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• Projecting the New York Mets Opening Day Roster: Juan Soto, Francisco Lindor to Carry Heavy Offensive Burden
With injuries to four projected starters, who will the New York Mets call upon to help Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto chase down the Phillies?...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Rays’ stadium plans are DOA

Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images So much for the new stadium... It has been a rough few months for the Tampa Bay Rays. There has been a lot of back and forth drama between the team and local officials; the existing stadium was decimated by a hurricane, and the Rays will now be playing the 2025 season at a Minor League ballpark. But now, a new di...2025
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• MLB rumors: Insider believes this young All-Star has ‘best chance’ of commanding record-breaking Juan Soto money

Could any current MLB star ever match Juan Soto's staggering contract? One MLB insider believes this young All-Star could....2025
• Blue Jays Under Fire for Lowballing Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Despite Making a $50M AAV Offer to Juan Soto
The Toronto Blue Jays have one of the best players in baseball on their team in Vladimir Guerrero Jr, yet they seem reluctant to pay him as such....2025
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• The Legend Grows
Juan Soto appears to be able to do anything he puts his mind to: Can we buy that guy season tickets to CitiField and have Soto do that every game? — KeepOnNguyening (@KNguyening) March 12, 2025 Do not mess with The Soto....2025
• Mackenzie Gore’s strong spring should be rewarded with an opening day start

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images Mackenzie Gore is the Nationals ace and he should be fully minted as such with an opening day start He was already the strong favorite, but Mackenzie Gore should be named the Opening Day starter tomorrow. Gore was dominant in his second start of the spring, going 5.1 scoreless innings while striking out 6. The 26 year old southpaw is looking to build off of what...2025
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• Projecting the New York Mets Opening Day Roster: Juan Soto, Francisco Lindor to Carry Heavy Offensive Burden
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025

Photo by Casey Sykes/Getty Images Which aspects of Braves baseball are you looking forward to most this year? Two things can be true at once. The Atlanta Braves had a very disappointing offseason that included a shocking and, in my opinion, egregious decision to duck under the luxury tax instead of adding around their core in the middle of a World Series window. But, despite this, the Bra...2025
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• Padres’ “winning on the margins” approach

Fernando Tatis Jr and Mike Shildt | Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Focus and confidence carry over from 2024 In March of 2024, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote about the change in philosophy and approach for the Padres. After a disastrous 2023 season and a change of managers, the team was asked to buy in to what Mike Shildt was selling. Manny Machado said it best- “We’ve...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rays being sold, and A’s getting bold?

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Things are getting interesting! Hello friends! Lots of little news bites to jump into today, but a couple of interesting ones to look out for in today’s links. For starters, the Oakland... er, Sacramento... er... Las Vegas A’s are getting themselves geared up for the future, not just with contract extensions and deals, but also a new uniform patch that promo...2025
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• San Diego Padres need a new ace; Michael King is the logical successor

San Diego Padres SP Michael King | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Friars need to sign King to a long-term deal 2025 should be the season when the San Diego Padres anoint a new ace atop the starting rotation. The roster offers an ideal candidate: Michael King is emerging as the logical successor. In a perfect world, a front office may want their ace to have more exp...2025
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• The All Oft-Injured Team

Photo by Dave Kaup/Getty Images A major dis from Sir Charles During the 1961-62 baseball season, the great Wilt Chamberlain averaged, AVERAGED, 48.5 minutes per game while playing in a league leading 80 games. Since an NBA game is only 48 minutes long, you must be asking if this is a misprint. No, it is not. Wilt played every minute of every game, plus most of the overtime minutes. In fact...2025
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• Which NL East position player will disappoint the most this year?

Which of the Braves’ foes will hit the wall this year? The Braves look to have a great lineup coming back in 2025. Once Ronald Acuña returns from injury, they’ll really get rolling. But it’s not enough to see the Braves succeed; someone else needs to fail. I wonder which of the NL East best position players will take a step back this year. Here’s a summary of the NL East’s notable pos...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-March 1, 2025
Around the League Sean Murphy-Braves-C Sean Murphy is coming off arguably his worst season in the majors. He played in only 72 games due to injury and when he was on the field it was a struggle. Murphy hit .193 with 10 HR, 19 R, 25 RBI, and 0 SB. This was coming off the best season of his career in 2023 (.251 AVG, 21 HR, 65 R, 68 RBI, and 0 SB in 108 GP). He played the first game of the season...2025
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• Nationals Prospects: Robert Hassell III is finally healthy and hitting

