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• Guardians RHP Lively has Tommy John surgery
Guardians pitcher Ben Lively had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow Wednesday morning and is expected to miss 12-18 months....2025
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• Guardians Claim Matt Krook From A’s
The Guardians have claimed reliever Matt Krook off waivers from the Athletics and optioned him to Triple-A Columbus, per Tim Stebbins of MLB.com. The southpaw had been designated for assignment by the A’s earlier this week. Cleveland transferred righty Ben Lively to the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man roster spot. Lively recently required…...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 24, 2025

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Nick Loftin gets his opportunity. The Royals parted ways with Hunter Renfroe on Friday, writes Anne Rogers “We have a ton of respect for Hunter and what he’s done in this game,” general manager J.J. Picollo said. “He was a key part of our team last year and part of that free-agent class that really changed the culture and allowed us to get on some winning w...2025
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• Braves News: Ronald returns with a bang, Orlando Arcia DFA’d, and more

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. Despite the 2-1 loss the Atlanta Braves suffered against the San Diego Padres, Friday was a refreshing night at Truist Park. Ronald Acuña Jr. made his season debut, and appeared to be in midseason form. On the first major league pitch he’s seen in nearly a year, Acuña delivered a 467 foot home ru...2025
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• Guardians' Lively to have Tommy John surgery
Guardians pitcher Ben Lively will undergo Tommy John reconstruction surgery on his right elbow and will miss the rest of the season, the team announced Friday....2025
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• Ben Lively To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
Guardians right-hander Ben Lively will undergo Tommy John surgery and a flexor tendon repair, the team announced. The righty is expected to miss 12 to 16 months. That means he’ll miss the remainder of the 2025 season and maybe all of 2026 as well. He’s already on the 15-day injured list and will be moved to…...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 24, 2025
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• AL Week 8 Strategy-May 17, 2025
In The Field C Alejandro Kirk missed Tuesday's game after getting hit on the head with a backswing on Sunday, but he was in the rest of the week. OF Yordan Alvarez (hand) is still day-to-day with his hand injury. He was able to hit in the cage on Thursday but did not play against the Rangers. He was expected back this weekend but did not return on Saturday. His return is expected soon. OF Byron ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 14, 2025

Thomas Shea-Imagn Images John Schreiber giveth and John Schreiber taketh away. David Lesky looks at the Kansas City Royals’ Monday win and wonders if second baseman Michael Massey has turned a corner. Based on the metrics, it’s pretty much what he “should” be doing. He has an xBA of .283 and an xSLG of .443, so he’s overperforming on the slug just a bit. His hard-hit rate is still just 36....2025
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• Braves News: Ronald Acuña Jr. goes yard, Atlanta reaches .500, and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. began a rehab assignment on Tuesday in the Florida Complex League. It marked his first game May 26, 2024, when he tore his ACL. In his third at-bat of the night, he went deep. .@ronaldacunajr24 goes yard in his first rehab start! pic.twitter.com/e5ZFhb9...2025
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• Brewers shut out in frustrating 5-0 loss to Guardians

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Despite the loss, Freddy Peralta becomes fourth Brewer to reach 1,000 strikeouts Box Score The Brewers dropped the series opener to the Cleveland Guardians, 5-0. Milwaukee has now lost four out of their last five games. With today’s loss, the Crew are also back to two games under .500. Not a lot happened for either team in the first few innings. The highl...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Cleveland Guardians

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers continue long stretch of interleague matchups in Cleveland The Milwaukee Brewers will wrap up their six-game road trip in Cleveland against the Guardians this week, also marking their third of five consecutive series against interleague opponents. The Crew had another up-and-down week, winning their first two against the Astros before dropping the series fin...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs Cleveland Guardians double header game thread

Aaron Doster-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals take on the Guardians in a double header showdown With the game last night rained out, The Nats and Guardians are playing a double header this afternoon and evening. With only half an hour between games, we will only do one game thread today. We will make updates about the second game as we go along. The Nationals are going to have th...2025
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes

Welcome, Burkey Boy. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Sean Burke debuts his arm in the majors and experiences the classic lack of South Side offense Author’s note: For tonight’s game coverage, I’ll be abandoning illeism, opting instead for a personal story due to the circumstances of late-season Chris Getz exhaustion and burnout. If you dislike that, maybe you should skip this one altogether. T...2024
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"After a double play ended a hopeful top of the first inning, Ben Lively struck out the side in the top of the second."

