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  • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Ownership dramas are casting a dark cloud over San Diego Happy Monday, friends. While the hot stove hasn’t been too steamy this past week, there’s definitely some news to keep us busy. Drama continues to develop in San Diego as an ownership lawsuit takes shape and is forcing some unwelcome attention on the team thanks to a lawsuit from the...2025
  • Royals Rumblings - News for January 2, 2025
    • Royals Rumblings - News for January 2, 2025
    Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images The holiday season is officially over (unless you’re Catholic I guess). A bunch of Royals listcles from MLB dot com to start you off, first with one potential breakout prospect: Royals: Asbel Gonzalez, OF (No. 20) Scouts love their no-doubt center fielders, and Gonzalez has wowed plenty of Royals evaluators with his defense and speed...2025
  • Outside The Confines: A very merry OTC
    • Outside The Confines: A very merry OTC
    Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images Merry Christmas, everyone! Happy Holidays, dear BCB readers! If you celebrate Christmas, I hope today brings you lots of joy and a delightfully filling dinner. If you’re not a Christmas person, I hope your Wednesday is still lovely and fulfilling. News will be light, but I would never leave your OTC stockings empty! Let’s dive into your mid-wee...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog
    • Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog
    Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (Apollo Fried not pictured, but that’s still a good dog.) Happy Friday friends! As predicted earlier this week the news stories are slowing down (somehow this is the last Friday before Christmas? How did that happen?!) Max Kepler has left the Twins on a one-year deal; a few potential Hall of Famers have a case made for them; Bobby Witt Jr. lov...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)
    • Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)
    Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Juan Soto signs a record deal with the Amazin’s. Willy Adames goes to the Giants. Other free agent signings and a preview of the Winter Meetings. Good morning. Late-breaking news last night. And it’s beginning to look a lot like the Winter Meetings. Last night, free agent outfielder Juan Soto agreed to a record 15-year, $765 million deal. There is no def...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images The hot stove means we know big changes are coming to some teams. Hot stove season means we know that a lot of changes will be coming to teams around baseball, either by offloading talent to save money and stock up the farm system, or attempting to bolster their rosters and make a run for the 2025 offseason. Blake Snell signed a deal late...2024

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  • Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
    • Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
    Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela passes away. A World Series preview and other MLB news. We were all set to celebrate the World Series and the first Yankees/Dodgers Fall Classic since 1981. But first, we have to say goodbye to one of the heroes of that World Series of 43 years ago. The Los Angeles Dodgers mourn the passing of legendary pitcher Fern...2024
  • Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
    • Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
    Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images The player is poised to make history as he prepares to make his debut. Happy Friday, everyone! We’re halfway through September, which means we only have two full weeks of regular season baseball left. There are still some questions about who will slot in for the wild card spots, and some teams who are poised to win their divisions might want to worry a bi...2024
  • Outside The Confines: The big showdown in Philadelphia
    • 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: Going for gold
    • Outside The Confines: Going for gold
    Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Major leaguers press to be allowed to compete in the 2028 Olympics. Aaron Judge wants to play, but no one will pitch to him. More on the White Sox and other news from around the league. Good morning. With the 2024 Paris Olympics now over, some people are looking forward to 2028 Los Angeles, where baseball will be a sport again. Jake Mintz looks at the...2024
  • Outside The Confines: South Side blues
    • Outside The Confines: South Side blues
    Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The White Sox fired their manager as they challenge for the all-time record for losses. And other news from around MLB. A leaked script from Major League 4. Jerry Reinsdorf: Here are a list of candidates for the new White Sox manager. Chris Getz: I’ve never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime. Ozzie Guillen, Jim Leyland, To...2024
  • Outside The Confines: I didn’t say nuthin’!
    • Outside The Confines: I didn’t say nuthin’!
    Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images The Yankees skipper gets ejected for something he didn’t say. Shohei Ohtani hits the ball really hard. Bernie Williams makes his second debut and other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Chicago MLB teams have a combined record of 17-29. Yankees manager Aaron Boone got ejected in the first inning of Monday’s Yankees game by umpire Hunter Wende...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
    • 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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  • Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal
    • Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal
    Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images A freshly released criminal complaint offers shocking details in the betting scandal. Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani has been charged with bank fraud after stealing $16 million from Ohtani. In a newly publicized criminal complaint, texts were released between Mizuhara and his bookie, as well as details regarding how much he won (a...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Oh no-no! The first no-hitter of the season!
    • Outside The Confines: Oh no-no! The first no-hitter of the season!
    Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images In just his eighth major league start, Ronel Blanco got the season going in style. Some pitchers wait their whole career and never have a no-hitter. Tyler Gilbert did it in his first major league start in 2021. Ronel Blanco waited a little longer, doing it in his eighth MLB start. And while some might have read the headline and thought it was an April Fool...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway
    • Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway
    Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images News from Opening Day weekend and MLB. It’s the home opener! (Weather permitting.) It’s also April Fools Day. In honor of that, all the links will take you to Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” (No, they won’t.) The City of Oakland have delivered their list of demands to allow the Athletics to play for the next three years at the Coliseu...2024

