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• Braves, MLB release spring training hats for 2025Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves have gone with a normal design. One of their divisional rivals absolutely didn’t. Spring training is right around the corner, which means that it’s time to start getting a look at the caps that teams will be donning across the Grapefruit League and Cactus League here in 2025. While the Atlanta Braves haven’t gone with a...2025Check it out Grapefruit League latest news -
• A visitor’s guide to 2025 Arizona spring trainingFans at Sloan Park during Spring Training 2024 | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Everything you need to know if you’re headed to the Valley of the Sun for baseball (and other entertainment!) this spring. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — 2025 will be my 36th spring training and as a veteran of going to spring games as well as other places in the Phoenix area, I thought I’d post some helpful hints f...2025Read about Sloan Park news today -
• The Cubs will have the fewest games with the ball and strike challenge system this springPlate umpire Nelson Fraley wears an earpiece that gets signals from a radar that call the ball and strikes during a Tampa Tarpons vs. Bradenton Marauders game in 2022 | THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK MLB has revealed some details on how this challenge system test will work. Last fall, MLB tested the ball-and-strike challenge system in the Arizona Fall League and announced...2025Read about Arizona Fall League headline news -
• Friday Rockpile: An early look at spring training for the RockiesMatt Kartozian-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, January 17, 2025 With an arctic blast descending on Colorado this weekend and temperatures reaching well below zero, it’s a good time to think about spring training in the Cactus League, specifically near Scottsdale, Arizona where temperatures average in the mid-70s in February and will be in the mid-60s this weekend. ...2025See more articles Colorado Rockies breaking news today -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 23John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Jake Eder tops our Round 22 ballot. So, who is the 23rd-best prospect in the White Sox system? Seems some fatigue may be setting in with the players carrying over on the current ballot, as new additions are advancing quickly after debuting high in the rankings. Jake Eder is the latest quick mover, winning on just his second Vote, with 47 of 249 ...2025Continue with Prospect Vote rumors -
• Atlanta Braves 2025 Spring Training SchedulePhoto by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Atlanta Braves have their schedule for spring training in 2025 set up and ready to go. This year marks a massive expansion of television coverage, as all but a small handful of Braves spring training games will be televised and/or streamed this year. The Grapefruit League schedule for Atlanta starts on February 22 against the Twins b...2025Continue with Atlanta Braves news and rumors
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• Friday Rockpile: An early look at spring training for the Rockies
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 22George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Sean Burke tops our Round 21 ballot. So, who is the 22nd-best prospect in the White Sox system? As three players on the ballot creep closer to setting the mark for longest time on the Prospect Vote ballot, Sean Burke advanced in his personal Round 10, running away with Round 21 by earning 49 of 221 votes (22%): Burke becomes the six...2025Click for news about Prospect Vote injuries -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 21Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Ky Bush tops our Round 20 ballot. So, who is the 21st-best prospect in the White Sox system? In order to avoid setting the mark for longest time on the Prospect Vote ballot, Ky Bush leapfrogged Sean Burke and Nick Nastrini — from fourth place into first — to win Round 20, with 45 of 206 votes (22%): Bush is merely tied for the longest stay on the ball...2025Read about Prospect Vote injury report -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20Michael Reaves/Getty Images After much delay, Jairo Iriarte tops our Round 19 ballot. So, who is the 20th-best prospect in the White Sox system? Well, finally, people: Jairo Iriarte — possibly the best pitcher currently on the White Sox roster — advances, with 46 of 226 votes (20%): Iriarte becomes the final player to advance from our initial, 10-man ballot that started our Pr...2025Click for news about Prospect Vote -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Wilfred Veras tops our Round 18 ballot. So, who is the 19th-best prospect in the White Sox system? Longtime SSS favorite Wilfred Veras made relatively quick work of the poll, advancing in his third ballot, earning 36 of 213 votes (17%): Right field is definitely the position of outfield strength in the White Sox system, at least when i...2025See more Prospect Vote injury -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 18Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Wikelman Gonzalez tops our Round 17 ballot. So, who is the 18th-best prospect in the White Sox system? The Garrett Crochet trade to Boston is laid to rest this round, at least in the Prospect Vote sense, as Wikelman