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• Rob Manfred Discusses Economic Proposals
Rob Manfred spoke with reporters after this week’s quarterly owners meetings. Jorge Castillo of ESPN, Ronald Blum of The Associated Press and Evan Drellich of The Athletic were among those who relayed the commissioner’s comments. Manfred spoke publicly for the first time since the league and Players Association exchanged initial economic proposals last week. Those […]...2026
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• MLBPA Releases Details Of Collective Bargaining Proposal
The formal process of the next collective bargaining agreement has begun. It was reported two weeks ago that the talks had kicked off with informal introductions. Today, the MLBPA made its first official proposal and released details to the media. Jeff Passan of ESPN, Evan Drellich of The Athletic and Bill Shaikin of the Los […]...2026
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• MLB, MLBPA Begin CBA Negotiations
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association held their first official collective bargaining meeting of 2026 in New York City today, per reporting from Jeff Passan of ESPN and Evan Drellich of The Athletic. At this point, there’s not much in terms of news. Both reporters note that today’s meeting was mostly about the […]...2026
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• Latest On MLBPA’s Funds
The Major League Baseball Players Association is putting aside money in anticipation of the end of the collective bargaining agreement, as it routinely does. Jorge Castillo of ESPN and Evan Drellich of The Athletic report that the union has about $519MM in total assets, as of the start of this year. It is standard practice […]...2026
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• Emmanuel Clase, Luis Ortiz Shifted To Unpaid Non-Disciplinary Leave
Major League Baseball announced today that Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz will be shifted to unpaid, non-disciplinary leave to start the 2026 season. Last year, both pitchers were placed on paid administrative leave as part of a sports betting investigation. Evan Drellich of The Athletic was among those to pass the info along. […]...2026
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• Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas Speaks Out on False PED Report

Two days after The Athletic’s Evan Drellich erroneously identified Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas as the recipient of an 80-game suspension due to PED use, the World Series hero is speaking out....2026
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• Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas Speaks Out on False PED Report
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• Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas Wrongly Identified as PED User

The Athletic's Evan Drellich erroneously identified Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas as the recipient of an 80-game suspension....2026
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft

Ethan Holliday | Steve Sisney/For The Oklahoman / USA TODAY NETWORK The MLB Draft is this weekend, and we have what you need to know. The trade deadline is approaching. The Yankees and Dodgers look vulnerable. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The MLB Draft starts this Sunday night and here’s all the basic information on the event. Melissa Lockard also has a more in-dep...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The next generation

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Players today are better than ever. LSU wins the Men’s College World Series. More on the Rafael Devers trade and other news from around MLB. Good morning. For all of you yelling at the kids to get off your lawn, J.J. Cooper has five reasons why players today are better than those of the past. If you want more evidence, Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorows...2025
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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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• MLB botched another rain delay Thursday, this one in Atlanta

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In news you might not think is related but in reality is, owners are going to push for a salary cap. Thursday night’s game between the Phillies and Braves in Atlanta was interrupted in the seventh inning by massive thunderstorms that moved through the Atlanta area: As it turns out, BCB had a reporter on the scene — Sar...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images (It’s a very clever joke because he bought a bowling league franchise.) It’s not mystery that baseball players, being athletes, are often fond of more than one sport. Plenty of baseball players were on multiple teams in high school and college, lots of guys play golf (some, like Justin Verlander were actually semi-pro, at least according to his old T...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Down goes Cole

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

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Things are getting interesting! Hello friends! Lots of little news bites to jump into today, but a couple of interesting ones to look out for in today’s links. For starters, the Oakland... er, Sacramento... er... Las Vegas A’s are getting themselves geared up for the future, not just with contract extensions and deals, but also a new uniform patch that promo...2025
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• Braves News: Bryce Elder shaky, Nacho Alvarez exits, and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday. The Atlanta Braves had a back-and-forth affair Thursday night in a spring training clash with the Washington Nationals. Ultimately, the Braves won it 4-3. Bryce Elder made his second appearance but first start of the spring. He turned in a shaky start, lasting 2.2 innings, giving up two ear...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Baseball is here
Chris Jones-USA TODAY Sports The College Baseball season started over the weekend. Manny Machado announced his decision to opt out of his deal. And more news from around baseball. So we had real live baseball in the US over the weekend. Yes, I know baseball really never ends when you include the winter leagues, but it’s always a sign that the main event is coming when the college kids tak...2023
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"MLB commissioner Rob Manfred tells Evan Drellich of The Athletic that the league will propose that change, to go into effect in the 2026 regular season, to the Competition Committee."

