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• Nationals at White Sox: Rained out, doubleheader tomorrow

The White Sox look to put yesterday’s Mother’s Day debacle behind them as they play host to the Nationals, starting tonight. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Straight DH starts at 3:40 p.m. CT, so savor that six-of-10 stretch for one more day Well, you’ll probably see some version of this gamethread tomorrow, because: pic.twitter.com/3zvHNFpK20— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 13, 2024 ...2024
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• Your momma hates the Guardians: White Sox win again, 3-1

Contortionist/relief pitcher Tim Hill earned his first White Sox win tonight. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Cleveland’s nightmare Mother’s Day weekend series gets worse, as Chicago pulls the G’s out of first [In response to the White Sox activating an alleged spousal and child abuser, serial philanderer and domestic abandoner, and demonstrably horrific and selfish teammate, we present a limi...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 10, 2024

I have no idea what year this is from. The only caption we have is “Diablos Rojos v Tecolotes Of Nuevo Laredo” These Rumblings were completed long before last night’s game Jeremy Guthrie is still pitching! Well, sort of. A few years ago, Max documented his baseball work in Nigeria. At MLB.com, David Venn writes about his travels to Spain: “I feel passionately about it because I lived ...2024
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• Royals offense cooks Troutless Angels, wins series opener 10-4

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Michael Wacha looked great through six, and then struggled Few teams are more dependent on one player than the Kansas City Royals are on Bobby Witt Jr. Junior entered tonight’s contest with the highest fWAR in the American League and the 2nd highest overall on a team featuring just three above league average hitters according to OPS+. So, it’s a little extra...2024
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• White Sox prevail as Fedde keeps AL Central leaders at bay
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 36

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images One bad inning spoils the whole darn bunch in a 6-3 Cubs loss. I’m pleased to add this fellow Steele to my spreadsheet. He had been one of the few Cubs to appear in a game but not yet on my spreadsheet. It was easy to imagine that he’d return, there would be a little bit of rust, and the scoreless streak of Cubs starters would come to an end. Only that’s...2024
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Kansas City Royals

Will we see Christian Yelich this week? | David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Milwaukee’s road trip continues in KC Coming off of a tough series loss in Chicago, the Brewers will travel to Kansas City for a three-game set with the Royals. Kansas City is one of the surprises of the young season, sitting at 20-15 and in a virtual tie for second in a startlingly competitive AL Central. The Brewers, ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 28

Second base umpire Chad Fairchild has his face covered because of chilly winds and rain on Monday, April 28, 2008, in Chicago. Play was suspended between the Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles in the 11th inning with the score tied, 3-3. | Charles Cherney/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Freezing cold to searing heat — and a loss 1901 Bock Baker of the Blues ...2024
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• Chris Sale, Braves set to begin three-game series against Guardians

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves are looking to extend their winning streak to four-straight games Friday night. The Atlanta Braves will try to make it four-straight wins Friday night when they begin a three-game series against the Cleveland Guardians. Atlanta is 5-1 on their current nine-game homestand and enter play Friday with a 17-6 record. Cleveland is 18-7 on the season...2024
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• Looking at the Royals’ AL Central competition

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Four teams still ostensibly have a shot, but are all of them actually contenders? The White Sox are clearly not going to win much of anything this season, but there are reasons to believe that all four of the other teams have a shot at the division. I wanted to take a deeper look at each team and see who I believe will really be in the hunt and...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 24

With this swing to win a game 14 years ago today, Alex Ríos did something that’s never happened in White Sox history. Alex Ríos makes home-run history 1901 It wasn’t planned this way, but three games in other cities were postponed by rain, putting the White Sox in position to host the first major league game in AL history. Some 9,000 fans at South Side Park saw the home club beat the Clev...2024
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• Louie Varland Is Stealing From deGrom’s Arsenal. So Why Isn’t He Getting Outs?

