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• Player of the Series: Zack Littell

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images I wish I could give it to all three starters! With Adam on vacation this week, I’ve had the opportunity to write this week’s Player of the Series articles, and the power is thrilling. I can choose anyone! Maybe I could even choose the fans! Because, in addition to the great bucket hat catch on Memorial Day, we were treated to this bro who celebrated catchin...2025
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• Rays add veteran Kyle Gibson to minors after O’s DFA

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images After the Twins series wrapped, news broke that the Rays have signed SP Kyle Gibson to a minor league deal. Heading into the off-season, 37-year old veteran starting pitcher Kyle Gibson was considered a top free agent at FanGraphs — 50th out of 50 — and was projected to a $10 million deal. He settled for half of that with the Baltimore Orioles, and things didn’t go ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Junior Caminero

Photo by Mark Taylor/Getty Images A sweep made this a hard decision. There were a lot of candidates for the Rays player of the series, as it should be when you sweep a division rival. Ryan Pepiot pitched 7 scoreless, Brandon Lowe homered in his third straight game, but Junior Caminero truly showed up to play, essentially batting .500 over the weekend while playing some dazzling defense. I...2025
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• Player of the Series: Curtis Mead

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Curtis Mead is having one of the hottest stretches of his career The Tampa Bay Rays may have finally solved George Steinbrenner Field. Tampa Bay has now won four of their last six contests at home, including their last two games against the Houston Astros and they only lost Monday’s game by one run after stranding the tying run on third base. A large part o...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 8

Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images T.J. Nichols had a stellar start and is getting national attention This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the eigth week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Six shutout innings helped pave the way to the Rays lone victory of the series The Tampa Bay Rays lost a series to the Miami Marlins for the first time since 2018. Nothing really went right for the team and even in the game they won, Chandler Simpson’s face paid the price. When looking for a player that performed the best, only two hitters had a wRC+ over...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 8
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen
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• Player of the Series: Brandon Lowe

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Lowe capped off an eventful series with a two homerun game on Thursday During the Rays three game series victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, veteran second baseman Brandon Lowe broke out of a weeks long slump. Entering play on Tuesday, Lowe had seven hits over his last 52 PA and was hitting .152/.250/.304 over that span (13 games); during this series aga...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 7

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images One of the Rays top pitching prospects has landed on the Injured List This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the seventh week of minor league play. According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in t...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images One of the top prospects in baseball notched his first big league hit during the series It didn’t take long for Chandler Simpson to prove he was the fastest player in baseball. Simpson’s game shattering speed made waves around the game on Sunday as he scorched a ground ball to the right side of the infield. Yankees first baseman, Paul Goldschmidt, knew he ha...2025
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• Player of the Series: Shane Baz

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Baz has been among the best starting pitchers in baseball early on Shane Baz only has three starts this year but he emerged as an early season candidate for the American League Cy Young award. The 25-year old former top prospect has been fantastic for the Rays this season and was no exception on Monday as he dominated the Boston Red Sox during the series...2025
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• Rays 8, Braves 3: Boyle’s spot start fuels series victory

Dominik Vega Waking up today, we expected Shane Baz to take the mound for the series finale against Atlanta. When it was announced that Joe Boyle would instead be making his Rays debut, Rays fans had every right to be worried as to the reason why. Exhale, there was no injury to Baz. The Rays just decided to push everyone in the rotation back one day and give Boyle a spot start after his st...2025
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• Rays Opening Day roster for 2025 appears set

Mason Englert wins the bullpen competition. | Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Pending no further injuries, the Rays roster is ready for Opening Day. After several roster moves, the Rays lineup appears to be set. Here’s the latest projection for Opening Day. * left-handed hitter** switch hitter Starting Lineup C — Danny Jansen 1B — Yandy Diaz 2B — Brandon Lowe* 3B ...2025
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• Rays have 16 pitchers remaining for 13 slots in 2025