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"Shōta Imanaga will start the series opener Monday in Cleveland and the Guardians will counter with righthander Ben Lively."

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"Ben Lively has been mentioned as a possible Reds starter for Game 2."

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"The Reds have signed right-hander Ben Lively to a minor league deal."

2019
"Righty Ben Lively will return to the Korea Baseball Organization for another run with the Samsung Lions, the team announced and Yonhap News reports."

2018
"Roster Resource now predicts that Nick Pivetta and Ben Lively will occupy the last two spots in the starting staff to begin the season."

2017
"Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets."

2016
"Crawford (SS) Nick Williams (OF) Jake Thompson (RHP) Franklyn Kilome (RHP) Roman Quinn (OF) Cornelius Randolph (OF) Mark Appel (RHP) Jorge Alfaro (C) Andrew Knapp (C) Ben Lively (RHP) Then there are five “just interesting” players: Carlos Tocci (OF) Deivi Grullon (C) Adonis Medina (RHP) Zach Eflin (RHP) Scott Kingery (2B) It’s a deep read with good observations all of mentioned players."

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"The Phillies swapped outfielder Marlon Byrd and $4MM to the Reds for pitching prospect Ben Lively."

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"The Reds have agreed to a deal for Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd, with righty Ben Lively heading east, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweets."

• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 24, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 14, 2025
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• Second Opinion: Pitchers Defying Metrics - May 14, 2025
Some pitchers get by on smoke and mirrors, pure gile, deception, craftiness, knowledge, experience...wait a minute: what I just described are the qualities that make quality pitching, something that StatCast, Stuff+ and all the spin rates in the world don't care to measure. But there is value in Pure Pitching, a stat that doesn't exist but can lead to a strong IP, ERA and WHIP floor along with som...2025
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• Brewers shut out in frustrating 5-0 loss to Guardians
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• Guardians series preview: Let’s get it started!

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Royals and Guardians are both looking to return to the post-season. Observers around baseball thumbed their nose at the American League Central at the outset of the season, figuring the small market clubs would not be able to keep pace with the high-spending coastal teams. But four of the five Central teams ended up in the post-season, including the Guardians ...2025
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• The state of the AL Central

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Four teams with a chance...to beat up on the White Sox For years the constant refrain about the AL Central was that it was too weak and winning it was easy enough that all the teams in it should be trying to take advantage. In 2024 we saw the script flip a bit and three central teams made the playoffs with another just missing. Granted, they all got to ...2025
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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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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend

Kyle Schwarber should lead off for the Phillies for their third straight postseason | Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images There’s a lot of David and Goliath in these matchups They don’t call it the Wild Card for nothing, folks. It’s’ already been a few ridiculous days of baseball. It started with the Mets bonkers comeback against Atlanta in the first game of a doubleheader to make the post...2024
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• Braves News: Ronald Acuña Jr. goes yard, Atlanta reaches .500, and more
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• Guardians series preview: The start of a challenging road trip

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Royals have a ten-game road trip against 2024 playoff teams. The Royals will again face the division rival Cleveland Guardians, the team that took two of three in the opening series in Kansas City. This time they’ll face off in Cleveland, where the Royals took four of six last year. Kansas City Royals (7-6) vs. Cleveland Guardians (6-6) at Progressiv...2025
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• Braves News: Opening Day loss, Drake Baldwin makes franchise history, and more

