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Rays acquire catcher Christian Bethancourt from A's
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Catcher Christian Bethancourt makes the Padres roster as a pitcher
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Christian Bethancourt has turned out to be quite the catch for Rays
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Christian Bethancourt impresses in spring pitching debut - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Padres' pitcher-catcher Christian Bethancourt has unique start as a reliever
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Padres Series Recap: Padres & Mets Split Interesting Series at Petco
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Christian Bethancourt homers, hits 95 mph in Rays' win
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Langeliers' 3-run double sends MLB-worst A's past MLB-best Rays for season-high 6th straight win
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The Padres' Christian Bethancourt hybrid experiment did not get off to a good start
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Defensive storylines of the offseason: NL - ESPN - SweetSpot- ESPN
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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Donny Baseball comes to town (actually he doesn't I'm dumb we go to Miami I need a fact checker) - DRaysBay
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Padres' Christian Bethancourt embracing pitching experiment - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Padres catcher Christian Bethancourt pitches
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Rays' Christian Bethancourt finally at peace with his place in MLB