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• The Royals Review Hall of Fame ballots

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Who deserves enshrinement in Cooperstown? Baseball writers are currently mulling over this year’s Hall of Fame candidates, with selections to be announced on January 21. None of us at Royals Review have a vote but who would we vote for if we did? You can see the list of eligible candidates and their career statistics here. Here are our ballots with some wr...2024
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• Overrated players

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Who loves them? The internet remains an endless source of strange stuff: a firehose of information, disinformation, entertainment and opinions. I read through a lot of the sports stuff that pops up on my feed, for better or worse. Most of it is just someone’s opinion. You see something like the ten best players in NBA history and if Wilt Chamberlain isn’t on the ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Soto-mania

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The slugger has signed and everyone is talking about it. And, there have been some other signings. Happy Wednesday! With the major news of Juan Soto’s signing coming on Sunday, most stories for the rest of the week might feel a little tame by comparison, but we’ve still got some good stuff to get you through the mid-week doldrums. Soto reaction is definitel...2024
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• The Twins and Greater Minnesota Have Connections To This Year’s HoF Candidates
Minnesota baseball fans have had a good run over the last three years with Hall of Fame candidates. Joe Mauer was elected this past year. In 2022, Tony Oliva and Jim Kaat were elected into the Hall of Fame on the Classic Baseball Era’s Committee while the writers voted in former Twin David Ortiz....2024
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• Brewers All-Time Team: First Base

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images A difficult decision as we work our way around the horn We continue the Brewers All-Time Team today with first base. A quick reminder: We’re looking for the best individual season at each position, not the best career Players can only be used once A player must have played more games at the given position than any other in the given season We started the series ...2024
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• Brewers All-Time Team: Catcher

Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images Jonathan Lucroy’s 2014 season is the first installment of the Brewers All-Time Team series We’re going to be starting a series that will run for a few weeks that we’re referring to as the Brewers All-Time Team. The catch here is that it’s not based on any individual’s career, but it is a Brewers team built of the best individual seasons at each position in the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Four for the Hall

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Four new inductees into Cooperstown. A preview of the second half. Lots of injuries and other news from around MLB. Good morning. At least the Cubs won yesterday. Adrian Beltré, Todd Helton, Joe Mauer and Jim Leyland were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday. Jason Beck has a recap of the ceremonies. Tyler Kepner has a recap of the even...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 22, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Seth Lugo is “THE SURGEON” Anne Rogers writes about Seth Lugo’s first complete game of the season. “The way he controlled that game, I thought it was the right decision,” Quatraro said. Chants of “LUGO, LUGO” filled Kauffman Stadium after the Royals finished their sweep of the White Sox and improved to 55-45 through 100 games of the season. “I had chills out...2024
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• Braves News: Max Fried and Ozzie Albies Out Indefinitely, Nacho Alvarez to Be Promoted, More

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Two of the Braves best players will likely be sidelined for the foreseeable future. Once again, the Braves experienced their struggles during an actual game on a Sunday, as they suffered a 6-2 loss to the Cardinals. The result was plenty significant as the Cardinals won two out of three games over the past two days, thus gaining a game in the standings on the ...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for July 20, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The boys are playing some ball. Manager Matt Quatraro talks about the big inning last night. KC batted around in the frame. Garcia began the inning with a leadoff walk and second baseman Michael Massey opened the floodgates with a two-run single. “Maikel taking the walk and the (sacrifice) bunt was big,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Being able to ext...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 19

Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. West Side Park, Roosevelt Stadium and other favorites. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follo...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper announces 2012 will be his finial season

Braves Franchise History 2008 - Javy Lopez announces his retirement. Lopez hit 260 home runs in his career and set the single-season home run record for catchers with 43 in 2003. He appeared in over 1,100 games with Atlanta while hitting .287/.337/.491 with 260 home runs. He had stints with Baltimore and Boston after leaving Atlanta. 2012 - Chipper Jones announces that he will retire at the end o...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Third-degree Burnes

