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• Yankees searching for Austin Wells answers as catcher’s slump persists

Saturday was a day game after a night game. It was expected. Monday was different — Monday marked the second time in three games Austin Wells was on the bench....2025
• Max Fried joins in Aaron Boone’s frustrations with umpire’s questionable strike calls

Austin Wells pumped his glove toward Max Fried, as if the Yankees catcher expected the arms of home plate umpire Derek Thomas to follow moments later....2025
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• Devin Williams, Jake Bird implode in gut-punch Yankees loss to Rangers in extras

The Yankees had runners on the corners with one out in the top of the 10th but came up empty when Austin Wells grounded into a double play....2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 31, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Happy Trade Deadline Day! Everyone was proud of the bullpen for their exemplary work in Wednesday’s win. “Makes me want to be in there even more,” Long said of watching one reliever after another jog to the mound and execute against a dangerous Braves lineup. “You want to carry that momentum if you get the ball. ... I was lucky enough to get it with a cool sp...2025
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• Padres, Twins Among Teams Interested In J.C. Escarra
Reports earlier in July indicated that J.C. Escarra was drawing trade interest, and Francys Romero writes that the Padres and Twins are two of the clubs most recently asking about the Yankees catcher. Escarra was optioned to Triple-A just today, leaving Austin Wells and Ben Rice as the catching options on New York’s active roster,…...2025
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• WATCH: Yankees' Austin Wells doubled off by Rays after losing track of outs on the basepaths

Wells was tagged out after wandering off second base in the ninth inning...2025

• Trade Deadline Eve-July 30, 2025
Shota Imanaga-Cubs-SP Shota Imanaga went 5 IP and gave up 3 ER on 5 H, 0 BB, and 8 K's against the Brewers. Through 15 GS, Imanaga has a 3.25 ERA and 1.04 WHIP. Everything on the surface looks in line with what he did last year (2.91 ERA and 1.01 WHIP in 173.1 IP). The concern is that his strikeout rate has dropped from 25% to 18%. He still commands the zone well (5% BB), but the strikeouts have...2025
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• 2025 MLB Draft: Rays select OF Brendan Summerhill No. 42 overall

Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images $2.33 million slot value. The Tampa Bay Rays have lucked out in their second selection of the first round, snagging Arizona OF Brendan Summerhill at No. 42 overall. This is great value at the end of the Competitive Balance A round, as he was ranked No. 22 at Baseball America. — No. 7️⃣Brendan Summerhill delivered the dramatics with...2025
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• Feeling a draft in here (Part 1)

Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Prospects, they will break your heart. Let’s look at who the Braves drafted recently and the players who were drafted around them by other teams. I’ll tell you a brief story from my intern year in baseball operations with the Atlanta Braves. It was … a while ago. But one of the main responsibilities I was warned about was that I was going to have to do all sorts ...2025
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• AL Week 12 Strategy-June 15, 2025
In The Field 3B Isaac Paredes left Thursday's game early with a left hamstring injury. Paredes is hitting .255 with 15 HR, 37 R, 42 RBI, and 0 SB. 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. was not in the Yankees lineup on Thursday due to left groin tightness. He was back in the lineup on Saturday. Chisholm Jr. is hitting .214 with 9 HR, 21 R, 25 RBI, and 10 SB. He is hitting the ball hard (15% Barrels) but has struc...2025
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• Yankees series preview: Can Royals pitchers contain Aaron Judge?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Jac Caglianone makes his home debut against the Bronx Bombers The Yankees visit Kauffman Stadium this week, giving the Royals a good test of their abilities and stirring feelings of animosity among the fanbase. The Yankees gave the Royals a good thumping in a sweep at Yankee Stadium back in April. The Royals will try to win a home series against the Yankees f...2025
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• AL Week 4 Strategy-April 19, 2025
In The Field OF Willi Castro (oblique) was out of the lineup on Friday. This comes on the heels of him leaving Wednesday's game early due to tightness in his right oblique. He is considered day-to-day. 3B D.J. LeMahieu (calf) is expected to start a rehab assignment on Tuesday. He has not had a spring, so he will need a length rehab assignment prior to making his season debut. OF Josh Lowe (obliq...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 7, 2025