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""— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) October 2, 2024 Diamond Sports Group could be among those that negotiate new deals with clubs, and they did renegotiate deals with NBA and NHL clubs on their regional sports networks."

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"As reported by Evan Drellich, Dennis Lin, and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Padres took out a $50MM loan in September to address “short-term cash flow issues” and cover their player payroll, among other expenses."

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"MLB’s self-imposed deadline to reach an agreement with the Players Association is today, and Evan Drellich, Ken Rosenthal and Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic report that the league took a “more threatening” tone to the MLBPA today and voiced a willingness to miss a month’s worth of regular-season games (Twitter link)."

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"MLB made its first core economic proposal to the MLBPA this week, report Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic."

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"Major League Baseball is set to bring forth an unprecedented set of penalties against the Astros organization in light of the sign-stealing scandal against them, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic report."

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"The Nationals have re-signed right-hander reliever Javy Guerra to a minor league contract, Evan Drellich of The Athletic tweets."

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"Evan Drellich of NBC Sports Boston spoke to agent Scott Boras Tuesday evening, with Boras making clear that his client is willing to wait until after the start of Spring Training to sign a contract."

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"4:45pm: Evan Drellich of CSN New England tweets that Dombrowski said there is indeed an investigation looking into the Yankees."

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"5:05pm: Evan Drellich of the Boston Herald reports (via Twitter) that top right-handed pitching prospect Anderson Espinoza is headed to the Padres in the…"

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" The Astros' official Twitter account passed along the official report: Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle and Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports noted more contract details: Drellich also passed along what position Lowrie will be playing moving forward: Lowrie sounded optimistic about the direction his new team is headed, via Brian McTaggart of MLB."

• Braves terminate broadcast contract with FanDuel, per report

Not to get too in the weeds on a Thursday afternoon, but here’s the deal. As reported by Evan Drellich in The Athletic, the Braves are one of nine teams terminating their existing broadcast contract with FanDuel. Key points: Other than that, stay tuned. But if for some reason you found the idea of FanDuel […]...2026
• Outside The Confines: Swing, swing, swing

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The All-Star Game ended in a “swing-off.” Big Dumper won the Home Run Derby. The Rays are sold, the draft is over and other news items from All-Star Week. Good morning. The National League beat the American League at the All-Star Game 6-6 after a “swing-off,” a mini home run derby where the game’s MVP Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs. Matt Snyder wri...2025
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• Stuart Sternberg Has Agreed To Sell Rays To Patrick Zalupski, Deal Expected To Be Final By September
The sale of the Rays seems to be coming to fruition. A report from Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic says that a sale has been agreed to in principle which would see the club be sold from current owner Stuart Sternberg to a group led by Patrick Zalupski. The deal is worth…...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Goodbye June, hello July

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The trade deadline and draft approach. Clayton Kershaw is on the verge of 3000 strikeouts. What’s wrong with the Mets? The Moon Mammoths are born and other news around baseball. Good morning. It’s July already. It’s getting late early, as Yogi would say. Will Leitch has seven questions as we head into July. Mark Feinsand looks at the biggest trade...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The first blockbuster trade of the season

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images No one saw this coming... Hugwatch season was already getting heated up ahead of the big deadline next month, but very few people could have honestly said they expected what happened on Sunday. Just ahead of the Red Sox start time, it was announced that the Red Sox and Giants had agreed on a blockbuster trade that would send Rafael Devers to San Francisco. In retur...2025
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• Rob Manfred says MLB will propose a ball-strike challenge system for 2026