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  • Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding
    • Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding
    Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports The superstar posted the news to social media. Surprise! Shohei Ohtani has tied the knot, and for someone worth nearly a billion dollars, and a superstar athlete in both his native Japan and his present home of the US, one might expect some high-profile nuptials, but instead Ohtani has kept his wedding relatively quiet. Ohtani has married a woman from Japan ...2024
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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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  • • Outside The Confines: Is the MLBPA going to stand up for MiLB?
    Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Seems like some interesting changes might be coming. In some late-breaking Sunday news that we will most certainly be hearing a lot more about in the coming week, it appears that a vote is on the way to see how Minor League players feel about having the MLPBA act as their collective bargaining representative. BREAKING: Minor Leaguer...2022
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  • 2025
    "Fangraphs’ Jay Jaffe shares his 2025 Hall of Fame ballot."

  • 2024
    "JAWS was created by Jay Jaffe (currently at Fangraphs) as a means to measure a player’s Hall of Fame-worthiness."

  • 2023
    "com/IUTU4ij8pV— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 28, 2023 Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs quote tweeting the excellent Tipping Pitches podcast: You can't drill a guy with blatant intent and then "who me?"

  • 2022
    "Jay Jaffe shares his Hall-of-Fame ballot."

  • 2021
    "At the top of the program, Jay Jaffe sits down with Fred C."

  • 2019
    "MLB podcast: Dissecting the 2019 Hall of Fame vote with FanGraphs' Jay Jaffe"

  • 2018
    "Over at Fangraphs, Jay Jaffe takes an analytic approach to forecasting a new contract for Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, assuming the three-time Cy Young winner opts out of the remaining two years and $65MM on his current deal after the season."

  • 2016
    "Jon Heyman of MLB Network was among those who reacted to the news of Branca's death: Jay Jaffe of SI."

  • 2015
    "Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal and Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan wondered why Harvey didn't clear this whole mess up earlier: Andy McCullough of the Kansas City Star was also less than complimentary about how Harvey has handled the past weekend: As Sports Illustrated's Jay Jaffe noted, the plans for Harvey have seemed to change a bit in a relatively quick time frame: CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reported Friday that Boras was expecting the Mets to shut Harvey down after roughly 180 innings this season so as not to work him too hard in his first season back from Tommy John surgery."

  • 2014
    "To that point in the game, the 33-year-old catcher was 3-for-3, which Sports Illustrated's Jay Jaffe read as the strongest indicator as possible that Wainwright didn't have it on Friday: While all of this happened, Kershaw was rolling, retiring St."

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Jay Jaffe trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    2025
  • • Outside The Confines: A very merry OTC
    2024
  • • Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    2024
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  • Outside The Confines: No baseball at Tropicana until 2026
    • Outside The Confines: No baseball at Tropicana until 2026
    Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The damage report for the Rays’ stadium is back, and it’s grim. One of the biggest stories of the offseason isn’t where Juan Soto will sign or which team will land Roki Sasaki, it’s the devastation of Tropicana Field, and whether the Rays would be able to play at home in 2025. The answer is finally known, and in short: No. The...2024
  • • Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
    2024
  • Outside The Confines: Fall Classic
    • Outside The Confines: Fall Classic
    Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images A thrilling ALCS game keeps the Guardians hopes alive. The Dodgers take control of the NLCS. Last night’s American League Championship Series game was good, but I take issue with this: Saw Tom Hamilton leaving the radio booth tonight. ‘You will not ever see a better game than that,’ he said. He’s called a lot of baseball games. Tough to argue with that...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye
    • Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye
    Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Oakland A’s are in their final days. The White Sox avoid history for one more day. The Reds fire their manager. And other news around MLB. The White Sox won last night, thanks in large part to the Angels dropping an easy infield fly in the bottom of the eighth. So the White Sox breaking the record of the 1962 Mets will have to wait until another day, and...2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
    2024