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Kris is Bubalicious. Bobby Witt Jr. fell a home run short of the cycle on Sunday. The elusive cycle remains at large for the time being. “In some ways, it’s luck,” Witt said. “But in some ways, you just let the game happen.” Anne Rogers writes about Kris Bubic’s dominant start on Sunday. Bubic has always had a good changeup, but it has way more depth to it now t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025

It was a good start | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Let’s be honest. You’re not here to read what I wrote today. You’re here to talk about the game yesterday. I’m not going to link to a bunch of different recaps posts. Matthew has got you covered with the RR recap. I won’t post too much more about that TOOTBLAN in the 8th (Pete Grathoff has me ...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 11, 2025
Francisco Alvarez (C - Mets) The Mets announced Alvarez will miss 6-8 weeks after undergoing hamate surgery. This is a big blow for owners who have already drafted as Alvarez has slugged 36 home runs over the past 2 seasons and is seen as one of the better young hitting catchers in baseball. This does continue an injury trend for him tho as he played in just 110 games a year ago as he was hurt in...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
Fantasy Relevance for the Dodgers deeper rotation options? Baseball fans know that the Dodgers loaded up on starting pitching in the offseason adding 2-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, Phenom Roki Sasaki and re-signing the legendary Clayton Kershaw. With Shohei Ohtani expected to take the mound this year and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow returning it's an electric top 5. That being ...2025
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"Former Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes gave up first-inning home runs to Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Aaron Judge and Austin Wells in his return to the Bronx with the Brewers."

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"How Yankees catcher Austin Wells went from platoon player to Rookie of the Year contender"

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"In the fourth, he gave up a three-run home run to rookie catcher Austin Wells."

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"Yankees committed to keeping prospect Austin Wells at catcher"

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"Top prospect Austin Wells thinks he can be the Yankees' future backstop, but does the team have other plans for him?"

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"The Yankees and catcher Austin Wells, who was picked 28th overall in the amateur draft, agreed to a minor league contract with a $2."

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• 2025 MLB Draft: Rays select OF Brendan Summerhill No. 42 overall
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• Cubs 4, Yankees 1: Shōta Imanaga leads the way

Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images The Cubs homered twice and won the series from the Yankees. After a blowout loss Friday, the Cubs really needed to get back on track and take a pair from the Yankees, and that’s exactly what they did, finishing up with a solid 4-1 victory Sunday behind outstanding pitching from Shōta Imanaga and home runs by Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson. Busch, in fact, did ...2025
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• Feeling a draft in here (Part 1)
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• AL Week 12 Strategy-June 15, 2025
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• Yankees series preview: Can Royals pitchers contain Aaron Judge?
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• Diagnosing Danny Jansen’s framing woes

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images It could be a simple fix. It could also be more complicated. In 2024, Rays catchers hit a collective .192/.273/.315, a full 41% below league average, while putting up the eighth lowest wins above replacement (fWAR) in the league. So in the offseason the Rays signed veteran catcher Danny Jansen to a one year, $8.5 million deal (with a mutua...2025
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• Rays 3, Yankees 2: Rays Snap Skid

Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Taylor Walls and Curtis Mead pack the punch as Rays win in the Bronx New York, New York. “That’s Life”, by Frank Sinatra would play as patrons leave Yankee Stadium today, as the Rays win a nail-biter 3-2. The scoring started with Aaron Judge homering on the first Zack Littell offering he saw to get the Yankees jump-started 1-0. In the following half inning, T...2025
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• AL Week 4 Strategy-April 19, 2025
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• Brewers can’t quite put together Opening Day comeback, fall 4-2 to Yankees

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Milwaukee’s former stud closer almost blew it, but not quite Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees opened their season today with a tightly contested game in which the Brewers very nearly overcame a three-run, ninth-inning deficit against their franchise legend former closer, Devin Williams. But it just wasn’t quite in the cards, as the top of the Mi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 31, 2025
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• Trade Deadline Eve-July 30, 2025
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• Cubs 4, Yankees 1: Shōta Imanaga leads the way
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• AL Week 12 Strategy-June 15, 2025
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• Diagnosing Danny Jansen’s framing woes
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• Padres bullpen implodes in loss to Yankees