The Minnesota Twins haven’t lived up to preseason expectations. There were some concerns entering the season, primarily injuries to Jhoan Duran and Anthony DeSclafani and ownership’s decision to replace Sonny Gray and Kenta Maeda internally. Still, ZIPS projected Minnesota to win the AL Central. The lineup has been something of a nightmare. The Twins have a league-worst 0....2024
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• Visiting Dugout Podcast 44 — Minnesota Twins

Chrystal and Ben chat about the bottom-dwellers of the AL Central The delightful Ben Jones of our sister site Twinkie Town joins the show to discuss the Minnesota Twins. Sitting just above the White Sox, the Twins are also riddled with injury and only rearranged their roster, aside from parting ways with Sonny Gray and Jorge Polanco in the offseason. But with heartthrobs like Joe Ryan pitching and...2024
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 5, 2024

Monday is Eclipse Day | Set Number: X161331 TK1 Anne Rogers with a pair of stories about injuries. The first is about Frank Mozzicato’s injury last season: Frank Mozzicato’s 2023 season can be broken into two parts: Before the collision and after the collision... On June 2, a day after Mozzicato struck out 10 in five innings for the Fireflies, he was in shallow center field during battin...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 16, 2024

Ok, that’s pretty funny | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images There are baseball players doing real baseball things in Arizona and Florida! Baseball is back (!), which means Anne Rogers newsletter is back! She looks at three storylines for this spring: Vinnie Pasquantino’s return to the lineup It’s been eight months since Pasquantino appeared in the Royals’ lineup after rig...2024
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• AL Central Notes: Abreu, Kipnis, Moustakas, Cuthbert, Sano
White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu shed over ten pounds already this offseason, James Fegan of The Athletic writes. The weight loss comes thanks in part to a diet with a lot more fish and white meat. But aside from eating healthier, the Cuban native has another, more surprising goal: to steal more bases. Abreu…...2018
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• Relentless Royals Can't Wait to Swing—and They Rarely Miss
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"Four, that the AL Central was a weak division with no runaway favorite."

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"com/niINdTR2b8— MLB (@MLB) June 29, 2023 The AL Central is still without a team at or above ."

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"Guardians clinch 1st AL Central title since '18"

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"A 7-2 win over Cleveland on Thursday has given the White Sox their first AL Central title in 13 years."

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"AL East Baltimore Orioles Boston Red Sox New York Yankees Tampa Bay Rays Toronto Blue Jays AL Central Chicago White Sox Cleveland Indians…"

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"Avila, 33 in January, is no stranger to the AL Central, having spent parts of eight seasons with the Tigers plus…"

2018
"Some rumblings from around both the NL and AL Central divisions… Reports back in December indicated that Cubs swingman Mike Montgomery wanted to be a full-time starting pitcher, though the southpaw told reporters (including Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times) that he was just indicating his preference rather than demanding a role change."

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"That inched the club one victory closer to the 1916 New York Giants' MLB-record run of 26 wins in a row, and trimmed the Tribe's magic number to three to clinch the AL Central crown."

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"They are sitting atop their division and rank fourth in the AL in runs scored with 271, more than any other team in the AL Central."

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"Crown jewel: KC wins AL Central"

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"Jeff Samardzija has returned to Chicago, and the White Sox apparently have their sights set on returning to AL Central contention."

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• Gamethread: Guardians at White Sox

Erick Fedde didn’t make it through five innings the last time out, so let’s hope tonight’s story has a different ending. | Joe Puetz/Getty Images Tonight, it’s a showdown between the best and the worst The White Sox take on the first-place AL Central Cleveland Guardians this evening at Guaranteed Rate Field. It’s good against bad, rising stars vs. aging veterans. Who will come out victori...2024
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Kansas City Royals
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• The Royals have a hitting problem

Hunter Renfroe #16 of the Kansas City Royals in action against the New York Mets during the eighth inning at Citi Field on April 14, 2024 in New York City. The Mets won 2-1. | Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The pitching scouting has resulted in a number of terrific wins over the past couple of years, but the offense still lags behind. Before last night’s game, the Royals were 19-13, sec...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 3, 2024

I don’t think we’ve used this James McArthur picture before | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood Anne Rogers profiled how James McArthur got to where he is now as the Royals closer: “There’s a reason he’s on the waiver wire, but is there something we can do to help?” pitching coach Brian Sweeney said. “We saw some reliever mentality. Seeing his breakin...2024
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• It is time for the Royals to call in some reinforcements

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The Omaha Storm Chasers have a couple of guys who should probably be in the big leagues. April has ended, and the Royals have managed to not bury themselves like they have the last two seasons. What they need to avoid is a repeat of 2021 where they came out of the gate 16-9 only to finish 74-88 and 19 games back in the AL Central. This team is better tha...2024
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• The sadness of being a White Sox fan

