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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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• Are the Rays Changing the Cooking Time for Prospects?

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Slow and low is no longer how the Rays do things. Editor’s Note: Please join me in welcoming Jason Collette back to DRaysBay. He has written across the blogosphere at Baseball Prospectus, Rotowire, and more. We’re lucky to have him! - DR It is truism accepted by many that the Rays slow cook their prospects like brisket on a smoker. An...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Spring Training stories

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Injuries, excitement, sneaky showcases... Spring Training has it all. We’re finally into spring training in a real way, with actual gameplay and so much is going on. Pitchers are getting fired up about ABS... and ABS might also be proving some players have been lying about their height. Three Twins players had a scary near-miss, meanwh...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2025

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images Not to be confused with the actor better known as Charlie Sheen. Anne Rogers and Paul Casella on last night’s Carlos Estévez signing: Estévez has been one of the more reliable closers in the Majors over the past couple seasons. He averaged a career-best 11.3 strikeouts per nine innings in 2023 en route to earning his first All-Star selecti...2025
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• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Linked to NL Rival as Potential Free Agent Signing

The Los Angeles Dodgers recently dealt infielder Gavin Lux to the Cincinnati Reds which opened the door for a reunion with fan favorite Kiké Hernandez. However, there might be some competition when signing the free agent utility man. Hernandez has been linked to the Philadelphia Phillies in a recent article from Eno Sarris of The …...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images We are 2% through 2025 already. Kansas City Royals top prospect Jac Caglianone joined Baseball America’s Hot Sheet Show to start off the week. Eno Sarris of The Athletic ($) labels Kansas City’s outfield as the team’s clear problem ahead of spring training. The outfield is generally a sore spot in Kansas City, as the Royals show up twice on our list. Last y...2025
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day
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• Outside the Confines: Too much good stuff

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images MLB issues its report on pitching injuries. The conclusions are obvious and the solutions are not. The Yankees rebuild. Why are free agent contracts booming? And how to set a date for a baseball player’s wedding. Good morning. Major League Baseball released a report on pitching injuries. The tl;dr explanation is that increased velocity and spin are the prima...2024
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• The Matthew Boyd signing by the numbers

David Dermer-Imagn Images If you liked Drew Smyly have I got a pitcher for you Yesterday the Cubs signed an interesting but oft-injured pitcher in Matthew Boyd. With the deal coming in at two years and $30 million it’s pretty clear they see him as a starter. The more research and time I spent processing this free agent signing the more I convinced myself that I’ve seen this movie before, b...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024

Bubble! | Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images With The Gauntlet over, just 15 games to go Let’s check in on those playoff odds, shall we? Baseball Prospectus: 92.7% to make playoffs, 3.2% to win division, 1.9% to win World Series Fangraphs: 94.3% to make playoffs, 6.8% to win division, 2.6% to win World Series Baseball-Reference: 94.1% to make playoffs, 3.4% to win division, 6.0% to win ...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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• 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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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 2, 2024

Sure, it’s not a Royals highlight, but I liked the picture | David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports Anyone miss their 4000-word Fridays? At The Star, Jaylon Thompson sets the table for the playoff push over the next two months: The Royals have a chance to catch the Cleveland Guardians for first place in the AL Central but currently trail by six games. Later this month, the two teams will play a f...2024
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• Royals acquire infielder Paul DeJong, reliever Lucas Erceg

Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals make their moves. The Royals made two more trades before the 5 p.m. CT deadline, picking up reliever Lucas Erceg from the Athletics for outfielder Jared Dickey and pitchers Will Klein and Mason Barnett and infielder Paul DeJong from the White Sox for minor league pitcher Jarold Rosado. Lucas Erceg was originally drafted by t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 24, 2023
This picture choice makes sense once you get to the OT section | Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images (Spring Training) Baseball games start today! Kansas City takes on Texas in Surprise at 2:05pm Royals time today. The Royals get the Cactus League opener! The Spring Training opener, even! I don’t think this is something that’s officially noted, but I’m making this call for us. The...2023
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• 1 Year Later, Pro Baseball's 1st Openly Gay Player Still Leads by Example
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"Eno Sarris goes back and look at what he got right and what he got wrong about his pitcher rankings for 2024."

