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• Max Kranick To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
Mets reliever Max Kranick is slated to undergo Tommy John surgery, per Newsday’s Laura Albanese. It’ll be the second time he’s undergone Tommy John surgery in the past 37 months. It’s a brutal blow for Kranick, who’s finally in the process of establishing himself as a solid big league arm after a lengthy layoff from…...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Starting Rotation

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Injuries have plagued the rotation and a managerial change shook things up The historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies look very different than they did when the season began in a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. With this in mind, the staff at Purple Row felt it would be useful to revisit the “State of the Position” series that we run in March as...2025
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• Marlins series preview: A team of youngsters

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Marlins have found a few promising hitters. The Royals resume the second half with a road series in Miami. At the beginning of the year, you probably circled this as a series the Royals should easily win or even sweep. The perpetually stingy Marlins ownership fielded a team with a $68.5 million Opening Day payroll, lowest in baseb...2025
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• An MLB Draft ‘what if’ for every team

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images What if Tarik Skubal had signed with the Diamondbacks in 2017? Major League teams made their draft selections earlier this week. Some players will sign quickly, others - mostly high schoolers - won’t sign at all with the team that drafted them. Some of baseball’s biggest stars could have had much different careers if they had signed with the team that ori...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 18, 2025

I want a giant baseball card | Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images The Second Half Begins Tonight It’s a slooooooow news day. At The Star, Pete Grathoff notes that Royals streaming numbers are up: FanDuel Sports Kansas City said it had more than 115,000 unique streamers for Royals games this season. There has been a 54% year-over-year increase in unique streamers per game, and the number ...2025
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• Royals add upside to system with draft class headlined by a pair of prep bats

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images This draft provided a much-needed infusion of talent but comes with risk. The 2025 MLB Draft promised to be intriguing for the Kansas City Royals. In a class light on college hitters, the top of the draft board was well-stocked with high-upside high school position players. The Royals were well-positioned to take advantage of the nature of...2025
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• Max Kranick To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Starting Rotation
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• Marlins series preview: A team of youngsters
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• MLB Draft recap: The newest Cubs start their journey

Pierce Coppola | Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images The Cubs went heavy on pitching and outfielders in this year’s Draft. The 2025 MLB Draft is now over and the Cubs have made 20 selections over the past two days. This is a change from previous years, when the draft took place over three days. This year, the first three rounds were on day one and the final 17 rounds took place on day two. Wit...2025
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• 2025 Cubs midseason grades

Photo by Peter Joneleit/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are my assessments of Cubs player performances so far this year. As befits a first-place team, most of them are pretty good. The Cubs really couldn’t have done much better so far this year. They have three All-Stars, two of them starting players. They’re in first place in the NL Central, though by just one game, and have had une...2025
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• Padres select power pitcher with their first pick

High school pitcher taken in first round There were multiple mock drafts published in the last week before the draft that projected the Friars taking a position player in the first round. The 2025 draft featured multiple high profile college pitchers and just as many high school shortstops. The last college pitcher taken by the Padres was Cal Quantrill in 2016 so the smart money was on a position ...2025
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• 10 MLB trade candidates to watch as 2025 deadline approaches

Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Here are 10 players who could be traded at the 2025 MLB trade deadline. With the Major League All-Star Game right around the corner, baseball is headed into the hottest stretch of the season. Because the MLB Trade Deadline follows shortly thereafter. Fortunes can be made in late July, not just for teams looking to bolster t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 9, 2025

One, two, three, four, five, SIX wins in a row! | Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images One, two, three, four, five... SIX WINS IN A ROW! Anne Rogers penned a touching Mother's Day story about Daniel Lynch, thinking back on his mother now that he’s recently become a parent: Jolie Saunders Lynch died on Sept. 7, 2012, at 43 years old after a ...2025
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• Camp Notes: Sal Frelick adds muscle, Brandon Woodruff pitches live batting practice

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images As the remaining players report to camp, stories of their offseason workout programs take the early focus All players are in Milwaukee Brewers camp now, and the full team is getting ready for the start of game action. Many of the players in camp took batting practice for the first time yesterday, and we’re getting some new reports on what players did with their offs...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 17, 2025