The beautiful city of Chicago and White Sox fans deserve better, and someday soon I hope we get it. | Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How a historically bad start to the season tops off one of the most disappointing endings to a rebuild we have seen The timeline of the recent Chicago White Sox seasons looks like a movie trailer no one would want to watch: In 2017 and 20...2024
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• A Game of Groans
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 5, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 29, 2024

Good news! There’s more Royals baseball tomorrow! | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Ed note: I mentioned this in the comments yesterday - I could probably just write “Hey, yesterday was Opening Day - What do you think?” and we’d get 200 comments here today. I’d like to think I do a marginally better job than that, so you get 2000 characters instea...2024
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• Royals offense cooks Troutless Angels, wins series opener 10-4
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 36
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Kansas City Royals
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• The Royals have a hitting problem
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• The Royals have a real shot to win the AL Central now

Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after being doused with water by Bobby Witt Jr. #7 after defeating the Houston Astros at Kauffman Stadium on April 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images They’ve started brilliantly This offseason, the Kansas City Royals wanted to compete in 2024. Not in the technical sense of the word; the 2023 Roya...2024
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• Opening Day: Royals v. Twins

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Cole Ragans gets his first Opening Day start 2023 was miserable for Royals fans. Sandwiched between back-to-back championships across the parking lot, the other tenant of Truman Sports Complex lost 106 games, tying a franchise record. It was the third 100-loss season in five seasons, not including 2020. General Manager J.J. Picollo responded by being as acti...2024
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• Your momma hates the Guardians: White Sox win again, 3-1
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 10, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 3, 2024
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• It is time for the Royals to call in some reinforcements
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• Today in White Sox History: April 28
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The iconic radio voice of the team announced his sudden departure this week. On Monday, with no preamble, the Yankees announced that their long-time radio play-by-play announcer John Sterling was calling it a career, and his last game in the booth was behind him. The 85-year-old called 5,420 regular season games over his long career. Sterling cited the s...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 2

Kansas City’s hot start has it at holding the top run differential in the league and just barely behind the Cleveland Guardians for the AL Central lead. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Strikeouts for days, Yankees continue their reign, and the AL Central has two teams in the top five — just like we expected It’s just the second week of the season, but teams are already battling hard for divisi...2024
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• Chicago White Sox Baseball 2024: a mess

Simone Biles’ husband and new Chicago Bear Jonathan Owens could probably play for the White Sox at this rate. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The season just started, and it’s already over Dear reader, it is April 15 and the Chicago White Sox are the worst team in baseball. Even worse than the Miami Marlins, who employ former White Sox Avisaíl García, Jake Burger and Tim Anderson. Worse than t...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Crown jewel: KC wins AL Central
The Royals became the first Major League team to clinch a division title this season on Thursday as they rallied past the Mariners, 10-4, after Lorenzo Cain's two-run single in the sixth inning ignited a late-game rally and Johnny Cueto turned in seven strong innings of three-run ball....2015
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• Rap Group 'Center of Attention' Makes Hype Song for Kansas City Royals
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• Jordan Zimmermann to Tigers: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
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• AL Central 2015 Preview: Sleepers, X-Factors and Predictions
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• Tribe flying high with full team effort
Look at the Indians. They are sitting atop their division and rank fourth in the AL in runs scored with 271, more than any other team in the AL Central. How's that?...2016
• White Sox acquire Samardzija from A's
Jeff Samardzija has returned to Chicago, and the White Sox apparently have their sights set on returning to AL Central contention. The White Sox and A's completed a trade Tuesday that sent Samardzija and fellow pitcher Michael Ynoa to Chicago in exchange for right-handed pitcher Chris Bassitt, catcher Josh Phegley, first baseman Rangel Ravelo and infielder Marcus Semien....2014
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• Ben Zobrist to Royals: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Royals Clinch 2015 Playoff Berth: Highlights, Twitter Reaction to Celebration
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• A Game of Groans
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-March 24, 2024
Injury News Justin Steele-Cubs-SP Justin Steele left his start on Friday with a left knee contusion. He was on the ground in obvious pain and was helped off the field. This initially looked bad but he was later diagnosed with a left knee contusion and tweeted that he was okay. This was scary for both the Cubs and fantasy owners because Steele was just announced as the Opening Day starter. Stee...2024
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• Too much of a good thing