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"Back in 2016, Fangraphs writer Eno Sarris came up with four variables: When he uses his best relievers."

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"Overperformers My preseason look at the Cubs and projections highlighted an excellent piece from Eno Sarris and Sahadev Sharma explaining the 80th/20th percentile outcomes for the Cubs, including which players would need to hit particular levels to reach those upper echelon results."

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"The A’s are re-signing Jed Lowrie to a one-year contract, reports Eno Sarris of the Athletic (Twitter link)."

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"The latter may have the bigger impact on the season as a whole, as The Athletic’s Eno Sarris and Ken Rosenthal (subscription required) report that the league has sent a memo to teams…"

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"Cameron Maybin’s name has emerged as part of trade discussions between the Tigers and Cubs, the Athletic’s Eno Sarris and Brittany Ghiroli report (subscription required)."

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"The Mets have struck a deal with free agent righty Rick Porcello, according to Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris of The Athletic (via Twitter)."

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"In an interview with Eno Sarris of The Athletic that ran on Monday, the Giants shortstop credited some advice that Barry Bonds once gave him for helping him improve his approach at the plate with two strikes this year."

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"Finding the Next Kyle Hendricks, by Eno Sarris Eno is on the chase."

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"Eno Sarris of FanGraphs collected quotes from a handful of major leaguers last June that paint an optimistic picture of MLB's readiness for its first openly gay player."

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" For example, anyone who ventures to read the latest from Eno Sarris of FanGraphs will find Harper has plenty to say about hitting."

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"It's no wonder that, according to Eno Sarris of FanGraphs, moving Posey to third base has supporters in the Giants front office."

• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2025
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• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Linked to NL Rival as Potential Free Agent Signing
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025
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• Outside the Confines: Ringing in 2025

Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images A look back at 2024 and ahead to 2025. The current state of the Hot Stove and other news from around MLB. Here’s to a Cubs World Series Championship in 2025. (If they win, I’m going remind you all I called it. If they don’t, then I was just making New Year’s chit-chat that will have been forgotten by October.) Dayn Perry has a reason for every 2024 losing...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The end of 2024

Photo by Agit Erdi Ulukaya/Anadolu via Getty Images Join us for some end of year baseball news. Happy Monday, everyone! It’s the last Outside The Confines of 2024, and there’s been some quiet movement around baseball over the holiday week. Shohei Ohtani made a major announcement; Corbin Burnes is getting nicely paid by Arizona; MLB dot com picks some realistic free agents for every team, a...2024
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• Outside the Confines: Too much good stuff
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees tried, but. . .

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Juan Soto is welcomed in Flushing. The White Sox trade Garrett Crochet. A Winter Meetings wrap-up and which teams get a participation trophy this winter. Good morning. Trade for Kyle Tucker already, Jed. I’m going crazy checking every ten minutes to see if a deal has been done. Fangraphs has this end-of-the-year recap of how you used the site and the ballplay...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025
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• The Matthew Boyd signing by the numbers
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes Sasaki

Photo by Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images The frenzy about Roki Sasaki has begun and everyone is talking about him. Predictions for the free agent market. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Roki Sasaki sweepstakes is underway. Mark Feinsand looks at Sasaki’s situation and which teams are the favorites to sign Sasaki. Stephen J. Nesbitt explains the enti...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Will the Cubs ever have another Kyle Hendricks?

Kyle Hendricks waves to fans after being pulled from his last game at Wrigley Field | Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The late night coffee shop wonders if Kyle Hendricks is a vestige of a bygone age of pitchers Welcome late night/early morning Cubs fans and friends to the indie coffee shop Josh lends us for the latter part of the week. There’s coffee and lattes if that’s your jam, ther...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Race Report: September 16

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images The Mets lost, so there’s that. The Atlanta Braves may have flamed out in astonishing fashion to end last night’s game against the Dodgers but fret not, Braves fans — it wasn’t all bad news in the Wild Card race as far as yesterday is concerned. Sure, the Braves did lose and there were two other results that didn’t go Atlanta’s way but one other team suff...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Happy Wednesday!

