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The Oakland Athletics are running out of bodies. Tyler Soderstrom, just twenty-four years old and one of the more productive bats in that lineup with nineteen home runs and fifty-six RBIs on the season, is heading to the ten-day injured list with a left hip impingement. That's on top of Nick Kurtz and Shea Langeliers already sidelined, leaving Oakland dangerously thin through the middle of their order at the worst possible time.
Meanwhile, one of the biggest transfers of the summer is officially done. Barcelona have reached an agreement in principle to bring Rodri in from Manchester City, with the deal valued at around eighty-seven million dollars. The Spanish midfielder and reigning Ballon d'Or winner makes the move to the Camp Nou, leaving City at a moment when their season is already off to a rocky start following a dominant Community Shield loss to Arsenal.
And on the managerial front in Philadelphia, the Phillies fired Rob Thomson early this season after a brutal nine and nineteen start, with Don Mattingly stepping in to steady the ship. But sources indicate the organization is already looking beyond Mattingly, with Alex Cora expected to take the helm after two thousand twenty-six barring any major developments between now and then.
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