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• Jhoan Duran electrifies Citizens Bank Park in his Phillies debut

Photo by Caean Couto/Getty Images New closer Jhoan Duran electrified Phillies fans with his entrance, and his first save Acquired by the Philadelphia Phillies in a trade ahead of the MLB Trade Deadline, it did not take long for Jhoan Duran to electrify the crowd at Citizens Bank Park. Both with his entrance and with a four-pitch save in his Phillies debut. Nicknamed the “Durantula” for his...2025
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• Yankees Notes: Judge, Bellinger, Goldschmidt, Slater, Schlittler
Aaron Judge’s right flexor strain continues to be the overarching story impacting the Yankees’ business on and off the field as the trade deadline approaches. Manager Aaron Boone provided some more details on Judge’s status in an interview with Jomboy Media’s “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast (link to X) today, saying that Judge is slated to start…...2025
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• Jomboy producer under fire for ‘kill yourself’ comment at George Springer

Jomboy Media producer Dan Rourke is catching major blowback after he directed an offensive rant at Blue Jays outfielder George Stringer on Wednesday....2025
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• Why is replay so bad and why am I still mad?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It has been a week and the Bobby Witt overturned call is still living rent free in my head. Back when he was a columnist, current Kansas City Royals VP of Communications Sam Mellinger would frequently employ a line when discussing heartbreaking losses and the discussion that stemmed from questionable calls that went against your favorite team. His line was “c...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft

Ethan Holliday | Steve Sisney/For The Oklahoman / USA TODAY NETWORK The MLB Draft is this weekend, and we have what you need to know. The trade deadline is approaching. The Yankees and Dodgers look vulnerable. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The MLB Draft starts this Sunday night and here’s all the basic information on the event. Melissa Lockard also has a more in-dep...2025
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• Outside The Confines: All-Star announcements

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images The full All-Star rosters were announced, which means some players got snubbed. The Nationals make a change. The draft and trade deadline are coming. Good morning. The full All-Star Game rosters were announced. Here’s the roster without a lot of the commentary attached if you just want the names. Jake Mintz has some thoughts on each player on both ro...2025
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• James Wood got the Barry Bonds treatment from the Los Angeles Angels

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Despite not being an All-Star finalist, Washington Nationals star James Wood got shown the ultimate sign of respect The Washington Nationals won a wild 7-4 11 inning affair to get their first series win of the month. There were a lot of crazy storylines, from Drew Millas’ big day to Kyle Finnegan’s heroic 3 inning outing. However, the story of the afternoon was...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 11, 2025

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Welcome home, Jac Caglianone. ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle looks at what each MLB team “must do before the trade deadline”. The Kansas City Royals’ direction is no surprise What they need to do before the deadline: Add offense. Someday, Jac Caglianone will draw a big league walk, but it’s hard telling when that will be. Longtime Royals fans might be reminded...2025
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• Padres battle weather and the bullpen slumps

Jake Cronenworth | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Notes from week #6 The San Diego Padres swept the Pittsburgh Pirates then lost two of three to the New York Yankees amidst bad weather in both locations and a bullpen meltdown, the first in the first month and a half of the season. They also had a major overhaul of the lineup, getting Brandon Lockridge and Jackson Merril...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Record Royals

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The Royals/Orioles game was a big hit, and made MLB history Happy Monday, everyone! It’s a fine day to be a Cubs fan as they edge closer to the Mets, and things are just looking excellent. The news over the weekend was light, but there were some interesting history-making moments. The Royals set a franchise record for solo home runs in a single game, whi...2025
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• Not every Eagles loss is a cause for concern

Peter Casey-Imagn Images Don’t get too riled up about Sunday’s loss to the Commanders. In the grand scheme of things, everything is fine. Sunday’s 36-33 loss to the Commanders in the nation’s capitol was annoying and frustrating. After building up a 14-0 and 21-7 first quarter lead, it’s hard to believe the NFL’s No. 1 defense allowed 22 fourth-quarter points and become the first team sinc...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 8, 2024

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images The Boys come home. The vibes were great in the Royals’ clubhouse following a Game 2 victory in New York. “We’re here for a reason,” said Salvador Perez, who homered in Game 2. “Now we go home, and hopefully, we can win there, too.” The Yankees seemed unimpressed. “It still feels the same that we’re gonna win it,” Chisholm said postgame, according to Jomboy...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani had one heck of a weekend

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Grand slams, records made, hard hits, and first pitches. We all know Shohei Ohtani is a generational talent, and probably one of the best baseball players of all time, but he had an incredible weekend that helped prove it. First, he was the fastest player to reach the 40/40 club, he reached the milestone in 126 games, something none of the other five p...2024
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• Shohei Ohtani homers are the best sound in sports