Gonzalez advances with 45 of 214 votes (21%): While Ryan Teel (voted No. 8) and Braden Montgomery (No. 9) were hurt by ...2025Continue with Prospect Vote injury update -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Bryan Ramos tops our Round 16 ballot. So, who is the 17th-best prospect in the White Sox system? With surprisingly low overall positioning, Bryan Ramos had a very easy time of it, taking 45 of 211 votes (21%): And yep, suddenly it’s third base fever, as we went 14 rounds without adding anyone from the hot corner before going back-to-back with Alexan...2025See also Prospect Vote injury report -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 15Birmingham Barons Tyler Schweitzer tops our Round 14 ballot. So, who is the 15th-best prospect in the White Sox system? For the third time this election cycle, a surprise, first-ballot prospect has won the Vote, this time Tyler Schweitzer stepping into the fray with a win, taking 41 of 203 votes (20%): This is the third time Schweitzer has been in our Prospect Vote; in 2023 he...2024See also Prospect Vote injury -
• Friday Rockpile: Rockies need a new vibe in 2025Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, December 20, 2024 In less than 100 days (98 to be exact), the Rockies will open the 2025 season. In about 50 days, pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training, and on Feb. 21, the Rockies will play their first Cactus League game against the Diamondbacks. While there’s always the joy and...2024Check it out Jill Weisleder injury update
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• A visitor’s guide to 2025 Arizona spring training
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• Woman umpire Jen Pawol will work some MLB Spring Training gamesJen Pawol during an Arizona Fall League game in October 2023 | Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos We might be getting close to seeing a woman umpire in the major leagues. Today, Major League Baseball announced the names of several umpires who will be working Spring Training games in Arizona and Florida along with the full-time MLB umpiring staff. Among those names was Jen Pawol, who has bee...2024Visit the page Spring Training -
• A visitor’s guide to 2024 Arizona spring trainingPhoto by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images Everything you need to know if you’re headed to the Valley of the Sun for baseball (and other entertainment!) this spring. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — 2024 will be my 35th spring training and as a veteran of going to spring games as well as other places in the Phoenix area, I thought I’d post some helpful hints for those of you venturing to the Valley of the S...2024Click for news about Ross Kinnaird -
• Cub Tracks’ Open Season
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. It’s here! Opening Day at Wrigley! Play Ball! Welcome to today’s edition 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 f...2023Continue with Cub Tracks
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• Major League Baseball’s 2023 early season schedule is a mess — and there will be repercussions
Outside the Wrigley Field bleachers on April 14, 2019, when the Cubs and Angels were snowed out | David Sameshima The Cubs are just one of several cold-weather city teams who have a bad early schedule, and this was totally avoidable. The photo above shows you the type of weather we often have in Chicago in April. Yes, snow, and it happens more frequently than anyone would want. That one’s ...2023Read about Wrigley Field
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• It's No Joke: The New-Look Cubs Are Ready to Win and Win Big in 2015
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"The average team in the Cactus League will have 21 games featuring the automated zone, with half of its 10 ballparks expected to feature the system." - 2024
"He appeared in seven games in the Cactus League where he allowed 12 hits and nine runs in just seven innings of work." - 2023
"Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs have been on a winning tear in the Cactus League." - 2022
"Rodriguez obliterated Cactus League…" - 2021
"Leaders of all eight Cactus League cities sent a letter to Major League Baseball saying it would be "wise" to delay the start of spring training due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections in Maricopa County." - 2020
"Canning felt something abnormal during yesterday’s Cactus League outing, per Maddon, who acknowledged some organizational concern…" - 2019
"With Cactus League play about a month away, beat reporter Ken Gurnick answers questions from Dodgers fans." - 2018
"All 30 MLB teams will wear Stoneman Douglas High School caps during their workout and pregame -- with an option to wear the school hats in-game -- before their Grapefruit League and Cactus League openers." - 2017
"A pair of three-run outbursts by the Dodgers, including Joc Pederson's fifth-inning homer, helped them overcome Jarrett Parker's four RBIs for San Francisco in Los Angeles' 7-6 Cactus League triumph Wednesday." - 2016
"Cy Young winners Jake Arrieta and Corey Kluber did not disappoint in their Cactus League matchup Wednesday, a 5-3 Indians victory over the Cubs." - 2015
"A's switch-pitcher Pat Venditte introduced himself to the Cactus League on Tuesday, recording two outs against the Giants -- one with each arm -- as fans, and even teammates, ooed and aahed."
