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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Baseball agent drama

MANHATTAN — Fired by longtime Atlanta Braves slugger Freddie Freeman, sports agent Casey Close claims in a federal complaint that Fox commentator Douglas Mitchell Gottlieb lied and defamed him with a tweet that said Close kept Freeman in the dark about the Braves' "final offer” because he "knew Freddie would have taken the ATL deal."

Read the complaint.

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