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports More fallout from the Corbin Burnes trade. The White Sox make a couple of deals, as do the A’s. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The groundhog saw his shadow on Friday, which means there will be six more weeks of not signing Cody Bellinger. We should nickname Corbin Burnes “Third Degree,” as in Corbin “Third Degree” Burnes. That’s a shou...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: ‘Not a rah-rah guy’: Celebrating Toddisms

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, January 26. 2024 In 1997, the Colorado Rockies first baseman led the National League with 140 RBI. He was third in the NL with 41 home runs and 351 total bases, and fourth in runs scored with 120 and a .585 slugging percentage. He posted the sixth-best OPS in the NL at .974 and had the seventh-hig...2024
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"Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer were voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, while closer Billy Wagner again fell just short with 73."

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"Brian Dozier, Max Kepler, Byron Buxton, Joe Mauer, and Eddie Rosario formed their core, combining for 13."

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"Quit with the bullshit Joe Mauer schtick dude."

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"Plus era committee bias, Spencer Strider's slider, a Chet Lemon-Joe Mauer comp, facts and stats galore, and more."

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"Before the holidays, the Twins offered Josh Donaldson a four-year, $84MM contract that would have made him the second-highest paid player in team history after Joe Mauer, writes Phil Miller in a profile well worth a read from the Star Tribune."

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"Mark your calendars, Twins fans: Saturday, June 15, will be Joe Mauer Day at Target Field."

2018
"417 slash line and finished as a finalist in AL Gold Glove voting, Joe Mauer tells MLB."

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"Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier each knocked in two runs for the Twins."

2016
"Joe Mauer and Miguel Sano continued mashing Mariners pitching, and Ricky Nolasco pitched six innings of two-run ball as the Twins secured their first series sweep at Safeco Field since 2007 with a 5-4 win on Sunday."

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"Joe Mauer, Eduardo Nunez, Kennys Vargas and Brian Dozier each homered to help power the Twins to a 13-2 win over the White Sox on Monday night at Target Field."

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"Past editions have featured some of the biggest stars in the game, including former MVPs Miguel Cabrera, Andrew McCutchen, Dustin Pedroia, Ryan Howard and Joe Mauer."

• The Royals Review Hall of Fame ballots
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• Outside The Confines: Soto-mania
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• MLB Playoffs: Bobby Witt Jr., Royals looking to make their mark on the postseason

Bobby Witt Jr’s MVP-like performance helped push the Royals back to the postseason. Kauffman Stadium was built for speed. Ironically, that wasn’t the intent. When the stadium was constructed for the 1973 season, the team anticipated home runs would go up since the dimensions were actually smaller than their previous home at Municipal Stadium, where hitters had to smack a ball 360 feet down the le...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 5, 2024

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images The Royals are as hot as the weather! Jaylon Thompson talks to MJ Melendez about his first pinch-hit home run. “We just have a lot of fight,” Melendez said. “We’re a winning team and that is just the bottom line.”... “It’s definitely pretty cool,” Melendez said. “I haven’t had a ton of big home runs on the road. So that was something a little bit different...2024
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• Opinion: Yes, we root for laundry. Is that a problem?

Just before or at the trade deadline, the Rays traded Zach Eflin, Chris Devenski, Phil Maton, Shawn Armstrong, Jason Adam, Amed Rosario, All-Star Isaac Paredes, and former ROY and All-Star Randy Arozarena. Some of these players were only here briefly and won’t be missed, but some had clear roles in the team’s present success — Jason Adam was a mainstay of the bullpen; Eflin one of the more depend...2024
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• Locked On Twins: Former Twins GM Terry Ryan Talks Trade Deadline, Joe Mauer H.O.F.
Few people are as aware of what the trade deadline entails than former Twins general manager Terry Ryan, who joined the program on Monday to talk all things not only deadline, but Joe Mauer being inducted into the Hall of Fame as well....2024
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• Outside The Confines: Four for the Hall
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 22, 2024
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• Braves News: Max Fried and Ozzie Albies Out Indefinitely, Nacho Alvarez to Be Promoted, More
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• Opinion: Yes, we root for laundry. Is that a problem?
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• Braves News: Max Fried and Ozzie Albies Out Indefinitely, Nacho Alvarez to Be Promoted, More
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for July 20, 2024
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• This Week in Purple: Cooperstown

Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for July 20-21, 2024 We finally made it! Todd Helton will be enshrined in Cooperstown forever. The ceremony officially takes place this Sunday, July 21 at 1:30pm ET/11:30am MT. It will be televised exclusively on MLB Network and simulcast on MLB.com, and it is expected to take approximately two and a half hours. Helton received 79.7% of the votes this ye...2024
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• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1

All right, welcome to my 2024 Heritage box break. This is the first hobby box I have purchased since 2011 when I bought a box of Allen & Ginter for the third year in a row. After that I went into box-breaking rehab and have done quite well, except for falling off the wagon ... right now.I don't buy hobby boxes these days for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones occurring to me now is I ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Third-degree Burnes
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• Friday Rockpile: ‘Not a rah-rah guy’: Celebrating Toddisms
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• Outside The Confines: Heading to the Hall

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images As a Todd Helton and Joe Mauer apologist, I’m thrilled. Well friends the moment has arrived, the official votes have been tallied, and your new class of Hall of Fame inductees has been selected. The 2024 inductee class is a pretty good one this year as one long-lingering hopeful and two first-ballot contenders will be headed to Cooperstown....2024
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• Brewers All-Time Team: First Base
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• MLB Playoffs: Bobby Witt Jr., Royals looking to make their mark on the postseason
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 5, 2024
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• Opinion: Yes, we root for laundry. Is that a problem?
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• Baseball Hall of Fame: Top moments as Adrian Beltré, Joe Mauer, Todd Helton, Jim Leyland get Cooperstown spots

The Baseball Hall of Fame officially welcomed its 2024 class on Sunday...2024
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• This Week in Purple: Cooperstown
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• Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer, and Todd Helton elected to the Hall of Fame

Adrián Beltré leads the 2024 HOF class, with 366 votes. | Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Mark Buehrle drops 2.5% in voting, but survives to see another year New InducteesAdrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer are the newest MLB Hall of Fame members. All three reached the necessary 75% support on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Hall of Fame ballot. Beltré recei...2024
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• Walk-off wonders: Dodgers claw back, stun Twins
The Dodgers, down 5-0 at one point Wednesday, rallied to top the Twins, as Justin Turner knocked in the game-winning run in the ninth inning, giving Los Angeles its eighth walk-off victory this season. Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig each hit homers and Kenley Jansen got the win, working out of a tough spot in the top of the ninth. Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier each knocked in two runs for the Twins....2017
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• Walk-off wonders: Dodgers rally to stun Twins
The Dodgers, down 5-0 at one point Wednesday, rallied to top the Twins, as Justin Turner knocked in the game-winning run in the ninth inning, giving Los Angeles its eighth walk-off victory this season. Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig each hit homers and Kenley Jansen got the win, working out of a tough spot in the top of the ninth. Joe Mauer and Brian Dozier each knocked in two runs for the Twins....2017
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• Twins belt 4 HRs in opener with White Sox
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• Plouffe, Mauer power Twins over Royals
Joe Mauer ripped a two-run homer and the Twins' bullpen tossed five scoreless innings to bail out starter Mike Pelfrey as Minnesota topped the Royals, 5-3, on Saturday in front 37,917 fans at Kauffman Stadium....2015
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• Twins top Angels; both 2 1/2 back in Wild Card
Twins rookie Tyler Duffey threw seven scoreless innings and Torii Hunter, Eddie Rosario and Joe Mauer homered to lead the Twins to an 8-1 victory over the Angels. With the win, Minnesota pulled even with Los Angeles in the Wild Card race. Both teams trail the Astros -- who won Sunday -- by 2 1/2 games....2015
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• Red Sox rally to tie but fall on walk-off HR
Joe Mauer hit his first career walk-off homer in the ninth inning to lift the Twins to a 4-3 win over the Red Sox on Friday night at Target Field....2017
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• Mauer's first walk-off HR leads Twins over Red Sox
Joe Mauer hit his first career walk-off homer in the ninth inning to lift the Twins to a 4-3 win over the Red Sox on Friday night at Target Field....2017
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• Zimmermann, 'pen struggle in loss to Twins
The Twins boosted their chance at making the postseason for the first time since 2010 with a 12-1 win over the Tigers, powered by a three-hit game from Joe Mauer and a two-run single from Byron Buxton to snap a three-game losing streak on Thursday night at Comerica Park....2017
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 23, 2024

