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• Outside The Confines: Tigers on the prowl

Photo by Allan Dranberg/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Rockies are the worst team in baseball, maybe ever. The Tigers have the best record in baseball. A look ahead to the trade deadline and draft. And other MLB news. Good morning. Russell Dorsey explains why the Rockies situation this year is much worse than last season’s White Sox, and how things are kind of looking up for the So...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Leadoff hitters are pivotal for Rockies wins

Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, May 30, 2025 With only nine wins on the season for the Colorado Rockies, it doesn’t take very long to go back and look at the key stats for each victory. In trying to find a common denominator, there weren’t a lot of similarities that were apparent in each win, except the success at the top of the lineup. The leadoff h...2025
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• Outside The Confines: First to 20!

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Oh course Shohei Ohtani is among the best yet again. Happy Wednesday, everyone! This week, Shohei Ohtani became the first player to 20 home runs, and we’re only 1⁄3 of the way through the season. Too soon to start crossing our fingers for a 60 home run season? Never! We also have more news bites, looking at a baseball book club; how the Nationals continu...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Record Royals

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The Royals/Orioles game was a big hit, and made MLB history Happy Monday, everyone! It’s a fine day to be a Cubs fan as they edge closer to the Mets, and things are just looking excellent. The news over the weekend was light, but there were some interesting history-making moments. The Royals set a franchise record for solo home runs in a single game, whi...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Damn the torpedoes

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images The Yankees new bat is causing a stir. There are two new stadiums this year. Willson Contreras eats tape. We remember whom we’ve lost and other news from baseball. I don’t know whether I’m paying tribute to David Farragut or Tom Petty. The Yankees hit nine home runs against the Brewers on Saturday and many were quick to credit/blame New York’s new “torpedo...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The sights of Opening Day

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images We missed you, baseball, welcome back! After a long, cold winter, an opening series on the other side of the world, and a ton of very intriguing free agency signings and trades, the 2025 baseball season is officially underway. There was plenty of action to keep an eye on for Opening Day, but as is usual with the start of the season, there was also a lot of ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Down goes Cole

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Yankees ace needs Tommy John surgery. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will miss the entire 2025 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Max Fried says he’s “ready to step up” in Cole’s absence. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said the team needs to add pitching, but “very little is available.” Bus...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the ABS sticking around?

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Will we see an electronic strike zone this regular season? As we continue to see the ABS system get tested in Spring Training, and with it we have seen some pitchers share how unimpressed they are, while some batters have felt vindicated, and as a surprising side reveal, we’ve learned that a lot of players have been lying about their height. But one thi...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Justin Verlander is a Giant

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images The remaining free agents are starting to move. With just over a month left until pitchers and catchers report, we now know where one specific pitcher will be reporting in February, and that’s Justin Verlander. The three-time Cy Young winner who most recently played with the Houston Astros and has battled injury for the last several seasons, will now be he...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Could the Blue Jays be serious about Juan Soto?

Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images The Canadian club was also in the discussion about Shohei Ohtani last year, could they be ready to spend? Happy Monday, BCB friends! Not a load of preamble today, but plenty of links to jump into. Today we’ll be looking at whether to not the Blue Jays could be a sleeper contender for Juan Soto; why the Dodgers aren’t a sure thing for netting Roki...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend

Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela passes away. A World Series preview and other MLB news. We were all set to celebrate the World Series and the first Yankees/Dodgers Fall Classic since 1981. But first, we have to say goodbye to one of the heroes of that World Series of 43 years ago. The Los Angeles Dodgers mourn the passing of legendary pitcher Fern...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani had one heck of a weekend

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Grand slams, records made, hard hits, and first pitches. We all know Shohei Ohtani is a generational talent, and probably one of the best baseball players of all time, but he had an incredible weekend that helped prove it. First, he was the fastest player to reach the 40/40 club, he reached the milestone in 126 games, something none of the other five p...2024
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• Outside The Confines: 300 for Judge

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images One of many more milestones to come. On Wednesday, Aaron Judge got his 300th home run, and managed to get a little shade from the White Sox right beforehand. Judge’s big bomb came right after Juan Soto was intentionally walked. Judge became the player to achieve the 300 home run milestone the fastest, which has many people wondering if this is just the b...2024
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"Chad Jennings and Cody Stavenhagen explain how Instagram changed the fate of the A’s new Japanese pitcher, Shotari Morii."

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"With an introduction by Chad Jennings, an Athletic staff writer who is also currently the president of the BWAA, this is what baseball needs more of."

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"” Chad Jennings (The Athletic {$}): For MLB broadcasters, pitch clocks mean adjusting to a whole new ballgame."

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"Chad Jennings of The Athletic tweets that Zack Kelly…"

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"The Athletic’s Chad Jennings (Twitter links) reports that the fourth overall pick will sign for a bonus of the assigned slot price of $6,664,000."

