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• Outside The Confines: What’s gone wrong in Toronto?

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The Mets have pitching issues. The Blue Jays have trouble with their first baseman. A look ahead to the next labor battle. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. The Mets have shut down left-hander Sean Manaea indefinitely with an oblique strain. Ben Clemens notes that it’s mid-February and the Mets already need more pitching with injuries to Manae...2025
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 2/20/25
The first spring training-adjacent Szym Chat for 2025!...2025
• 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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• BCB After Dark: Who needs Alex Bregman when you’ve got Matt Shaw?

Matt Shaw | Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Matt Shaw or Alex Bregman will be better this season. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. The companionship is warm in here. Let us take your coat for you. We still have a few ticket...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 10, 2025

Soon. Craig Brown considers the Royals adding Alex Bregman. Could the Royals be in on Bregman? If I believe the chatter coming from One Royal Way that the club was prepared to spend more this winter (which I do), it’s possible. Although it should be obvious at this point in the offseason that the Royals were looking to do shorter-term deals. Still, the Royals could certainly benefit from adding B...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: What’s gone wrong in Toronto?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 10, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Do you need a new ugly hat?

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Spring training lids are here! Well, spring training is around the corner, which means it’s time to have a look at new spring training caps! While many of them look remarkably similar to last year’s, they certainly look... not that great. The 2025 Spring Training hats(h/t @HatAddicts) pic.twitter.com/fd0gBhZBGY— Talkin’ Baseball...2025
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• Pre-preseason Royals roster predictions

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 and Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals celebrate | Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images Who will start the year on the 26-man roster? By the time you’re reading this, there is less than a fortnight before pitchers and catchers report to Surprise, Arizona to begin the Royals’ Spring Training. The Royals made a couple of really splashy moves at the beginning of the of...2025
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• Can The Royals (Mostly) Run It Back?

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The 2025 plan is very similar to the 2024. The success plan for the Kansas City Royals in 2024 was pretty simple. Have good starting pitchers every day, let Bobby, Salvy, and Vinnie power the offense, rebuild the bullpen, and hope everything else works out. The plan worked far better than any of us expected. The goal was not to be a laughingstock. By June, the goa...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Reynaldo Lopez

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images A remarkable year and one of the best stories of the season. Reynaldo Lopez, a starter turned reliever turned starter once again, signed with the Braves around this time a year ago with a lot of intrigue. The club said all the right things in the offseason and insisted that Lopez was going to get a chance to start in the spring, but many f...2024
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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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• ZiPS remains bullish on the Braves roster heading into 2025

Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It shouldn’t be surprising, but after 2024, it feels somewhat dissonant It’s not surprising that the recently-released 2025 ZiPS projections for the Atlanta Braves seem the roster as a star-studded baseball production machine... but we all just lived through the 2024 season, where things definitely didn’t play out that way, and are al...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: The big showdown in Philadelphia

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Benches empty in Philadelphia. The White Sox have been dealt a bad hand. The Mets are surging. And other news from around MLB. I don’t want to pick on the White Sox, but it’s mind-blowing to think that they could go on a 79-game winning streak and still be under .500. Of course, there aren’t 79 games left in the season, so it’s kind of a silly way of sa...2024
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• 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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"com/srp5Am1gyO— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) January 23, 2025 The Royals gained India (2."

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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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"com's Dan Szymborski isn't convinced that Reynolds is savvy signing for St."

• Outside The Confines: What’s gone wrong in Toronto?
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• BCB After Dark: Who needs Alex Bregman when you’ve got Matt Shaw?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 10, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Pitchers and catchers signal the start of baseball!
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for February 8, 2025

Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How will the outfield shake out? Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs writes that the Royals missed an opportunity to improve the outfield. We have position-specific data going back to 2002, so starting in that year, I looked at the positional WAR for every single team that made the playoffs. I omitted DH for NL teams during the non-DH seas...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 5, 2025

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images MLB.com’s Anne Rogers details how new addition Jonathan India shakes up the fielding look for Kansas City in 2025. “We have more what we would call everyday players right now with the addition of India than we did last year,” Picollo said. “So it’s going to take time to figure out all the positions. Which is different for us, because we’ve always valued th...2025
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• When, oh when, will the White Sox become competitive?

