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Malquin Canelo

BAL Shortstop

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Phillies SS prospect Malquin Canelo was named Top Star of the South Atlantic League All-Star Game Tuesday at Asheville.

Canelo chipped in with two hits and a walk, reaching base four times in the North’s 7-5 victory. The 20-year-old ranks second in the South Atlantic League in both runs (48) and hits (82). He’s also seventh in batting average at .311. Despite Canelo’s contributions, Low-A Lakewood finished the first half two games below .500.
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Adam Macko

TOR Relief Pitcher #64

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Blue Jays optioned LHP Adam Macko to Triple-A Buffalo; reassigned RHPs Gage Stanifer and Fernando Perez to minor league camp.

Macko has spent the last couple years on Toronto’s 40-man roster but has yet to reach the big leagues. He’ll have to wait a bit longer now. Stanifer made a big jump last year, showing that he could stick as a starter and finishing the season at Double-A New Hampshire. He projects as a back-end rotation arm down the road.

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Target Abreu late for fantasy RP amid Hader injury

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Wikelman González

CWS Pitcher #66

Wikelman González was removed from Tuesday’s spring training game against the Padres with lower back tightness.

González will likely get a couple days off to put the issue to bed but it doesn’t sound like his Opening Day availability is in jeopardy with a couple weeks before the season kicks off.

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Source: Chicago White Sox

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Jeimer Candelario

LAA 3rd Baseman #19

Jeimer Candelario went 2-for-2 with a two-run homer on Tuesday, lifting the Angels to a 7-6 win over the Mariners in Cactus League action.

Candelario is in Angels camp as a non-roster invitee and will have to beat out someone like Adam Frazier or Vaughn Grissom for a bench role. That seems unlikely given his lack of defensive versatility, but stranger things have happened in the past.

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Bryan Woo

SEA Starting Pitcher #22

Bryan Woo recorded four strikeouts over 2 1/3 innings on Tuesday against the Angels.

It’s reassuring to see Woo looking like himself again after missing time late last year — and into the postseason — with pectoral inflammation. The 26-year-old profiles as a surefire top-10 starting pitcher off the board this spring, the kind of arm whose floor and ceiling feel uncomfortably close to one another in a way that makes draft-day decisions easier than they probably should be at a position where nothing is guaranteed.

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Bryce Harper

PHI Infield #3

Bryce Harper had a double and a two-run single Tuesday as Team USA crushed the Giants 15-1.

Alex Bregman and Roman Anthony homered in the game. It’s debatable whether Harper was really Team USA’s best option at first base in the WBC — Pete Alonso and Matt Olson had pretty good cases, and upstart Nick Kurtz might outhit all of them again this year — but Harper looked the part today. Hit two hits left the bat at 111 and 110 mph, which is encouraging. Last season, just 14 of his 383 balls in play were hit at least 110 mph.

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Paul Skenes

PIT Starting Pitcher #30

Pitching for Team USA, Paul Skenes allowed one run over three innings and fanned four versus the Giants on Tuesday.

Willy Adames led off the top of the first with a double, the lone hit against Skenes, and then came around to score on a pair of groundouts. Skenes needed just 40 pitches to get through three, so he threw a few more in the bullpen afterwards. He’ll make his next start for Team USA against Team Mexico.

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Matthew Boyd

CHC Pitcher #16

Matthew Boyd pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings and struck out four Tuesday in Team USA’s exhibition against the Giants.

Boyd couldn’t get through his third inning, but that gave Giants minor leaguer R.J, Dabovich a chance to pitch for Team USA, as the club borrowed him for the day. Boyd averaged 94.1 mph with his fastball today, up 0.8 mph from 2025, and he got 13 whiffs on 34 swings in the 49-pitch outing.

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Adrian Houser

SF Starting Pitcher #12

Adrian Houser pitched three innings and allowed two runs Tuesday versus Team USA.

Houser struck out three and kept the ball in the yard in a fine showing against a team that had Cal Raleigh batting sixth. It’s going to be quite the letdown when he’s back facing the Rangers next time out.

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Blade Tidwell

SF Pitcher

Blade Tidwell surrendered five runs in 2 2/3 innings Tuesday against Team USA.

Given that Tidwell was facing an All-Star team, he has nothing to be embarrassed about today. He gave up two homers and five other hard-hit balls, but he struck out Roman Anthony and Gunnar Henderson on his way to finishing up with a 33% CSW. Tidwell is in the mix with Hayden Birdsong, Carson Whisenhunt and others to be the first alternate into the Giants rotation.

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Thomas Saggese

STL Infield #25

Thomas Saggese went 2-for-3 with a homer as Team Italy beat the Cubs 9-4 on Tuesday.

Italy also got homers from Kyle Teel and Owen Ayers, a Cubs prospect who was borrowed for the day. Between the Ramón Urías signing and JJ Wetherholt’s hot start, Saggese is facing increased competition to make the Cardinals. The team probably wouldn’t carry both Wetherholt and Saggese unless there was fairly regular playing time available for both.

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