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Astros News
- I’m not sure how much I believe a random “I’m hearing” tweet, but it looks likely that Springer will play somewhere else next season (Bleacher Report)
- And that possibility has a lot of people in the NL East licking their chops (Yahoo Sports)
- With Osuna out next season, the Astros’ bullpen may need some reinforcements (The Athletic, $$$)
- Apparently Correa defending his team makes him a supervillain because people don’t like that he didn’t just roll over and let them say whatever fool thing popped into their heads (Call to the Pen)
- The Astros announced that they are planning to let people go and will furlough others as they look to recover from losses due to COVID-19 (Texas Sports Nation, $$$)
Around the League
- The Dodgers are the 2020 World Series Champions (MLB.com)
- But that celebration was marred when news broke that Justin Turner had tested positive for COVID-19 in the 2nd inning, but later returned to the field anyways (MLB Trade Rumors)
- Which turned the trophy presentation into a possible super spreader event (Sports Illustrated)
- Here’s a full timeline of Turner’s journey from positive test to Typhoid Mary (Sporting News)
- Corey Seager won World Series and Championship Series MVP honors, making him the 8th player to accomplish such a feat (MLB.com)
- There were shades of Game 7 Greinke in last night’s game as Kevin Cash pulled Blake Snell in the 6th while he was dealing (MLB.com)
- A move that will be the subject of debate for some time to come (MLB.com)
- But let’s be clear, that move is not the reason that the Rays lost the World Series (The Ringer)
- Rob Manfred got to hear what fans though of him during the presentation of the trophy last night (Sporting News)