Wandy Peralta | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Michael King allows two runs, leaves game with one-run lead A 10-run bottom of the seventh inning resulted in a 12-3 loss for the San Diego Padres against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, Tuesday. It was the first time this season the best bullpen in baseball looked pedestrian. First awful bullpen day of the year for the #Padres— Jim Russ...2025
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• Yankee bats remain on fire as they demolish Brewers again

Brad Penner-Imagn Images The 12-3 Yankee victory secured a series sweep Box Score The Brewers will never be more thankful to be leaving New York City. A horror show of a series ended today with a beatdown that was only not more notable because it wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday’s beatdown. It was a different cast of pitchers but the same result this afternoon, as the New York Yankees jump...2025
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• Yankee bats remain on fire as they demolish Brewers again

Brad Penner-Imagn Images The 12-3 Yankee victory secured a series sweep Box Score The Brewers will never be more thankful to be leaving New York City. A horror show of a series ended today with a beatdown that was only not more notable because it wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday’s beatdown. It was a different cast of pitchers but the same result this afternoon, as the New York Yankees jump...2025
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• Spencer Schwellenbach dominates and Austin Riley hits a bomb, as Braves beat the Yankees

Spencer Schwellenbach looked good against the Yankees | Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Schwellenbach had ten strikeouts to only one walk in 6.0 innings and Austin Riley hit a HR. The Atlanta Braves took on the New York Yankees away as spring training is coming to a close. Spencer Schwellenbach was on the bump against a lineup that featured the reigning AL MVP Aaron Judge. Schwellenbach startin...2025
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• Max Fried joins in Aaron Boone’s frustrations with umpire’s questionable strike calls
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 31, 2025
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• Game 69: Royals vs Yankees Gamethread

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Lets avoid the sweep Today, the Royals will take on the Yankees in the last game of their three-game series after dropping their first two games with a combined score of 16-5. In each game, the Royals have fallen into a hole early and struggled to regain the game's momentum. The Yankees are now 5-0 against the Royals in 2025, scoring 28 runs over the f...2025
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• Yankees 13, Rockies 1: Bronx Bombers came out in full force

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images A costly fifth inning collapse ties up the series 1-1 After a close knit victory over the New York Yankees on Friday, the Colorado Rockies suffered another blowout loss as the Yankees offense bombarded them for a score of 13-1. Early southpaw battle The early goings of the game had all the makings of a classic pitching duel, much like Friday’s game. ...2025
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• Diagnosing Danny Jansen’s framing woes
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• Rays 10, Yankees 8: So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance..?

Jonathan Aranda’s eventful day caps off a four-run rally in the ninth What. A. Game. wheeeeeee! pic.twitter.com/hJnJOfPWJG— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 19, 2025 From start to finish, Tampa Bay had to gut today’s ballgame out. Chandler Simpson made his debut, as he started in centerfield and hit leadoff. Simpson had about 10 family and friends that he left tickets for, and a few more...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Monday morning MLB moments

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Little tidbits from the weekend. Happy Monday, everyone. Plenty of fun stuff to catch up on from the weekend! We can see what happens when one of the tallest pitchers in baseball stands beside one of the shortest players. Elly De La Cruz fumbled a steal in fairly hilarious fashion. How are the Red Sox now celebrating their home runs? And...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 7, 2025
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• Yankee bats remain on fire as they demolish Brewers again
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• Big first inning is all Royals need in 12-5 win over Yankees

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Bobby Witt Jr. joins the 30/30 club. The Royals piled on nine runs in the first inning off Yankees lefty Carlos Rodón on their way to a 12-5 win over the Yankees on Friday evening. Rodón faced eight hitters and failed to retire any of them before exiting the game. Bobby Witt Jr. also hit his 30th home run, joining the 30/30 club. Rodón signed a $162 million d...2023
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• How Yankees catcher Austin Wells went from platoon player to Rookie of the Year contender

The former first-round draft pick has found himself a starting job thanks to his bat and his improved defense...2024
• Yankees To Promote Jasson Domínguez, Austin Wells
The Yankees are calling up outfield prospect Jasson Domínguez, reports Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. Catching prospect Austin Wells will be promoted as well, per Greg Joyce and Joel Sherman of The New York Post. Both looming promotions were reported on earlier today. Neither player is on the 40-man roster but the Yanks already opened a…...2023
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• Royals lose seesaw affair, 6-5

