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• Will the Atlanta Braves reach .500 again this year?

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images I mean probably not, but... Yesterday’s loss marked a funny (not haha-funny) turning point. For the first time since July 28, 2021, the Braves are not projected to finish a season above .500. It’s not surprising, it’s just kind of stark, driven by both the actual record right now, and the fact that Spencer Schwellenbach’s injur...2025
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 7/3/25
What better way to celebrate America Eve than by talking to a doughy baseball writer about the math he uses to destroy the national pastime and possibly freedom?...2025
• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 6/26/25
Szym is back from vacation, a year older and more terrible....2025
• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?

Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images The Rockies and White Sox get all the attention for tanking their seasons... Happy Wednesday, BCB readers! Lots of little goodies for you in today’s news. A three-time All-Star has announced his retirement, the O’s appear to have given up the ghost for the season, plenty of trade deadline chatter, and how Chris Sale’s latest injury might impact the Braves. Ple...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Javier Báez is El Mago again. A Brewers rookie has an impressive debut. A look ahead to the trade deadline and the draft. And other baseball news. Let’s go surfing now. Everybody’s learning how. Come on and safari with me. I’m leading with this one because it’s the one that will bring the most joy to your heart. Jesse Rogers tells of how the Tigers’ Javier ...2025
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 6/12/25
The final chat for Dan until his age is denoted by the distressingly high number of 47....2025

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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?
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• Outside The Confines: New White Sox ownership. Eventually.

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It’s been a long time coming, but it’ll be still be a long time happening. Happy Friday, everyone. The big news around baseball right now is that the White Sox might finally be seeing a change in ownership, but it won’t be happening any time soon. The plan will see billionaire Justin Ishbia take a controlling stake in the Sox by... 2029. So while hope ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome

Photo by Ali Overstreet/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look ahead to the trade deadline. The Royals call up their top prospect. The Red Sox may be selling. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Cubs are on pace to win 102 games this season and have the best record in the National League. The Rockies have won two in a row and clinched their first series win since last Sept...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Aaron Judge continues to amaze. So do the Colorado Rockies, but in a different way. A look ahead to the draft. And a legend returns to the White Sox. Good morning. Louisa Thomas has an interesting piece in The New Yorker that is about the Mets, but it’s something that a lot of Cubs fans could relate to ten years ago. Thomas looks ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Tyler Glasnow will join Blake Snell on the IL. Happy Wednesday everyone, we’re halfway through the week, and wrapping up the first full month of baseball play. For the Dodgers, it hasn’t been a great month at all. Despite all their efforts to stockpile the best players in baseball over the offseason, they are struggling to maintain a hold on first in the NL...2025
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Over the weekend, the baseball discourse took a strange turn. Here’s a sample from Ken Rosenthal on Monday: The Orioles’ 10-17 record is the third-worst in the majors, ahead of only the Chicago White Sox (7-21) and Colorado Rockies (4-23). Their 5.83 rotation ERA is also the third-worst, ahead ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: One month down

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images A look at the successes and failures over the first month of the season. The Pirates are an utter failure starting at the top. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Alex Kirschner writes about the toxic rot from the ownership of the Pittsburgh Pirates and how it has poisoned the relationship between the fans and the team. Also, the team is wasting a gener...2025
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• So, when are the Braves going to announce that the start of this season was an April Fool’s joke?

Photo by Casey Sykes/Getty Images Are we talking at some point today, or tomorrow? I think about the 2018 season a lot. I don’t know that anyone else does, it’s probably just me. With the horrible start the Braves have had, more than a few people have mentioned that the travails of the franchise in 2024, and to start this season, were maybe some kind of karmic recompense for the successful...2025
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 6/26/25
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 4/24/25
Szym is back from vacation and has lots of "April" replies stockpiled....2025
• Royals Rumblings - News for January 24, 2025

Slugerrr shreddin’ it! | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images These are hard to come up with at this point in the offseason Orientation continues for first year players: Words of wisdom from our big league skipper, Matt Quatraro. #RaisingRoyals x pic.twitter.com/WBOK8ZaWuU— Raising Royals (@KCRoyalsPD) January 23, 2025 Dan Szymborski (Szymborski! Szymborski!) pos...2025
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 2/29/24
Szym is back from vacation on the freakiest day on the calendar....2024
• Outside The Confines: Is the MLBPA going to stand up for MiLB?
Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Seems like some interesting changes might be coming. In some late-breaking Sunday news that we will most certainly be hearing a lot more about in the coming week, it appears that a vote is on the way to see how Minor League players feel about having the MLPBA act as their collective bargaining representative. BREAKING: Minor Leaguer...2022
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 4/28/22
Unfortunately for readers, Szym is back from vacation....2022
• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 8/26/21
Szym is back from vacation and answering baseball and other nonsense questions....2021

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"That’s a quote from an article by Dan Szymborski, creator of ZiPS, one of the best forecast tools in the sport."

