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• Paul Skenes dazzles in his first MLB win as the Pirates defeat the Cubs

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes was almost flawless against the Cubs as he recorded his first MLB win Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes admitted to some nerves when he made his MLB debut last Saturday, as he lasted just four innings and left with a no-decision in a game against the Chicago Cubs. Facing the Cubs again on Friday was a much different stor...2024
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!

Bryce Harper has been on a tear this year, helping keep the Phillies at the top of the National League. | Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports The Phillies and Yankees hold the top spots in their respective leagues, while the Rockies ride good vibes right into a winning streak It’s been a wild week around the league! While we still have our heavy-hitting teams that have been holding out on top...2024
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Oakland’s star closer and the rest of the A’s bullpen are helping to keep the team somewhat interesting so far. When it comes to the standings in the early portion of the season, my personal advice is not to really take anything too seriously until Memorial Day at the earliest. That way, it gives baseball an ample amount of time to actually start to get the t...2024
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• Let’s talk about how good Alex Anthopoulos’ off-season was

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports The Braves President of Baseball Ops had an incredible winter. Over the winter, the Braves’ front office and President of Baseball Ops Alex Anthopoulos added six notable pitchers to the roster via free agent signing or through trades and to this point, those six guys have given the Braves incredible production over the first 6 weeks of the 2024 season. The s...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats & White Sox split doubleheader; Erick Fedde throws seven scoreless + more...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals and White Sox’ doubleheader in Chicago... WILLIAMS VS THE WHITE SOX: Trevor Williams took the mound last night in Chicago, IL’s Guaranteed Rate Field on quite an impressive, four-start run, over which Washington’s 32-year-old, nine-year veteran posted a 0.86 ERA, a 2.47 FIP, and a .206/.263/.206 line against in 21 innings. On the year, Williams was keeping the b...2024
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• Nationals 6, White Sox 3 (Game 1)

Why is Brebbia? | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images They are who we thought they were. And they’re BAD In a game that was quite the snoozefest through the early innings, the White Sox proved once again that they are the bad team they’ve shown themselves to be through the first 40+ games of the season. Not only is this team awful, they grow ever more unlikable with every roster move th...2024
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• Let’s talk about how good Alex Anthopoulos’ off-season was
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose mistake-filled finale with Red Sox, 3-2, drop two of three in Fenway...

Notes and quotes from Sunday’s series finale in Fenway Park... WILL GORE BOUNCE BACK?: MacKenzie Gore worked around a single and a throwing error by catcher Riley Adams in the home-half of the first inning on Sunday afternoon, but a leadoff walk, single, and ROE on an entirely catchable fly to center Victor Robles just didn’t catch (it went in and out of his glove on a routine play), proved too m...2024
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• Takeaways from the Braves’ two-game sweep of the Red Sox

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Atlanta’s starting pitching continued its good run while the offense finally showed some signs of life. It was a quick trip home for the Atlanta Braves, but the short stay provided a much-needed boost after a rough road trip. The Braves completed a two-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox Wednesday night with a 5-0 win. Chris Sale turned in another great per...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ one swell foop

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Badbert struck again and the Cubs turned a possible W into a definite L. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, ...2024
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• Sale shuts down Guardians in 6-2 win

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Chris Sale retired 17 consecutive Cleveland batters and Ozzie Albies had two hits in his return from the IL on Friday night. In a Friday night matchup of the teams with the two best records in baseball, Chris Sale continued the masterful series of outings by Atlanta starters this homestand, tossing 7.0 innings of two-hit, one-run base...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore Ks 11 in 5.0 scoreless; Nats beat A’s, 3-1...

Notes and quotes from MacKenzie Gore’s dominant start against the A’s... Mackenzie Gore, Eno Sarris wrote at The Athletic this week, appears to have done the work necessary to take a step in his development, at least early in his third season in the majors. “This season,” Sarris noted, “Gore is…”: • Throwing the four-seam 2 mph harder, with more ride • Throwing the slider 3 mph harder • Throwing ...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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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...

Notes and quotes from the third of three with the Phillies in D.C. GORE-GEOUS: MacKenzie Gore threw 47 of his 101 pitches and gave up 4 of 5 hits and 2 of the 3 runs he allowed in his 2024 debut in a couple long innings in the first and second, then settled in over the next four+ innings, giving up just a hit, a walk, and a run the rest of the way. Gore was a little geeked up early, got up to 98.6...2024
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"com/XUqufI3C8S— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 29, 2024 Strider allowed a one-out single to Bohm in the second, but added two more strikeouts to keep the game scoreless."

