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Craig Counsell isn't happy, and he's not hiding it. The Cubs manager is calling out the league after Sunday's game against the Red Sox got bumped to Friday over a weather forecast. That kind of schedule compression hits pitching rotations hard, and Counsell made clear he feels his club is absorbing a disadvantage the front office didn't ask for.
Shifting to the gridiron, the forty-niners now have some context around defensive tackle CJ West's rough start to the season. West had been struggling badly through the early weeks, but it turns out he was playing through a severe knee injury the whole time. That changes the conversation entirely, and San Francisco will be watching his status carefully as they try to stabilize a defensive line that's had a tough go of it.
And the Shedeur Sanders trade drumbeat is getting louder in Cleveland. The Browns are sitting on a first-round pick at quarterback with nowhere obvious to play him, and the trade deadline is creeping closer. Teams around the league are watching, Sanders has real value, and Cleveland has to decide soon whether holding him or moving him better serves where this franchise is actually headed.
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