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• Paul Skenes’ ‘Depreciating’ Trade Value Forces a Gerrit Cole-Like Dilemma for Pirates Claims Insider
Paul Skenes may not be on the Pirates for the rest of his career, and one analyst pointed out that this is similar to the Gerrit Cole situation in 2018....2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves fire Chuck Tanner

Today was Braves Franchise History 1919: It’s Hank Gowdy Day in Boston‚ the catcher’s first game after returning from the Army. He hits the first pitch he sees from Dolf Luque for a single‚ but the Reds prevail over the Braves‚ 10 - 4. 1920: The Braves beat the Reds‚ 7-0‚ behind Jack Scott’s three-hitter. Boston chases Jimmy Ring in the 3rd inning and goes on to tally 12 hits. 1926: Hack Wilson sm...2025
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• Yankees’ Gerrit Cole & Wife Amy Use IL Time to Uplift Lives off the Field With Charitable Contributions
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole has found another way to put a smile on people’s face since he’s not playing this season....2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The best young hitter in baseball took the Yankees to their first World Series in 15 years before moving across town in free agency. Now, he returns to the Bronx as two division leaders clash. On December 7, 2023, the New York Yankees swung a blockbuster trade with the San Diego Padres. It cost a pretty penny, with future Cy Young contender Michael King le...2025
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• ‘It’s Good for My Mental State, My Heart’: Gerrit Cole Reveals His Growing Role With Yankees Post TJ Surgery
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole is seeing his role grow despite him recovering from Tommy John surgery....2025
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• Gerrit Cole’s Funny Injury Confession Shows Just How Much He Misses the Mound
Gerrit Cole spoke to the media for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery, sharing an optimistic update on his recovery....2025
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• ‘It’s Good for My Mental State, My Heart’: Gerrit Cole Reveals His Growing Role With Yankees Post TJ Surgery
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• Gerrit Cole’s Funny Injury Confession Shows Just How Much He Misses the Mound
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• Yanks' Cole on TJ surgery: 'Starts out really dark'
Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole has his mind is on clearing checkpoints in his recovery from Tommy John surgery last month....2025
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• Gerrit Cole thrilled to reach next part of his agonizing Yankees recovery

Gerrit Cole, whose surgery included a reconstruction of his UCL and the use of an internal brace, is expecting a recovery time of around 14 months....2025
• Yankees series preview: ALDS rematch

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Royals travel to the Bronx to face the team that bested them in the post-season last year. Last fall the Royals made a surprise run at the post-season, eventually falling in the ALDS to a historical post-season rival, the New York Yankees. While the Royals retained much of their post-season roster, the Yankees had a lot of churn this off-season, and w...2025
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• Ask and you shall receive isn’t entirely the case with Yankees’ Carlos Rodon

The injuries to Gerrit Cole, Luis Gil and Clarke Schmidt produced two problematic structural problems for the Yankees rotation....2025
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• Game Thread #3: Milwaukee Brewers (0-2) @ New York Yankees (2-0)

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Brewers look to salvage one in a dispiriting opening series After a tough 4-2 loss on Opening Day, the Brewers are back after two days off to continue their series with the New Yo.... what’s that? They played yesterday? Hmm, I seem to have forgotten. In all seriousness, the Brewers’ pitching staff made all sorts of the wrong kind of history yesterday in a 20-9...2025
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• Game Thread #3: Milwaukee Brewers (0-2) @ New York Yankees (2-0)

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Brewers look to salvage one in a dispiriting opening series After a tough 4-2 loss on Opening Day, the Brewers are back after two days off to continue their series with the New Yo.... what’s that? They played yesterday? Hmm, I seem to have forgotten. In all seriousness, the Brewers’ pitching staff made all sorts of the wrong kind of history yesterday in a 20-9...2025
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• Game Thread #1: Milwaukee Brewers (0-0) @ New York Yankees (0-0)

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Brewers open the 2025 season in The Big Apple Hello everyone and welcome to the 2025 Major League Baseball season! Before we get to today’s matchup, check out some of our preview articles from this week. We’ve got Brewers award predictions, NL Central standings predictions, and bold predictions and storylines to watch. Also check out our series preview for opening...2025
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• Next up for Yankees? A vacation for Brian Cashman
With Gerrit Cole signed, Cashman has already won the winter....2019
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"Yankees fans have been nervously awaiting news regarding ace Gerrit Cole ever since he was sent for “diagnostic tests” on his elbow on Friday."

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"Gerrit Cole free agency: Yankees' ace reportedly opts out of contract, but New York can still keep him"

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"Full lineup for the American League: Marcus Semien - 2B Shohei Ohtani - DH Randy Arozarena - LF Corey Seager - SS Yandy Diaz - 1B Adolis Garcia - RF Austin Hays - CF Josh Jung - 3B Jonah Heim - C Starting on the mound for the American League is New York Yankees’ starter Gerrit Cole."

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"Alek Manoah calls out Gerrit Cole over on-field incident"

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"Gerrit Cole is living the dream."

