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• Outside The Confines: Ohtani sets a new record

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The superstar now has the most home runs by a Japanese-born player. This weekend, Shohei Ohtani continued his quest to add every possible record and history-making milestone to his career record. On Sunday afternoon before a hometown crowd, he hit his 176th career home run. Combined with eight innings of stellar pitching to help win the game, it also...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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• Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 4/16/24
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The Mets retire Dwight Gooden’s number. Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter surrenders. Some early-season storylines. Jackie Robinson Day and other news from MLB. One of the nice things about being old is that I can now look back at Doc Gooden and say “You know what? He was a really good pitcher” and not hate him with the burning fire of a thousand suns. A...2024
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• 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
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• Outside The Confines: The butcher’s bill

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Injuries are everywhere and no one knows what to do about it. The Red Sox lock up a rookie outfielder. And other news from MLB. I hope everyone feels better today. And that no one has an elbow injury. This big story in baseball is injuries, in particular to pitchers. Jeff Passan writes that MLB and the Players Association must work together to do something about...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2024

Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images Did the sun come back? Craig Brown recaps the weekend’s games, including Friday’s thriller. I don’t think it’s overstating things to say that this felt like a season-defining moment. Maybe that sounds ridiculous—this was just the eighth game of the season—but this is where we found the Royals. Another brutal loss—it would’ve been the third game out of fou...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A very expected retirement

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images A Washington Nationals great has officially bowed out. With pitching injuries being a big topic of discussion this week (Shane Bieber, Spencer Strider, and Eury Perez are all out for 2024, and MLBPA is blaming the pitch clock), it seems fitting that Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg has announced his long-anticipated retirement. Injuries were...2024
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• 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
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• 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: The Yankees hold their breath after a possible Cole disaster

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Gerrit Cole is getting more tests on his elbow. The Padres and Dodgers prepare to head to Korea. A look at the top players in the game and other news from around MLB. It’s a good thing that Yankees fans are generally a mellow sort who never overreact to anything. Yankees fans are so chill about everything. The reigning Cy Young Award winner, Yankees ri...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It might as well be Spring (Training)

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The Red Sox lock up a young pitcher. There are still a lot of unsigned free agents. The Dodgers and Padres are heading to Korea. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Red Sox have agreed to a six-year, $55 million contract extension with right-hander Brayan Bello. There is a team option for a seventh year at $21 milli...2024
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• 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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"JAWS was created by Jay Jaffe (currently at Fangraphs) as a means to measure a player’s Hall of Fame-worthiness."

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"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?"

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

• Outside The Confines: A new chapter in the Ippei Mizuhara betting scandal
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding
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• Outside The Confines: Spring awakenings

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Ohtani hits his first home run in a Dodger uniform. The Dodgers make a couple more moves. A Giants legend moves to St. Louis. Ichiro’s relationship with Cooperstown and other news from baseball. Good morning. Jeff Passan just ordered two “LISA WAS RIGHT.” shirts which is even more proof why Jeff Passan is the absolute best there i...2024
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• 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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• Outside The Confines: It’s gotta be the pants!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The MLB uniform controversy continues. The Dodgers are the center of attention. A few smaller signings. Are the Pirates happy to be bad? And other news from around baseball. Good morning on the Cubs’ Spring Training Opening Day. Is that a thing? Jesse Rogers reports on the newest controversy about the new Nike/Fanatics uniforms: The pants are so sheer th...2024
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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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• Outside The Confines: Las Vegas tells the A’s to stay home?

Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The Vegas mayor has her say about the A’s plans to move to Sin City. Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman made a big splash this weekend when her comments on a local podcast went viral. In the podcast, Goodman seems to suggest that she thinks the Oakland A’s should stay in California, and that their plans to move “don’t make sense.” She very quick...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 25, 2024

Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Maikel is raking. It’s championship season in the Caribbean! Let’s get started with LIDOM: Dairon Blanco played in five games this week with innings at each outfield position, going 5-21 at the plate with four stolen bases. He hit .345/.406/.517 in semifinal play. Estrellas are locked in a finals battle with Licey as the series is tied 2-2. Moving over to t...2024
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• Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 1/23/24
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• 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
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• 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

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!

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

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: The postseason is starting out Wild

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Things are underway, and soon we’ll know how the final division series will look. Well Cub fans, I know we wanted this week to look different, and we were so close to it being different, but nevertheless even with the Cubs headed home to relax and train for the winter, the show must go on. And in this case, the show is the postseason. It doesn’t matter...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Ohtani sets a new record
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 7, 2024

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Do the games count yet? Tyler Duffey, signed to a minor league deal this offseason, was hit hard by a melanoma diagnosis: Both of his parents had cancer, and hearing Duffey’s diagnosis brought a wave of grief along with it. His mom, Shanna, had breast cancer and died after complications from a blood clot in 2012, when Tyler was a juni...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding
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• Outside The Confines: Elly De La Cruz demonstrates the dangers of spring training

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Or, more specifically, parking in the wrong place. This week, wunderkind Elly De La Cruz managed to demonstrate why no one should drive a nice car to spring training games, when the chances of a wayward home run or foul ball might have a greater chance of destroying your windows. That very thing happened on Tuesday when a De La Cruz fou...2024
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• Matt Harvey Confirms He'll Pitch for Mets in 2015 Playoffs: Comments, Reaction
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• What Is Holding Voters Back from Sending Mike Piazza to Hall of Fame?
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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

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
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• Pedro Martinez's Dominant Prime Makes Him the Greatest Ever
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• Cubs Hot Streak Sets Stage for Rough Dogfight in NL Wild-Card Race
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• St. Louis baseball media had some unique takes on Miles Mikolas’ ejection last night
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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: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 2, 2024

Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images Welcome to 2024! Jaylon Thompson tries to project the Royals’ starting lineup. The Royals have some decisions to make. Competition is expected at a few spots during spring training. Will they add another versatile left-handed bench bat? How will they fill their final bench spots? These questions will be answered before the season begins.... Also worth notin...2024
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• 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

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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• Outside The Confines: We were on an (All-Star) break!
Photo by Sam Navarro/Getty Images MLB heads into its last games of the first half. It’s the last Friday before the halfway mark of the season hits. With that in mind, and so-called experts predicting the award winners already, let’s have a little fun and try to predict some of the biggest stories of the second half. I think the Luis Arraez .400 story will go on until at least early Septemb...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Spring is on the way
Photo by Li Jiaxian/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images And with it, some fresh-faced prospects and new positions for old players. Happy Wednesday one and all, I hope this shortened week is treating everyone well and you’re getting excited about the start of spring training games just around the corner. As we wait for baseball to kick into gear we’re already seeing discussion of next y...2023
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