I couldn’t find any good “Uecker Royals” pictures, so how about Bob Uecker interviewing Hank Aaron? | Photo by 1975 Diamond Images via Getty Images We have reached the winter lull of the baseball season Oh, boy. We’ve really hit the winter doldrums. The last story from The Star was last week when Lorenzen signed. There hasn’t been a new story on the Royals site since Tuesday. Their last ...2025
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• 2025 Cubs midseason grades
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• Padres select power pitcher with their first pick
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• Braves News: Austin Riley to the IL, Nacho Alvarez returns, JR Ritchie, more

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday There is an added focus on prospects, with the draft upon us and the Futures Game on Saturday, but it’s been a mostly good couple of days for the major league club too, with two wins. Since it is draft day, I will give a few brief takes on the draft from a non-prospect-analyst. I favor a volume approach for find...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Starting Rotation
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• History of the 22nd Overall Pick

Brett Davis-Imagn Images The Braves will be picking 22nd overall for the first time in franchise history When the Atlanta Braves go on the clock for the MLB draft on Sunday evening, they will be doing something they’ve never done before. The Braves have never picked at 22nd overall, despite picking ten times in positions 21, 23, or 24, and picking in every single other overall spot from 18...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Yankees series preview

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images A big-time series ahead of the All-Star break. The Yankees had a 4½-game lead in the AL East after sweeping the Royals in a three-game series that ended June 12. Since then they’re 10-16, although they just swept the Mariners in a three-game series and Thursday, came back from being no-hit into the eighth to walking the game off in the 10th. In that s...2025
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• Red Sox 10, Rockies 2: Blown out in Boston

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images Rockies offensive ineptitude results in sweep at Fenway As the rain picked up toward the end of the game at Fenway Park, it seemed like a fitting end to another series where the Rockies remain stuck under a losing storm cloud. Against the Red Sox, the Rockies were outplayed in every aspect of the game and swept for the first time in regular season history in th...2025
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• What to know about the 2025 MLB draft and the latest on mock drafts

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Who will the Royals select? The Royals still have a lot of work to do to improve a farm system generally ranked near the bottom of the league by most observers. But they have an opportunity to infuse the organization with talent with the MLB draft this weekend. When is the 2025 MLB draft? The draft is being compressed down to two days, after taking ...2025
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Cedric De Grandpre throws six scoreless innings

Photo by Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Atlanta Braves started out the week hot, with three of the starters combining for 16 1⁄3 scoreless innings. One of those could have even gone deeper were it not for a scary play on a comebacker that knocked Lucas Braun from the game. In Gwinnett Jarred Kelenic has put up his first good stretch of play in awhile, while the Columbus...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 9, 2025

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Royals just clinched their first series victory at home in two months. TWO MONTHS. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers gives fans a peek behind the curtain of the Kansas City Royals promoting utilityman Cam Devanney to the 26-man roster on Tuesday. When Devanney emerged from the shower, he had five missed calls. Upon quickly calling Jirschele back, Devanney learned he was h...2025
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• Weekly Pebble Report: For Yanquiel Fernández, MLB debut is a dream fulfilled (July 1st-July 7th)

Original photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images (July 5th, 2025) Colorado Rockies minor league report for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 When 22-year-old Cuban slugger Yanquiel Fernández (no. 7 PuRP) was summoned from the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes last week to be the ninth Rockies MLB debut of the season, it was the culmination of a dream and everything his professional career had led up to s...2025
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• A brief look at the Braves’ drafts under Alex Anthopoulos

