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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.317 — Aaron Judge batting against David Peterson. 0.301 — Jacob Wilson batting against Justin Verlander. 0.300 — Jonathan Aranda batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.300 — Freddie Freeman batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.289 — Miguel Andujar batting against Justin Verlander. 0.288 —...2025
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• Best Batter Today
Aaron Judge of the Yankees and Cal Raleigh of the Mariners did not see action on Thursday. They rank one and three respectively in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers rank two and four respectively after they participated in a 19-2 thrashing of the Athletics. Ohtani hit two […]...2025
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• Dodgers Pitcher Elects to Leave Organization, Sign in KBO

Former Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed pitcher Alec Gamboa signed with the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization. Gamboa signed with the Dodgers organization as an amateur free agent in 2019, but elected to leave L.A. this week. More news: Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman Believes He Could Reach Historic Milestone Before Career Ends Done deal ??Alec …...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rivals Weekend begins

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images But are any of these teams real rivals? TGIF, friends and thanks for another great week of baseball! As we head into the weekend’s “Rivalry Series,” a deeply silly spectacle, I’m curious (and you can take to the comments to sound off), who you think the Cubs’ actual main rival is, or if you agree with the geographical choice of the Wh...2025
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The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.309 — Freddie Freeman batting against Jack Kochanowicz. 0.302 — Jacob Wilson batting against Logan Webb. 0.294 — Bobby Witt Jr. batting against Andre Pallante. 0.294 — Shohei Ohtani batting against Jack Kochanowicz. 0.294 — Aaron Judge batting against Tylor Megill. 0.291 — [R...2025
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• Padres are down and up; Darvish rehabs with El Paso

Yu Darvish | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Notes on Padres week #7 The San Diego Padres completed a nine-game road trip in Colorado, taking two of three from the Rockies while suffering an unexpected meltdown from their bullpen. They then came home to a three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels. Records good and bad Over the course of the three games from May 9 to May 11 the bu...2025
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• Padres are down and up; Darvish rehabs with El Paso
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• Dodgers News: Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman Not Yet Nearing Return

Within three days, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup took two massive hits. Utility man Tommy Edman and right fielder Teoscar Hernández went down with injuries in the same week. The pair are staples in the Dodgers’ batting order. Hernández’s nine home runs this season ties with first baseman Freddie Freeman for the second-most on the …...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: LA Makes Trade, Tommy Edman Setback, Freddie Freeman Wins Award

The Los Angeles Dodgers made a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday, as they acquired an outfielder in exchange for cash considerations. The outfield has been a spot where the Dodgers have shown they can use more depth this season, especially with the recent Teoscar Hernández and Tommy Edman injuries. Unfortunately for Edman, …...2025
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• ‘Freddie Freeman Shows Up in October Unlike Mr.99’: Fans Celebrate Dodgers Star Putting Up MVP Numbers Despite Ankle Injury
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman is rivaling Yankees slugger Aaron Judge as one of the best hitters this season despite nursing injury....2025
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• Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman Gets Over An Hour of Treatment on Injured Ankle Every Day

Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman spent time on the injured list early in the season because of a right ankle injury, the same one that plagued him at the end of the 2024 season and required surgery last winter. More news: Dodgers’ Tommy Edman Not Responding Well to Treatment, Will Miss More Time Freeman …...2025
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• Freddie Freeman Opens Up About ‘New Normal’ Post Dodgers Star’s Base-Clearing Triple vs. Marlins
Freddie Freeman is quietly powering the Dodgers' repeat hopes with an MVP-level season, overcoming an early ankle injury to remain a key force in the lineup....2025
• Minor League Film Room #1: Brock Wilken

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Breaking down Wilken’s approach over the last few seasons Milwaukee used their first-round selection in the 2023 draft on Wake Forest third baseman Brock Wilken, who finished his career as the all-time ACC home run leader. Here’s an excerpt of Baseball America’s scouting report from when he entered the draft: Wilken has amassed 71 home runs ov...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: Teoscar Hernandez Injury, Former LA All-Star Retires, Max Muncy Future Discussed

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Miami Marlins, 7-4, and improved to 24-11 on the year thanks to Hyeseong Kim’s first career hit and RBI, plus home runs from Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman. Teoscar Hernández also dazzled early in the contest, going 2-for-2 with an RBI, but unfortunately had to exit due to injury. …...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• Freddie Freeman Gets Honest About ‘Reluctantly’ Accepting Dodgers’ Load Management Plan
Freddie Freeman is an aging player recovering from offseason ankle surgery, and the Dodgers could give him rest days during the season....2025

• This Day in MLB History: Freddie Freeman signs with the Dodgers

Photo by John McCoy/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The official end of the Freddie Freeman era in Atlanta MLB History 1900: Ban Johnson announces that an American League team will be placed in Chicago to ensure the stability of the league. In an agreement with National League officials, the AL club will be placed on the south side of the city and will be called the Chicago White Stocking...2025
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• 2024: the best, the worst, the ... last of the real ones?