Kansas City Royals pitcher John Schreiber (46) reacts during the fifth inning against the New York Yankees during game one of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images Neither team’s best MVP candidate could come up with a hit in this one From the first inning it was obvious that neither team was going to be content to have one of the low-scoring affa...2024
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• Yankees slug four HRs in 1st inning off Cortes
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• The Royals offense and season goes out with a whimper, falling 3-1 to the Yankees

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images It was a heckuva season, friends Had every Kansas City Royals fan been asked how they would feel if the 2024 season ended with a loss to the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series, we would have all taken it in a heartbeat. Fangraphs projected 75 wins for Kansas City this season, a significant 19-game improvement off their 56 in 2023, but sti...2024
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• WATCH: Catcher Austin Wells makes Yankees history with leadoff home run on 2025 Opening Day

Wells is the first catcher to ever hit leadoff for the Yankees...2025
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• Trade Deadline Eve-July 30, 2025
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• AL Week 12 Strategy-June 15, 2025
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• AL Week 4 Strategy-April 19, 2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 11, 2025
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• Cristopher Sanchez, the next Logan Webb? - September 10th, 2024
Cristopher Sanchez (SP - PHI) - Sanchez had a very solid outing against the Rays on Monday, tossing 6 shutout innings while allowing just 4 singles and a walk with 4 K's. In typical Sanchez fashion, he generated 17 swinging strikes on just 94 pitches but only managed 4 strikeouts. Sanchez is a perfect example of a pitcher that is often overlooked: his strengths are GB% and BB% (5th and 20th among ...2024
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• O'Hearn's Performance Doesn't Suffer With More PT- August 10, 2024
Ryan O'Hearn- OF- BAL- Hot- O'Hearn picked up his second straight multi-hit game by going 2-for-3 with a walk and 2 RBI last night. For the season he is slashing .274/.352/.452 with 12 homers in 364 PAs. O'Hearn has showed excellent plate discipline, with a 25.2% chase rate and 6.9% SwStr% resulting in a 10.4% BB% and 12.9% K%. He has been underperforming his metrics, with an xBA of .283 and xSLG ...2024
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• Offense and Spencer Strider shine against Yankees

Spencer Strider got the job done | Dale Zanine-Imagn Images The Braves had one of their most complete games of the season The Atlanta Braves took on the New York Yankees tonight and the key was clearly that the offense had to show up since the Yankees’ bats have been on fire all season long. With Spencer Strider on the mound, the Braves had a legitimate shot to win if their bats showed up...2025
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• 2025 MLB Draft: Rays select OF Brendan Summerhill No. 42 overall
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• Cubs 4, Yankees 1: Shōta Imanaga leads the way
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• Trent Grisham belts homer in return to Yankees lineup after hamstring issue

After both made cameos off the bench Wednesday night, Trent Grisham and Austin Wells returned to the Yankees lineup Thursday....2025
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• Yankees' Wells (finger) misses 4th straight start
Austin Wells was out of the starting lineup for a fourth straight game as Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the catcher had had recovered from an invasive test for a circulatory issue in his left index finger....2025
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• Yankees gets good news after Austin Wells’ unique health scare

He was out of the lineup for the third time in four games Monday, but it was not because of his slumping bat....2025
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• Offense and Spencer Strider shine against Yankees
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• 2024 World Series: Predicting the winner of Yankees vs Dodgers in the Fall Classic

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Which team will emerge victorious from this heavyweight fight? The highly anticipated 2024 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees is set to kick off tonight at 8:08 pm on FOX. The Yankees, unquestionably the most popular and most successful franchise in Major League Baseball, are making their first World Series appearance si...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees

The Yankees’ championship drought is a feast compared to the Guardians’. Who will get a chance to snap it? The Championship Series is upon us and only four teams remain from the 30 who began the MLB season back in March. October winnowed the field to 12 playoff teams, the Wild Card round cut out four more, and now, the New York Yankees, Cleveland Guardians, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodgers a...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: American League Preview

Even in a relative down season, the Astros might very well extend their ALCS streak. Will any American League team make like the Rangers and topple them? During the decade-plus of MLB play from 2005-16, only two American League teams won at least 100 games. Outside of the 2008 Angels and 2009 Yankees, it was always a scramble of several good teams, but no true slam-dunk standouts (and even the ‘08...2024
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