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"com/23NYPO02zc— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 18, 2023 However, after the second inning, Strider labored."

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"com/tp4okMYIqD— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) August 25, 2022 The Cubs tacked on two more in the eighth."

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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm
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• Let’s talk about how good Alex Anthopoulos’ off-season was
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats & White Sox split doubleheader; Erick Fedde throws seven scoreless + more...
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• Rain can’t stop Charlie Morton or the home run ball as Braves top Mets 4-2

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Charlie Morton looked great and the top of the Braves lineup finally hit the ball out of the ballpark for a series opening win. Well they say the best things come to those who wait and that proved to be true this evening, unless you’re a Mets fan of course. After a 55-minute rain delay before first pitch, baseball was eventually played and worth the wait. ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Keibert Ruiz still building; GM Mike Rizzo on 1-0 every day; + more...

Notes and quotes after an off-day yesterday ... so it’s sort of a hodgepodge of leftovers... KEIBERT RUIZ STILL BUILDING: Going into the second of two with the Baltimore Orioles in D.C. on Wednesday, Keibert Ruiz was 3 for 40 (.075/.119/.150) with one home run, a walk, and six Ks in 10 games and 42 plate appearances since he returned from a prolonged IL stint. Ruiz, 25, dealt with a rough bout of ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ shooting blanks

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. The Cubs exercised in futility Wednesday afternoon against Dylan Cease and dropped two out of three to the visitors. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseb...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose to Orioles, 7-6, in extras; split two-game set in D.C.

Notes and quotes from the second of two with the Orioles in Nationals Park... EXTRAS WITH THE O’S: Mitchell Parker didn’t give up a home run in his first four starts in the majors, going 21 1⁄3 in those starts without giving up a long ball. He got bit twice last night in Nationals Park, with both Orioles’ outfielder Anthony Santander (in the 4th) and shortstop Gunnar Henderson (in the 6th), taking...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Monday morning wrap-up

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Here’s what you missed over the weekend. Happy Monday, friends. Hope you enjoyed a lovely first weekend in May. Saturday was May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, and that pop culture holiday brought us a pretty funny exchange in the links today. It’s also time for teams and execs to reflect on the first month of play, and some (like the Marlins) are already...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop opener with Rangers, 7-1; 4-game win streak snapped...

Notes and quotes on MacKenzie Gore’s start against the Rangers, and the Nationals’ loss in the series opener... CJ ABRAMS’ WORLD: Going into last night’s series opener in Arlington, TX, CJ Abrams had reached base safely in 15 straight games, with a .317/.414/.700 line, five doubles, three triples, four home runs, and eight walks in 70 plate appearances over course of the on-base streak, and hits i...2024
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm
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• Nationals 6, White Sox 3 (Game 1)
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Keibert Ruiz still building; GM Mike Rizzo on 1-0 every day; + more...
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• Aaron Bummer has been better than you think

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Aaron Bummer has had a better season than just the surface numbers might say. A 4.50 ERA is never going to jump off the page at you. It’s pretty average production for a pitcher and in some circles, considered below average. That’s Aaron Bummer’s ERA through the first 5 weeks of the season, and so it’s easy to conclude Aaron Bummer has be...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ shooting blanks
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• Sale shuts down Guardians in 6-2 win
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• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs

Your 2024 Chicago White Sox, making baseball history with every shutout ... Hello friends, and welcome to another Bird App Recap! The last time I tweet-capped Pale Hose happenings on a baseball diamond, the plucky South Siders bravely faced major league competition for the very first time in the young 2024 season. Too bad the White Sox failed to field a major league-quality squad on Day one, and ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Mitchell Parker does it again; 7.0 scoreless vs Astros in 6-0 win...

Mitchell Parker is 2 for 2 with solid starts early in his career. Notes and quotes on the Nats’ starter’s second outing... Talking about Mitchell Parker’s MLB debut on the road in Dodger Stadium last week, which came four years after the Nationals selected the southpaw in the 5th Round of the 2020’s truncated COVID Draft, GM and President of Baseball ops Mike Rizzo described the lefty’s rise throu...2024
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose mistake-filled finale with Red Sox, 3-2, drop two of three in Fenway...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Keibert Ruiz still building; GM Mike Rizzo on 1-0 every day; + more...
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• Aaron Bummer has been better than you think
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats over .500 for first time since 2021; Trevor Williams keeps rolling...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ win in the 1st of 2 with the Orioles... TREVOR WILLIAMS LOWERS ERA TO 1.96: Trevor Williams had nine batters reach base in his five-inning, 79-pitch, scoreless outing last week in Arlington, TX, giving up five hits and four walks. Williams worked his way out of two bases-loaded, no-out jams in what ended up a scoreless start, with manager Davey Martinez claiming...2024
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• Sale shuts down Guardians in 6-2 win
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Dodgers sweep series in D.C.; MacKenzie Gore solid vs LA + more...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals getting swept by the Dodgers in the nation’s capital... SECOND INNING STRUGGLES: MacKenzie Gore left a 2-2 changeup up in the zone to Teoscar Hernández in the top of the second, and the Dodgers’ right fielder hit it out to left-center field, 408 ft. from home for a solo shot to lead off the inning, giving LA a 1-0 lead early in the series finale in D.C. As Kevin ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Mitchell Parker does it again; 7.0 scoreless vs Astros in 6-0 win...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore vs the Astros; Celebrating 2019’s World Series win + more...