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"That said, Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projection for the Cubs also dropped over the weekend at FanGraphs and as has been the case in recent years the NL Central looks like a tightly-bunched batch of clubs who all look likely to post 82-88 wins."

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"It would be lovely if either one of these pitchers had a breakout, but as this article from Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs seems to indicate, it's not a likely scenario!"

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"Earlier this year Dan Szymborski shared the ZiPS pre-2020 Bellinger projection through 2029 in this piece at FanGraphs: Dan Szymborski | FanGraphs Bellinger pre-2020 ZiPS projection If you tally all those columns and add in the WAR Bellinger had already put up through 2019, that puts him at a career WAR of 69."

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"After having typically appeared in the hallowed pages of Baseball Think Factory, Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections have now been released at FanGraphs for a decade."

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"com's Dan Szymborski noted: So there's the glass-half-full take: The Padres inked a special player who appears to be coming into his own for a relative bargain."

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"com's Dan Szymborski ranked Correa's contract as the most team-friendly in baseball: The truly scary thing for the rest of the league is that, given his age and how quickly he advanced through the minors, he could actually improve."

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" Gomes numbers do not jump off the page, but Dan Szymborski of ESPN pointed to the upside from Kansas City’s perspective: Gomes is still a veteran presence in the locker room with postseason appearances on his resume."

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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome
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• Setting expectations for Jac Caglianone

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The Royals need power, and Jac has that, but what else can he offer? Jac Caglianone has officially been added to the Royals’ MLB roster, and there is every reason to expect he will start, perhaps in right field, in Tuesday’s series opener in St. Louis. Reactions to this news have ranged from pure joy that the savior has arrived to sheer terror that the Royals...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Boys keep swinging

Brad Penner-Imagn Images New concerns about the ABS system as MLB unveils a check-swing system. The Boone brothers reunite. A look back at how a volcano affected baseball and other baseball news Good morning. If the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS, aka “robot umps”) is adopted in 2026, players and umpires have concerns about the margin of error on the system (The Athletic sub. req.) and...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball

Photo by Brett Davis/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, May 7, 2025 If Gus Lobel, Clint Eastwood’s character in the 2012 film Trouble with the Curve, were to examine the Colorado Rockies, he would likely note their struggles with the breaking ball. However, upon further look, he would discover that the Rockies are also struggling against the fastball, thus settin...2025
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• Outside The Confines: One month down
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions

Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Lots of players got contract extensions. More on the torpedo bat. The Dodgers are hot and the Braves are not. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. We’re leading off with a whole mess of contact extensions today and none of them are Kyle Tucker. First off, Red Sox lefty Garrett Crochet agreed to a six-year, $170 million contract. extension. Dan Szymborski...2025
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The season is about to start, so there are predictions. Some players get traded. Others get cut. A look back at Freddie Freeman’s dramatic World Series home run and other news from MLB. Good morning. Last day without baseball for a while, no? On the eve of (domestic) Opening Day, ESPN dot com previews all 30 teams and ranks them into tiers. Tom Verduc...2025
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• Setting expectations for Jac Caglianone
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• Outside The Confines: Boys keep swinging
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2301: Organing Day

Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs writer Dan Szymborski banter about how much spring training stats matter, which players improved their projections the most this spring, whether prospects really have a harder time making the transition to MLB from Triple-A today, their spring training award winners, the five-ish biggest questions/storylines for each of them this MLB season, […]...2025
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day
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• Outside The Confines: The Guardians aren’t afraid to commit

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images They’ve locked down Tanner Bibee. Hello BCB friends, I’m pleased to report that this is the last Monday before we will have regular season baseball again! Over the weekend came some tragic news, as Yankees’ star Brett Gardner’s young son Miller passed away unexpectedly. In baseball itself, several players are starting the season on the IL, a few teams a...2025
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The face of the franchise will become the face of free agency this fall. Happy Wednesday BCB friends! We have some interesting stories ahead for you today, chief among them being that one of baseball’s biggest extensions isn’t happening. The Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr failed to come to an agreement on extension terms. As a result, Vlad Jr,...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: A Tiger on the prowl
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome
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• Setting expectations for Jac Caglianone
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• Outside The Confines: An emotional weekend for Elly De La Cruz