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. The Atlanta Braves opened the 2025 campaign in disappointing fashion, dropping game one of four against the San Diego Padres 7-4. The Braves got an early start and scored in the first inning, but a lack of timely hitting, a relatively underwhelming start from Chris Sale, and a lackluster bullpen performance resulted in t...2025
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• Guardians series preview: Let’s get it started!
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• The state of the AL Central
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at Heroes and Goats for the first half of the season. Emmanuel Clase was awarded the AL Reliever of the Year for 2024 after helping the Guardians reach the playoffs. Clase pitched in 74 games and allowed only 10 runs, five earned, in 74⅓ innings. This was a particularly and uniquely impressive season. He matched those 10 runs allowe...2024
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• Guardians' Lively OK after exiting with contusion
Guardians right-hander Ben Lively appeared to have avoided a major injury after taking a comebacker off his right thigh, resulting in a contusion....2024
• Seth’s stellar start stems skid, series stopper salvaged 4-1

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Pham’s homer powered the offense. Seth Lugo threw a seven-inning gem and Tommy Pham delivered the decisive blow with his first homer for the Royals as Kansas City defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 tonight. The first inning featured a couple baserunners but not result. In the top of the second, MJ Melendez turned a single into a double when he got caught in...2024
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• Game One Hundred and Forty-One: Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Could really use a win here. The Kansas City Royals will attempt to snap an L7 tonight and avoid a sweep as they take on the Cleveland Guardians in the final game of this three-game set at Kauffman Stadium. Seth Lugo will start for Kansas City. It seemed like Lugo might have been running out of gas having blown past his career high in innings pitched, but he ...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• Cub Tracks’ we can still get meatloaf

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs drop the first of three but they can still win the series. 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’ te...2024
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• A Bitter Loss After a Sweet Longo Homecoming: Rays 2, Guardians 4

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Rays fall short after giving up two home runs and going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position At least we got to hear those electric violins again. Before the game, there was an emotional return to Tropicana Field. Former Tampa Bay Rays star Evan Longoria, the franchise’s all-time leader in multiple statistical categories, threw out the ceremonial fi...2024
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• Cub Tracks strikes back
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs pile it on again and force the issue. 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maxi...2023
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• Cubs 20, Reds 9: The Cubs tie a franchise record for home runs
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Seven Cubs hit baseballs out of the yard in this entertaining blowout. Let’s begin this recap of the Cubs’ 20-9 win over the Reds with this fun fact, sent to me by BCB’s JohnW53, about the franchise record-tying seven home runs the Cubs hit Tuesday evening at Wrigley Field: The Cubs had not hit seven homers in a game since a 23-6 demolition of the Padres on May...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 106
Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs go down fighting in a 6-5 loss to the Reds. Look, I’m not blowing smoke at anyone. Losing two straight and be back at .500 after the mad dash to get above water sucks. Marcus Stroman’s struggles continuing is awful. The situation with Seiya Suzuki is maddening. Was anything likely to change the ninth inning? Would it be nice if Cody Bellinger had g...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Reds series preview
Photo by Nick Wosika/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here we go. It sounds like hype, but this really is a big, important series, which should tell us quite a bit about where both the Cubs and Reds are headed for the rest of the year. After this set, the teams will meet one more time, four games in Cincinnati at the beginning of September. That one includes a doubleheader which will happe...2023
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• Reds series preview: When playing the kids works
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images It’s the Elly de la Cruz show now. A small-market team in the Midwest lost 100 games last year, with one of the worst offenses and pitching staffs in the league. Rather than upgrade through free agency, they stood pat, and the owner was accused of being cheap for sitting on his hands. And yet this year, the team is playing well, flirting with .500, just a ...2023
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• d'Arnaud drives in lone run against Phillies
On the night of J.P. Crawford's debut, it was another Phillies' rookie who made the most significant impact at Citi Field. Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets....2017
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• Lively homers to lead Phils in rout of Mets
On the night of J.P. Crawford's debut, it was another Phillies' rookie who made the most significant impact at Citi Field. Pitcher Ben Lively homered and drove in four runs, also pitching seven effective innings in a 9-1 win over the Mets....2017
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• Cubs 6, Reds 2: Cody Bellinger, Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ go deep

