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• Where does Justin Fields annual salary fall among starting QBs?

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Jets new quarterback is not near the top of the league I imagine that many fans of the New York Jets followed the same reaction process that I did when they heard the team signed quarterback Justin Fields. Step 1: “Oh, cool. I like Justin Fields” Step 2: See contract value Step 3: “They paid Justin Fields how much?” Admittedly, the below contract for a...2025
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• Media rips Bengals for poor free agency showing

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Bengals have been active, but most outlets aren’t impressed. The Cincinnati Bengals have made some moves since the start of the NFL’s legal tampering period. They signed nose tackle TJ Slayton from the Green Bay Packers, linebacker Oren Burks from the Philadelphia Eagles and brought running back Samaje Perine back from the Kansas City Chiefs. Players f...2025
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• Athletics owner John Fisher thinks he's set his team up for success: 'We think that we can win today'

The A's spent in the winter after their 92-loss season, but it's almost impossible to envision a turnaround...2025
• A few more thoughts on the A’s and Las Vegas

Athletics The team says it’s happening. I am still skeptical. News item: The Sacramento Athletics are going to be wearing patches on their jerseys this year that say “Las Vegas.” It’s not just a patch, it’s a promise. Las Vegas, we’re coming. pic.twitter.com/pbNBEpSyTf— Athletics (@Athletics) March 8, 2025 Well, okay. I suppose the A’s have to keep saying this, given that they have l...2025
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• Why the Royals might make an odd roster decision for Opening Day

Cavan Biggio #18 of the Kansas City Royals makes a play against the Colorado Rockies during a spring training game at Surprise Stadium on February 26, 2025 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images All in the name of inventory Baseball teams try to win games.* To win games, you need good players. And since there is a roster size limit, you can’t just stuff your team full of a...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL Central

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images It’s time to take a look at Cubs opponents for this year. As I did last year, I’m going to write up this year’s “Know Your Enemy” series by division, as the Cubs are playing all 29 teams again with the new balanced schedule and sorry, but I’m not writing 29 of these articles. In this series, I’m hoping to give everyone a general overview of the each team i...2025
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• 9 college basketball teams that can win men’s national championship in 2025, ranked by likelihood

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images These are the teams capable of winning it all in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament. What does it take to win a national championship in men’s college basketball? Winning six games through the bracket requires balance, star-power, and a lot of luck. With the 2025 NCAA tournament around the corner, this year’s March Madness will be no different. Since 2002...2025
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• Battery Power Top 30 Prospects: Best Tools, Position Players

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Nacho Alvarez is one of five hitters that graced our top 10 prospects, and is our pick for the best hit tool in the system. We had many of you in our Q&A session on Friday asking for a best tools segment relating to the top 30 prospects list. Fortunately, we already had one planned out and voted on by the in the chamber to run this week. To start out we ar...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Do you need a new ugly hat?

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Spring training lids are here! Well, spring training is around the corner, which means it’s time to have a look at new spring training caps! While many of them look remarkably similar to last year’s, they certainly look... not that great. The 2025 Spring Training hats(h/t @HatAddicts) pic.twitter.com/fd0gBhZBGY— Talkin’ Baseball...2025
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• The Eagles’ Wild Card opponent got banged up in Week 18

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Green Bay is dealing with some injury issues. The Philadelphia Eagles had already secured the No. 2 seed heading into Week 18, and they now know they’ll be hosting the Green Bay Packers in the the wild card round of the postseason. The Packers ended up losing to the Bears on Sunday, and had some really bad injury luck in the process. In the first half, bo...2025
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• Braves release 2024 NL Wild Card Roster

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Chris Sale’s unfortunately-timed injury has resulted in Bryce Elder and AJ Smith-Shawver getting another opportunity here in the Postseason. The Atlanta Braves have officially revealed their roster for the NL Wild Card Series against the San Diego Padres and as you would expect, Chris Sale is not on the roster. However, the Braves may have given us a very...2024
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• Braves reinstate Michael Harris from injured list, option Eli White to Gwinnett