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Cactus League trade rumors, contract, salary rumors
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• A visitor’s guide to 2025 Arizona spring training
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 23
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 18
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 15
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies need a new vibe in 2025
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Cactus League stats and results
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• The Cubs will have the fewest games with the ball and strike challenge system this spring
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 23
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 22
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 21
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 20
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 3, 2025Get it? Snow? White Christmas? I don’t have much to work with today. It was either this or a picture of J.T. Snow. | John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images I’m not taking down my Christmas decorations until at least January 6th. I’m not missing my chance to have Dave Grohl and/or zombie Neil Peart stuffed down my chimney Happy New Year, Everyone! Well, ev...2025Read about Greg Walker stats -
• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 15
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• A visitor’s guide to 2025 Arizona spring training
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• The Cubs will have the fewest games with the ball and strike challenge system this spring
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19
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• The postseason shirts of 2014 and 2015Bobby Witt is “October Ready” in 2024! | Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images These might all be in my closet (Ed note: I’ve been wanting to do this story for a while and just got around to it in August. It was suppose to be used as a future Friday Rumblings topic. However, as the Royals drew closer to the playoffs and I hadn’t run it yet, I asked around if it would make a good stand alon...2024Visit the page Bobby Witt -
• Friday Rockpile: A familiar face appears to be headed back to the Rockies leadoff spotPhoto by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, March 15, 2024 Opening Day is coming. In less than two weeks, the Rockies will open the 2024 season when they take on the Diamondbacks in Arizona on March 28. In what’s becoming a perennial quandary, the question once more arises: Who is the best option for leadoff hitter for the Colorado Rock...2024Click for news about Colorado Rockies -
• Dodgers 8, Cubs 5: Shōta’s debutMark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs’ new Japanese lefty looked good. The rest of the team... not so much. Shōta Imanaga made his Cubs debut Saturday and pitched as advertised. Despite allowing a three-run homer to Dodgers prospect Andy Pages, Imanage had command of all his pitches and struck out five. The Cubs, however, dropped the game to the Dodgers 6-5. The Cubs opened the scoring...2024See more articles Andy Pages
Top Cactus League news
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• Venditte shows off switch-pitching skills in spring opener
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• Where there's a Will: Ferrell's foul ball steals the show
Will Ferrell, making a 10-team tour through the Cactus League for charity on Thursday, arrived at the White Sox-Giants game via a helicopter that landed in center field and DH'd for Chicago in the ninth, fouling off a 92-mph fastball and generating a roar from the crowd, before striking out and being "traded" to San Francisco mid-inning....2015Read about Will Ferrell
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• Kluber, Arrieta sparkle in Tribe win
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• Actor Ferrell to play 9 positions in spring games
Comedian/actor Will Ferrell plans to play all nine positions during Cactus League games Thursday, according to a report by USA Today....2015Read about Will Ferrell
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• Bumgarner allows two runs in two innings vs. Padres
Wil Myers and Will Middlebrooks, two of San Diego's key offseason acquisitions, distinguished themselves offensively Saturday as the Padres held on for a 7-6 Cactus League victory over the Giants. San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner surrendered two runs, on Cory Spangenberg's second-inning single, and four hits in two innings...2015Check it out Wil Myers
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• Panik, Duffy lead Giants' big day on offense
Emerging from a spring hitting hiatus, Joe Panik went 3-for-3 and scored three runs Sunday to help the Giants defeat a Los Angeles Dodgers split squad, 11-9, in a Cactus League game....2015Read about Los Angeles Dodgers
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• Cubs get pop from Russell, fine 'D' from Ross
Addison Russell belted a two-run homer with two outs in the fourth inning Friday to lift the Cubs to a 3-0 victory over the Angels at Sloan Park in front of 15,446, which set a single-game Cactus League record....2016Read about Sloan Park
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• Cain turns in solid spring debut in draw with Dodgers
The first matchup of the Cactus League season between the Dodgers and Giants settled into a 5-5 tie and set the stage for what figures to be a wild battle between the National League West rivals this season....2015
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• Braves, MLB release spring training hats for 2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 23
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• Atlanta Braves 2025 Spring Training Schedule
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 22
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• 2024 Charlotte Knights Season PreviewUniversal No. 1 White Sox prospect Colson Montgomery will start 2024 with a promotion to Triple-A Charlotte, and a clear path to the majors. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at top-prospect shortstop Colson Montgomery and other major league hopefuls who start 2024 at the doorstep of The Show For a White Sox team that lost 101 games last season, at first glance it may seem li...2024Click for news about Charlotte Knights rumors -
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• South Side Sox Player of the Week (July 28-August 3): Jesse ScholtensMitch Ransdell/South Side Sox The late-blooming rookie helps the White Sox limp (crawl?) through the dog days of summer with a pair of solid starts Jesse Scholtens’ South Side debut last April didn’t generate much of a buzz, but his recent pitching starts certainly have. After the trade deadline left the White Sox rotation as hollow as Rick Hahn’s head, Scholtens got his chance to shine ...2023Visit the page Jesse Scholtens gossip -
• Cub Tracks’ repent, harlequin
Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. The future is second hand, observed minutely. Thanks to Unca Harlan, Lowell George, and Danny Rockett. Cubs win again! Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, a...2023Visit the page Cub Tracks gossip
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• MLB’s pitch clock has shortened Cubs spring games by about half an hour
Trey Mancini and the pitch clock | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images The clock’s doing its job and I couldn’t be happier. If you’ve been watching Cubs games and they seem faster, you’re not imagining it. The first 10 Cubs games this spring have averaged two hours, 33 minutes, and that’s nearly 30 minutes faster than the average of the first 10 Cubs spring games over the previous five seas...2023Click for news about Trey Mancini whispers
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Cubs Window Opening Right Before Our Eyes
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