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Brendan Sorsby is heading to the NFL supplemental draft, and this one comes with some serious legal baggage. The Texas Tech transfer quarterback is making the jump amid ongoing eligibility disputes with the NCAA, with sources confirming the news to ESPN's Pete Thamel on Monday. Several teams will be doing their homework this week.
Shifting to the diamond, Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh is set to return to the lineup Tuesday against Baltimore, and the Mariners cannot get him back fast enough. Raleigh has been sidelined since May fourteenth with a right oblique strain, and he's coming back with something to prove after slashing just one sixty one through forty one games this season.
And over in the NL, Max Scherzer is speaking his mind, which should surprise absolutely nobody. The Blue Jays veteran is floating a radical concept that would give starting pitchers more control over when they exit games, pushing back against the analytics-driven hook culture that has reshaped the modern game. Whether anyone in a front office actually listens is another question entirely.
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