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images Unless you’re a White Sox fan. Happy Wednesday! We’re unbelievably nearing the end of August already (how?!) and not a single MLB team is anywhere near 100 wins (though one is very close to 100 losses), and the postseason really could be anyone’s game at this point. It’s certainly been an unusual year, and will continue to be so as we head...2024
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day
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• Outside The Confines: The end of 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 17, 2024

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Do you like expanded playoffs? Bill Mitchell at Baseball America had a chat about Royals prospects. [$] Who are your picks for under-the-radar prospects (outside the top 20), who could stand out in 2025? Bill Mitchell For players who will likely rank in the latter part of the Top 30, 2024 4th round pick LP Langevin is very intriguing with a projected doubl...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees tried, but. . .
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• BCB After Dark: What can we learn from the Cubs’ recent additions of Tyler Zombro & Eli Morgan?

Eli Morgan pitching during the ALCS | Photo by Lauren Leigh Bacho/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs need some pitching help. They might have some on and off the field. We begin tonight’s festivities at the late week indie coffee shop with a bit of a mea culpa. Obviously last night’s opening didn’t go as planned. Our staff had a ridiculously early morning flight from Chicago to New Orlea...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Will the Cubs ever have another Kyle Hendricks?
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• Braves NL Wild Card Race Report: September 16
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Giants lock up their third baseman. Alex Bregman should be happy. The Yankees don’t have a closer. The Guardians have the best closer. And other news from MLB. Good morning. The Cubs still haven’t allowed a hit since Tuesday. The Giants signed third baseman Matt Chapman to a six-year, $151 million extension. Chapman explained why he re-sign...2024
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• Mets To Sign Rick Porcello
The Mets have struck a deal with free agent righty Rick Porcello, according to Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris of The Athletic (via Twitter). It’s a one-year, $10MM deal, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network (Twitter link). This is a long-rumored match that’ll put the New Jersey native back in familiar territory. It’s a bit…...2019
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• A’s To Re-Sign Jed Lowrie
The A’s are re-signing Jed Lowrie to a one-year contract, reports Eno Sarris of the Athletic (Twitter link). It’ll be the veteran infielder’s second straight season in green and gold and his seventh year in Oakland over three separate stints. Oakland is plenty familiar with Lowrie, who has generally been productive while donning an A’s uniform.…...2022
• How do you feel about manager Matt Quatraro?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals skipper could win AL Manager of the Year. In his second season of managing, Matt Quatraro is engineering one of the biggest improvements in baseball history. After losing 106 games last year, the Royals have already won 20 more games this year with several weeks to go. If they manage to win 15 of their final 21 games, they will tie the 1999 Diamond...2024
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• Cubs Asked Tigers About Cameron Maybin
Cameron Maybin’s name has emerged as part of trade discussions between the Tigers and Cubs, the Athletic’s Eno Sarris and Brittany Ghiroli report (subscription required). Maybin would be a pure rental piece, as the outfielder is only signed through the 2020 season and is owed roughly $280K for the remaining month of action. Now a…...2020
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• Do the 2023 Cubs have more than a .500 win percentage in their future?
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports A look at the Cubs at the quarter season mark I know it’s hard to believe, but Major League Baseball is closing in on the first quarter of the season. The Cubs have played 37 games to the tune of an 18-19 record. Their .486 win percentage would translate to somewhere between 78 or 79 wins over the course of the full season. That win total would be precise...2023
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• Ronald Acuña Jr. tops Eno Sarris’ list of bounce back candidates
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images 2023 could be a big season for Ronald Acuña Jr. As if Atlanta Braves fans needed another reason to be excited for the start of Spring Training. Eno Sarris released annual list of bounce back candidates for the upcoming season and Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. topped the list. As Sarris points out, tabbing Acuña for a bounce back is...2023
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• Pirates To Hire Sarah Gelles As Assistant General Manager
The Pirates are hiring Sarah Gelles to be an assistant manager, per a report from Eno Sarris and Britt Ghiroli of The Athletic. Since 2019, she had been working for the Astros as director of research and development. Not too long before the report of the hiring, Sarris had published an article at The Athletic…...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ pen names