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Braves will have center fielder Michael Harris back for Wednesday’s game in San Francisco The Atlanta Braves are getting a key piece of their lineup back for Wednesday’s game in San Francisco. As expected, the Braves reinstated outfielder Michael Harris from the 60-day injured list Wednesday. Harris has been out since suffering a hamstring injury while...2024
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• Braves outfielder Michael Harris II to begin minor league rehab assignment with Gwinnett

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Harris is due back in a week assuming all goes well. For once, some encouraging news on the injury front for the Atlanta Braves: center fielder Michael Harris will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Gwinnett on Tuesday evening. Harris, who has not played since June 14 with a hamstring strain, is currently on the 60-day IL. He’s eligible to return as of...2024
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2024 by who is most likely to win

Ranking 2024 NBA MVP candidates so far. The NBA MVP award is a snapshot of where the league is at and where it’s headed. Giannis Antetokounmpo won MVP in 2019 and 2020 before leading his Milwaukee Bucks to the championship in 2021. Nikola Jokic won MVP in 2021 and 2022 before leading his Denver Nuggets to the championship in 2023. Postseason success is the only thing eluding Joel Embiid to this po...2024
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• White Sox fandom: Finding new valleys

In free fall: The White Sox are in a rough spot, and Jerry Reinsdorf is asleep at the helm. | Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports The South Siders’ descent just does not stop In March, I ranked the enjoyment levels of my 20 seasons of being a White Sox fan. Back then, 2022 was last on my list, but needless to say, the 2023 season has surpassed 2022 for this dubious distinction. Before elabor...2023
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• Rams winners and losers: 0 winners, 4 losers in L.A.’s loss to Packers

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Rams are paying the price for their multi-year mismanagement of the quarterback position The Los Angeles Rams came out flat and seemed unprepared for what was likely their most important game of the 2023 season so far. LA fell 20-3 to the Green Bay Packers and dropped to a lowly 3-6 record on the year. The Rams—after starting out 3-3—have lost three games ...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Rockies fans, there’s a new Nolan in LoDo

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 It’s time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: Kris Bryant will never be the face of Colorado Rockies, despite their best efforts. He’s here & he’s perfect pic.twitter.com/GgnxVwuAIr— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) March 18, 2022 To be clear, Bryant is a great baseball player, and his a...2023
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• White Sox media erasure goes NASCAR, despite a sponsored car
Ty Dillon, in the White Sox Chevrolet, finished in 35th place in the Grant Park 220 on Sunday afternoon. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images The only Chicago team that paid to have their logo in the race didn’t even get a mention in NBC’s opening sports reel Happy Independence Day, White Sox fans. I hope you’ve finished shop-vac’ing the sewer water out of your basement and are readying yourself...2023
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• Five things we learned during the Bills’ offseason program

After about two months of OTAs and mini-camps, the Bills are on vacation for the next six weeks. Next stop is training camp at St. John Fisher College. ...2018

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• Where does Justin Fields annual salary fall among starting QBs?
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• Media rips Bengals for poor free agency showing
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• Why the Royals might make an odd roster decision for Opening Day
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL Central
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• Meet the 2025 NBA All-Star starters

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The starters for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game have been announced. The 2025 NBA All-Star has a wild new format, but nothing about the voting has changed. The All-Star starters are still determined by conference, with fan voting up 50 percent of the final tally, while player voting and media voting each take up the other 25 percent. After three rounds of fan...2025
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• Cowboys coaching rumor: Dallas may have had informal conversation with former staffer Rich Bisaccia

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Rich Bisaccia may have been (or might be) a candidate for the Dallas Cowboys head coaching position. As of Thursday afternoon all signs around the Dallas Cowboys coaching search seem to have been pointing in the direction of Brian Schottenheimer. It was even reported that it could “cross the finish line” by Friday. Interestingly, as the day wore on, there ...2025
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• The proposed Las Vegas ballpark is now going to cost an additional $250 million