Greetings in the last few hours of what I think was the very real year of 2024.It's difficult to tell what's real and what's not these days. Just yesterday I saw a report that said the brilliant minds that run Facebook and Instagram plan to infiltrate both social media sites with AI-generated users. This kind of stuff freaks me out. I've seen very real cases of people I know being fooled by...2025
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"One out later a single moved Ohtani to second, but then Shōta Imanaga struck out Freddie Freeman [VIDEO]."

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"The Dodgers have reinstated Freddie Freeman from the restricted list and designated Cavan Biggio for assignment, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic."

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"Freddie Freeman hits 300th home run: Dodgers star gets to milestone in rare fashion"

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"Dodgers' Freddie Freeman hits a home run in first at-bat against the Braves"

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"Freddie Freeman might have played his final game for Atlanta on Tuesday."

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"Braves All-Star Freddie Freeman revealed Saturday that he had a high temperature of 104."

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"and Freddie Freeman are among those scheduled to attend Chop Fest on Saturday at SunTrust Park, a free event that provides fans a chance to interact with their favorite Braves players, coaches, alumni and personalities."

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"As Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman made an early arrival to Spring Training on Friday morning, he anxiously looked forward to testing the physical improvements he made during the offseason."

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"Freddie Freeman soured Michael Pineda's final tuneup with a three-run homer and the Braves manufactured a five-run sixth that proved decisive in Atlanta's 8-5 win over the Yankees on Friday night at SunTrust Park."

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"Freddie Freeman and Adonis Garcia each hit three-run homers, and Ender Inciarte and Matt Kemp also went deep in the Braves' 13-5 win over the Cardinals on Saturday night at Busch Stadium."

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"Freddie Freeman hit his second spring homer, a three-run shot, and Julio Teheran fanned four in three innings as the Braves downed the Mets, 3-2, on Tuesday at Champion Stadium."

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"Freddie Freeman is the only returning player who had an on-base percentage over ."

• Dodgers Pitcher Elects to Leave Organization, Sign in KBO
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• Padres are down and up; Darvish rehabs with El Paso
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• Minor League Film Room #1: Brock Wilken
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• Braves look to exact revenge on the Dodgers - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta welcomes in some of the biggest stars in the game with refrains of, “Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!” The Atlanta Braves return home to Truist Park to start the month of May with revenge on their minds as they clash with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After wrapping up an April with a 14-16 record after a 4-2 road trip to end of the month, the Braves were a...2025
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• Freddie Freeman’s Reaction to Dodgers’ Max Muncy Ending Slump With 432 ft. Homer Steals the Show
Freddie Freeman offered a spontaneous reaction of relief and joy after Max Muncy recorded his first home run of the season on Wednesday....2025
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• Checking in on notable former Braves players

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images A month into the 2025 season, here’s a look at how ex-Braves are doing across the big leagues. A month has passed in the 2025 season, and after a rocky start, the Atlanta Braves seem to be finding their mojo again. As with every season, the Braves are finding a new normal after saying goodbye to a number of long-time members of the big league roster af...2025
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 23 thread: Germán Márquez vs. Cole Ragans

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Can Márquez rebound from his last outing? The Colorado Rockies will once again play a doubleheader on Thursday after rain forced the issue in Kansas City on Wednesday. The 4-18 Rockies have been a little more competitive as of late, showing glimpses of life during their 11-inning loss on Tuesday, but all the pieces aren’t fitting together still. Afte...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Cubs win 4-2 and take the series from the Dodgers in LA. When does being on the Sunday night national broadcast suck less? When you are in California. I mean, it is certainly possible the game would have been a Sunday “afternoon” game in Los Angeles. But for me over here in Florida, them playing a game that only ended around 10 p.m. local time wa...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• David vs Goliath: The Washington Nationals take on the mighty Dodgers

Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals are taking on the greatest juggernaut in baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers It will be a David vs Goliath style matchup this week as the Washington Nationals take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have taken the baseball world by storm with their unprecedented spending spree the last two off-seasons. They owe 8 players over $1 bil...2025
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• Minor League Film Room #1: Brock Wilken
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves are done with the Dodgers and considering how this season’s series went, not a moment sooner! The Atlanta Braves were riding high heading into this series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were on a run of having won four straight series and had just returned home from a productive road trip out West against the Diamondbac...2025
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• A look at a scoring change on Shohei Ohtani that I think MLB got wrong