Pick a year, any year. With a chance for you to answer For the middle of winter, this has been a sort of busy week, what with SoxFest last weekend, FanGraphs posting the Steamer projections for 2025 and Keith Law coming through with his prospect rankings. So, even though this isn’t a usual spot for your input and there may not be much response, let’s give you a chance at a couple of predic...2025
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• Pre-preseason Royals roster predictions
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• Dan Szymborski’s ZIPS projections have Royals firmly in contention in the division

Photo by Daily Post Wales/Mirrorpix via Getty Images Szymborski, Szymborski, Szymborski! The Royals had a surprisingly good year last year, and the projection systems do not expect a major regression as the team is currently constructed. Dan Szymborski of Fangraphs has his annual ZIPS projections out for the Royals, and it reflects much of what the fanbase has already determined - a supers...2025
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• Outside The Confines: Pitchers and catchers signal the start of baseball!
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for February 8, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Do you need a new ugly hat?
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• When, oh when, will the White Sox become competitive?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 24, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Your new Hall of Fame inductees

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images I just want to talk to that one voter who left Ichiro off their ballot... Well, the long-anticipated time arrived last night as the newest class of MLB Hall of Famers was announced. Ichiro Suzuki was one vote shy of being a unanimous inductee, and I think perhaps anonymous ballots shouldn’t be allowed because I just want to have a quick chat with the pe...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Reynaldo Lopez
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• Cub Tracks’ the other shoe

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Today’s anthology of #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Identify the footwear for BCB points. Sammy, Tucker, all of that and more. 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, an...2024
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• Braves look to fortify their roster with MLB’s Winter Meetings starting very soon
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• BCB After Dark: Who needs Alex Bregman when you’ve got Matt Shaw?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 24, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Your new Hall of Fame inductees
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Juan Soto signs a record deal with the Amazin’s. Willy Adames goes to the Giants. Other free agent signings and a preview of the Winter Meetings. Good morning. Late-breaking news last night. And it’s beginning to look a lot like the Winter Meetings. Last night, free agent outfielder Juan Soto agreed to a record 15-year, $765 million deal. There is no def...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: Here comes the Judge

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Danny Jansen plays for both teams. Aaron Judge is really good. Juan Soto is getting paid. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. The Cubs are playing a morning game, so I guess that makes it a good morning. On the other hand, it’s Paul Skenes versus Kyle Hendricks, so. . . . As expected, Danny Jansen made history by being the first major leaguer t...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Joey Votto calls it quits

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The most interesting man in baseball retires. The Mariners fire their manager. A look ahead to the stretch run and other news from around MLB. Good morning. Driving to the stadium right now. My Uber driver asked, "Are you a player?" I said, "No."— Joey Votto (@JoeyVotto) August 22, 2024 Longtime Reds first baseman Joey Votto an...2024
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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?
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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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• Outside The Confines: What’s gone wrong in Toronto?
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• Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 2/20/25
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 10, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Do you need a new ugly hat?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 5, 2025
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• When, oh when, will the White Sox become competitive?
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• Pre-preseason Royals roster predictions
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• Can The Royals (Mostly) Run It Back?
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• Outside The Confines: Pitchers and catchers signal the start of baseball!
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• Braves look to fortify their roster with MLB’s Winter Meetings starting very soon
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• Outside The Confines: Making a splash
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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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• Outside The Confines: Bench ‘em
Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images A new practice of benching bad behavior is picking up steam. “Benching” baseball players isn’t a new practice, but it seems to be gaining popularity this season, as we’re seeing managers bench their players for a number of largely behavioral reasons. No hustle on the basepaths? Get benched. Boneheaded lack of attention paid during the game? Get...2023
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