Oakland Athletics Is anyone really surprised by this? I’ve written here a number of times that I don’t think the Athletics — we’re not supposed to call them “Sacramento” but I might anyway — are going to complete their proposed move to Las Vegas. I feel even more strongly about this after reading this Las Vegas Review-Journal article, which begins: The cost of the Athletics’ planned Las V...2024
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• A Giannis Antetokounmpo trade is the only solution to this impending Bucks disaster

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Bucks’ contention window is already closed, whether they realize it or not. Trading Giannis is the only way out. No cliché in the English language is as misunderstood as “rock bottom.” It is a historical phrase, not intended for present-tense use — applied retroactively to the lowest moment of a timeline that has already reached its conclusion. But whe...2024
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• The A’s still don’t have financing in place for their Las Vegas stadium

Oakland Athletics ... so John Fisher is trying to sell a partial share in the team. Earlier this week the New York Post reported this about the ongoing saga of a potential stadium in Las Vegas for the Athletics: Billionaire Oakland A’s owner John Fisher is looking to cash in on the team’s move to Las Vegas by selling off a minority stake that values the franchise at $2 billion — a whoppin...2024
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• Braves release 2024 NL Wild Card Roster
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• Meet Ryan Williams, the 17-year-old Alabama wide reciever phenom taking college football by storm

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Williams is one of the youngest players in college football and is already making an impact for his team. When it comes to true freshmen wide receivers in the 2024 recruiting class, we’ve seen some impressive talents so far this college football season. The No. 1 player in the entire cycle was Ohio State five-star commit Jeremiah Smith. Smith, a 6’3”, 215...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Nacho Alvarez homers for second straight game

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Pneumonia, new me? Alvarez has turned up the power since coming back to the Stripers lineup The Gwinnett Stripers are the hottest team in the International League, with a five game win streak and the league’s best run differential in the second half. Nacho Alvarez and Drake Baldwin have been a huge part of that, with Alvarez carrying Gwinnett’s offense in ...2024
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• An update on the A’s and White Sox stadium situations

Related Midwest You won’t believe some of this. (Yeah, actually, you probably will.) Earlier this month I wrote about a proposed new stadium for the White Sox, which would be located in “The 78,” a neighborhood in Chicago’s South Loop. The renderings — one of them is above — are pretty cool. The area proposed would include not only the stadium, but an entire new neighborhood with residenti...2024
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• The proposed Las Vegas ballpark is now going to cost an additional $250 million
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• A Giannis Antetokounmpo trade is the only solution to this impending Bucks disaster
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• A's owner pledges $1B to build Vegas stadium
Athletics owner John Fisher and his family will invest $1 billion into the construction of a stadium in Las Vegas, with the team also announcing it will play a franchise-record-tying 60 night games in the Sacramento area in 2025....2024
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• Meet Ryan Williams, the 17-year-old Alabama wide reciever phenom taking college football by storm
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Nacho Alvarez Jr. homers for Gwinnett

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Alvarez Jr. drove in three runs in the Stripers’ win. Atlanta’s minor league affiliates went .500 on the night as Gwinnett and Augusta came away with wins while Mississippi and Rome were dealt a loss each on the night. (68-68) Gwinnett Stripers 7, (71-63) Nashville Sounds 1 Nacho Alvarez Jr., 3B: 1-5, HR, 3 RBI, R Alejo Lopez, 2B: 2-5, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R Just...2024
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• The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The A’s will officially be playing Sacramento in 2025 before a planned move to Vegas. A once-dynastic baseball town has been abandoned. It’s official. At the end of the 2024 campaign, the Oakland Athletics will be dead. They will play at least their next three seasons at Sutter Health Park, home of the minor-league Sacramento River Cats, and aim to move...2024
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• There is no such thing as a good owner

Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman prior to a game against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Last June, the Oakland Athletics were in the midst of yet another terrible season. With an Opening Day payroll of under $57 million, they were dead last in spending—the third time in the past six years that they were last or second to last in total pay...2024
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• May rips A's owner while announcing retirement

