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college l acrosse
Maryland-Navy game
postponed by illness
maryland and Navy
announced friday t hat their
men’s l acrosse game scheduled
for S aturday in College Park was
postponed because of an
outbreak of n orovirus among
Navy players and s taff.
Navy reported t hat upward of
30 of its players and staff
members contracted symptoms
consistent with norovirus
following a 12-9 loss at r ichmond
on Tuesday.
The most common symptoms
of norovirus are diarrhea,
vomiting, nausea and stomach
pain, according to the U.S.
Centers f or Disease Control and
Prevention. The virus is spread
easily and q uickly through
contaminated f oods and surfaces.
The Capital Gazette reported
that first-year Navy coach Joe
amplo c anceled practice
Wednesday, T hursday a nd friday.
— Scott Allen
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Y ulimar rojas broke the
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93-61 o ver host California in
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Erin Boley made eight three-
pointers and scored 24 p oints and
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Ducks (25-2, 14-1 Pac-12). Jaelyn
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added 2 0, a nd No. 12 DePaul beat
Georgetown, 87-69, at
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with 13 points....
J avonte Perkins scored
25 points to pace t he Saint Louis
men (19-8, 8-6 A tlantic 1 0) t o an
80 -62 victory over visiting VCU.
Marcus santos-silva had
11 points for the rams (17-10, 7-7),
who have lost four i n a row.
— F rom news services
and staff reportsDigestexcerpted from
washingtonpost.com/nationalsTurner batting third
an unlikely scenarioof all the reactions to the idea of
Trea Turner hitting third for the
Washington Nationals, and there
were many, Turner’s was by far
the most telling: The 26-year-old
shortstop thought it was a joke.
Turner has one at-bat — one!
— in that spot across his five-
year career. He spent almost all
of last season batting first, in
front of Adam Eaton, and has
1,572 career plate appearances in
the leadoff spot. He has
otherwise hit second (444 career
plate appearances), sixth (52)
and seventh (20).
manager Dave martinez first
floated Turner as a possible
candidate for the third spot in
the lineup in mid-January. The
Nationals have been looking for
one since Anthony rendon
departed, leaving a star-sized
crater in the middle of their
order.
Since the start of spring
training, martinez has
mentioned trying Victor robles
as his leadoff batter, which
would enable Turner to slide
down a few spots. The top of the
lineup, in that case, would be
robles, Eaton, Turner and Juan
Soto. It would require robles
taking the next step and
considerably improving his
.327 career on-base percentage.
Ye t there is also a reason
martinez would prefer to avoid
this look.
Turner is one of the game’s
most effective base stealers, and
he finished last year with
35 steals in 40 attempts. ThatAfter Clark’s address, Astros
outfielder Josh reddick told re-
porters that he has received
death threats via social media
and, in one case, someone wrote,
“I hope your kid gets cancer.”
Houston shortstop Carlos Correa
added that “everyone in [the
Astros’ clubhouse] is getting
death threats.” Players’ well-be-
ing was one area where Clark was
willing to narrow his answers to
the Astros’ situation.
“We’ve had conversations with
the league about making sure
that the team’s safety, that the
individual player safety, the safe-
ty of their family is not an issue
moving forward,” Clark said. “So
when I talk about the humaniza-
tion of the guys and I talk about
the types of dialogue we have
over the course of four hours,
there is no doubt that the players
and their families being able to
go to and from the ballpark and
perform safely is a piece of the
puzzle, too.”
The mLBPA in recent years has
spent spring training traveling to
each team for a closed-door meet-
ing. This year it tried something
different, holding a gathering for
the Washington Nationals and
St. Louis Cardinals at a neutral
site friday afternoon. Those
teams train in the same area, and
union leaders thought that get-
ting out of their team facilities
and around players from other
clubs would spark open and hon-
est discussion. The expectation is
that they will hold similar events
for the teams that spend febru-
ary and march training in Arizo-
na.
But the union still felt the need
to visit the Astros individually,
and the reasons for that were
abundantly clear.
[email protected]evaluation, saying, “There are a
number of moving pieces here,
and the backdrop of those pieces
is technology, and the backdrop
of that technology being left un-
checked is how we develop this
culture of it’s okay to do all these
things that affect the game.”
Clark spoke in generalities, as
he often does with the media, but
he described the culture as “very
problematic.” The implications
he outlined, however vaguely, are
that technology is being used to
devalue players and dictate their
actions in a compromising way.
Clark characterized the Astros as
“contrite,” “passionate” and “fo-
cused,” even after their apologies
were widely panned. While not
offering specifics, Clark did say
they were worried about retalia-
tion and the safety of their fami-
lies.greater issue, he argued, is a
culture that is using technology
and numbers to maximize effi-
ciency and change the game.
“It’s manifesting itself in how
player service time is being ma-
nipulated. It’s manifesting itself
in a way that we’re seeing abuses
of the injured list. It’s manifest-
ing itself [in a way] that is affect-
ing the type of game that is being
played on the field,” he said. “So I
know a lot of the headlines say
‘ sign-stealing.’ But the truth is
that this conversation about
technology is much larger than
that.”
The undercurrent of his com-
ments was that this culture led to
the elaborate sign-stealing
scheme in Houston. He then
broadened its reach to free agen-
cy, service-time manipulation,
salary arbitration and playermeeting,” Clark said.
Are the Astros worried about
retaliation during the regular
season?
“When you have comments
publicly about what may happen
on the field, it’s hard to ignore
those.”
Did the Astros express frustra-
tion with the dialogue around
baseball and how other players
have directed their anger at
them?
“I know it is being reflected as
a sign-stealing, technology issue.
But the truth is that technology
discussion goes way beyond what
is coming out of a replay room.”