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  • • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    2025
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  • Outside The Confines: Stayin’ alive!
    • Outside The Confines: Stayin’ alive!
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Yankees' slump was one for the ages, but they still have a chance. The World Series seems as if it only just started, and now it might just get interesting. Don’t call it a comeback! But do call it a comeback. Lots of experts had all but counted the Yankees out after a 3-0 Series start from the Dodgers. Despite a slumping performance ...2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Going for gold
    2024
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  • Outside The Confines: Lost cause
    • Outside The Confines: Lost cause
    Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The White Sox keep losing. A Giant threw a no-hitter. A look down the stretch and other baseball news. Good morning. The White Sox catch a break this week in that they have three games coming up against the Athletics in Oakland. The A’s are the second-worst team in the American League. They’re still 19½ games better than the South Siders. The Chicago ...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date
    • 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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  • A hypothetical 2024 Hall of Fame ballot
    • A hypothetical 2024 Hall of Fame ballot
    Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images I don’t have a Hall of Fame vote, but if I did, this is what it would look like. This is an exercise that I have thought about doing for the last three years, but ultimately decided that it wasn’t worth the trouble. Voting for Baseball’s Hall of Fame in my opinion is the ultimate honor for a writer, but in recent years we have seen b...2024
  • Who should be elected to the Hall of Fame?
    • Who should be elected to the Hall of Fame?
    Will Carlos Beltrán get voted into Cooperstown? The Baseball Writers of America will announce their Hall of Fame selections next week to join manager Jim Leyland for induction into Cooperstown this summer. Among the first-time candidates on the ballot include Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer, Chaes Utley, and David Wright. The ballot also features many holdovers, such as Gary Sheffield, who is in his fina...2024
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  • Tuesday Rockpile: Todd Helton and the “just vibes” Hall of Fame voting process
    • Tuesday Rockpile: Todd Helton and the “just vibes” Hall of Fame voting process
    Photo By Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, January 2, 2024 As a college writing teacher, grading rubrics are a key part of my evaluative toolkit. A rubric sets the criteria that will be measured in an assignment and assigns weight to each of those criteria based on the degree to which a student succeeds in meeting those outcom...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: Happy New Year!
    • Outside The Confines: Happy New Year!
    Photo by Lukas Kabon/Anadolu via Getty Images Welcome to 2024, BCBers! Happy New Year everyone! It’s January 1 and 2024 is here, but that means one incredibly important thing: We are only six weeks away from spring training! While the baseball news well is a bit dry thanks to the holidays, there was one Sale that certainly created some headlines, as the Boston Red Sox sent Chris Sale to t...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: The future is foretold by the Cards
    • Outside The Confines: The future is foretold by the Cards
    Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Cardinals make two free agent signings. Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been posted. The Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes are mysterious. And other news from MLB. Good morning. I hope you are all ready for a great holiday weekend. Normally, when I hear that the Cardinals have a pitcher with the last name of “Gibson,” I get scared. But in this case, the Cardina...2023

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  • • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    2025
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for January 2, 2025
    2025
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  • • Outside The Confines: A very merry OTC
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Max Fried loves his dog
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    2024
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  • Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?
    • Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?
    Photo by Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images No, but she did get great seats for the ALCS. The hullaballoo and backlash of Taylor Swift’s presence at Kansas City Chiefs games may now be moving over to baseball. It turns out the pop singer’s famous boyfriend Travis Kelce is a big Cleveland Guardians fan, so the pair headed to the first game of the ALCS to watch the Guardians take on ...2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye
    2024
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  • Outside The Confines: 51/51
    • Outside The Confines: 51/51
    Photo by Chris Arjoon/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani goes where no ballplayer has gone before. The White Sox rot from the head. A look ahead to the end of the season and the Mariners had some issues. Good morning. This Ohtani fellow is good, but he’s no Babe Ruth. After all, the Babe was a great pitcher too. Now if Ohtani learns to pitch next season, them maybe we can consider him the greates...2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
    2024
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Top Jay Jaffe news

