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• This Day in Braves History: Brian Snitker is named N.L. Manager of the Year

Braves Franchise History 1995 - Greg Maddux wins his fourth straight Cy Young Award after going 19-2 with a 1.63 ERA. 2018 - Brian Snitker wins the Manager of the Year award in the National League after guiding Atlanta back to the playoffs. Oakland’s Bob Melvin wins the award in the American League. MLB History 1899 - The National League announces that starting in 1900, there will be two umpires...2024
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• This day in Braves History: Sam Jethroe becomes oldest player to win Rookie of the Year Award

Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images The first Black player in Braves history wins Rookie of the Year honors at the age of 31 Braves Franchise History 1950: Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves is named as Rookie of the Year for the National League. Jethroe, at 31 years of age, is the oldest rookie to win the award. MLB History 1925: The Brooklyn Robins claim Rabbit Mara...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: David Justice wins the N.L. Rookie of the Year award

Set Number: X41425 Braves Franchise History 1945 - The Boston Braves sign Billy Southworth to a three-year contract. Eddie Dyer will replace Southworth in St. Louis. 1990 - David Justice wins the Rookie of the Year Award for the National League. Justice hit .282 with 28 home runs and replaced outfielder Dale Murphy in right field in August. 2007 - Greg Maddux wins his 17th Gold Glove set...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker earns big league opportunity...

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker making his MLB debut… “Obviously you’ve got bloodlines there,” former Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting and current West Coast Crosschecker Mark Baca told reporters after the Nationals drafted Darren Baker, son of former Washington manager Dusty Baker, for the second time (2017/2021). “He’s a really good player. Intelligent. You watch him play on the field, so...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins 2020 NL Gold Glove Award

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The first of many for the lefty hurler Braves Franchise History 1928: Voters in Massachusetts approve Sunday baseball in Boston, provided that Braves Field is more than 1,000 feet from a church. This leaves Pennsylvania as the only state with no Sunday baseball in the major leagues. 1960: Warren Spahn finishes second in Cy Youn...2024
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• This day in Braves History: Steve Avery tosses 6 great innings in Game 4 of 1995 World Series

Set Number: X49459 Atlanta inches closer to their first World Series title in the South. Braves Franchise History 1995: Atlanta Braves pitcher Steve Avery throws six innings of three-hit baseball and reliever Pedro Borbón, Jr. comes out of the bullpen for his first appearance in 19 days to save a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 4 of the World Series. Set Num...2024
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• This day in Braves History: Eddie Rosario continues his incredible 2021 NLCS

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1991: The Minnesota Twins take a 2-0 lead in the World Series with a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves. The decisive blow is a leadoff home run in the eighth inning by rookie Scott Leius. Chili Davis also homered for Minnesota. 1992: The Toronto Blue Jays take the World Series lead with a 3 - 2 win over the Atlanta Braves on ...2024
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• Houston Texans News: Stroud ‘Thrilled’ to Make Lambeau Debut

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Thursday, October 17, 2024. Houston Texans News Texans’ CJ Stroud thrilled to make his Lambeau Field debut Sunday (Chron.com) Ball security will be at a premium for Texans as opportunistic Packers await (Houston Chronicle) Packers-Texans Matchups: Who Has the Advantage? (Hou...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ uphill both ways

Photo by Dustin Bradford/MLB Photos via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Well, they’re keeping things interesting. The Cubs are going to have to meatloaf the next two games to remain in the chase. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, g...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ meatloaf still on the table

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. End of one streak, start of another. 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...2024
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The Cubs just completed their best road trip in many years. You did not expect an 8-1 Cubs road trip. None of us did. And yet, the Cubs, playing their best baseball of the year, did it at exactly the time they needed to, completing a three-game sweep of the Nationals with a convincing 14-1 win. It’s their sixth win in a row, a season high. They’ve also w...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 86

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs drop the series opener to the Phillies, 6-4. While the Cubs and baseball have always been my first love, I’ve rotated through the Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks as each spent time as the best in its sports. Growing up in the Mike Ditka era, I join so many Chicago sports fans with an appreciation of “fire.” At times, a good temper tantrum get elev...2024
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• Remembering Orlando Cepeda

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Last stop with the Royals This story originally ran July 25, 2022, and has been edited for content. After the advent of the designated hitter rule in 1973, American League clubs had to develop a plan as to who their DH would be. Some teams had an in-house option, such as Gates Brown with the Tigers or Tony Oliva with the Twins. Other teams went...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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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas

Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images The defending champion Rangers and the relentless Astros dominate the division’s focus, but keep an eye on Seattle. The 2023 American League season came down to a Lone Star State Showdown in the Championship Series. Amazingly, the Houston Astros were back in the LCS for the seventh year in a row, one shy of the record held by the ‘90s Atlanta ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It might as well be Spring (Training)

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The Red Sox lock up a young pitcher. There are still a lot of unsigned free agents. The Dodgers and Padres are heading to Korea. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Red Sox have agreed to a six-year, $55 million contract extension with right-hander Brayan Bello. There is a team option for a seventh year at $21 milli...2024
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• Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
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2024
"Dusty Baker, who retired from the Houston Astros after last season, will return to San Francisco as special adviser to baseball operations, the Giants announced Thursday."