Yesterday while shopping for furniture I knew that this would be my chance to finally get to Target to see if the 2024 cards were there.I had checked for cards once before last week during a quick spin through Walmart. The area where the cards were was being replaced by Easter baskets and decorations for sale. The new card station was vacant except for some fantasy something or other.So I do...2024
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• Ryan Puts Cubs In An 11K Headlock
Slowly, paper extrudes from a fax machine. A hand brings it to a face and we read, "Need Joe R...an down at the Pentagon. Damn, we need toner! Joe R...an? Who the hell is that?! Oh, I know..." A chair swivels around to the CIA Director, he screams, "Send Joe Ryan (5 IP, 2 ER, 4 baserunners, 11 Ks, ERA at 2.45) to the Pentagon! I can only assume they need a guy with a 10.2 K/9, 1.2 BB/9 -- yowzas! ...2021
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• 1st-Place Indians Make AL Central Statement with Sweep of Defending Champ Royals
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• Royals Still Have All the Ingredients of Their Championship Formula in 2016
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• MLB Offseason Has Created Most Wide-Open A.L. Battle in Recent Memory
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• Melky Cabrera Signing Makes White Sox MLB Offseason's Most Improved
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• Nationals at White Sox: Rained out, doubleheader tomorrow
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• Your momma hates the Guardians: White Sox win again, 3-1
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• Game XXXIX: Royals at Angels

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images It’s gonna be a late night This Royals squad is a weird bunch. And by weird I mean that over 1⁄3 of their runs have come in the 6th and 7th innings. This team can be looking lost at the plate for six innings and then hit you with an eight spot. It’s one of the reasons they are 13/15 in wRC+ in the American League while being 5th in runs scored. They are we...2024
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• Gamethread: Guardians at White Sox
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 36
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• Guardians lose major bat at top of lineup ahead of important AL Central run

Outfielder Steven Kwan has been tremendous for the Cleveland Guardians so far in 2024. Unfortunately for Cleveland, the third-year player out of Los Gatos, California won't be available for at least the foreseeable future....2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• SB Nation Reacts: Surprising MLB starts this year, both good and bad

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Which teams are off to starts that you did not expect? The latest SB Nation Reacts national survey posed two questions: Which MLB team that has gotten off to a good start surprised you the most, and similarly, which team that has not started the 2024 season well has surprised you the most? First, the good starts: The survey, of course, w...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1
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• Our SSS MLB predictions 2024: NL domination

Sixteen staffers take a stab at how the coming baseball season will play out, with L.A. or Atlanta likely to take it all It will undoubtedly be the final time in my life to type these words, so let’s make it plain that the lead author of this story is the Returning Champion, as we begin another year of South Side Sox predictions. At publication time roughly 24 hours before the White Sox season got...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 25, 2024

Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images It is baseball week. Anne Rogers previews the season and makes a bold prediction - that the Royals win the division. If the Royals manage a 20-win swing in 2024, they will still finish 10 games under .500. The Twins won 87 games last year. The AL Central is a weak division that has only gotten weaker with injuries and departures, but the Ro...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 22, 2024

Sure, it’s not the KBO, but it’s in Korea | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images I tried to write as much as I could of this ahead of time, but if it descends into madness by the end, I blame basketball Max and Jeremy already covered the big stories yesterday. I guess I’ll just link to other stories below that cover the same ground. First, Max: Alec Marsh makes the rotation, Jordan Lyles to th...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Bartolo Colon

Bartolo Colon’s 21-year career saw him play for 11 different teams including the Atlanta Braves in 2017. | Photo by Patrick Duffy/Beam Imagination/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images He won more games than any Latin American pitcher in MLB history and won an American League Cy Young Award. Should that be enough for “Big Sexy” to gain entrance into Cooperstown? When you say the nickname “Big Sexy” ...2024
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• What can be learned from White Sox history?

Figure out a way to bring these two guys back to life, and all shall be well. The history of the inglorious season of 1970, that is The White Sox of 1970 have been ingloriously brought to the fore by the White Sox of 2023, as 101 losses is the most for the team since that dreaded 1970 record-setter. But while there is very little hope that the current powers-that-be in Bridgeport can keep...2023
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• South Side Sox Summary: Week 23

Chris Getz is all smiles, while the rest of us are steeped in anger. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Off-the-field drama again grabs the headlines Welcome to the SSS Summary — a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in between. Even if you don’t want to remember what happened,...2023
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