  • • Matt Harvey Confirms He'll Pitch for Mets in 2015 Playoffs: Comments, Reaction
    2015
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  • • What Is Holding Voters Back from Sending Mike Piazza to Hall of Fame?
    2015
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  • • St. Louis baseball media had some unique takes on Miles Mikolas’ ejection last night
    Mikolas tries to explain baseball to umpires | Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images Mikolas was ejected for intentionally throwing at Ian Happ. The Cubs and Cardinals have one of the best rivalries in sports and that means every time these two teams come together there is the potential for some seriously entertaining baseball. There is also always the potential for drama. After all, playi...2023
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  • Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones
    • Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones
    Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images The greatest defensive center fielder of all time is in his seventh year on the ballot. There are many players throughout baseball history who began their careers on a Hall of Fame path before injuries or a production dropoff caught up with them. Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones may be a special case in that discussion. Jones is regarded by man...2024
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  • • Alex Rodriguez Passes Barry Bonds for 2nd Place on MLB's All-Time RBI List
    2015
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  • • Pedro Martinez's Dominant Prime Makes Him the Greatest Ever
    2015
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  • • Cubs Hot Streak Sets Stage for Rough Dogfight in NL Wild-Card Race
    2015
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  • • Cardinals vs. Dodgers: Game 1 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2014 MLB Playoffs
    2014
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  • Outside The Confines: Liar, liar, pants on fire...
    • Outside The Confines: Liar, liar, pants on fire...
    Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports MLB’s latest snafu invloves see-through pants. In 2022 we saw tensions between MLB and MLBPA lead to a delayed start to the season. Now, while there isn’t a lockout looming, there are new issues brewing between MLB and its players, as there are mounting complaints about something unexpected... pants. While MLB is adamant there have been no major changes made t...2024
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  • • St. Louis baseball media had some unique takes on Miles Mikolas’ ejection last night
    2023
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  • • Outside The Confines: Correa returned to sender?
    Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images The Carlos Correa sweepstakes seem poised to end where they began. Sometimes during the offseason (and I’ve done it here myself), we like to post tweet updates showing the wild and wacky path taken by minor league players bouncing from team to team via DNF and signing. Well, I don’t think anyone expected the wildest ride of free agency...2023
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  • • Outside The Confines: Family drama for the Padres
    2025
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for January 2, 2025
    2025
  • • Outside The Confines: Juan Soto signs with New York (Mets)
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Stayin’ alive!
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
    2024
    Click for news about Fernando Valenzuela
  • • Outside The Confines: Fall Classic
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?
    2024
    Check it out Cleveland Guardians
  • • Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: 51/51
    2024
    Click for news about Shohei Ohtani

Jay Jaffe rumors, scandals

  • • Outside The Confines: No baseball at Tropicana until 2026
    2024
    Continue with Juan Soto scandals
  • • Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
    2024
  • • Outside The Confines: Lost cause
    2024
    Click for news about David Berding gossip
  • • Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
    2024
  • • Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway
    2024
    Continue with McCovey Cove
  • • Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date
    2024
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  • • A hypothetical 2024 Hall of Fame ballot
    2024
  • Outside The Confines: A classic fall
    • Outside The Confines: A classic fall
    Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports The World Series is set. Adolis García and Ketel Marte were the heroes of the Championship Series. What’s next for the Astros. The Red Sox and GIants have new bosses. Congratulations to the Rangers and the Diamondbacks. May we have a seven-game series with every game decided by one run. And let’s have Game 7 go to extra innings for good measure. I don’t hav...2023
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  • Outside The Confines: Royals looking for a new throne
    • Outside The Confines: Royals looking for a new throne
    Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images Will KC be the next team hunting for new digs? Also, big news from the Chicago White Sox. The Kansas City Royals unveiled their plans for their future stadium, and the future of Royals baseball in Kansas City. We’re excited to share the future vision of Royals baseball. For more images and to learn about the economic impact of a bal...2023
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