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports Robert Hassell has been the story of Spring Training so far for the Washington Nationals At the time of the Juan Soto trade, Robert Hassell III was seen as one of the safest pieces in the package. He was a top 40 prospect, who had done nothing but rake his entire career. The outfielder was a former top 10 pick who was racing his way through the lower minors. Th...2025
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• Braves News: Grapefruit League opener, Spencer Strider update, and more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves play a baseball game today! The squad will make the trip to Fort Myers to take on the Minnesota Twins today at 1:05 ET. Chris Sale is slated to pitch two innings and Sean Murphy will be behind the plate. Bryce Elder is also set to make an appearance on the bump. Chris Sale ...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 8, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Do the Royals need more pitching? David Lesky looks at how the Royals might decide roster spots this spring. They don’t have a ton of competitions really. I think you can look at the roster and know that probably 20 of the 26 roster spots are decided. A few of those that aren’t are relievers, which matter but are a little different be...2025
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• It’s time for Bobby to play some ball

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The phenom has been given a large platform, but has failed to deliver thus far. What if they held a playoff series, and no stars showed up? The American League Division Series was hyped as a platform for two of the game’s best players - Aaron Judge and Bobby Witt Jr. Each of them also had a second banana in the lineup worthy of the spotlight as well - Juan Soto h...2024
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"Mets' Juan Soto homers in first spring training at-bat with new club"

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"Juan Soto and the Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told ESPN, the largest deal in professional sports history."

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"The Yankees have traded for Padres slugger Juan Soto, sources told ESPN, adding him to a potent outfield mix that includes Alex Verdugo and Aaron Judge."

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"Slugger Juan Soto, a two-time All-Star at age 23 who was the prize of this year's trade deadline, would head to the Padres along with first baseman Josh Bell after the teams agreed to a trade, sources told ESPN."

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"Dodgers' Max Scherzer celebrated Wild Card win 'drunk,' shirtless and with former Nats teammate Juan Soto"

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"Fernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto are breaking baseball's unwritten rules. Isn't it great?"

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"Who are the next breakout stars, following the likes of Ronald Acuna and Juan Soto?"

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"Unwilling to part with either Victor Robles or Juan Soto in J."

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"5 million signing bonus with teenage outfielder Juan Soto of the Dominican Republic, according to industry sources."

• MLB rumors: Insider believes this young All-Star has ‘best chance’ of commanding record-breaking Juan Soto money
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• Mackenzie Gore’s strong spring should be rewarded with an opening day start
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025
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• Padres’ “winning on the margins” approach
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• Juan Soto first outfielder pick in last mock before Opening Day
Check out the results of our first fantasy baseball head-to-head points mock draft of 2025, featuring round-by-round picks and a snapshot of the rosters of all 10 teams....2025
• Outside The Confines: Rays being sold, and A’s getting bold?
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• San Diego Padres need a new ace; Michael King is the logical successor
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• Soto: Mets Didn’t Offer The Most Money
The Juan Soto free agency was one of the most anticipated in baseball history. It was expected to deliver historic results and did just that. He signed a massive 15-year, $765MM deal with the Mets. That’s the longest contract ever and the largest guarantee. The $51MM average annual value is also a record if one…...2025
• Juan Soto says he took less money to play for New York Mets: Speculating on which suitor offered more than $765 million

In a stunning moment, Juan Soto claimed the $765 million deal the New York Mets gave him was not the best offer he received this winter....2025
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025
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• Juan Soto first outfielder pick in last mock before Opening Day
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• Soto: Mets Didn’t Offer The Most Money
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Diving into 5 more projections before the Braves first spring training game. For part one, click here. Baseball is a beautiful, wonderful, stupid sport. It’s famously the most random major sport in the US, and it doesn’t take much searching to find numerous examples of its unpredictability. Chris Sale went 18-3 in 2024 as he domi...2025
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• The Brewers are rolling the dice in the infield

Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Is someone going to step up? When Paul DeJong and Brendan Rodgers signed deals this week, all illusions that the Brewers would bring in a free agent to shore up their infield ended. Barring a trade—which seems unlikely—the Brewers will very likely enter the season with one of Oliver Dunn, Andruw Monasterio, or ...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 15, 2025
Welcome Back! Around the League Alex Bregman-Red Sox-3B Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Boston Red Sox, including opt-outs after the 2025 and 2026 seasons. He reportedly chose this higher average annual value contract over longer-term offers from the Tigers and Cubs. Bregman is expected to transition to second base, a position he last played in 2018. This is going t...2025
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• Xander Bogaerts needs to win over San Diego