Major League Baseball Finally, a way to overturn the worst of the worst calls. We’ve talked about the topic of a ball-and-strike challenge system here many times. It’s being used in the minor leagues this year, has been tested over quite a few seasons in various minor leagues, and was used in about 60 percent of Spring Training games this year. Now, per Evan Drellich at The Athletic, MLB C...2025
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• MLB botched another rain delay Thursday, this one in Atlanta
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?
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• Braves terminate broadcast contract with FanDuel, per report
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images What does this mean for the future of baseball on TV? Earlier this month, I posted here about the possibility of ESPN opting out of the last three years of its deal with MLB. The TV network had until March 1 to make this decision. Now, that’s happened. Evan Drellich has details in this article in The Athletic. Bottom line, literally: MLB will have to fi...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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• What happens if ESPN opts out of its TV deal with MLB?

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Worldwide Leader has broadcast MLB games since 1990. ESPN will be entering its 36th season of broadcasting Sunday Night Baseball and Tuesday announced that Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez and Buster Olney will be its SNB broadcast announcing team. They’ll be entering their fourth season as SNB announcers. But next month, ESPN can opt out of t...2025
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• MLB revenues have hit an all-time high

Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images And a look toward the future of baseball media rights. Major League Baseball reached an all-time high in gross revenues last year, $12.1 billion, according to this article by Maury Brown in Forbes. Brown writes: The league reported $12.1 billion in gross revenues for last year; a record high. Forbes could not independently verify the figure. As of publication, n...2025
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• The Dodgers aren’t the villains here

New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto poses for photos during his introductory press conference at Citi Field. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images The Mets aren’t either Much ado has been made so far this offseason about the spending of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Of course, they aren’t the biggest spenders this off-season, those would be the New York Mets. Together, those teams have spent nearly as m...2025
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• The Cubs will have the fewest games with the ball and strike challenge system this spring

Plate umpire Nelson Fraley wears an earpiece that gets signals from a radar that call the ball and strikes during a Tampa Tarpons vs. Bradenton Marauders game in 2022 | THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK MLB has revealed some details on how this challenge system test will work. Last fall, MLB tested the ball-and-strike challenge system in the Arizona Fall League and announced...2025
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• Cub Tracks keeps on runnin’

Matt Marton-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. De Padres fell prey to the agony of de feet and the goose laid an egg on their plans. 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...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?
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• Royals home Spring Training games to feature strike zone challenge system tests

Home plate umpire Tony Randazzo #11 utilizes an automated ball-strike challenge system, or ABS, during the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Camelback Ranch on Thursday, February 20, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona | Photo by Michael Owens/MLB Photos via Getty Images What it is, how it works, why it is the way it is, and what comes next For the past few seasons minor l...2025
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. 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 ...2025
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• MLB To Suspend Jeff Luhnow, A.J. Hinch For One Year; Astros Stripped Of Draft Picks
Major League Baseball is set to bring forth an unprecedented set of penalties against the Astros organization in light of the sign-stealing scandal against them, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic report. President of baseball operations/general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch will both be suspended for one year, per the report.…...2020
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• MLB Reportedly Indicates Willingness To Miss A Month Of Regular Season Games
MLB’s self-imposed deadline to reach an agreement with the Players Association is today, and Evan Drellich, Ken Rosenthal and Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic report that the league took a “more threatening” tone to the MLBPA today and voiced a willingness to miss a month’s worth of regular-season games (Twitter link). The first meeting between…...2022
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• Red Sox Acquire Drew Pomeranz For Anderson Espinoza
5:33pm: Jon Morosi of MLB.com and FOX Sports tweets that it is indeed a one-for-one swap. 5:15pm: Lin tweets that the trade may be a one-for-one swap of Pomeranz and Espinoza. 5:05pm: Evan Drellich of the Boston Herald reports (via Twitter) that top right-handed pitching prospect Anderson Espinoza is headed to the Padres in the…...2016
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• Red Sox Reportedly Caught Stealing Signs From Yankees
4:45pm: Evan Drellich of CSN New England tweets that Dombrowski said there is indeed an investigation looking into the Yankees. Newsday’s David Lennon tweets that when asked about the Red Sox’ allegations regarding YES cameras, Yankees skipper Joe Girardi replied bluntly: “No chance. We’re not doing it.” Girardi did acknowledge that all teams try to…...2017
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• Giants Have Considered Pursuing Pablo Sandoval Trade
The Giants have had internal discussions about trying to strike a deal for Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval, according to Evan Drellich of the Boston Herald. It is not known whether the two organizations have talked about the former San Francisco star. Sandoval, 30, is two years into what has been a disastrous free…...2016
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• Chris Correa Sentenced to 46 Months for Hacking Astros' Computer System
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• Scott Kazmir to Dodgers: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Red Sox To Promote Andrew Benintendi
The Red Sox are having top outfield prospect Andrew Benintendi meet the team in Seattle tomorrow, Evan Drellich of the Boston Herald writes. The move means Benintendi will skip straight from Double-A Portland, where he’s batted .295/.357/.515 in 263 plate appearances this season, to the big leagues. Benintendi has relatively little minor-league experience, with just…...2016
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?
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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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• Rob Manfred says MLB will propose a ball-strike challenge system for 2026
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• MLB botched another rain delay Thursday, this one in Atlanta
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• Cub Tracks keeps on runnin’
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• Outside The Confines: Rays being sold, and A’s getting bold?
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• Braves News: Bryce Elder shaky, Nacho Alvarez exits, and more
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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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• Royals home Spring Training games to feature strike zone challenge system tests
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• Outside the Confines: Winning the press conference

