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  • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5
    • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5
    Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Carson Williams moves to the top of the prospect power rankings Every Monday during the regular season, each minor league team has the day off. This serves as an excellent check point system to check in on how each team and individual prospect is performing. We are now five weeks into the 2024 campaign and some prospects have certainly ...2024
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  • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 Last year, the Colorado Rockies signed 66-year-old manager Bud Black to a one-year contract extension that covers the 2024 season. Black originally signed with the team in 2017 on a three-year deal with a mutual option for 2020. In 2019, he signed a three-year extension for 2020-2022, and t...2024
  • Braves Minor League Recap: Kevin Kilpatrick Jr. doubles twice
    • Braves Minor League Recap: Kevin Kilpatrick Jr. doubles twice
    Credit: Garrett Spain - Battery Power Kilpatrick came up in two huge situations in an extra inning win for the Emperors It was a bit of a dreary Saturday if you were a starter for an Atlanta Braves affiliate, as the lack of standout performances contributed to an overall 1-3 day. Still the offenses had some juice to them, especially in Rome and especially in the bat of Kevin Kilpatrick Jr....2024
  • Braves News: Chris Sale sharp in series opener, Ozzie Albies returns, and more
    • Braves News: Chris Sale sharp in series opener, Ozzie Albies returns, and more
    Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves began the weekend series on a high note after a 6-2 defeat over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday. Several elements propelled the Braves to this win, including Chris Sale’s strong outing, Ozzie Albies’ return to the lineup, and Marcell Ozuna’s strong bat. Chris Sale made an...2024
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  • Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy near perfect, strikes out 10
    • Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy near perfect, strikes out 10
    Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Owen Murphy continues his tour of dominance through the South Atlantic League It was an exciting evening of Atlanta Braves minor league baseball, as the system took a sweep behind some marvelous pitching performances. None of those exceeded Owen Murphy, who has gotten better in every start this season and produced one of the most impressive ...2024
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  • This Day in MLB History: April 26th
    • This Day in MLB History: April 26th
    Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images MLB History 1901 - After two consecutive rainouts, just over 10,000 fans witnessed the Philadelphia Athletics make their American League debut with a 5-1 loss to the Washington Senators. 1904 - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut as a 17-year old playing for the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League. Cobb homered and had a double in the game. 1941 - W...2024

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  • • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5
    2024
  • • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    2024
  • • Braves News: Chris Sale sharp in series opener, Ozzie Albies returns, and more
    2024
  • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: April introduction
    • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: April introduction
    Tristan Peters | Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Catching up on how the teams and prospects are fairing in the Rays farm system Every Monday during the regular season, each minor league team has the day off. This serves as an excellent check point system to check in on how each team and individual prospect is performing. We are now four weeks into the 2024 campaign an...2024
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  • Your 1914 Montgomery Rebels!
    • Your 1914 Montgomery Rebels!
     1914 Game AdA hundred and ten years has passed since the 1914 Montgomery Rebels took the field in what was essentially a swan song for baseball in Alabama's capitol city. After the '14 season The Rebels would lose their franchise in the Southern Association and not see upper level affiliated baseball for nearly 30 years. Montgomery would not field a team at all in 1915 and only weakly in 191...2024
  • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    Ben Norman hopes for a breakout season. | Ben Norman/Instagram Speed and defense are keys to a solid all-around game for this former Hawkeye Ben Norman Left Fielder6´2´´200 poundsAge: 262023 SSS Top Prospect Rank 922023 High Level Birmingham (Double-A)Age relative to high level +1.4 yearsSSS rank among all left fielders in the system 2Overall 2023 regular season stats 64 games ⚾️ 9 HR ⚾️ ...2024
  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2011
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2011
    Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images This was a transition year in the history of the franchise. Jim Hendry was fired as GM halfway through this year, though not before he bestowed Javy Báez on the team as a parting gift. So the early deals in 2011 were his, and the later ones were under Theo Epstein’s regime. January 11: Acquired Matt Garza, Fernando Perez and Zac Rosscup from the Rays f...2024
  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1997
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1997
    Henry Rodriguez | Getty Images Some deals made this year helped lay the groundwork for the 1998 Cubs wild card season. The Cubs didn’r make a single major player-for-player deal in 1997 until midseason. Instead, coming off a 1996 season they had finished by losing 12 of their last 14, their big dive into the free-agent market was Mel Rojas, who had been a pretty good closer for the Expos i...2023
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  • Ten Royals minor leaguers become eligible for free agency
    • Ten Royals minor leaguers become eligible for free agency
    Jorge Bonifacio is raking, with four multi-hit games this week. | Minda Haas Kuhlmann Juan Carlos Negret and Jorge Bonifacio are among the minor league free agnets Ten Royals became minor league free agents this week, including former Royals outfielder Jorge Bonifacio. Minor leaguers can become eligible for free agency if they are not added to a 40-man roster after six full minor league se...2023
  • Winston-Salem Dash 2023 season review
    • Winston-Salem Dash 2023 season review
    Reliability: Catcher Michael Turner was a bright spot for the Dash in 2023. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Their 60-66 in a season had several ups and downs The Winston-Salem Dash finished with a 60-66 record and a -86 run differential. Given that run differential, they won four more games than their Pythagorean record (56-70) would lead us to expect. Winston-Salem spent a large chunk...2023
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "Eight-year MLB veteran Wei-Yin Chen has signed with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League, the team announced Tuesday."