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Royals bullpen will look different in 2024. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals’ bullpen situation. This offseason, the Royals have sought to address their bullpen woes with experienced veterans. KC signed World Series-champion relievers Will Smith and Chris Stratton. They also acquired reliever Nick Anderson, along with star...2024
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• Daily Fantasy Baseball 2015: MLB DraftKings Studs and Duds for Monday, May 4
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• Fantasy Baseball 2015: Ranking the Top 20 Catchers
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 22, 2024
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• Braves News: Max Fried and Ozzie Albies Out Indefinitely, Nacho Alvarez to Be Promoted, More
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• Gary Sheffield misses out on National Baseball Hall of Fame in final year of eligibility

The former Padre was on his final year on the ballot As announced on MLB Network today, Gary Sheffield (63.9%) will not be joining Jim Leyland, Todd Helton, Adrian Beltre and Joe Mauer in Cooperstown this summer. Sheffield was the only nominee on the ballot for the tenth year, which is the last year any player can appear on it before being taken off. Yesterday, he was tracking at just below the ne...2024
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• Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer elected to Hall of Fame

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Former Royals outfielder Carlos Beltrán falls a bit short The Baseball Hall of Fame announced this evening that writers have elected Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer to be inducted along with former manager Jim Leyeland this summer. Former Royals outfielder Carlos Beltrán improved his vote total from 46.5 percent to 57.1 perce...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Election Day

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who you would vote for the Hall of Fame. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the swingingest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in out of the weather. It’s warm and dry in here. There’s no cover charge this evening. Let us take your coat for you. Grab a...2024
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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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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 19, 2024

When I searched “Comiskey” and “Royals”, I got “Tartabull” and I’m good with that | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A surprisingly busy mid-January news day Sigh. I guess I get to start with stadium talk again as that was the biggest news. We’ll start with The Star story on this: With only hours to spare Thursday, Jackson County Executive Frank White vetoed an ordinance that would h...2024
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• Former Royals Carlos Beltrán and James Shields on Hall of Fame ballot

Photo by Linda Cataffo/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images José Bautista, who was briefly on the Royals, also listed Former Royals Carlos Beltrán, and James Shields are part of the 26 players that will be on this year’s ballot for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It will be the second time on the ballot for Beltrán, who received 46.5 percent of the vote last year and was likely...2023
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• Transaction retrospection: Joe Mauer’s extension and the production dropoff
Though negotiations between J.T. Realmuto and the Phillies are currently on hold, the idea of a contract extension between the two sides has been gestating for months. As such, there has already been a lot of speculation about how a Realmuto deal (if one is reached) will shake up the pay scale of catcher contracts. The latest reports indicated that Realmuto was looking for an extension that would ...2020
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• Transaction retrospection: Joe Mauer’s extension and the production drop-off
Though negotiations between J.T. Realmuto and the Phillies are currently on hold, the idea of a contract extension between the two sides has been gestating for months. As such, there has already been a lot of speculation about how a Realmuto deal (if one is reached) will shake up the pay scale of catcher contracts. The latest reports indicated that Realmuto was looking for an extension that would ...2020
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