Notes and quotes from the series opener with the Astros in the nation’s capital... FOULED OFF: When 25-year-old starter MacKenzie Gore is at his best, as he was at times while striking out 11 over five innings on the road in Oakland during the last road trip, he’s really something. “It’s beautiful,” Davey Martinez said after the southpaw dominated the Athletics and kept the home team off the board...2024
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• Braves fight back for 6-5 win over the Rangers
Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Braves claim series win over the Rangers with come from behind win In the rubber match of the series, and the final game of what has proven to be a difficult road trip, the Atlanta Braves sent their ace Spencer Strider to the bump. The Rangers also sent out their ace, in Nathan Eovaldi, who has stepped up in the absence of Jacob Degrom. In his last three s...2023
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• Braves bash Cubs in Max Fried’s return to the mound

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Fried tossed six scoreless innings while Atlanta launched three more homers. Max Fried made a triumphant return to the mound to help the Atlanta Braves to a big 8-0 win over the Chicago Cubs Friday at Wrigley Field. The Braves waited three months for the return of Max Fried and he got off to a good start with a perfect first inning. Fried’s first strike...2023
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• Spencer Strider deals as Braves beat Twins 4-1
Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Strider tossed seven scoreless innings and Atlanta’s offense came alive late. Spencer Strider turned in a strong performance and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit his 17th home run of the season to help the Atlanta Braves to a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Twins. Strider pitched out of some immediate trouble in the first. He allowed a leadoff single to Edouard Julien ...2023
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• Shohei Ohtani is doing things baseball hasn’t seen in 130 years
Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports It’s Shohei’s world, we’re just living in it I don’t know if you’ve heard, but that Shohei Ohtani guy is pretty good at this baseball thing. The Los Angeles Angels all world pitcher/DH is one of, if not the best player in baseball, and he’s hit a completely different level this season. Through Friday, Ohtani is tied for the MLB lead in home runs, while also ...2023
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• Cole Ragans, Bobby Witt Jr. lift Royals to 4-0 shutout win over Athletics

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Ragans is throwing fire! Cole Ragans pitched perhaps his best MLB game, tossing six shutout innings while Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run as the Royals shut the Athletics out 4-0 to salvage the series in Oakland. The Royals got on the board in the third inning off A’s starter Adrian Martinez when Dairon Blanco hit a solo home run, the...2023
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• Pitchers duel quickly turns into a slugfest as Braves avoid the sweep
Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Braves use late inning power to surge past D-Backs In a battle of aces, both Spencer Strider and Zac Gallen were at their best early. They were each doing what they do best, with Strider racking up countless swings and misses, while Gallen avoided the barrel as well as mixing in some whiffs of his own. Through five innings, both pitc...2023
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching efforts and timely hitting and defeated their arch-rivals. One day after the Cubs put together one of their biggest stinkers of 2023 in the doubleheader Game 2 loss to the Cardinals, they posted one of their best efforts of the season against the NL Central leaders. They got a solid effort in a spot start by Luke Farrell, shu...2022
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!
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• I Knew Charlie Was Morton Just A Washed Up Ace
Chazz whiz, he looked good! Wait a second, did I just invent his new nickname? From Ground Chuck to Chazz Whiz: The Story of Charlie Morton as told to me by Statcast sliders. Yesterday, Charlie Morton went 7 IP, 2 ER, 3 baserunners (zero walks), 11 Ks, ERA at 4.84, and now we're talking II. Related to but not Travolta and Alley, and no relation to Michael Harris II. Morton did look legitimately be...2022
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• Hope You Didn’t Passover The Nestor Bunny
What transpired this preseason: Coolwhip reached out to me to see if I was going to write a Nestor Cortes sleeper, because he liked him and wanted to write one. I said, "Nah, I don't think I'm going to write one, but I like him too!" What Coolwhip didn't know, what no one could've known, I hadn't looked at Nestor Cortes at all. I said I liked him because Coolwhip said he liked him. Then I waited f...2022
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• Tanner Houck, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
I saw Tanner Houck had a slider that produced a .142 xBA and I gulped, then I went looking for some examples. Enjoy: Tanner Houck is a finalist for the PitchingNinja Filthiest Slider of the Year Award. ? pic.twitter.com/FlMOIsIVwI — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 16, 2021 When a hitter is swinging at a pitch that's either so far off the plate that the catcher can't get to it or if it hit...2022
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• Sean Manaea, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
Let's start here: Sean Manaea's 9Ks. ? pic.twitter.com/nQCTtvidNx — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 9, 2021 Not sure why it's so visually pleasing to watch a pitcher strikeout guys, but, mah gawd, I could watch that all day and twice on Muesday, the magical day that Narnia's itself between Monday and Tuesday. So, Sean Manaea, the real-life Girl Scout cookie--*intern whispers in ear*...n...2022
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• Hunter Greene, 2022 Fantasy Outlook
Unlike Riley Greene, Hunter Greene is an actual color. That color is not green, it's red. Not just red for the Reds, which is the team he will eventually play for in the majors, but the red is also for fire, which is what he brings with his speed ball that can touch 103 MPH. Okay, before we do anything else, we need to see that: Hunter Greene, Back-to-Back 103mph Fastballs. ?? pic.twitter.com/m9q...2021
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats & White Sox split doubleheader; Erick Fedde throws seven scoreless + more...
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• Nationals 6, White Sox 3 (Game 1)
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• Cub Tracks comes up with nothing

