towering figure at the plate at 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds — took the minor league home run lead …
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