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Here are the decisions made for every pitcher in Spring Training camp thus far. Each Spring Training more than 70 players will roll through hoping for a slot on the 26-man roster. It’s a lot, particularly on the pitching side. Here’s a recap of every pitcher the Rays brought into camp this year, and what’s left to be decided. Non-Roster Invites already re...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 11, 2025
Francisco Alvarez (C - Mets) The Mets announced Alvarez will miss 6-8 weeks after undergoing hamate surgery. This is a big blow for owners who have already drafted as Alvarez has slugged 36 home runs over the past 2 seasons and is seen as one of the better young hitting catchers in baseball. This does continue an injury trend for him tho as he played in just 110 games a year ago as he was hurt in...2025
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• Player of the Series: Zack Littell
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"Opposing Sale will be Joe Boyle, who was called up in a rush for his first MLB start of 2025 to give Rays starters an extra day of rest."

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"The A’s will receive Springs and another player, while the Rays will receive right-handers Joe Boyle and Jacob Watters, outfielder Will Simpson, plus the…"

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"The A’s will receive pitching prospect Joe Boyle and international cap space."

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"Prospect News April 20: Joe Boyle Rules or A Ninja Turtle Shreds"

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"Third-round pick Bryce Bonnin and fifth-rounder Joe Boyle have both signed contracts."

• Rays add veteran Kyle Gibson to minors after O’s DFA
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 8
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen
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• Player of the Series: Travis Jankowski

Photo by Kelly Gavin/Getty Images The journeyman outfielder made his presence known this past weekend A month ago, the Chicago White Sox, a team that was historically awful in 2024 and off to an abysmal 2025 start, didn’t believe having Travis Jankowski on their active roster made them a better team. He was designated for assignment on April 6th, cleared waivers, and accepted his assignmen...2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 6

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Suddenly Seymour is leading the Rays organization in homeruns This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday. This was the sixth week of minor league play with all of the Rays full season minor league teams having completed their first full week of pla; the Complex League ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Shane Baz
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• Player of the Series: Joe Boyle

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Five no-hit innings from a spot-starter is a nice surprise Joe Boyle might just have the nastiest arsenal in all of baseball. A ridiculous fastball that ranks among the league’s best with secondary pitches that are among the top of the charts in movement and velocity. Command has been the issue for Boyle and has held him back from joining the upper echelon ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for Honorable Mentions

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Taking a different path to wrapping up 2025’s vote There was muted interest in continuing the annual prospect vote for the 26-30 range this year, and that’s reasonable given the depth and breadth of the Rays talent in the minors. So this year, I’d like to come up with a different approach to rounding out the list. Recs Usually we use a commenting syste...2025
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• Rays Opening Day roster for 2025 appears set
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• Rays have 16 pitchers remaining for 13 slots in 2025
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 7
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep dominates in strong pitching night

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images A look at the delivery of old for Hurston Waldrep who debuted a change in mechanics. (15-21) Gwinnett Stripers 3, (23-13) Durham Bulls 2 Hurston Waldrep, SP: 5.1IP 2H 2ER 2BB 10K, 6.35 ERA Michael Peterson, RP: 1.1IP 2H 0R 0BB 2K, 3.38 ERA Jarred Kelenic, CF: 0-for-4, .265/.390/.471 Luke Williams, SS: 2-for-3, R, BB, .132/.205/.145 Eddys Leonard, 2B: 1-...2025
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• Player of the Series: Joe Boyle
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• Braves to try to ‘Rays’ win total to five

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images I’ll keep saying it. Just keep winning series. It’s finally time to answer this in the affirmative and win a second series in a row. Winning series really is the way you have to look at a baseball season. Every team will have runs like the Atlanta Braves had to start the season, but that’s 7 of 162 games, or 4.3% of the season. It’s just not that representative of ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for Honorable Mentions
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 26

Urbina wins 25. Previous Winner 25. Jose Urbina, RHP19 | 6’3” | 180CPX | 4.50 ERA, 4.78 FIP, 48.0 IP (13 G, 8 GS) 21.7% K, 12.1% BBA | 5.29 ERA, 6.11 FIP, 17.0 IP (4 GS) 18.2% K, 6.1% BB The Venezuelan was elevated to the Holy City at the end of 2024, continuing the team’s aggressive push with his development. He traded his curveball for an easier to locate slider mid-season, but thus far lacks a ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 25