That last point was the crux of
Clark’s remarks. He is in the
middle of striking a delicate bal-
ance between representing the
Astros and the major leagues’
other 29 teams, who are upset
that Houston used technology to
illegally steal signs in 2017 and- The union helped negotiate
immunity for Astros players who
participated in major League
Baseball’s investigation. Now
many opposing players have said
the lack of punishment for the
Astros’ players was a mistake.
The mLBPA is responsible for
protecting all players, on and off
the field, but a handful have
suggested the Astros deserve to
get beaned.
Clark wants to start a conver-
sation that goes beyond this case
and the use of in-game technolo-
gy. The union is in discussions
with mLB about regulating im-
mediate access to in-game video,
the function of replay rooms and
the distance of those rooms from
the dugout. Clark noted friday
that those talks became more
formal last week. But baseball’s
astros from D1M LBPA chief: Baseball’s culture led to sign-stealing
John McDonnell/the washington Post
MLB Players association head tony Clark met with astros players
on Friday and called them “contrite,” “passionate” and “focused.”FROM NEWS SERVICESJ.T. realmuto did not know the
result of his a rbitration case when
he stood inside a batting cage un-
derneath Spectrum field on
Thursday. Less than 24 hours ear-
lier, realmuto and his agent, Jeff
Berry, had argued in Arizona
against the Philadelphia Phillies,
fighting what proved to be a losing
battle to e arn the c atcher a record-
setting contract.
And now he was back in flori-
da, preparing for a season that is
just five weeks away. The arbitra-
tion process — the Phillies won
when an arbitrator selected their
$10 million offer over realmuto’s
$12.4 million appeal — lasted just
a day.
With a win, realmuto had
hoped to increase the value of
catchers, so his camp built a case
around him being compared to
other position players. But the
Phillies compared him to his con-
temporaries, and c atchers typical-ly earn less than, say, third base-
men. The arbitrators sided with
the P hillies.
“I’m disappointed i n the system
more than anything,” realmuto
said. “obviously, I’m not disap-
pointed about making 10 million
dollars. Like I said before, I’m for-
tunate to be in the position that
I’m in. That part I’m not disap-
pointed with.
“It’s just the system and how
catchers are treated i n the s ystem.
obviously, I w anted t o advance it a
little bit and do something for
future catchers, and that didn’t
work out for us. In t hat aspect, I’m
disappointed but not disappoint-
ed in my salary.”
Berry told the Athletic’s Ken
rosenthal on Thursday that the
decision “makes a mockery of
common sense.” Berry compared
realmuto to Anthony rendon,
who earned $12.3 million in 2018
to avoid arbitration with the Na-
tionals.
“It’s so outdated,” realmutosaid of t he s ystem. “There’s a s epa-
rate catchers’ market. That’s what
the team’s main case was on, that
you can’t go outside of the catch-
ers’ market. But if you line my
numbers up with p osition players,
that’s where our figure comes into
play.”
l YaNKEEs: New York r ight-
hander Luis Severino said it is
“definitely frustrating” t o be shut
down in spring training for the
second consecutive year.
Severino has right forearm
soreness near the elbow, which
has b een an issue since o ctober.
“It’s more inside, close to the
bone, so I would say more like
where the muscle attaches to the
bone,” Severino said friday. “It’s a
weird spot. I’ve never e xperienced
pain up there.”
Severino will go t o New York on
monday for tests. He was exam-
ined friday by team physician
Christopher Ahmad.
l DIaMoNDBaCKs: Arizona
reliever Archie Bradley won thefinal salary arbitration case of the
year, leaving teams with a 7-5 ad-
vantage over p layers.
Bradley, a 27-year-old right-
hander, was given a raise from
$1.83 million to $4.1 million. The
Diamondbacks had argued for
$3,625,000.
l INDIaNs: Cleveland right-
hander Carlos Carrasco was diag-
nosed with a mild strain of his
right hip flexor after feeling dis-
comfort while doing squats in the
weight room during spring train-
ing.
The team said Carrasco was
considered day-to-day after an
mrI e xam r evealed the s train.
l MIsC.: free agent pitcher
Victor Alcántara was suspended
for 80 games under the major
league drug program following a
positive test for the performance-
enhancing s ubstance Stanozolol.
The right-hander was 3-2 with a
4.85 ErA last season in 46 relief
appearances for the D etroit Ti-
gers.spring training notesRealmuto criticizes ‘outdated’ arbitration process
nationals notesruns and had a .302 batting
average, a .334 on-base
percentage and a .558 slugging
percentage.
The uptick came once he
opened his stance and
committed to pulling balls in the
air. If he is still that hitter — or
at least some version of it — he
profiles well hitting third
between Eaton and Soto.
Then Turner can remain in
the leadoff position, a spot that
makes much more sense.
— Jesse DoughertyKendrick and ryan Zimmerman
are candidates, but since they
are platoon players, martinez
probably would want a fairly
consistent top four. And that is
why this is bound to end with
Starlin Castro batting third.
The 29-year-old is expected to
be Washington’s everyday
second baseman, and he showed
a solid mix of power and contact
toward the end of 2019. It came
after an abysmal first half of the
season, in which he hit .245; in
the second half, he hit 16 homewas after leading the National
League with 43 steals in 2018.
But if he were hitting in front of
Soto and ended up on first,
martinez feels Turner could
become hesitant to run. An open
first base might compel pitchers
to work around Soto’s feared bat.
The best scenario is Turner
batting ahead of Eaton, a sound
situational hitter who is used to
giving Turner a chance to steal.
That leaves martinez without
a set solution, and he is already
considering others. HowieJonathan newton/the washington Post
t rea turner’s threat as a base stealer might diminish if he moved from leadoff to No. 3 in t he order.