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images What do you think? Here’s the very first play — in fact, on just the second pitch — of last Tuesday’s Cubs/Dodgers game at Wrigley Field. Shohei Ohtani was the batter [VIDEO]. At the time of the play, this was ruled an error on Gage Workman. Workman is now a member of the White Sox after the Cubs DFA’d him the next day following that error. Shōta I...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night
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• Dodgers Notes: LA Makes Roster Move, Freddie Freeman Return Date Revealed, Insane Comeback Win

The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the win column thanks to an offensive surge in the seventh inning, beating the Washington Nationals, 6-5, to snap a three-game losing skid. Before the win, the Dodgers made a major roster that resulted in a starting pitcher heading back down to Triple-A Oklahoma City. A recent subpar …...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 5, 2025

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Is the offense turning things around? Jaylon Thompson writes about last night’s offensive explosion. KC finished with 11 hits. The increased scoring chances could bode well for the offense finding a rhythm moving forward. “I wasn’t concerned with the at-bats,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “I mean, we are going to have stretches throughout the season where t...2025
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• New look Braves lineup as Ozzie Albies leads off and Marcell Ozuna bats second

Marcell Ozuna has had the best success on the team against Blake Snell | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Harris, Baldwin, and Kelenic are not in the lineup, and Fairchild makes his debut. The Atlanta Braves and their struggling offense will be taking on two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight in hopes of breaking a terrible streak of only two runs in t...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Jurickson Profar suspended for 80 games

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images In a statement, he indicated he did not knowingly take PEDs. We’re less than a week into the 2025 season, but we have already gotten our first suspension for PED use. Atlanta Braves’ Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games for testing positive for PEDs. Specifically, Profar was snagged for using human chorionic gonadotropin, which is a fertil...2025
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• Freddie Freeman’s Mother’s Day Words Add a New Layer to His Little-Known Tribute to Mom Lost to Cancer
Mother's Day has a special meaning to everyone, but Freddie Freeman honors his mother every day, and had an incredible performance on Sunday....2025
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates as Braves drop 2-1 pitchers’ duel

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Grant Holmes was great but Yoshinobu Yamamoto was even better. Grant Holmes had one of the best nights of his career as a starter so far. Unfortunately, this coincided with Yoshinobu Yamamoto continuing to dominate on the mound and as such, the Atlanta Braves ended up dropping this one in a tight, low-scoring and rain-delayed 2-1 defeat. Grant Holmes made...2025
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• Kirk Gibson Said He Predicted Freddie Freeman’s Walk-Off World Series Grand Slam for Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers have had so many memorable moments over the life of the illustrious franchise, but this past October had one in particular that will live forever. Freddie Freeman made one of the biggest swings in baseball history during a walk-off grand slam to end Game 1 of the World Series, and in …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Alex Vesia Makes Incredibly Exciting Announcement

Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia and his wife, Kayla, announced they are expecting a baby in a post to social media Saturday. More news: Freddie Freeman Provides Exciting Injury Update After Return to Dodgers “Baby Vesia coming soon, we are beyond excited for this next chapter!” the couple wrote in a caption on Instagram. …...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions

Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Lots of players got contract extensions. More on the torpedo bat. The Dodgers are hot and the Braves are not. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. We’re leading off with a whole mess of contact extensions today and none of them are Kyle Tucker. First off, Red Sox lefty Garrett Crochet agreed to a six-year, $170 million contract. extension. Dan Szymborski...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Jurickson Profar suspended for 80 games
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• Emotional Freddie Freeman Reveals the True Person Behind His Iconic World Series ‘Moment’
Dodgers star Freddie Freeman revealed who his special moment was for after a walk-off grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series....2025
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• Freeman prayed for his life while battling virus
Braves All-Star Freddie Freeman revealed Saturday that he had a high temperature of 104.5 degrees early in his battle with COVID-19 and prayed for his life....2020
• Freeman powers Braves to back sharp Teheran
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• Braves clock 4 homers in rout of Cardinals
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• Cardinals can't dig out of hole vs. Braves
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• Braves christen SunTrust with a 'W'
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• Bird, Carter go yard at Braves' new home
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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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• Let the Games Begin! Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep- February 23, 2025
Yesterday was the first full day of games in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues. After an active offseason teams are getting work in and facing game conditions. Fantasy drafts are starting and for those not drafting yet it's time to pay attention to what's happening. Chris Sale- P- ATL- Sale tossed 2 perfect IP in his Grapefruit League debut. He threw 21 pitches with his fastball averaging 93.8...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 17, 2024
Francisco Alvarez (C-NYM) enters the 2025 campaign as a question mark after a torn thumb ligament suffered in April forced him to miss a chunk of last season. He's reportedly retooling his swing this offseason at the suggestion of J.D. Martinez to lift the ball more and use the opposite field more often. After bursting onto the scene with 25 homers in just 423 PA as a 21 year-old rookie in 2023, A...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 15, 2025
Welcome Back! Around the League Alex Bregman-Red Sox-3B Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Boston Red Sox, including opt-outs after the 2025 and 2026 seasons. He reportedly chose this higher average annual value contract over longer-term offers from the Tigers and Cubs. Bregman is expected to transition to second base, a position he last played in 2018. This is going t...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball: Who's hot, who's not heading into Week 2
Ah, the beauty of small sample sizes. Am I right?MLB players all over the league are either enjoying inflated statistics because of a quick start, or are trying not to look at their FanGraphs page until they string a few good outings together. That’s part of the beauty when it comes to baseball in April.Current stats are bound to normalize at some point, but fantasy baseball owners still must deci...2018
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• Beat the Streak Picks
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• Dodgers News: Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman Not Yet Nearing Return
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.311 — Austin Riley batting against Trevor Williams. 0.295 — Drake Baldwin batting against Trevor Williams. 0.292 — Freddie Freeman batting against Osvaldo Bido. 0.292 — Jacob Wilson batting against Matt Sauer. 0.284 — Michael Harris II batting against Trevor Williams. 0.281 — [&...2025
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• Freddie Freeman Opens Up About ‘New Normal’ Post Dodgers Star’s Base-Clearing Triple vs. Marlins
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The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages versus starting pitchers: 0.325 — Kerry Carpenter batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.306 — Riley Greene batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.304 — Freddie Freeman batting against Brandon Pfaadt. 0.302 — Dillon Dingler batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.301 — Gleyber Torres batting against Kyle Freeland. 0.300 — Jav...2025
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The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.317 — Teoscar Hernandez batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.313 — Jacob Wilson batting against Emerson Hancock. 0.311 — Freddie Freeman batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.303 — Shohei Ohtani batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.299 — Miguel Andujar batting against Emerson Hancock. 0.294 —...2025
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• Free MLB home run picks, odds for May 5: Freddie Freeman among best bets for Monday HR player props

SportsLine's model is up 28.8 units on HR picks in the last 27 days. Use its MLB picks for sportsbook promotions like the DraftKings King of the Diamond contest...2025

• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• Dodgers 6, Cubs 3: Let’s have an overreaction party!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images As a Dodgers official I rode down in an elevator with after the game said, “It’s just two games.” TOKYO — You could look at it the way I noted below the headline. Or you could look at the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome, a sweep the Dodgers completed without two of their best players (Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman) and utterly panic as t...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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• Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Did the Braves wiggle out of their comfort zone? Does it matter? I considered titling this post, “So Profar, So Good,” but, that seemed to make little sense at this juncture, and that was a headline-in-the-sand I’m not willing to cross at this point. Did the Atlanta Braves do well by signing Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million de...2025
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• Is the Golden At-Bat coming soon to baseball?

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Imagine having the choice to see Ronald Acuña Jr. having the bat in his hands for every big late at-bat with the game on the line. Sounds like a golden idea, right? Maybe, maybe not! By now, I’d imagine that you’ve all heard about or read Jayson Stark’s article over on The Athletic about the “buzz” surrounding the idea that Major League Baseball may ad...2024
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• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Look, I’m just sayin’ — the Braves out-xBAed the Dodgers by .070 and had the only four barrels in the game, and lost 9-0 The Braves played a baseball game on Monday night, which they lost 9-0, to once again drop them out of a playoff spot (for the time being?). The flow of the game itself is, at this point, largely irrelevant. I’ll be...2024
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• The Postseason is quickly becoming the “Travis d’Arnaud Show”

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The Braves catcher has estabilshed himself as one of the best postseason performers in baseball. When the trade for Sean Murphy proved to be the most significant move of this past offseason for the Braves, it likely was a surprise move to many. Atlanta was coming off a 2022 season in which it featured arguably the best catching duo in baseball with Travis d’Ar...2023
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the Division Series

Jason Heyward reacts after hitting a single against the Giants. | John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports Who are you cheering for as playoff baseball continues? Four Wild Card Series and four sweeps later the bracket is set for four best of five Division Series. One division winner, the Milwaukee Brewers, has already been eliminated, the other five remain. These series have everything, including lots...2023
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• Latest On Freddie Freeman
Freddie Freeman’s ultimate free-agent destination has been one of the more fascinating storylines of the offseason. At the outset of free agency, most felt a reunion with the Braves was a fait accompli, but as Freeman’s stay on the market has lingered, there’s been increasing speculation about him signing elsewhere. We can’t know when we’ll…...2022
• Extension candidates: NL East
We're not sure to what extent extension talks will continue during the coronavirus hiatus for Major League Baseball. But as we wrote earlier today, it seems reasonable to think contract talks will be explored to some extent. Some talks may have advanced nearly to completion before the global pandemic intervened. While we may have to wait to learn who the targets are and see what deals get done...2020
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