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Reds’ star lost his sister, but played on to honor her. We have seen many players take breaks from the game when they lose loved ones. But this weekend, Reds’ star Elly De La Cruz learned about the death of his sister on Saturday. On Sunday, he insisted on taking to the field, and honored her memory the best way he knew how: playing his heart out. T...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Boys keep swinging
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low
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• Outside The Confines: One month down
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day
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• Outside The Confines: The Guardians aren’t afraid to commit
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• Jonny Gomes to Royals: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Aramis Ramirez to Pirates: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• It's starting to feel like 2020 again for the Atlanta Braves
Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In 2020, the Braves leaned on their offense and their bullpen to carry them to the playoffs. They'll be doing it again for maybe the next couple of months. Do y’all remember the 2020 season? I know that season had a depressing ending in the massive shed in Arlington, Texas that’s masquerading as a baseball stadium, but it was still good...2023
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• Ron Roenicke Fired by Brewers: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Preseason projections have Braves in the cream of MLB’s crop
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves, on paper, are squarely within the uppermost echelon of rosters as we head towards Spring Training 2023 It’s an annual occurrence these days: Dan Szymborski finishes rolling out the team-by-team ZiPS projections on Fangraphs, those projections get added to the player pages, and then they get integrated into the “Depth Charts” t...2023
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• Mets vs. Dodgers: Game 2 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2015 MLB Playoffs
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• Looking at projections for the 2024 Chicago Cubs

Jed Hoyer introduces Shōta Imanaga in January | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images This team seems incomplete at the moment. Every offseason I wait until the Cubs look like a quasi-finished project before writing up my thoughts on the new team. This year I waited longer than usual. Cubs Convention came and went. January turned into February. The ZiPS projections were released, so wa...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Should the Colorado Rockies sign Joc Pederson?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Clearly, we’re at a slow time in the MLB offseason, a fact true for most teams, but especially the Colorado Rockies, who have done very little, save sign a couple of MiLB contracts and make a low-profile trade. Indeed, Kris Bryant’s Lamborghini has gotten more attention than the offseason C...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No Rays of sunshine

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Things are going wrong fast for the Rays. Also the Angels, who bet big on one last year with Shohei Ohtani. And other news from around MLB Just a few months ago, the Tampa Bay Rays were the biggest story in the game for the best start to a season since the 1984 Tigers. Now, they’re the biggest story in the game for not-as-pleasant reasons. The Tampa Bay Ray...2023
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• Fantasy players are bullish on Bobby Witt
Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Hopefully the fantasy crowd is right! In my 20s I played a lot of fantasy baseball, but kids and work eventually made that time commitment harder to manage. Still, every January and February as the impatience for baseball starts to grow, I tend to start looking at some fantasy stuff just to pass the time. The Royals faces you expect to see are all there...2023
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• Will the Atlanta Braves reach .500 again this year?
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome
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• Setting expectations for Jac Caglianone
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• Outside The Confines: Rivals Weekend begins

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images But are any of these teams real rivals? TGIF, friends and thanks for another great week of baseball! As we head into the weekend’s “Rivalry Series,” a deeply silly spectacle, I’m curious (and you can take to the comments to sound off), who you think the Cubs’ actual main rival is, or if you agree with the geographical choice of the Wh...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?
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• Outside The Confines: One month down
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• Outside The Confines: The Guardians aren’t afraid to commit
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• Braves look to fortify their roster with MLB’s Winter Meetings starting very soon

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The Winter Meetings are finally upon us and we could see Alex Anthopoulos and Atlanta’s front office making some big moves over in Dallas This Sunday marks the beginning of the annual Winter Meetings for Major League Baseball. The four-day long gathering of front office members, agents and some players is a major event that takes place each offseason and...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Should the Colorado Rockies sign Joc Pederson?
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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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• Outside The Confines: One month down

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images At the end of baseball’s first month, things are starting to take shape. It seems impossible that a full month of baseball has passed us by. It feels like only yesterday we were celebrating Opening Day, and now we’re getting to a point where it might be time to stop saying “small sample size” as an excuse. The Dodgers aren’t a shocker as the NL West le...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: The Twins and Mariners make a trade

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Orioles are being sold. Justin Turner heads north of the border. More trouble in Las Vegas. And other news from around baseball. The College Baseball season starts in 16 days. The Mariners and Twins made a reasonably major trade as Minnesota shipped second baseman Jorge Polanco to Seattle for right-handed reliever Justin Topa, right-handed starter Anth...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger
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• Cub Tracks ‘ how tweet it is

Shota Imanaga — lots to like so far. | Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. The Cubs’ new pitcher is already popular. The Cubs Convention is ON. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, groun...2024
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