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images A Belli Bomb and two other homers helped lead the Cubs to victory. SITE NOTE: Since this game went so quickly, I’m posting a separate recap. There will be a preview for Game 2 that will post at 4:30 p.m. CT. The Cubs began their double dip in Cincinnati on a good note, defeating the Reds 6-2 on the strength of homers by Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Seiya S...2023
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• Lively goes 6 innings, drives in 2 to beat Fish
Rookie sensation Rhys Hoskins has been the Phillies' top story in August. But on the final day of the month, Ben Lively made the biggest impact of the night. The right-hander allowed two runs in six innings and drove in two on the go-ahead single as Philadelphia edged Miami, 3-2, on Thursday at Marlins Park....2017
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• Giants stung in 8th, fall to Phillies
Pedro Florimon delivered the biggest hit of the Phillies' three-run seventh Sunday, squeaking a two-run single to right field off Giants reliever Hunter Strickland, giving the Phillies back-to-back wins to cap their West Coast road trip. Starter Ben Lively delivered six innings of two-run ball while Jorge Alfaro brought home the game-tying run to help the Phillies knock off the Giants, 5-2....2017
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• Reds To Acquire Marlon Byrd
The Reds have agreed to a deal for Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd, with righty Ben Lively heading east, FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal tweets. Rosenthal also notes that the Reds will receive a significant among of money in the deal to … ...2014
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• Jose Barrero hits grand slam, Reds withstand Red Sox rally
Jose Barrero hit a grand slam and Ben Lively pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings to help the Cincinnati Reds pick...2023
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• Cubs 3, White Sox 1: Takin’ care of business

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs went to the South Side of Chicago and did what they needed to do. The Cubs defeated the White Sox 3-1 Saturday night. It wasn’t pretty much of the time, but the team did what they came for in this series — a sweep, and thus a sweep of the season series against their crosstown rivals for the first time since 2013. The Sox scor...2024
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• Cliff Lee Surgery Would Add Pressure on Phillies to Get Cole Hamels Deal Right
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• Re-Grading the Cincinnati Reds' Offseason Post-Winter Meetings
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• Game Thread #42: Milwaukee Brewers (20-21) @ Cleveland Guardians (23-17)

Photo by Alex Zadorozny/MLB Photos via Getty Images Milwaukee draws another interleague matchup, this time against last year’s AL Central champs Today’s game against the Cleveland Guardians, the first of a three-game set, pits Brewers ace Freddy Peralta against right-hander Ben Lively. For more on how the two teams match up, check out Harrison’s series preview. In his last appearance, Per...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Cleveland Guardians
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• Washington Nationals vs Cleveland Guardians double header game thread
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• Cleveland Guardians vs Washington Nationals Series Preview

Aaron Doster-Imagn Images A look at the Nationals matchup with the always solid Cleveland Guardians Guardians Bring Clutch Wins and Questionable Pitching to D.C. The Cleveland Guardians roll into D.C. sitting second in the American League Central at 20-14. Each of their last nine victories has come by two runs or fewer. That’s especially funky considering their bullpen hasn’t exactly been...2025
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• Starter Spotlight: A Very Lively Pitch Mix

4-19-2025 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X Pirates turned in a too-little, too-late offensive outburst last night but will try to get more done against the starting pitcher today as Paul Skenes will look to oppose visiting veteran righty, Ben Lively. Now in his second season with Cleveland, Lively is coming off a career-best yearContinue reading "Starter Spotlight: A Very L...2025
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• Ragans career day leads Royals to 4-2 victory over Guardians

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Ragans continues his brilliance, and the offense showed some juice! Cole Ragans shoved. When his team needed it most the ace straight up delivered. A career high 7.2 innings and 10 more strikeouts, while allowing 4 hits and 1 earned run. The Royals get back to .500 after avoiding a sweep in Cleveland. Although the game didn’t start out great. After a dou...2025
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• The White Sox phone it in with another shutout to the Guardians, so here are some highly personal tidbits with similes
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• 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
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