Xander Bogaerts | Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Entering his third year, X is still unproven Xander Bogaerts joined the San Diego Padres as a free agent in the 2022-23 offseason, signing a contract for 11 years and $280 million, which included a no-trade clause. People around San Diego and baseball wondered if he was worth such a contract because no one predicted he would receive such a...2025
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• San Diego Padres need a new ace; Michael King is the logical successor
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 8, 2025
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• Juan Soto says he took less money to play for New York Mets: Speculating on which suitor offered more than $765 million
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• Grant Paulsen was born to talk sports

I got the chance to prolific radio host Grant Paulsen about the Nationals and his own career Grant Paulsen has been a fixture on 106.7 The Fan for years now. Talking to him, it is easy to see why. He is a natural communicator who is a passionate sports fan. Grant could talk all day long. He is also able to provide a level of substance as well. Getting to chat with him was a pleasure, as he is a ve...2025
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• My 24 favorite Washington Nationals for my 24th birthday

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Here are my 24 favorite Washington Nationals of all time as I get to 24 years of age. Today is my birthday! In honor of that, I wanted to write about some of my favorite Nationals players of all time. The team has been a huge part of my life and these players have been part of my journey. Here is the list. Max Scherzer Max Scherzer is unquestionably my favori...2025
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• Nationals Prospects: Robert Hassell III is finally healthy and hitting
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• Why weren’t the Royals a match for Nolan Arenado?

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images The Royals checked in on the Cardinals third baseman, but talks didn’t go anywhere. Last Friday, Katie Woo, the St. Louis Cardinals beat reporter for The Athletic, published an article on the Cardinals’ attempts to trade eight-time All-Star and ten-time Gold Glove-winning third baseman Nolan Arenado. Arenado is still a member of the Cardinals, so that tells yo...2025
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• Top 5 Washington Nationals players to watch this Spring Training

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images There are a lot of interesting names to watch this spring, but here are the five I am keeping my eye on With the first Nationals Spring Training game coming on Saturday, it feels like it is time to discuss some of the players worth monitoring. This is a big year in the development of a lot of the Nationals prized youngsters. Whether it is going from a big leaguer t...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• Sources: Mets land Soto on 15-year, $765M deal
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• Sources: Nats agree to trade Soto, Bell to Padres

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• Nationals To Entertain Trade Offers For Juan Soto After He Rejects $440MM Offer
In a somewhat shocking development, the Washington Nationals will now listen to trade offers for transcendent superstar Juan Soto, per the Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. The change of heart comes after Soto reportedly rejected a $440MM extension offer. The Nationals have long held the position that they would not be open to trading Soto, their 23-year-old…...2022
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• Juan Soto rejects Nationals' 15-year, $440 million extension, team plans to entertain trade offers, per report
Soto won't become a free agent until after 2024...2022
• Sources: Soto rejects $440M; Nats to hear offers

The Nationals are willing to listen to trade offers for Juan Soto after the star outfielder rejected a 15-year, $440 million contract offer, league sources confirmed to ESPN....2022
• Sources: Yanks get Padres' Soto in 7-player deal

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• Padres To Acquire Juan Soto, Josh Bell From Nationals
10:45am: The Padres and Nationals are in agreement on a deal that sends Soto and first baseman Josh Bell to San Diego, Morosi reports. 10:43am: The Padres are “on the verge” of acquiring Juan Soto from the Nationals, tweets Jon Morosi of MLB.com. He adds that talks are in their “final stages.” Discussions between the More to come....2022
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• Fernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto are breaking baseball's unwritten rules. Isn't it great?
Two of MLB's brightest young stars just ruffled some feathers by showing us the future of the sport. No apologies necessary....2020
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• Juan Soto first outfielder pick in last mock before Opening Day
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• The Whole League Is Getting Soto Bombed
Holding hands together with a Juan Soto plushie, tiptoeing around my office in a tutu. I LOVE JUAN SOTO SO MUCH! There, I said it. Just love Juan Soto so much https://t.co/49eHreP0Q9 — Razzball (@Razzball) September 24, 2021 I cannot stop my pure heart from being driven in by Juan Soto when I'm waiting on base aka sitting on the toilet. It's love! Damn you all for not understanding! So, Juan So...2021
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• FanDuel: Sale Away
Another 3 day holiday weekend and boy I like it. Plenty of sports on fantasy football drafts in full force, NFL season starts in a few days and playoff baseball on the horizon it's a great time to be alive for sure. We have about a month left in MLB DFS so let's not stop now and see what we have here on this beautiful Labor Day. It's a robust 12 game schedule today and the pitcher that stood out t...2021
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• Certified Clubber Boy
Yesterday, Salvador Perez hit his 41st homer. Today, you get a Salvador Appreciation Post, or SAP. You might be asking yourself the same as every Y! Answers when you google SAP, "How do I turn SAP off?" You can't turn it off. It's going into your eyeballs and, with each passing word, it becomes harder to turn back. If you remove all pitchers, the top home run hitter in the major leagues is Salvado...2021
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• Top 100 for 2nd Half of 2021 Fantasy Baseball
Welcome, prematurely balding men and five women who are married to PBMs and decided if you can’t beat them, join them! Make yourself comfortable, this is gonna be a long post. Here, enjoy some coffee. Oops, you just drank rat poison. I should’ve used different mugs. Don’t worry, it can’t be worse than rostering Cody Bellinger in the 1st half. Oh, you rostered him, and that’s why you drank the pois...2021
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• The Positional Prospect I’m Most Excited to See Debut in 2021
Baseball is in good hands. Look no further than Grey's top 10 for 2021 fantasy baseball, where you can witness the likes of Ronald Acuna Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Mookie Betts ranked ahead of the greatest player of our time, Randy Arozarena. Just kidding, I really do mean Mike Trout. Venture further into the top 20 and you'll find Christian Yelich (No. 11), Bo Bichette (No. 12), Nolan...2021
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rays being sold, and A’s getting bold?
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• Ex-Yankees reliever turning heads as a starter at Mets spring training