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus scientific food for thought. How do you sell relief? Still no Bellinger. 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, overhe...2024
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• Braves News: Spencer Strider, Jimy Williams, More

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Today could be another fun day for the Braves. Plenty of good content came from the 2024 Braves Fest, as much like Max Fried, Spencer Strider is also fully focused on making the most of 2024. The big thing for Strider is that his first two seasons have not ended how we all know he knows they should have, with a title. As a result, Strider is more motiva...2024
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• A Cubsmas Advent Calendar: Justin Steele was an ace in 2023

Justin Steele throws against the Diamondbacks in September | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Was it a career year or a new level for the Cubs lefty? This is Day Nine of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. The Cubs’ best pitcher in 2023 was Justin Steele. The 28-year old lefty put together a season worth...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 24, 2023
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• Kyle Schwarber's Fluke ACL Tear an Early Test for Cubs' Sky-High Expectations
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• SF Giants' Big-Name, Big-Money Rotation Suddenly Far from a Sure Thing
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• Jake Arrieta Showing No Signs of Slowing Down After Breakout '15 Cy Young
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• Will Miguel Cabrera's 40-Home Run Power Return in 2016?
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• Is Steven Matz Ready to Assert Himself as Yet Another Ace-Level Mets Arm?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025
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• Outside the Confines: Ringing in 2025
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• Outside the Confines: Too much good stuff
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 17, 2024
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• BCB After Dark: What can we learn from the Cubs’ recent additions of Tyler Zombro & Eli Morgan?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for November 14, 2024

Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos via Getty Images Have you figured out where you’ll put your ballpark? Sam McDowell weighs in on the Royals’ reported interest in a Johnson County ballpark site: While we could dig into the pros and cons of that, it’s hard to overlook the obvious: A Kansas location is a rather untidy fit to the vision the Royals described on the opening night of that tour....2024
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes Sasaki
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 13, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 2, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: No baseball players won Oscars last night

Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images But it was still a fun show. While most of the buzz this weekend was over the Oscars, that doesn’t mean there was no baseball news to delve into. The Reds have a suspension scandal to deal with. Former Reds player Joey Votto is heading to his Canadian homeland on a minor league deal. The Twins are getting their sleep, Willy Adames is looking ...2024
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• Braves News: Spencer Strider, Jimy Williams, More
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• Braves Mailbag: Rotation strength, what to expect from Ian Anderson and more

Photo by Bryan Cereijo/Getty Images Part 1 of our mailbag focuses on the Braves rotation. Is it really a strength and will Ian Anderson be a factor in 2024? Thanks again to everyone who took the time to send in questions this week. We got so many good ones that I am going to split this into two parts, the second of which will run Saturday. Let’s get to it! The Braves rotation for 2024 has ...2024
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• A Cubsmas Advent Calendar: Christopher Morel rakes

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Will he continue to hit for the Cubs in 2024? This is Day Three of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. One of the best moments of the Cubs’ 2023 season was the Christopher Morel walk off home run against the White Sox in August. You could hear the celebration throughout the neighborhood before Marquee Sports ...2023
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• Cub Tracks sell low, Shohei

#Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. We’re just waiting for the meetings to start. 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 cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. *means autoplay on, or annoying ads, or both (direc...2023
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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 26, 2023
Hey, I lucked out. Getty has a Millennium Force image in the archives | Photo by Tricia Spaulding/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Not a lot of baseball today, but lots of OT No game last night and, generally, well, not a lot going for a team that’s barrelling towards Memorial Day with a sub .300 winning percentage. Fortunately, OT will be a bit long. A littl...2023
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