Athletics relief pitcher Trevor May ripped owner John Fisher while announcing his retirement on his Twitch stream Monday, telling Fisher to "sell the team."...2023
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• Cubs 10, Brewers 6: Funeral for a friend

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Cubs brought out the big bats Saturday, but their playoff dreams ended. If you are looking for a post-mortem on the Cubs season here, after they were eliminated from postseason consideration with the Marlins win over the Pirates Saturday night, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Instead, let’s celebrate some good Cubs performances as they defeated the...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 7
Happy birthday, Professor! | Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB factoids, gathered from reputable sources. Kyle Hendricks is a day older, and other stories. 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...2022
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• Oakland A’s fans’ ‘reverse boycott’ was actually genius
Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports Oakland A’s fans gave ultimate middle finger to ownership with perfect ‘reverse boycott’ The Oakland Athletics are in the middle of what might be the saddest relocation plan in modern sports. Owner John Fisher wants to move the team to Las Vegas, and by 2027 the team wants to be playing in the Sin City, per CBS Sports. The Nevada State Senate approved a...2023
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• Oakland stadium workers, feeling deserted by A's moves, blast John Fisher: 'Thank you for ruining our lives'

Coliseum employees say they were left in the dark as the A's announced plans to play in Sacramento next year...2024
• Oakland vs. the A's: The inside story of how it all went south (to Las Vegas)

Interviews with more than a dozen sources familiar with the negotiations and motivations reveal a messy, complicated and ultimately confounding path that led to owner John Fisher parting ways with the city the A's have called home for 55 years....2023

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• Where does Justin Fields annual salary fall among starting QBs?
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• The Eagles’ Wild Card opponent got banged up in Week 18
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• Cowboys coaching rumor: Dallas may have had informal conversation with former staffer Rich Bisaccia
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• Film breakdown: Why the Giants claimed Anthony Johnson Jr.

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Let’s take a look at the Giants’ only waiver claim The New York Giants claimed one player off waivers after final cuts — former Green Bay Packers safety Anthony Johnson Jr. The ex-Iowa State defensive back was drafted in the seventh round last season and played 302 snaps with an interception and a pass defensed. Johnson Jr. combines range and fluidity, wh...2024
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• Another update on the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas situation

Fans at the Oakland Coliseum in September 2022 | Al Yellon Just when you thought it couldn’t get messier, it has. Gonna say this right now, off the top, so we’re all on the same page: If this topic doesn’t interest you, go pass it on by and click on some other BCB article. I think the issues surrounding the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas are important for the entire future o...2024
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• Retiring A's reliever shames Oakland owner John Fisher: 'Take Mommy and Daddy's money somewhere else, dork'

Trevor May called for Fisher to sell the team, a common refrain from A's fans...2023
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• A few thoughts about David Ross, Cubs manager

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images He’s done a very good job under difficult circumstances. It’s become fashionable in some parts of the Cubs fanbase to call for the firing of manager David Ross. Something something lineups, something something bullpen, or something like that. I’m here to tell you that not only should Ross not be fired, but he should — presuming the Cubs continue contending...2023
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• A few thoughts about how Rob Manfred is handling the A’s move to Las Vegas
Al Yellon NARRATOR: “Not very well.” This morning in Outside The Confines, Ashley posted a number of links having to do with the Nevada legislature’s approval of money for a stadium for the Athletics to move to Las Vegas, and you can get the basic outline of the story there. I’ve been on record as saying that I didn’t think this was going to happen, and who knows? It still might not. All w...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Big bucks for a Buc
Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Bryan Reynolds is staying in Pittsburgh. A look at some early trends this season. A look ahead to the draft. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. Let’s win again today. After months of speculation, the Pirates and outfielder Bryan Reynolds have agreed on an eight-year, $106.75 million extension. There is no opt-out, which had reportedly be...2023
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