Juan Soto isn't the only 2024 Yankee who is making a splash at Mets camp....2025
• San Diego Padres need a new ace; Michael King is the logical successor
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• ‘I Am Excited About the 2025 New York Mets’ — Ben Verlander on Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Francisco Lindor Leading a Powerhouse Lineup
The New York Mets have a fearsome lineup with Juan Soto and Pete Alonso, but can their pitching rotation step up and push them toward a championship?...2025
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• Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. addresses if Mets' Juan Soto impacted free-agency decision

Shortly after it became known in February that Guerrero Jr. plans to reach free agency after the 2025 MLB season concludes, he revealed that he and the Blue Jays never came particularly close to an agreement before the start of spring training games....2025
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• Royals interested in Mets outfielder Starling Marte, per report

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Royals made an effort to acquire the 36-year-old. The Royals have been searching under every rock to acquire an outfielder this off-season but to no success. The latest report of their efforts is from Joel Sherman of the New York Post, who writes this week that the Royals tried to acquire Mets outfielder Starling Marte, and that their efforts may not b...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL East

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs did reasonably well against these teams in 2024. The AL East has traditionally been a tough division, though last year only two of the teams finished over .500. The Cubs went 7-8 against these five teams, though that nearly even record was boosted by sweeping the Orioles. They were only 4-8 vs. the Red Sox, Rays, Blue Jays and Yan...2025
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• 5 things for Braves fans to get excited about for 2025
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• Mets' Juan Soto makes shocking revelation about free-agency decision

During a recent chat with Abriendo Sports, Soto interestingly said his choosing the Mets this past offseason was a "collective decision."...2025
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• New York Mets’ Juan Soto worst free-agent signing? MLB insiders call $765 million deal ‘insane’ in shocking poll

Juan Soto blew away expectations this offseason, signing a record-breaking $765 million contract with the New York Mets....2025
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• Xander Bogaerts needs to win over San Diego
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• San Diego Padres FanFest 2025: What we learned

Don Orsillo, Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill and Mark Grant at Fanfest 2025 | Photo by Cheri Bell The sky is not falling The San Diego Padres held their 2025 FanFest celebration February 2nd with an improvement over the 2023 version. With the signing of Xander Bogaerts and the trade for Juan Soto, excitement was high in 2023 and Petco Park had ten of thousands of people clogging the concour...2025
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• Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Did the Braves wiggle out of their comfort zone? Does it matter? I considered titling this post, “So Profar, So Good,” but, that seemed to make little sense at this juncture, and that was a headline-in-the-sand I’m not willing to cross at this point. Did the Atlanta Braves do well by signing Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million de...2025
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• Padres Interested In Corbin Burnes
Much of the hot stove buzz around the Padres this offseason has focused on the team’s reported desire to cut payroll, and the possibility that a Juan Soto trade could be an ideal way for the Friars to both save money and reload with some new talent. However, the Padres firmly still intend to get…...2023
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• The Drew Smyly signing by the numbers
Drew Smyly pitches against the Giants at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smyly will return to the Cubs It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu writing this piece because I’ve written it before — I also did this five years ago, the first time the Cubs signed Drew Smyly to a two-year deal when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Cubs took a second f...2023
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