  • 2023
    "MLB announced a series of experimental rules that will be used in the Atlantic League this season, including a designated pinch runner, "double-hook" designated hitter rule and further limitations on a pitcher's ability to make pickoff moves."

  • 2022
    "Kelsie Whitmore played left field and batted ninth for the Staten Island FerryHawks on Sunday, becoming the first woman to start a game in the Atlantic League and one of the first to do so in a league connected to Major League Baseball."

  • 2021
    "How MLB pushed back the Atlantic League mound and pushed fed-up players to the brink of a work stoppage"

  • 2020
    "Friday was supposed to be the Atlantic League's Opening Day"

  • 2019
    "That technology has already been tested in the Atlantic League, and it may be tested in the Class-A Florida State League in 2020."

  • 2018
    "Here are Thursday’s minor moves from around baseball… Former big league outfielder Jose Tabata has signed with the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League, the team announced today."

  • 2017
    "Former major league outfielder Nolan Reimold has retired, according to Michael Pfaff, the president of the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League (Twitter link)."

  • 2016
    "Jones' major league career was brief: After 65 games with the Mariners over those two seasons, he bounced around the minors for the next four summers and then wound up pitching in Mexico and the independent Atlantic League before his playing days finished in 2002, at 38."

  • 2015
    "Palmeiro, 50, set for short Atlantic League stint"

  • 2014
    "Sisco led the South Atlantic League with a ."

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Atlantic League trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    2024
  • • Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy near perfect, strikes out 10
    2024
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  • • This Day in MLB History: April 26th
    2024
  • • D-Backs Sign Chris Ellis To Minor League Deal
    The Diamondbacks have signed right-hander Chris Ellis to a minor league contract. The deal was announced by the Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks, with whom Ellis had been slated to pitch. Ellis is one of two players signed from the Ducks today, as veteran righty Dan Straily landed with the Cubs on a minor league deal.…...2024
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  • • Cubs, Dan Straily Agree To Minor League Deal
    The Cubs have agreed to a minor league contract with veteran right-hander Dan Straily, reports Craig Mish of SportsGrid and the Miami Herald. Straily had recently signed on with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League, but he’ll change course and instead return to affiliated ball on a non-guaranteed pact with one of…...2024
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  • Sandoval to join Staten Island minor league team
    • Sandoval to join Staten Island minor league team
    Former World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval, 37, who hit .250 with two RBIs in 28 spring training at-bats for the San Francisco Giants this season, agreed to a contract Saturday with the Staten Island FerryHawks of the independent Atlantic League....2024
  • • Pablo Sandoval Signs With Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks
    The Staten Island FerryHawks of the independent Atlantic League have signed Pablo Sandoval to a contract, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post (X link).  It is the latest step in Sandoval’s comeback attempt after he didn’t play during the 2023 season. Sandoval spent most of his 14 Major League seasons with the…...2024
  • Three-time World Series champion signs with Atlantic League team amid comeback attempt
    • Three-time World Series champion signs with Atlantic League team amid comeback attempt
    He will now become the latest MLB veteran to ply his trade in the Atlantic League....2024
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  • Royals announce remaining minor league rosters
    • Royals announce remaining minor league rosters
    David McLelland | @dwwmc Come out and watch some Royals minor leaguers! The Royals announced their rosters for the Double-A Northwest Arkansas Naturals, High-A Quad Cities Bandits, and Low-A Columbia Fireflies today, as they prepare to begin play this weekend and next week. The Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers already began play last weekend. Catcher Blake Mitchell, who was the eighth overall ...2024
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    2024
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Atlantic League stats and results

  • • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5
    2024
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  • • Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy near perfect, strikes out 10
    2024
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  • • Your 1914 Montgomery Rebels!
    2024
  • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 71: Jonah Scolaro
    • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 71: Jonah Scolaro
    Jonah Scolaro: Swingman with a murderous slider. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Look out, this flexible swingman is trending upward Jonah Scolaro Left-Handed Relief Pitcher5´10´´193 poundsAge: 252023 High Level Birmingham (Double-A)Age relative to high level -0.3 yearsSSS rank among all left-handed relievers in the system 2Overall 2023 stats 3-2 ⚾️ 39 games (1 start, 10 finishes) ⚾️ 6...2024
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    2024
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  • Chargers 90-in-90: DT Austin Johnson
    • Chargers 90-in-90: DT Austin Johnson
    Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Johnson started all 17 games for the Giants in 2021 before joining the Chargers as a free agent. Austin Johnson is a New Jersey native who played his prep football at St. Augustine Prep under head coach Dennis Scuderi. He was named an all-state and All-Cape-Atlantic League selection as a senior after helping his team to a Cape-Atlantic League title in 201...2023
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  • • MLB is going to try more experimental rules in the Atlantic League this year
    Nico Hoerner steals second against the Dodgers | Getty Images ... including a designated runner. This is something you should pay at least some attention to this year, because when Major League Baseball tries out experimental rules in the Atlantic League (“ALPB”), a “partner league” with MLB, some of them do wind up in actual MLB games. This includes the pitch timer and larger bases, among...2023
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  • • Braves Series Preview: A franchise that locks up young talent to long-term contracts
    Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves are a franchise to envy. It’s contract extension season! The Giants just locked up ace pitcher Logan Webb to a five-year deal, following the lead of the Atlanta Braves who have committed to several young playes recently. Ronald Acuña Jr., Matt Olson, Austin Riley, Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, and Michael Harris II are all signed through 2026, ...2023
  • • Meet new Browns tight end Jordan Akins
    Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Has a history with QB Deshaun Watson Word was that the Cleveland Browns would draft a tight end in this year’s NFL draft. The Reese’s Senior Bowl highlighted several blue-chip prospects including Alabama’s Cameron Latu and Luke Musgrave of Oregon State. Musgrave is the nephew of Browns’ coach Bill Musgrave. The better clubs in the NFL have a stud at ...2023
  • • Baseball history unpacked, March 8
    Natal anniversary to the late Ryan Freel! | Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Not much happening on the Cubs front but plenty of other stories, including a no-hitter that ends in a tie. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’...2023
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Atlantic League parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    2024
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  • • Get to know the Braves’ 2023 Opening Day Roster
    Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Everything you need to know for the Braves Opening Day roster The Atlanta Braves have yet to officially announce their roster for Opening Day, but barring something unexpected, the group is essentially in place. Below is our annual preview to get you up to speed if you are just coming back to baseball for the start of the regular season. ...2023
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  • • Meet new Browns tight end Jordan Akins
    2023
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  • • White Sox Minor League Update: August 18, 2022
    Craig Dedelow, no longer a Dash but a Knight, went deep in his first AAA game | Tiffany Wintz/South Side Sox All three home runs hit in the system tonight were for the Knights (Remillard, Rutherford, Dedelow) Box score link Jason Bilous had an iffy first inning, allowing two runs to the Syracuse Mets, but looked like he was going ...2022
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  • • Justin Verlander blasts ex-Astros prospect Danry Vasquez over domestic violence video
    Justin Verlander profanely blasted disgraced Danry Vasquez after shocking footage recently surfaced of the former Houston Astros prospect beating his girlfriend during a disturbing 2016 domestic violence incident.  “(Expletive) you man,” Verlander wrote on Twitter Wednesday night, with the expletive replaced with a middle-finger emoji. “I hope the rest of your life without baseball is horrible. Yo...2018
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  • • Tim Tebow says he intends to return to Mets next season
    Who’s ready for another season of Tim Tebow playing professional baseball? Tebow told reporters on Thursday that he intends to return to the New York Mets’ organization after his minor league season ends on Sunday. Unsurprisingly, Tebow is not expected to be a September call-up by the big club. That would be an unreasonable jump for a 30-year-old who has only played single-A ball. Tebow began his...2017
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  • • NERD Game Scores: Nik Turley Debut Event
    Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a scale of 0-10) the likely aesthetic appeal or watchability, for the learned fan, of a player or team or game. How are they calculated? Haphazardly, is how. An explanation of the components and formulae...2017
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  • • Tim Tebow has learned his post-spring training fate
    Tebowmania could be headed to a minor-league stadium near you.That is, if you live somewhere along the Atlantic coastline between New Jersey and Georgia.The next installment of the Tim Tebow baseball experiment will take the former Heisman Trophy winner to South Carolina for a stint with the Columbia Fireflies, the Mets' low Class-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.Mets general manager Sandy...2017
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  • • Gary Sanchez's MLB Superstar Breakout Just the Start of an All-Star Future
    2016
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  • • How Prep Phenom Clayton Kershaw Became an L.A. Dodger 10 Years Ago
    2016
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Top Atlantic League news

