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The Los Angeles Angels made a potentially big move for their future Tuesday by signing promising Cuban prospect Roberto Baldoquin.     

According to Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com, the Angels reportedly inked the 20-year-old middle infielder to a deal that includes an $8 million signing bonus:

The Toronto Blue Jays have had internal discussions about signing free-agent catcher Russell Martin, per Jeff Blair of Sportsnet.ca.

The winners for the 23rd annual MLB Players Choice Awards were announced Monday night.

Players voted through a secret ballot for a variety of accolades, mostly to recognize the extraordinary individual performers in both leagues from the 2014 season. 

As can be seen in the table below, Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher Clayton Kershaw cleaned up the competition.

Alex Rodriguez's history with performance-enhancing drugs is well known. But on Monday, the lengths he allegedly went to in order to cover up his PED use came to light.   

With one mantra during his introductory press conference on Monday as the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, Joe Maddon aptly summed up why he's the perfect man to lead a talented young team to prominence.    

"Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure," Maddon said on MLB Network. "That's on the top of my lineup card every night."       

Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez has accepted the mutual option on his contract and will remain with the franchise for the 2015 MLB season.     

The Brewers’ official Twitter account announced the news Monday:

According to a report from Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles, Andrew Friedman, who is the new president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has reached out to former San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Josh Byrnes to discuss the vacant Dodgers’ general manager position.

Longtime Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts announced his retirement from baseball on Friday, per Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun.

People will do some crazy things for World Series tickets. Just ask Kansas City Royals fan Jeremy Scheuch.

Scheuch has been tweeting at Royals stars Billy Butler, Eric Hosmer and Jeremy Guthrie asking for admission into the Fall Classic.

In return, the K.C. diehard will get a personalized unicorn tattoo on his posterior.

How can they pass this up?

Kansas City Royals pitcher Greg Holland earned a save in each of his team's four games during the American League Championship Series against the Baltimore Orioles to join Dennis Eckersley as the only pitchers with four saves in a single LCS, per MLB Stat of the Day.