Just pure sounds of destruction Los Angeles Dodgers DH (not Designated Hitter, no. Demigod Hero) Shohei Ohtani can’t pitch this year due to Tommy John surgery on his throwing elbow, so he has decided to focus all of his time on hitting the baseball. In response, we’ve gotten answers to the question of what if the best two-way baseball player we’ve seen since the early 1900’s focused solely on hitt...2024
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• Jhoan Duran electrifies Citizens Bank Park in his Phillies debut
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• Yankees Notes: Judge, Bellinger, Goldschmidt, Slater, Schlittler
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• Outside The Confines: Craig Kimbrel has a new home

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images He’ll bring his unusual stance to Texas. Happy Wednesday, everyone. We have loads of fun little tidbits, from one of the greatest catches you’ll ever see, to a new media partnership for MLB, to a new home for Craig Kimbrel, and two highly-anticipated prospects making their MLB debut. We’re also in countdown mode to both the trade deadline and MLB...2025
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• Padres lose slugfest with Dodgers in extras

Mike Shildt and Manny Machado | Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images San Diego shows it can go toe-to-toe with Los Angeles The first meeting of the 2025 season between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers proved to be worth the wait. Both teams put up runs, and the game went to extra innings before the Dodgers won the series opener 8-7 at Petco Park in 10 innings, Monday. The g...2025
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• Padres battle weather and the bullpen slumps
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• Outside The Confines: Record Royals
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• Gavin Sheets breaks out, leads Padres to win

Gavin Sheets | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images San Diego improves to 5-0 for first time in franchise history Gavin Sheets lined a double to left field to drive in two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to put the San Diego Padres on top of the Cleveland Guardians, 6-2. Time to party pic.twitter.com/zpURWYYJFT— San Diego Padres (@Padres) April 1, 2025 Jason H...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Are the Mets done fighting for Pete Alonso?

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images With negotiations turning “exhausting” it seems likely Pete won’t be a Met this season Happy Monday, BCB friends, and welcome to the last week of January. While it seems impossible that the first month of the year is already done, it is delightful to know that we are mere weeks away from seeing real live baseball in 2025, which is a delightful prospect. Thi...2025
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• Series Preview: Washington Nationals vs Colorado Rockies

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Nats travel to Colorado to take on the worst team in baseball In the third and final road series on this road trip, the Nats will hop on a plane from Pittsburgh and ride the jet stream into Denver, Colorado. In the same way, we’ll hopefully see a James Wood homer ride the jet stream into the Coors Field seats. The Nationals are coming off a pair of tough seri...2025
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• Gavin Sheets breaks out, leads Padres to win
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• Not every Eagles loss is a cause for concern
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 8, 2024
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• Brewers fans mocked Pete Alonso RIGHT before he destroyed their world

Karma. There are just some moments in sports that result in pure karmic perfection. On Thursday night Pete Alonso of the Mets was on the right side of that cosmic energy. Everything looked bleak for New York’s season. Down 2-0 in the 8th inning of their Wild Card game against the Brewers, with seemingly nothing going their way, Alonso dropped a routine popup in foul territory at the worst possibl...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images The much maligned umpire has announced his retirement Usually, when we report news on retirements, it’s about a long-tenured player, or a multi-World Series-winning team manager, but the absolute biggest news of the week was the announcement that umpire Angel Hernandez was planning to retire. Umpires bear a certain amount of negativity from MLB fans, bu...2024
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• Giants-Eagles final score: Late push not enough as Eagles defeat Giants, 33-25

Saquon Barkley | Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports The Giants gave an inspired effort but ultimately came up short in Philadelphia Hoping to play spoiler on the Philadelphia Eagles’ divisional hopes, the New York Giants headed into the daunting Lincoln Financial Field on Monday. The expected outcome occurred, as the Eagles defeated them, 33-25. Though the Giants had their opportunities in the...2023
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• Jhoan Duran electrifies Citizens Bank Park in his Phillies debut
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• Why is replay so bad and why am I still mad?
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling a draft
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• Outside The Confines: Craig Kimbrel has a new home
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 11, 2025
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• Padres lose slugfest with Dodgers in extras
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• Gavin Sheets breaks out, leads Padres to win
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• Jomboy Media signs programming deal with YES Network

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• How Jomboy Media Rose to Power on ‘Good Vibes Only’