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"In a story he wrote about the confusion brought about this week by cancellations and postponements due to the coronavirus, Chad Jennings of The Athletic revealed that one Boston Red Sox player said Wednesday he believes the coronavirus outbreak is a hoax."

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"Free agent utilityman Eduardo Nunez “hasn’t lost contact with the Red Sox,” Chad Jennings of the Boston Herald writes."

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"The Red Sox are set to add Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa to their organization, according to a report from Chad Jennings and Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald."

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"Nick Swisher is working out at the Yankees’ minor-league complex, and the team will likely sign him to a minor-league deal, Chad Jennings of LoHud."

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"I can’t project availability," said Cashman, per Chad Jennings of LoHud Yankees Blog."

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"The Cardinals have signed 27-year-old infielder Dean Anna to a Major League contract, reports Chad Jennings of LoHud."

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• Outside The Confines: College baseball begins

Jace LaViolette | Dylan Widger-Imagn Images The college baseball season started this weekend. Storylines from Spring Training. Who might yet be traded? Plus other baseball news. Good morning. We had real baseball over the weekend, albeit the kind with aluminum bats. Jacob Rudner has 12 takeaways from NCAA baseball’s opening weekend. Rudner also has 18 college pitchers who stood out this...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Pitchers and catchers signal the start of baseball!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Wooo, winter is over! Hello and happy Monday, BCB friends! Baseball is officially here! At least if you count pitcher and catcher reporting as the first day of baseball season, because the Cubs reported for duty earliest, coming to camp yesterday. The rest of the teams will be reporting between the 11th and 13th, with the bulk of teams report...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The voice of the Brewers is silent

Photo by Jeffrey Phelps/MLB Photos via Getty Images A true baseball legend, Bob Uecker has passed away. It seems to be a great truth of baseball that some of the least inspiring players become powerhouses in some other capacity, either in the dugout, or, in the case of Bob Uecker, behind a microphone, as the voice of the Brewers. Uecker, later lovingly called “Mr. Baseball” had the kind ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: In a club of one

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani is constantly making history. Happy Monday, friends (and happy birthday to me!). Hope your weekends were lovely and you’re ready to jump into some news updates. Over the weekend, Shohei Ohtani joined the unique tier of players as the only person to join the 46-46 club (and seems poised to potentially hit the 50-50 club). In other news, some big...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Rays have passed one of the most difficult hurdles to securing their new stadium Baseball isn’t leaving St. Petersburg, FL any time soon, thanks to a major hurdle the Rays cleared today. The City council voted in favor of the Rays stadium deal, meaning the team has found its home for the next thirty years. Specifically, the vote was to ...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: The importance of Latin American origins in Colorado starting pitching

Photo by Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, June 7. 2024 As if fielding a competitive and consistent rotation wasn’t hard enough, the troubling trend of increased injuries and surgeries has made the task even more challenging for MLB teams. Then there are the Rockies — the only team trying to piece together a quality pi...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies should look to Rays as pitchers need a reset to rebound

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, March 8, 2023 As hard as 2023 was on Rockies fans, it had to be brutal for the players. Coming in with the Major League worst 5.67 ERA, the pitchers especially had to feel the pain of each and every loss. One hundred and three times. At Rockies Fest in January, Austin Gomber, who went 9-9 in 27 starts and ...2024
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• MLB’s pitch timer has had some unintended consequences — for team broadcasters
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The faster pace of play means changes for the on-air product. Last week, I noted here that the new pitch timer had increased the pace of play in spring games thus far to the point where Cubs spring games were almost half an hour faster than they were at similar points over the previous five spring seasons. This has continued over the last week. Several Cub...2023
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• Could the Cubs trade Nick Madrigal?
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images A couple of teams with “Sox” in their names could use a second baseman. As you know, Nick Madrigal had an injury-filled 2022 season with the Cubs that resulted in him playing just 59 games and batting .249/.305/.282 (52-for-209) with seven extra-base hits, all doubles. This, obviously, wasn’t what anyone would have wanted from Madrigal, who was the first-...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog

Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Apollo Fried not pictured, but that’s still a good dog.) Happy Friday friends! As predicted earlier this week the news stories are slowing down (somehow this is the last Friday before Christmas? How did that happen?!) Max Kepler has left the Twins on a one-year deal; a few potential Hall of Famers have a case made for them; Bobby Witt Jr. lov...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Oakland A’s are in their final days. The White Sox avoid history for one more day. The Reds fire their manager. And other news around MLB. The White Sox won last night, thanks in large part to the Angels dropping an easy infield fly in the bottom of the eighth. So the White Sox breaking the record of the 1962 Mets will have to wait until another day, and...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Making a splash

