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Baseball turns to new directions for managers

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Have we run out of baseball managers? You know the stereotype. A baseball lifer who gravitates from one team to another, spitting and swearing, changing this uniform for that one. As long as he has a dugout, that’s OK. The thing is, it really isn’t that accurate anymore. Of the current 30 managers in the big leagues, were you aware that 19 of them are currently in the only job they have ever had, including Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash? Seven…

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Amid optimism, U.S.-Cuba relations challenge baseball players

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Yasmany Tomas took his last practice swings, packed his bat and carried his oversized No. 24 duffel bag toward the clubhouse. On the way, a dozen fans waited just outside a fence, calling the 6-foot-2 Cuban slugger’s name, holding out balls and gloves and begging for autographs and selfies. “Where’s the fat guy?” the 24-year-old Tomas asked, suddenly uneasy with the small frenzy. He called again for his interpreter and full-time assistant, Ariel Prieto. “Gordo! Gordo!” he shouted, using the…

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Stu Sternberg seems calm despite stadium delays, slow ticket sales

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This day works. Just ask the man in the tan sports jacket walking around the infield. This day works, although so many days of baseball do not. This day works, although individual ticket sales are down, and season ticket sales are down, and sponsorship sales are down. This day works, although much of his team is starting over in a market that seems to have no patience for it. This is Opening Day, after all. This is the day the…

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St. Pete City Council will schedule a Rays workshop

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St. Pete City Council voted unanimously to hold another workshop to discuss Mayor Rick Kriseman’s updated Memorandum of Understanding with the Rays. Council Chair Charlie Gerdes declined to schedule a council vote on the updated agreement aimed at letting the Major League Baseball team start exploring possible stadium sites in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. But council member Karl Nurse moved to hold a workshop discussing the latest negotiation. The workshop is aimed at giving council members the chance to air…

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal until after a workshop

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal anytime soon. City Council Chair Charlie Gerdes said instead he’s going to move forward with a request to workshop possible problems still lingering on the mind of five council members who voted no last December on Mayor Rick Kriseman’s original deal. “The mayor had some conversations with some of my colleagues and there’s just not a high enough confidence level that two of them will change their…

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Rick Kriseman sends new Rays deal to City Council

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St. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman has provided City Council an updated Memorandum of Understanding with the Tampa Bay Rays that meant to allow the team to explore new stadium opportunities in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. The new agreement addresses a concern brought up in the December meeting last year in which council rejected 5-3 the Mayor’s previous MOU. Council member Karl Nurse pointed out that should the Rays decide to leave Tropicana Field and/or St. Pete, they would still be…

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Report: Rick Kriseman to deliver new Rays agreement to City Council Friday

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Mayor Rick Kriseman may be one step closer to getting his way when it comes to reaching a deal with the Tampa Bay Rays to let them start looking for stadium sites outside St. Pete. The Tampa Bay Times is reporting that Kriseman will deliver results of his latest negotiations with the Major League Baseball team on Friday. According to that report, Kriseman’s Chief of Staff, Kevin King, said the new agreement addresses concerns about development rights should the Rays break…

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