Jimmy O’Brien’s videos breaking down major events turned Jomboy Media into a big business, but O’Brien still sees himself as a fan. “I don’t plan on changing.”...2022
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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• A magical night at Wrigley in three acts: Michael Fulmer, Nick Madrigal and Christopher Morel

A joyous celebration at home plate as Morel walksoff the Crosstown Classic | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports None of these things should have happened but all of them did, thanks to those three players. The vast majority of the time, baseball is wildly predictable. Some detractors of the sport might even say it’s boring, but every so often it gets adventurous. After being conditioned to...2023
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• An MLB umpire mocked a challenge into a hot mic, then overturned their incorrect call
An MLB ump was caught mocking a Marlins challenge into a hot mic before overturning the call. Replay review remains a fiercely debated topic even years after being adopted by every major sports league in America. On one hand, it’s great that referees and umpires can consult video replay to make sure they get calls correct. On the other, it slows the game down and often loses the momentum of what’s...2023
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• Yankees’ Scott Effross gushes about Aaron Judge’s leadership to Cubs
New York Yankees relief demon Scott Effross is currently on the shelf with a minor shoulder issue (hopefully!), but that hasn’t stopped him from spreading the good word about the Bronx Bombers Experience to the rest of MLB. Effross hopped onto Jomboy Media’s The Compound podcast this week, and when Cubs outfielder/host Ian Happ picked up on […] Yankees’ Scott Effr...2022
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• Cubs 2, Phillies 0: Sweep!
Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports And, the story of how Phillies infielder Jean Segura broke MLB Gameday... again. This was totally unexpected. Not only did the Cubs sweep the Phillies this week at Wrigley Field, completing it with a 2-0 shutout Thursday afternoon, but that also wraps up a sweep of the season series against the Phillies, since the Cubs swept them in Philadelphia in July. ...2022
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• Historic 11-hit, nine-run first inning sweeps the Royals past Houston in a 13-3 win

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Kansas City sweeps the bad guys and wins every game of the home stand I watched a 2003 Royals team led by Darrell May and Angel Berroa open its season with nine straight wins. I watched a 2013 team that had never won 15 of 20 games in the Dayton Moore era win 15 of 17. I watched a 29-32 Royals team that was dead to rights win 10 straight games and eventually ...2024
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• Why is replay so bad and why am I still mad?
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• James Wood got the Barry Bonds treatment from the Los Angeles Angels
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• Padres lose slugfest with Dodgers in extras
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• Series Preview: Washington Nationals vs Colorado Rockies
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• Outside The Confines: Are the Mets done fighting for Pete Alonso?
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• Chisholm calls Maikel Garcia “sore loser” for confrontation that caused benches to clear

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images There is some bad blood from this series. Jazz Chisholm Jr, who has been the subject of boos from Royals fans for his comments calling the team “just lucky”, accused Maikel Garcia of trying to intentionally hurt infielder Anthony Volpe on a slide into second in Game 4 of the ALDS. In the sixth inning of Thursday’s content, with Garcia on first, Michael Massey ...2024
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• A bee swarm delayed last night’s game at Chase Field two hours. How long is too long a delay?

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports We’ve seen bee delays in Spring Training... but during the season, it’s pretty unusual. Tuesday night’s Dodgers/Diamondbacks game at Chase Field had an unusual reason for a delay: The Dodgers-Dbacks game is in a delay due to a swarm of bees pic.twitter.com/SxansNG1op— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 1, 2024 The game was delayed for nearly two hours wh...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ outside, looking in

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The best of #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, all in one tidy multimedia package, four days a week. The Cubs are out of the playoff picture for now and should probably be lining up movers and golfing foursomes. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #Mi...2023
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• Aaron Judge kept glancing at first before home run, but don’t assume he was cheating
The “glancing” drama has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Something curious was happening with Aaron Judge when the Yankees faced the Blue Jays on Tuesday night — he kept glancing over towards first base during his at-bat in the eighth inning. It was enough to pique the interest of the Jays’ broadcasters, who discussed the prevalence of the glancing. Then discussion went wild when Judge homered...2023
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• 2023 Cubs player profiles: Ian Happ, former BearCat and Pittsburgh-area native
Ian Happ, LF #8 for your Chicago Cubs. | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The third in a series of capsule biographies. Ian Happ has a glorious past and his future destination is cloudy, but he can clearly do whatever he puts his mind to. Pittsburgh-area native* Ian Happ was a first-round choice (ninth overall) of the Chicago Cubs in the 2015 Draft. He is an alum of the University of Cinc...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ next?
Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Now we want a catcher and a third baseperson, please Jed? Maybe then even Crane Kenney will shut up for a while. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fro...2022
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