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The first-ever splash hit by a right-hander in San Francisco. MLB sells out even more. A look ahead to the playoff races and other news from around baseball. Good morning. My wife says the one overriding principle of modern ballpark design is to have something interesting to hit home runs in. I can’t argue with that. This is kind o...2024
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• Red Sox To Designate Hirokazu Sawamura For Assignment, Select Zack Kelly
The Red Sox are evidently taking multiple steps to shake up their bullpen, with right-hander Hirokazu Sawamura designated for assignment, according to Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe. That’s the second such move of the night, as lefty Austin Davis is reportedly being designated as well. Chad Jennings of The Athletic tweets that Zack Kelly…...2022
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• Yankees To Sign Nick Swisher To Minor-League Deal
Nick Swisher is working out at the Yankees’ minor-league complex, and the team will likely sign him to a minor-league deal, Chad Jennings of LoHud.com tweets. Swisher will receive a June 15 opt-out if he isn’t in the Majors by then, according to Mark Feinsand of the Daily News (On Twitter). Swisher is a client…...2016
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• Red Sox To Designate Austin Davis For Assignment
The Red Sox are going to designate left-hander Austin Davis for assignment before Monday’s game against the Twins, according to Chad Jennings of The Athletic. More to come....2022
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• Tony La Russa To Join Red Sox Organization
The Red Sox are set to add Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa to their organization, according to a report from Chad Jennings and Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald. La Russa just wrapped up a stint with the Diamondbacks, which he began as “chief baseball officer” and ended as “chief baseball analyst” after…...2017
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• Cardinals Sign Dean Anna To Major League Deal
The Cardinals have signed 27-year-old infielder Dean Anna to a Major League contract, reports Chad Jennings of LoHud.com (via Twitter). Anna made his big league debut in 2014 with the Yankees, appearing in 12 games and totaling 25 plate appearances. … ...2014
• Brad Ausmus Interviews With Red Sox, Is Not Interested In Mets
Since losing his job as the Tigers skipper a few weeks back, Brad Ausmus has drawn quite a lot of interest from other organizations looking to replace outgoing managers. Ausmus interviewed today with the Red Sox, per Chad Jennings of the Boston Herald (via Twitter), but has pulled out of the running for the Mets’ job,…...2017
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• Cub Tracks’ it’s all too much
David Bote has a surprise in Surprise. | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Impending roster Jenga and other drama highlights 2023 Spring Training. 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, over...2023
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• Red Sox, Rob Refsnyder Avoid Arbitration
The Red Sox have avoided arbitration with outfielder Rob Refsnyder by agreeing to a one-year deal, according to Chad Jennings of The Athletic. Refsnyder will earn a salary of $1.2MM in 2023, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive, and will be able to earn an extra $100K in performance bonuses, per Alex Speier of the Boston Globe.…...2022
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• Outside The Confines: The White Sox tie an unwelcome record

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images They are on their way to the most losses in modern baseball history. We all know the White Sox are having a bad season, but now we officially know they’re one of the worst teams in modern baseball history. On Sunday night they lost to the Padres, and that loss saw them tie the 1962 New York Mets at 120 losses ($). And there’s still a week of baseball left....2024
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• Outside The Confines: Somebody call a doctor

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Two major injuries hit the Dodgers over the weekend. Another week, another gambling scandal. Snoop Dogg starts broadcasting. And other news from MLB. Good morning. We’re going to start with the butcher’s bill, because it’s really expensive today. Especially for the Dodgers. Shortstop Mookie Betts broke his left hand when he was hit with a pitch in Sunday’...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The iconic radio voice of the team announced his sudden departure this week. On Monday, with no preamble, the Yankees announced that their long-time radio play-by-play announcer John Sterling was calling it a career, and his last game in the booth was behind him. The 85-year-old called 5,420 regular season games over his long career. Sterling cited the s...2024
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• Outside The Confines: I had that in my back pocket

Andrew Dieb-USA TODAY Sports The Astros tie up the ALCS with the Rangers thanks, in part, to a batting glove. The D-Backs make a series out of it. And other news from MLB and the playoffs. So we actually have two good series now that the Astros have gone into Arlington and tied up the series with two wins on the road. Also, the Diamondbacks got one in the win column with a win at home and...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Racing to the playoffs
Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cardinals and Yankees clinched division titles. A look ahead to the playoffs. And other news from around baseball. Looks like no one wants to pitch to Aaron Judge. The Cardinals clinched the NL Central title last night. John Denton has an FAQ about the Cards and the playoffs. And the Yankees clinched the AL East and Bryan ...2022
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• Red Sox player reportedly said he believes coronavirus is a hoax
There are plenty of people who feel the media has created unnecessary panic with some of its coverage regarding the coronavirus outbreak, but is there really anyone who refuses to believe the virus is a real thing? As of Wednesday, there was apparently at least one professional athlete who did not believe in it. In a story he wrote about the confusion brought about this week by cancellations and ...2020
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