2023
"Dusty Baker announces retirement after 26 years as manager: 'Baseball has been my life'"

2022
"Astros' Dusty Baker says the 2022 World Series having zero U.S.-born Black players 'looks bad' for baseball"

2021
"But as one of Dusty Baker's former players, I know there's so much to love about its manager."

2020
"The Astros have decided to hire Dusty Baker to become their next manager, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today."

2018
"The Giants are expected to bring back former manager Dusty Baker as a special advisor to CEO Larry Baer, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today."

2017
"Dusty Baker will not return as manager of the Nationals for the 2018 season, the club announced Friday."

2016
"“He has an idea what they’re trying to do to him,” Nats skipper Dusty Baker told Mark Zuckerman of MASN Sports earlier this month."

2015
"Major League Baseball has just one black manager—Dusty Baker, who was hired by the Washington Nationals Tuesday—with one vacancy left to fill."

2014
"Wild Cards Are Aces This is only the second all-Wild Card World Series, following the Giants-Angels in 2002 (and if Dusty Baker emerges from the dugout to take the ball from Russ Ortiz again, beware, Giants fans)."

• This Day in Braves History: David Justice wins the N.L. Rookie of the Year award
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker earns big league opportunity...
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• This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins 2020 NL Gold Glove Award
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• This day in Braves History: Eddie Rosario continues his incredible 2021 NLCS
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker starts in Wrigley; goes 3 for 4 + more...

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker getting to start in the majors for the first time ... in Wrigley Field. BAKER IN WRIGLEY: Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez told reporters in New York, where Washington dropped three straight to the Mets, Luis García, Jr. was dealing with a sore right wrist which he felt after a swing in the second game of the series in Citi Field. “After that last swing he took he...2024
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?

Exclusive imaging of the White Sox analytics department. Other turnarounds don’t suggest it As the season creeps forward to the magical question, “To be 120+ or not to be 120+?” it behooves us to consider other teams that have recently been in dire straits ... though, of course, not necessarily quite as dire. There are four teams to examine that represent a relatively quick turnaround, ea...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker makes MLB debut with Dusty Baker in D.C.

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker’s MLB debut ... 56-ish years after his father Dusty Baker’s... Washington’s Nationals drafted Darren Baker out of high school in 2017, but he opted to go to college at the University of California, Berkeley, then they drafted him again, taking the son of former Nationals’ skipper Dusty Baker in the 10th Round in 2021 and signing him the second time. “Obviously you’...2024
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• Remembering Orlando Cepeda
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• Outside The Confines: Somebody call a doctor
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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• This day in Braves History: Steve Avery tosses 6 great innings in Game 4 of 1995 World Series
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• This day in Braves History: Eddie Rosario continues his incredible 2021 NLCS
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• Cubs 14, Nationals 1: Sweep!
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 86
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• The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 140-121)

Happy Canada Day. Normally on this day I like to write a Canadian-centric post. I don't have anything like that for today -- not one of the players on this edition of the 1975 Topps countdown is from Canada. I could use an O-Pee-Chee for the occasion, but that wouldn't be a Topps card.But there's another card thing I like to do in recognition of Canada Day and I did do that. Today I pu...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• Outside the Confines: Welcome to the Cold Stove

Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images All the news from around baseball as we wait for the Hot Stove to unthaw itself. I hope everyone across the Midwest is staying warm and staying safe. And much of the rest of the country as well. The Hot Stove has been as cold as the weather outside, but it’s really heating up since the Mets traded outfielder Cooper Hummel to the Giants...2024
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• Dusty Baker is retiring as a manager

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images ... and I have thoughts. Per Bob Nightengale of USA Today, Dusty Baker will announce his retirement from baseball today: A press conference has been scheduled for Thursday at noon ET at Minute Maid Park, where Baker is expected to publicly announce his decision. “I’m very grateful and thankful to Jim Crane and the Houston Astros for giving me this oppo...2023
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Houston Astros preview, Monday 5/15, 7:10 CT
Matt Blewett-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs continue their road trip, hoping for better results than they had on the last stop. Today’s roster moves: Here Monday notes... THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED: The last time the Cubs faced a team managed by Dusty Baker was Game 5 of the division series against the Nationals in 2017. That one worked out all right for the Cubs, a wacky 9-8 win. It’s entirel...2023
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• Astros' Hector Neris suspended four games for throwing at Mariners' Eugenio Suarez
Houston manager Dusty Baker was also suspended as a result of Monday's dust-up...2022
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker earns big league opportunity...
2024

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• Let's do it again

I was out of town for a few days visiting my daughter. She and her boyfriend have a new apartment, which is charming but very small, just like the last one. Housing is brutal for young adults these days. Because of that, mom and dad get a hotel room for the weekend. That's where I saw the Dodgers finish off the Mets in the NLCS (and Juan Soto's HR ... gag). I turned on the hotel TV...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker starts in Wrigley; goes 3 for 4 + more...
2024