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Joe Rock rolls in at 24, about where he was last year. Previous Winner 24. Joe Rock, LHP24 | 6’6” | 200AAA | 4.58 ERA, 4.14 FIP, 139.2 IP (27 G, 23 GS) 21.6% K, 5.7% BB Rock popped late in Spring Training thanks to a ringing endorsement from FanGraphs, earning an 11th overall ranking thanks to his deception and strong (for a lefty) velocity, and tabbing his ...2025
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for No. 24

TB’s next top prospect joins the ranks at 23 Previous Winner Maykel Coret, OF17 | R/R | 6’4” | 187Signed January 2025 One of the top prospects in the 2025 international signing class, Coret is a compelling 6’4” at seventeen, and projects extremely well, with MLB Pipeline assigning 60+ grades for power, run, arm, and field, and a 50 hit. Of course, he’s a long way off, but with exit velos already h...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 11, 2025
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• Rays add veteran Kyle Gibson to minors after O’s DFA
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• Rays 1 Marlins 5: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Jim Rassol-Imagn Images The Wizard of Baz was not sharp, Caminero adds to his MLB leading stat (in a bad way), and Rays drop series to cross state Marlins. Shane Baz not only looks like a haggard Confederate general on his back heels having to retreat while Tecumseh Sherman and his Union troops barrel down on his position, he’s lately pitching like one too. In May for Baz:19.2 IP 30 hits...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Hurston Waldrep dominates in strong pitching night
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• Atlanta Braves Minor League Preview - 5/8

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Hurston Waldrep looks to get back on track after a bad start to the 2025 season Gwinnett Stripers at Durham Bulls - 6:35 PM ET Probable Starters GWI: Hurston Waldrep, 2-2 7.04 ERA DUR: Joe Boyle, 2-2 1.72 ERA The Stripers look to build off of last nights 9th inning victory by sending out Hurston Waldrep to face off against Joe Boyle who has been great fo...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson
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• Road woes continue for the Atlanta Braves

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images At least they finally won a game away from Cobb County? Well, that was one of the series of all time, huh? The Atlanta Braves travelled down to Tampa hot off the heels of winning their first series of the season over their divisional rivals in the form of the Philadelphia Phillies. The obvious hope for Atlanta heading into this series was that they would...2025
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• Braves vs. Rays series recap: Road woes continue for Atlanta

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images At least they finally won a game away from Cobb County? Well, that was one of the series of all time, huh? The Atlanta Braves travelled down to Tampa hot off the heels of winning their first series of the season over their divisional rivals in the form of the Philadelphia Phillies. The obvious hope for Atlanta heading into this series was that they would...2025
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• Tampa Bay Rays are not planning to have a six man rotation

Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images “We don’t anticipate going to a six-man rotation; we’ve been pretty clear about that.” - Erik Neander The Tampa Bay Rays are in an extremely enviable situation that also could become a source if trouble in that they have one starting pitcher too many. Entering camp, the Rays currently have the following arms* projected for the rotation (Games Started, Game...2025
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• Brewers win, 9-5, with another early surge, late pull away

