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Whatever the reason — desperation, pillow contract or keeping a spot warm for a prospect — baseball teams and veteran players continuously turn to one-year contracts.

For some clubs, a one-year veteran deal has become a last resort as the progression toward younger rosters continues. However, depending on a team’s needs, the use of such pacts can have a strong impact on its overall roster construction. For the club, the uncertainty of the outcome is a risk worth taking. As for the player, often times the deal they take is the only one they received.

We’ll look at several of this season’s one-year deals and how they’re currently working out for the club and the player.

When we went down 10-5, I remember just thinking in the outfield during one of the pitching changes that we’re down 10-5, but it doesn’t really feel like that way, Martinez said.

Trout, a six-time All-Star, said he thinks he injured his finger while playing in Oakland last weekend but that he can’t pinpoint when or how the injury occurred.

I think it was just over time, Trout said. I don’t know one spot when it happened, but it’s pretty painful.

Trout tried to play catch when the Angels returned home Monday and said he felt really sore. He then played center field against the Arizona Diamondbacks later that night and didn’t feel any better, prompting him to start the next two games at DH.

They just said not to throw for a couple days and see how it goes, Trout said. I’m just trying to ice it and make sure it gets better.

The Angels also scratched scheduled starter Tyler Skaggs for the opener of a four-game home series against the Toronto Blue Jays, replacing him with minor league journeyman John Lamb. Skaggs, who has allowed only one earned run in 20 innings this month, is dealing with tightness in his right hamstring; he is the sixth injured Angels starting pitcher.

The Angels have been decimated by injuries, with as many as 15 players on the disabled list at one point, but Trout has almost single-handedly kept them afloat with what might be his best season yet.

The Al Jazeera story about PED use in sports has resurfaced in recent days, thanks to the lingering defamation litigation filed by Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard, two baseball players implicated in the documentary. And the effort by Al Jazeera to avoid liability has pulled Peyton Manning’s name into the case.

After meeting with attorney Matthew D. McGill, a partner with the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Al Jazeera DROPPED those allegations from the documentary, apparently because Al Jazeera had become convinced by McGill that Sly was not making credible claims about Peyton Manning. Al Jazeera claims that McGill became a second source who confirmed much of what Sly had said.

McGill has responded to this contention, in an email sent Sunday to PFT.

Mahomes’ agent, Leigh Steinberg, told ESPN that the goal for Mahomes’ first year in Kansas City was just to establish himself as a part of the team, and not to get every endorsement dollar. As a result, Mahomes turned down offers that would have given him a higher profile, not wanting to create a perception that he saw himself as a star before he had proven himself.

We talked about how the first year the goal was to integrate into the team, and the only way to do that is to pay deference to the incumbent veterans and try not to go into the situation with a high profile, Steinberg said. We intentionally didn’t do endorsements that would run in the Kansas City area even though they were offered. We didn’t want him to be on billboards and everything when he wasn’t even playing.

As Alex Smith’s backup last year, Mahomes says, earning respect in the locker room was a higher priority than earning money from sponsors.

President Donald Trump issued a statement Monday banning the Super Bowl champion Eagles from visiting the White House.

The Eagles held meetings with their players in recent weeks in regard to the trip, according to NFL.com. A large group of players had decided not to attend the White House, according to a report from ESPN.

President Trump was in favor of the new rule.

Eagles representatives visited the Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday.

What we can do is going to depend in large part on the quality of the information we can get from these states, Silver said. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we need to know name and Social Security number for the person placing their bets. But if we can get aggregate information, for example, and we can look at trends, it will put us in a better position to detect any aberrational behavior.

He added that the league is still negotiating with different entities over the possibility of receiving a so-called integrity fee to help them monitor gambling activity.

In the wake of a season that has included several notable players missing significant time due to injury, Silver was asked if there’s any thought about shortening the schedule from 82 games. While he did say 82 games wasn’t a magic number he didn’t make it seem likely it will change anytime soon and rejected the notion that fewer games would automatically lead to fewer injuries.

But I do mean this most importantly, and we talk to the Players Association a lot about this, if we had any data, hard data suggesting that a season that was 75 games or 72 games instead of 82 games would reduce injuries other than just playing fewer games, we’d be taking a hard look at shortening our season, Silver said.