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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker makes MLB debut with Dusty Baker in D.C.
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 86
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• Remembering Orlando Cepeda
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• Outside The Confines: Somebody call a doctor
2024

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• Outside The Confines: One month down
2024

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• Celebrating Henry Aaron on the 50th anniversary of becoming baseball’s all-time home run king

Hank Aaron embraces his mother after breaking Babe Ruth’s long-standing home run record. On April 8, 1974, Atlanta Braves great Henry Aaron broke his tie with Babe Ruth to become the sport’s lead in career home runs when he hit his 715th career home run. Monday, April 8, 1974. Fifty years ago, today – by date and day-of-the-week – the crown bestowed to baseball’s all-time home run king was...2024
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• Looking back at Opening Day starters for the Atlanta Braves

Rick Mahler and Bruce Benedict were the starting battery on Opening Day in 1982. Bob Gibson, who started 10 Opening Days during his playing career, was making his debut as Atlanta’s pitching coach. | Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Here are some of the famous and forgotten starters the Braves have had since moving to Atlanta in 1966, including one player who started at five differen...2024
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• Astros' Dusty Baker says the 2022 World Series having zero U.S.-born Black players 'looks bad' for baseball

This year's World Series between the Astros and Phillies will likely be the first without a U.S.-born Black player since 1950...2022
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• Where Are All the Black NBA Coaches? Examining a Sudden, Silent Disappearance
2015

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• Astros Expected To Hire Dusty Baker
The Astros have decided to hire Dusty Baker to become their next manager, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today. The sides are still negotiating a contract, per the report, though Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle tweets that he has been unable to verify that Baker is indeed the Astros’ choice. If Baker puts…...2020
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• Baker won't return as Nationals manager
2017
• Dusty Baker announces retirement after 26 years as manager: 'Baseball has been my life'

The Baseball Hall of Fame should be the next stop for the long-time skipper and former big-league outfielder...2023
• 2015 NLDS Game 3 Preview: Can Cardinals Handle Cubs Phenom Jake Arrieta?
2015

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• Nationals hiring Dusty Baker for manager post
Nationals hiring Dusty Baker for manager post...2015
• Houston Astros are finalizing a deal with Dusty Baker for managerial role
Baker will take over for A.J. Hinch, who was fired earlier this month...2020
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• This Day in Braves History: Brian Snitker is named N.L. Manager of the Year
2024

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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker earns big league opportunity...
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• This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins 2020 NL Gold Glove Award
2024

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• This day in Braves History: Steve Avery tosses 6 great innings in Game 4 of 1995 World Series
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• Reading along from afar

I know some readers have been expecting me to write about Fernando Valenzuela after news of his death. A few comments on the last post mentioned him even though I cited him just once in passing.I learned of the sad news as I ended work around midnight Tuesday. The work schedule is unrelenting midweek these days. This is why I almost never post on Wednesdays now, so there was no chance to get...2024
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• Let's do it again
2024

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• This day in Braves History: Eddie Rosario continues his incredible 2021 NLCS
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker starts in Wrigley; goes 3 for 4 + more...
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• Cub Tracks’ uphill both ways
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?
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• Outside The Confines: Somebody call a doctor
2024

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• Outside The Confines: One month down
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• This Day in MLB History: January 29

Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images MLB History 1901 - The Rules Committee comprised of Connie Mack, John McGraw and Charles Comiskey reject a proposal that would have banned the bunt and recommends no changes to the game at this time. 1930 - The Boston Red Sox sell former home run champ Ken Williams to the New York Yankees. However after acquiring him, New York will release Williams bef...2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2003

Getty Images Not much happened, and then one BIG deal went down. The Cubs stood pat trade-wise over the 2002-03 offseason, though they did sign some free agents, including Tom Goodwin and Lenny Harris — the latter, terrible for the Cubs, wound up with a World Series ring after the Cubs let him go and he signed with the Marlins. Trade-wise... here we go. May 9: Traded Alan Benes to the Rang...2023
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• Dusty Baker is retiring as a manager
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the American League Championship Series
Cubs World Series Champion Anthony Rizzo reacts to the Yankees’ win in the Division Series | Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The battle of the evil empires To be perfectly candid, the scheduling issues due to rain postponements was the main reason for splitting the Championship Series guides. However, with the Yankees victory over the Guardians yesterday, the contrast between these two series c...2022
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• Dusty Baker makes these Astros about so much more than a scandal

Hate Houston if you want. But as one of Dusty Baker's former players, I know there's so much to love about its manager....2021
• Dusty Baker wants MLB to prevent 'premeditated retaliation' against Astros
Dusty Baker is in the somewhat awkward situation of managing the team that everyone hates right now while simultaneously having nothing to do with the reason they’re hated. Baker is trying to manage the Houston Astros to success amid the backdrop of their prior cheating and the open anger at the organization as a result. That means Baker has seen his players on the end of a lot of criticism, and s...2020
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