Brewers second baseman Brice Turang | Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Plenty of early offense but the Brewers don’t avoid some late drama Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers secured the series win against the Oakland Athletics with another offensive burst against an A’s starter. This time, it came against the flamethrowing but erratic Joe Boyle as the Brewers worked their way to a 9...2024
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• Reds Acquire Sam Moll From Athletics
The Reds have acquired left-hander Sam Moll from the Athletics, according to announcements from both clubs. The A’s will receive pitching prospect Joe Boyle and international cap space. To make room for Moll on their 40-man roster, the Reds transferred Hunter Greene to the 60-day injured list. More to come....2023
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• A’s Close To Acquiring Jeffrey Springs From Rays
The Athletics and Rays are in the final stages of completing a multi-player trade that would involve southpaw Jeffrey Springs heading to West Sacramento, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan (multiple links). The A’s will receive Springs and another player, while the Rays will receive right-handers Joe Boyle and Jacob Watters, outfielder Will Simpson, plus the…...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: AJ Smith-Shawver returned to mound Sunday
AJ Smith-Shawver | Image Credit: CRSA Photography AJ Smith-Shawver made his long awaited return to the mound on Sunday and pitched a gem for Rome. Dylan Dodd was also excellent in his first start following being sent back down. The Atlanta Braves had some interesting efforts down on the farm on Sunday, especially on the pitching side of things. AJ Smith-Shawver made his season debut, as we...2023
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• Joe Boyle To Begin Season In A’s Rotation
A’s right-hander Joe Boyle is set to open the season in the Oakland rotation, manager Mark Kotsay told reporters (including John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle) this evening. He’ll be the club’s fifth starter behind veterans Alex Wood, Ross Stripling, and Paul Blackburn as well as southpaw JP Sears. Boyle, 24, was a fifth-round…...2024
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• A’s Move Ross Stripling To Bullpen
The A’s are bumping Ross Stripling into a relief role, manager Mark Kotsay said before tonight’s matchup with the Mets (X link via Martín Gallegos of MLB.com). Oakland recalled right-hander Joe Boyle to start today, so the 6’7″ hurler will presumably stick in the starting five. Oakland acquired Stripling and Alex Wood in the hope that they’d…...2024
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• Athletics Designate Kyle Muller For Assignment
The Athletics announced that Joe Boyle has been recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas. He will start tonight’s game against the Mets, per Martín Gallegos of MLB.com on X. In a corresponding move, left-hander Kyle Muller has been designated for assignment. More to come....2024
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• Rays Notes: Littell, Outfield, Caballero, Front Office
The Rays made a long-awaited trade from their rotation depth last week when they packaged left-hander Jeffrey Springs and reliever Jacob Lopez in a deal with the A’s that brought back right-hander Joe Boyle, two minor leaguers, and a pick in Competitive Balance Round A of the 2025 draft. Prior to that deal, Springs was…...2024
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• A’s Designate Brandon Bielak For Assignment
The A’s announced this afternoon that they’ve designated right-hander Brandon Bielak for assignment. Right-hander Joe Boyle was recalled to the big league roster in a corresponding move, and Oakland’s 40-man roster now stands at 39. It’s the second time this year Bielak has been DFA’d by the A’s. He was first removed from the club’s…...2024
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• AL Week 11 Strategy-June 1, 2024
In The Field 2B Brandon Drury (hamstring) told Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com that he expects to return from the IL on June 11. He has been out since May 9 with this injury but has been able to ramp up his activity level. Drury will need a rehab assignment prior to being activated so that will give a more concrete date for his return. The most likely scenario when he returns is that 3B Luis Guillorm...2024
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• Player of the Series: Zack Littell
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• Rays add veteran Kyle Gibson to minors after O’s DFA
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• Player of the Series: Junior Caminero
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• Player of the Series: Drew Rasmussen
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• Player of the Series: Brandon Lowe
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• Player of the Series: Taylor Walls

Photo by Ryan Levy/MLB Photos via Getty Images The best defender in all of baseball came through offensively for the Rays It’s only May, but it seemed like the Tampa Bay Rays had to win this series against the New York Yankees in order to keep their season hopes alive. After a crushing 3-0 defeat on Friday, it seemed like those hopes were dashed. However, thanks to our Player of the Series...2025
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• Player of the Series: Mason Englert

Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Mason Englert provided some much needed coverage from the bullpen The Tampa Bay Rays did not play well during their past series against the Kansas City Royals. They lost all three games and only managed to score a total of three runs during the series. The pitching did what it could to keep the games close with the exception of Thursday...2025
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• Player of the Series: Chandler Simpson

Photo by Ryan Levy/MLB Photos via Getty Images Offensively or defensively, there is no stopping Chandler Simpson When a minor league prospect makes that jump to the big leagues, they often take time to adjust. There is a learning period in which they have to figure out how to translate their tools to that next level. However, there has been no adjustment period for Chandler Simpson as the ...2025
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• Player of the Series: Shane Baz
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• Road woes continue for the Atlanta Braves
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