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. Cubs/Braves, the Al Yellon experience, and more. Nico Hoerner turns 27. Former Cub farmhand and The Compound podcaster Zack Short is a hero for a day in his first MLB start. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose mistake-filled finale with Red Sox, 3-2, drop two of three in Fenway...
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• Ninth inning home run Adam Frazier rescues Royals in 2-1 win

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Royals move to eight games over .500. Adam Frazier’s ninth-inning two-run home run gave the Royals a come-from-behind 2-1 win over the Angels Friday night. The Royals move to 24-16 and are eight games over .500 for the first time since June 1, 2016. The Royals have historically struggled against Angels starter Griffin Canning and they continued tha...2024
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• Rain can’t stop Charlie Morton or the home run ball as Braves top Mets 4-2
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Keibert Ruiz still building; GM Mike Rizzo on 1-0 every day; + more...
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• Takeaways from the Braves’ two-game sweep of the Red Sox
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• Cub Tracks’ shooting blanks
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm
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• Rain can’t stop Charlie Morton or the home run ball as Braves top Mets 4-2
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats 6-4 over Dodgers; Mitchell Parker earns W in MLB debut...

Notes and quotes from the series opener in Los Angeles... NO PRESSURE, MITCHELL!: As the Nationals’ Communications Department noted before last night’s game, 24-year-old, 2020 5th Round pick Mitchell Parker, who made his MLB debut in the series opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Dodger Stadium, became just the second pitcher in MLB history to, “... face three former MVPs as the first three ...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1
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• Cub Tracks’ Shōta time

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs are .500 after a fine pitching performance and a few unfortunate bounces. The bullpen was spotless. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2024
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• The Braves are still very good and it's totally fine to get excited about it

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Do I remember how the past two seasons ended? Yep! Is that stopping me from getting hyped? Nope! Folks, we’re here once again. It’s Opening Day (for real, this time) and I’m glad to report that on a personal level, both time and wisdom have yet to jade me when it comes to the optimism of baseball season getting underway. I felt the sa...2024
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• Cub Tracks ‘ how tweet it is

Shota Imanaga — lots to like so far. | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. The Cubs’ new pitcher is already popular. The Cubs Convention is ON. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, groun...2024
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• The Drew Smyly signing by the numbers
Drew Smyly pitches against the Giants at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smyly will return to the Cubs It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu writing this piece because I’ve written it before — I also did this five years ago, the first time the Cubs signed Drew Smyly to a two-year deal when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Cubs took a second f...2023
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• Sean Manaea, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
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• Twitter reacts to Shohei Ohtani's otherworldly performance
Los Angeles Angels rookie Shohei Ohtani is simply on another level right now. With three homers and seven RBI in his first eight MLB games, the Japanese sensation is dominating from a plate early on his career. But it’s what 23-year-old did on the mound against the division-rival Oakland Athletics on Sunday that has the baseball world abuzz.Making just his second career regular season start, Ohtan...2018
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