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images More on Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers. The Hall of Fame inductees met the media. Anthony Santander’s deal is not what it seems. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Jeff Passan has the story of why Roki Sasaki decided to sign with the Dodgers. Yes, in many ways it is obvious, but Passan has a bunch of details you may not be aware of. Jack Har...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: Who’s going to sign Roki Sasaki?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images A fair number of respondents to the survey chose the Cubs. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Now that the MLB non-tender deadline has passed, thoughts ...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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• Braves News: Jarred Kelenic’s improvement, Ohtani gambling scandal, more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves’ news and notes from Wednesday Jarred Kelenic may be turning the corner with the adjustments he’s made this spring for Atlanta. Elsewhere in the league, a gambling scandal is brewing around the sport’s biggest star, Shohei Ohtani, and turmoil continues in the MLBPA. Kelenic looked good on Wednesday after a really rough...2024
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• Another update on the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas situation

Fans at the Oakland Coliseum in September 2022 | Al Yellon Just when you thought it couldn’t get messier, it has. Gonna say this right now, off the top, so we’re all on the same page: If this topic doesn’t interest you, go pass it on by and click on some other BCB article. I think the issues surrounding the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas are important for the entire future o...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Tigers claim the voice of the White Sox

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images This might be the best offseason move yet. Well, one of the biggest moves of the offseason has nothing to do with players, or even with the shuffle of managers. The Detroit Tigers announced today that after Bally Sports Detroit parted ways with Matt Shepard the new play-by-play announcer for the season will be none other than White Sox great ...2023
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• Rob Manfred’s term as Commissioner extended for another five years
Al Yellon This is news, so we’re reporting it. Major League Baseball today announced the extension of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s term, which will now run through January 25, 2029. The vote was taken now, before Manfred’s deal expired, for this reason: The vote ... comes right at the start of a window of 18 months before the expiration of the commissioner’s term where a majority vote of lea...2023
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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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• A few thoughts about how Rob Manfred is handling the A’s move to Las Vegas
Al Yellon NARRATOR: “Not very well.” This morning in Outside The Confines, Ashley posted a number of links having to do with the Nevada legislature’s approval of money for a stadium for the Athletics to move to Las Vegas, and you can get the basic outline of the story there. I’ve been on record as saying that I didn’t think this was going to happen, and who knows? It still might not. All w...2023
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• Outside The Confines: The Mets got a lump of Correa for Christmas
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Though if he passes his physical, he might be a diamond for the Mets. This will be the last OTC before Christmas, so first and foremost I want to wish everyone reading a very safe and happy holiday. I hope you get some time off and an opportunity to decompress, spend time with family, and just enjoy the offerings of the season. And with the holiday in m...2022
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