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"This is the second hit to a rotation that was enhanced over the winter through the addition of Gerrit Cole."

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"Prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees have agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan."

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"The Pirates have traded their top starting pitcher Gerrit Cole to the Astros, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports."

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"For the second time this season, Gerrit Cole was at his absolute best against the Cubs at PNC Park."

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"Gerrit Cole tossed eight shutout innings, and Jung Ho Kang smacked an RBI double and solo homer as the Pirates took a 2-1 victory on Sunday over the Cubs and Jon Lester, who no-hit Pittsburgh through 6 1/3 innings."

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"Gerrit Cole is not only an All-Star."

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"Gerrit Cole bounced back from giving up a run in each of the first two innings by retiring the last 17 batters he faced."

• This Day in Braves History: Braves fire Chuck Tanner
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• My hit of the year so far came from ... Japan?

A pretty crappy month-plus-one-more-week turned around for me right in the last couple days, fortunately. This is all relative, of course, with the state of things lately, but it was nice to be bubbly for a day. To briefly recap, in the last couple of days I learned that my retirement is not a pipe dream, my daughter who was laid off by AI last month landed a job with a salary significa...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images What do you all think will happen during the 2025 MLB season? It’s Opening Day! Rockies baseball is back! Earlier today, we shared our Purple Row staff predictions, and for the second-straight year, we asked the community to offer their same predictions! We received 35 responses, up from 28 in 2024, and here’s what y...2025
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• Game Thread #1: Milwaukee Brewers (0-0) @ New York Yankees (0-0)
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How many games will the Rockies win in 2025? Who will take home hardware around baseball? It’s that time of year again...Purple Row staff predictions! The Rockies start their 162-game quest tonight in sunny Tampa, FL at Tropicana George M. Steinbrenner Field as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing their season in the sp...2025
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• 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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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ New York Yankees

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images The Crew heads to The Big Apple for first series of 2025 Welcome back to regular season baseball! The Milwaukee Brewers are set to kick off the 2025 season with a trip to New York to face the Yankees. Coming off a busy offseason, the Brewers’ biggest changes come in their rotation and their infield. With Willy Adames now in San Francisco, the Brewers are expect...2025
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• Game Thread: D-Backs at White Sox

Relief pitcher Brandon Eisert will start this afternoon for the South Siders. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Last Spring Training Sunday! Happy Sunday! Just two games left until the team heads home for Opening Day! The Arizona Diamondbacks will face off against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch this afternoon in Glendale. The D-Backs will have a split squad against our full squad,...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves fire Chuck Tanner
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• Yanks' Cole on TJ surgery: 'Starts out really dark'
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• Yankees series preview: ALDS rematch
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions
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• Sometimes It Hurts- Preseason Prep- March 17, 2025
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Luck o' the Irish hasn't been with several teams and players so far in Spring Training as a rash of injuries has hit them. The first game that counts will be tomorrow when the Dodgers and Cubs face off in Tokyo. SS Mookie Betts may not be playing in the two games of the Tokyo Series. He has been suffering an illness that has forced him to miss the exhibition games tha...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 14, 2025
Injury Updates Bobby Witt Jr, SS, Royals Bobby Witt was recently hit in the forearm with a pitch in Spring Training and left the game. After getting tested, it was determined it was nothing serious, just a bruise. This is a relief for any fantasy manager who has already drafted, as they likely had to use a top-three overall pick on him. He is coming off of a 32 home run, 31 stolen base season whi...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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• This Day in Braves History: Braves fire Chuck Tanner
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• Outside The Confines: Down goes Cole
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 11, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The farm system shows improvement in rankings. Anne Rogers has her latest roster projection. If Bubic is in the rotation, it doesn’t mean that Lynch is automatically starting in Triple-A, because the club feels good about its depth there. Lynch embraced helping the Royals in a relief role at the end of last year, throwing 20 2/3 scor...2025
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• Gerrit Cole Responds to Joe Kelly Calling Him Out After World Series Blunder vs Dodgers

New York Yankees starter Gerrit Cole doesn’t understand why Los Angeles Dodgers free agent Joe Kelly keeps calling him out for a simple mistake. The latest dig compared Cole to his son’s Little League team for failing to cover first base in a critical moment in Game 5. “Knox’s 9-year-old travel team … every single …...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Alex Bregman sweepstakes are over

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images And the Red Sox are the winners. The biggest lingering question of the offseason free agent market has finally been answered, and that’s: Who will sign Alex Bregman? The three biggest contenders were our own Cubs, the Detroit Tigers, and the Boston Red Sox. Despite a reportedly large offer from the Tigers, it was the Red Sox who won out and signed the forme...2025
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• Why the Padres have a case in arbitration against Michael King

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The two sides could be going to a hearing next month unless a settlement is reached 2.95 ERA. 30 regular season starts. Over 200 strikeouts. 7 shutout innings in a postseason game. That is just some of what Michael King accomplished in his first season with the Padres. That is also someone the Padres want to extend before he hits free age...2025
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• Could baseball experiment with a “Golden At-Bat”?