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Anthopoulos enters his eighth draft as Braves general manager — here’s a look at how the first six have panned out It is still many, many years until we will know exactly how the Alex Anthopoulos era in Atlanta will shake out. No one will complain about the World Series title, but many bemoan the lack of hitting talent in the minor league system and love ...2025
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• Richard Sherman's Girlfriend Ashley Moss Gives Birth to Son Rayden
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• Perfect 'pen helps McCarthy earn win No. 2
Brandon McCarthy won his second consecutive start after returning from Tommy John surgery, with the Dodgers bullpen finishing off the final four innings of a three-hitter and 4-3 win over the Padres on Saturday afternoon at Dodger Stadium....2016
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• McCarthy stymies Rockies in season debut
Brandon McCarthy is the latest starter to step up in the absence of ace Clayton Kershaw, making a triumphant return from Tommy John surgery on Sunday as the Dodgers finished off a series sweep of Colorado, 4-1, for their fourth consecutive win....2016
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• McCarthy returns with scoreless outing vs. Rox
Brandon McCarthy is the latest starter to step up in the absence of ace Clayton Kershaw, making a triumphant return from Tommy John surgery on Sunday as the Dodgers finished off a series sweep of Colorado, 4-1, for their fourth consecutive win....2016
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• Source: Sherman might need elbow surgery
Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman played Super Bowl XLIX with torn ligaments in his left elbow that may require Tommy John surgery in the off season, according to a source....2015
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• Matt Harvey Won't Be on Strict Innings Limit, Will Pitch in Playoffs
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• Mets' Syndergaard to have Tommy John surgery
New York Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and will undergo Tommy John surgery this week, the team announced Tuesday....2020
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• Sherman to have surgery; Thomas getting 2nd opinion
Richard Sherman will undergo Tommy John surgery after injuring his elbow in the NFC Championship Game. Seahawks safety Earl Thomas will have a second opinion on his shoulder injury before deciding on surgery....2015
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• AL Week 12 Strategy-June 15, 2025
In The Field 3B Isaac Paredes left Thursday's game early with a left hamstring injury. Paredes is hitting .255 with 15 HR, 37 R, 42 RBI, and 0 SB. 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. was not in the Yankees lineup on Thursday due to left groin tightness. He was back in the lineup on Saturday. Chisholm Jr. is hitting .214 with 9 HR, 21 R, 25 RBI, and 10 SB. He is hitting the ball hard (15% Barrels) but has struc...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Alcantara or Gallen?

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which starting pitcher you’d rather the Cubs trade for. It’s Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us. There’s no cover charge. Let us know if we can do anything for you. The hostess will seat you now. Th...2025
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• Mayer Homers Twice, Jobe To Have TJ - June 12, 2025
Marcelo Mayer, 3B, Boston Red Sox The rookie had a nice day at the plate going 2-4 with 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI and 2 K on two hard hit balls. Mayer's underlying figures are a bit of a mixed bag. While he's walking at 9.1%, he's whiffing at 29.7% and chasing at 34.1%, so there's reason to believe that walk rate is a bit of an overestimation. He has plenty of bat speed, which has led to a 51.7% hard hit r...2025
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• AL Week 10 Strategy-May 31, 2025
In The Field OF Evan Carter (quad) ran sprints on Wednesday and started a rehab assignment on Friday with Triple-A Round Rock. He has been out for two weeks with the injury. OF Alejandra Osuna and OF Sam Haggerty have been playing in the outfield in his absence. Carter hit .182 with 1 HR, 5 R, 3 RBI, and 3 SB in 37 PA before getting injured. 3B Yoan Moncada left Wednesday's game early with right...2025
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• Buy Low on Mark Vientos and Matt McLain? - May 31, 2025
Matt McLain (2B-CIN) went 1-4 with a strikeout as he batted 9th against the Cubs on Friday. The 25 year-old has largely scuffled in his return to action after missing the entire 2024 campaign, compiling a .179 average, 6 homers, 18 RBI, 24 runs scored, and 11 steals (in 11 chances) across 203 PA. His strikeout rate is up to 31.5% (was 28.5% in 2023) while his contact rate is predictably down a bit...2025
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• Comeback Arms Lead the Way - May 1, 2025
Tony Gonsolin, SP, Dodgers Tony Gonsolin looked impressive in his season debut, allowing three runs on six hits while striking out nine over six innings. He induced 17 whiffs in the night for a 40% whiff rate, with his slider being his most effective swing-and-miss pitch, with six whiffs on eleven swings. This was about as good of a start as you could ask for, considering Gonsolin hasn't pitched s...2025
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• AL Week 2 Strategy-April 5, 2025
In The Field SS Zach Neto started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Salt Lake City. He hit a solo home run on Thursday night. He is getting closer to a return because he was able to play in the field on Friday night. He is tracking towards a return sometime next week. He is looking to build off his strong 2024 season (.249 AVG with 23 HR/30 SB). The Angels have been mixing and matching at short w...2025
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• Coming Down the Homestretch- Preseason Prep- March 23, 2025
As we come close to the domestic Opening Day on Thursday, rosters and rotations are falling in line. Players are getting slotted into where they will open the season. There are also still some moves. And, of course, not a day goes by without some injury news to raise questions about how playing time will be impacted. The Tigers were a surprise participant in the 2024 postseason. P Tarik Skubal ca...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 19, 2025
Drake Baldwin (C-ATL) appears likely to open the 2025 campaign as Atlanta's starting backstop. That is interesting news from a fantasy standpoint given Baldwin's status as the organization's top prospect. As a 23 year-old last season, he batted .276 with 16 dingers, 88 RBI, and 58 runs scored across 551 total PA at the Double-A and Triple-A levels. He showed strong command of the plate with a 13% ...2025
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• Sometimes It Hurts- Preseason Prep- March 17, 2025
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Luck o' the Irish hasn't been with several teams and players so far in Spring Training as a rash of injuries has hit them. The first game that counts will be tomorrow when the Dodgers and Cubs face off in Tokyo. SS Mookie Betts may not be playing in the two games of the Tokyo Series. He has been suffering an illness that has forced him to miss the exhibition games tha...2025
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• How Big A Deal Is LSU Star Kade Anderson’s Tommy John Surgery?

Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images The likely top 3 pick left hander underwent the surgery in 2022, should Nats fans be worried? We are a day away from the Nationals big decision of who they will select first overall in the 2025 MLB Draft. Although there is no clear option and reports are that the Nats are considering a whole group of players, the 2 front runners seem to be LSU left handed pit...2025
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• Padres Minor League Update: Week 15

Ethan Salas isn’t going to be ready this month. At the end of May, The Athletics’s Keith Law released his updated prospect rankings for the 2025 season. Catcher Ethan Salas, who had been placed on the injured list in April for a stress reaction in his low back, is ranked at 17. He is seven spots below fellow Padres prospect, shortstop Leodalis De Vries. In April it was thought that Salas would be ...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Yankees series preview
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• BCB After Dark: Do you still want Sandy Alcantara?

Photo by Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you are still interested in the Cubs acquiring the the former Cy Young Award winner. It’s another Monday night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the heat and join us. There’s no cover charge. The dress code...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Tim Hudson pitches eight scoreless innings and hits a homer

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Tim Hudson has a great day as the Blue Jays have a bad day. Braves Franchise History 1912: With no hint that a record is about to be set, the Giants coast to a 14-2 lead through eight innings at Boston, then score seven more in the 9th for a 21-2 lead. The Braves rally for ten in the last of the 9th but lose 21-12. The 17 runs are the NL post-1900 record...2025
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• BCB After Dark: The untouchables

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which minor league prospect should be the last one the Cubs part with. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in out of the heat. We’ve got the best music and the best companionship. There’s no cover charge. We’ve ...2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The best young hitter in baseball took the Yankees to their first World Series in 15 years before moving across town in free agency. Now, he returns to the Bronx as two division leaders clash. On December 7, 2023, the New York Yankees swung a blockbuster trade with the San Diego Padres. It cost a pretty penny, with future Cy Young contender Michael King le...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Replacement Steele

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who is the best long-term replacement for Justin Steele. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re glad you decided to stop by. Come on in and sit with us. There’s no cover charge. We still have a couple of good tables av...2025
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• Game Thread #12: Milwaukee Brewers (6-5) @ Colorado Rockies (2-8)

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Brewers look to end woeful series streak in Colorado Astute Brewers observers will undoubtedly have heard over the past couple of days an interesting fact about the Milwaukee Brewers: they, despite being one of the best teams in baseball over the past seven years, haven’t won a series in Colorado since 2018, despite them being one of the worst teams in baseba...2025
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