  • Whitmore first woman to start in Atlantic League
    • Whitmore first woman to start in Atlantic League
    2022
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  • MLB to test more rule changes in Atlantic League
    • MLB to test more rule changes in Atlantic League
    2023
  • • Kelsie Whitmore becomes first woman to start game in Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
    Last month, Whitmore became the first woman to appear in an ALPB game...2022
  • • How Prep Phenom Clayton Kershaw Became an L.A. Dodger 10 Years Ago
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  • • Angels Sign Daniel Murphy To Minor League Deal
    Infielder Daniel Murphy, who had been playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League, has had his contract purchased by the Angels. The news was relayed on Twitter by Michael Pfaff, the president and general manager of the Ducks. Murphy will presumably report to the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees in the coming…...2023
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  • • We are getting closer to an automated ball-strike system in MLB
    David Richard-USA TODAY Sports There will be extensive use of such a system in Triple-A in 2023. Many people have been clamoring for an automated ball-strike system in Major League Baseball (the so-called “robot ump”) and things have been edging in that direction. An ABS has been tested in some of the lower levels of the minor leagues and in the independent/MLB partner Atlantic League over...2022
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  • • How MLB pushed back the Atlantic League mound and pushed fed-up players to the brink of a work stoppage
    Moving the mound was MLB's latest experiment in the indy league; 'it's not baseball anymore,' a player said...2021
  • • MLB, Atlantic League agree to restore pitcher's mound to normal distance and drop automated ball-strike system
    The Atlantic League will no longer execute two of MLB's experimental rule changes in 2022...2022

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  • • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 5
    2024
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  • • Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
    2024
  • • Braves Minor League Recap: Kevin Kilpatrick Jr. doubles twice
    2024
  • • Braves News: Chris Sale sharp in series opener, Ozzie Albies returns, and more
    2024
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  • • Braves Minor League Recap: Owen Murphy near perfect, strikes out 10
    2024
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  • • Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: April introduction
    2024
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  • • Sandoval to join Staten Island minor league team
    2024
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  • • Royals announce remaining minor league rosters
    2024
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  • • Your 1914 Montgomery Rebels!
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 71: Jonah Scolaro
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Atlantic League rumors, scandals

  • • Your 1914 Montgomery Rebels!
    2024
  • • Ten Royals minor leaguers become eligible for free agency
    2023
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, July 5
    Rich Gossage, Hall-of-Famer. | Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to the Sarge and the Goose! On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore a...2023
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  • • Justin Verlander blasts ex-Astros prospect Danry Vasquez over domestic violence video
    2018
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  • • Why You Should Appreciate the Outstanding Baseball Career of Rafael Palmeiro
    2015
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  • • Introducing Lucas Giolito, the Pitching Phenom Making Strasburg Expendable
    2015

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