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images Could you send your best hitter up when he’s most needed? In Game 5 of the series-deciding ALDS against the Yankees, the Royals had their backs up against the wall in the seventh inning. Down 3-1, Tommy Pham smacked a two-out single to give the Royals some hope at a comeback against a tiring Gerrit Cole. Unfortunately they had their #8 hitter, Kyle Isbe...2024
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• Royals lose seesaw affair, 6-5

Kansas City Royals pitcher John Schreiber (46) reacts during the fifth inning against the New York Yankees during game one of the ALDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images Neither team’s best MVP candidate could come up with a hit in this one From the first inning it was obvious that neither team was going to be content to have one of the low-scoring affa...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No postseason for the Yankees

John Jones-USA TODAY Sports It’s the first time since 2016 the Yankees haven’t seen October baseball. They’ve been called a dynasty. They’ve spent some of the highest amounts in modern history to build winning teams, and now the Yankees will be missing the postseason for the first time since 2016. As you’ll see in some of the links below, while the Yankees are disappointed, some people ar...2023
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• Sources: Cole to join Yankees for 9 years, $324M
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• Gerrit Cole signs with Yankees for record-breaking $324 million deal
The Yankees have given Cole the biggest pitching contract in baseball history...2019
• Cubs wait out Cole, strike late for shutout win
For the second time this season, Gerrit Cole was at his absolute best against the Cubs at PNC Park. And for the second time this season, the Cubs won anyway. After Cole threw eight shutout innings, catcher Alex Avila ripped an RBI triple off Daniel Hudson in the ninth to give the Cubs a 1-0 win on Wednesday night....2017
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• Sources: Yankees make signing Cole top priority
Signing Gerrit Cole is the top priority for the Yankees this offseason, and they have approval to offer him a record-setting deal, sources tell ESPN....2019
• Yankees To Sign Gerrit Cole
The Yankees have reached a nine-year, $324MM agreement with free-agent righthander Gerrit Cole, Jon Heyman of MLB Network reports....2019
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• Cole outduels Lester as Bucs take finale
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• Carpenter's blast not enough to pick up Lynn
Gerrit Cole is not only an All-Star. He's an all-timer, as far as Pittsburgh's franchise is concerned. Cole scattered six hits in seven innings Friday night as the Bucs downed the Cardinals, 5-2, to even their four-game series and return within 4 1/2 games of the National League Central leaders....2015
• Cole first to 13 wins as Bucs topple Cards
Gerrit Cole is not only an All-Star. He's an all-timer, as far as Pittsburgh's franchise is concerned. Cole scattered six hits in seven innings Friday night as the Bucs downed the Cardinals, 5-2, to even their four-game series and return within 4 1/2 games of the National League Central leaders....2015

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• Sometimes It Hurts- Preseason Prep- March 17, 2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series
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• Gerrit Cole thrilled to reach next part of his agonizing Yankees recovery
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• Game Thread #3: Milwaukee Brewers (0-2) @ New York Yankees (2-0)
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• Game Thread #3: Milwaukee Brewers (0-2) @ New York Yankees (2-0)
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ New York Yankees
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series
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• This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron is elected to the Hall of Fame on his first ballot

Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1959 - John Quinn resigns as general manager of the Milwaukee Braves and immediately accepts a similar position with the Phillies. 1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Aaron fell nine votes shy of becoming the first-ever unanimous selection and his 97.8 e...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Rejoice, baseball fans, we now have an idea of when the Manfred era will end. If we’re being honest, the role of MLB Commissioner is not an enviable one. The job, by its very nature, is inclined to create ire among fans, as the person in charge is trying to appease fans, players, but mostly owners, and the goals of those three groups rarely...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Yankees 7, White Sox 1

@tom_paints What a snoozefest How will the White Sox disappoint us today? Perhaps the lineup against the Yankees will foreshadow something. Tonight's #WhiteSox starters vs. New York: pic.twitter.com/ZTuct5beYv— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) August 8, 2023 The theme, however, seems to have the opposite effect on fans — it’s Yacht Rock night! *cues Yacht Rock music* pic.twitter.com...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Astros series preview
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images It’s been four years since these teams have played each other. The last time these two clubs met was May 29, 2019. The Cubs won 2-1. Of the 23 men who played in that game, just one is on either team’s current active roster -- Alex Bregman. Somehow, that seems like a very long time ago. For more on the Astros, here’s William Metzger, managing editor of o...2023
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• The Drew Smyly signing by the numbers
Drew Smyly pitches against the Giants at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smyly will return to the Cubs It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu writing this piece because I’ve written it before — I also did this five years ago, the first time the Cubs signed Drew Smyly to a two-year deal when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Cubs took a second f...2023
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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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• While Astros confront past, Gerrit Cole 'thrilled for new adventure' with Yankees
The fallout of Houston's sign-stealing scandal is happening 200 miles away from Tampa. Might as well be 2,000....2020