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model Kate Upton announced on Saturday the birth of their daughter Genevieve in a pair of posts on Instagram.KHOU 11 News Houston shared Upton's Instagram photo:KHOU 11 News Houston KHOUKate Upton gives birth to daughter with Astros pitcher Justin VerlanderNGUeR16FuI #khou11 #HTownRush Ht5kWzA34HUpton first announced her pregnancy in July. Verlander responded with a heartfelt Instagram post."You're going to be the most amazing Mom!!" he wrote. "I can't wait to start this new journey with you! You're the most thoughtful http://www.marlinsfanproshop.com/authentic-starlin-castro-jersey , loving, caring, and strong woman I've ever met! I'm so proud that our little one is going to be raised in this world by a woman like you! I love you so much."Verlander also told B/R Mag's Brandon Sneed (warning: post contains profanity) in August that Upton helped him keep everything together during a disappointing 2014 season."She was instrumental in me not...like, jumping off a bridge," he said. "I was depressed and kind of just upset at the world and trying to hide my own s--t."Verlander and Upton married in November 2017 Martin Prado Jersey , shortly after Verlander won his first World Series with the Astros. MLB and LMB have agreed to a path to the majors for Mexican baseball talent."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Chicago Cubs recapsChicago Cubs minor leaguesChicago Cubs essaysChicago Cubs game threadsWrigley Field renovationsFull archiveLibrary Bleed Cubbie Blue Community GuidelinesCurrent time in ChicagoBCB Specials & Site InfoWinter 2019 music threadsCubs StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Cubs newsYahoo Cubs team pageYahoo Cubs reportYahoo Cubs depth chartYahoo Cubs transactionsYahoo Cubs photosOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub 鉁旴aseball newsMLB and Mexican Baseball have signed a new posting agreementMLB and LMB have agreed to a path to the majors for Mexican baseball talent.CSTShareTweetShareShareMLB and Mexican Baseball have signed a new posting agreementFormer Cubs minor leaguer Christian Villanueva went from Mexico to MLB (and now NPB).Jake Roth-USA TODAY SportsOn Tuesday, Major League Baseball and Mexico’s Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (LMB) agreed to a new posting system to allow MLB teams to sign players out of Mexico. The agreement ends an eight-month standoff between the two leagues.Major League Baseball had banned all transactions with LMB last July, citing corruption and fraud. LMB teams would often sign players as young as 15 to professional contracts and then insist upon up to 75 percent of any signing bonus that the player might get from an MLB team down the line. Some MLB team, most notably the Cubs, used this loophole to get around the penalties on signing bonuses since only the amount of money the player received (and not the total amount of bonus money paid) counted towards the international bonus limits created in the last few collective bargaining agreements. In fact http://www.marlinsfanproshop.com/authentic-starlin-castro-jersey , the Cubs had their deal with Mexican right-handed pitcher Florencio Serrano voided by MLB because a side deal between the player and his LMB team emerged that would have violated the limits on bonuses that the Cubs had for going over the bonus pool limit in previous years. (To be clear, there were no allegations that the Cubs had done anything wrong in this case.)The new system is similar to the agreements that MLB has with Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), Korea’s Korean Baseball Organization (KBO), Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB).Under the terms of the agreement, any player who is 25 years old or older and has at least six years of experience in LMB (or a total of six years along with any other foreign league) shall be a free agent Wei-Yin Chen Jersey , eligible to sign with any MLB team. Additionally, LMB teams are allowed to “post” players younger than that and receive a percentage of their signing bonus. That percentage will be 35 percent if they sign a minor league contact and 15 percent of any major league contract. This agreement ends the ban on signing Mexican baseball players. The Cubs had been one of the most active teams signing Mexican players in recent years, including Luis Verdugo, Jose Albertos and the since-traded Isaac Paredes. I would expect that the Cubs will continue to mine LMB for baseball talent. Perhaps they will sign Serrano again, who remains a free agent since his deal with the Cubs was voided. The English version of the complete press release is as follows: