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• Juan Soto Sets Sights on Mickey Mantle Record as Mets Era Starts Showing Signs of Life
The New York Mets are playing some of the best baseball in the league, and Juan Soto is close to breaking a record Mickey Mantle once set....2025
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• Mets’ Juan Soto robbed of game-changing homer by spectacular Cardinals catch

Juan Soto, who has just five homers this season, was robbed by a game-turning blast by the Cardinals' Victor Scott II at Busch Stadium on Sunday....2025
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• Max Fried delivering as Most Valuable Yankee has saved them from possible crisis

Had the Yankees re-signed Juan Soto rather than used their biggest chunk of offseason money on Max Fried, I think they'd be in worse shape right now....2025
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• The Washington Nationals need a new hitting coach

Another year, another lackluster offense for Darnell Coles. It is time for a new voice in the room Ever since Darnell Coles became the Nationals hitting coach in 2022, the Nats offense has been a bottom 10 unit year in and year out. Yes, some of this has to do with a lack of talent, but the Nats still have a .683 OPS with an offense that was supposed to be much improved. The Darnell Coles experien...2025
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• Juan Soto Gets Goofy While Breaking Down His Signature ‘Soto Shuffle’
One of the benefits of winning a Fanatics Pick 'Em contest left one lucky fan with a chance to learn the Soto Shuffle from Juan Soto himself....2025
• Paul Goldschmidt keeps on delivering exactly what Yankees need in post-Juan Soto world

Paul Goldschmidt carried his sizzling April into May....2025
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Follow along as Juan Soto comes to Nationals Park for the first time as a Met Despite losing last night, the Nationals are coming off a series win against the Orioles. With back to back series wins now, the Nats look to ride that momentum into a three game series with the red hot Mets, who are an MLB best 18-7. While he still isn’t leading off, James Wood is up to ...2025
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• The Steady Rise of Reese Olson - April 24, 2025
Reese Olson, SP (DET) Olson was absolutely dominant on Wednesday. The young right-hander threw 7.1 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and one walk while striking out seven. Olson's slider/changeup were spectacular, generating 17 swinging strikes on those two pitches alone. He finished the game with a phenomenal 41% CSW rate. Through five starts Olson has been a completely different pitcher ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The city of Sacramento is torn over the Athletics. The Braves have a controversy as the team struggles. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Dan Moore has a wonderful essay on the city of Sacramento, the Athletics and the “Faustian” bargain that brought them together. Sacramento is hungry for an MLB team of its own, but the Athletics s...2025
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• Nationals Prospects: A look at how the Nats top prospects are performing

William Bretzger/Delaware News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images I wanted to check in and do a stock report on some of the Washington Nationals top prospects Now that the Minor League season is in full swing, it is time to check in on some of the Washington Nationals top prospects. There have been some standout performers, but also some guys that are struggling. I will examine t...2025
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• Outside The Confines: When you don’t wish upon a star

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Paul Skenes is a superstar and are the Pirates are wasting him? Players off to a hot start. Are hitters catching up to pitching? And other news from around MLB. Good morning. It’s 1:20 on Friday somewhere. Jeff Passan has the story of Pirates ace Paul Skenes’ road to becoming a superstar. R.J. Anderson believes that the Pirates are wasting Skenes’ t...2025
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• Is it time for the Royals to get a new hitting coach?

Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alec Zumwalt has been running the hitting show in Kansas City for a long time. The Royal’s hitting results have not been very good. It is probably time to discuss a new voice. Going into the 2022 season, the Royals decided to hire Alec Zumwalt as their director of player development and hitting performance. Hitting coaches come and go wi...2025
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• Yankees series preview: ALDS rematch

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The Royals travel to the Bronx to face the team that bested them in the post-season last year. Last fall the Royals made a surprise run at the post-season, eventually falling in the ALDS to a historical post-season rival, the New York Yankees. While the Royals retained much of their post-season roster, the Yankees had a lot of churn this off-season, and w...2025
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• Reviewing the Juan Soto Trade almost three years later

Juan Soto hits a home run in the seventh inning against the New York Yankees June 13, 2018. | Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Juan Soto’s blockbuster trade shook the MLB - but how has it turned out for the Nationals? In August 2022, the Nationals were three years removed from their improbable World Series win; however, it was the beginning of the end. A year prior, Washington shipped off Trea Tu...2025
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• Soto Slugs first HR for Mets in Win - March 29, 2025
Juan Soto (OF - Mets) Soto hit his first home with the Mets Friday night. There isn't much more to be said about one of the best players in all of baseball. Soto has a chance for a huge season driving in runs hitting behind Francisco Lindor and scoring runs via Pete Alonso's bat. One fun Juan Soto fact: 2019 was the last time Soto had more strikeouts than walks and should easily get to his third ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025

It was a good start | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Let’s be honest. You’re not here to read what I wrote today. You’re here to talk about the game yesterday. I’m not going to link to a bunch of different recaps posts. Matthew has got you covered with the RR recap. I won’t post too much more about that TOOTBLAN in the 8th (Pete Grathoff has me ...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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"The Mets couldn't replicate their past success on Opening Day, and it resulted in a sour start to the Juan Soto era in Queens."

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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."

• Poll: Anthony Santander’s Slow Start
After missing out on the top available free agent for the second consecutive offseason when they fell short in the Juan Soto sweepstakes, the Blue Jays remained in the hunt to find a slugger who could complement Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and a hopefully resurgent Bo Bichette. Toronto had already brought Andres Gimenez into the fold…...2025
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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
Juan Soto, OF, New York Mets Soto had his biggest day of the year going 2-3 with 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, BB on three hard hit balls. Soto is having a down year given his first round draft capital, but there is good reason to believe it's nothing but a slow start. Soto's premium discipline and contact skills haven't gone anywhere. He is still walking more than striking out, making him an animal in points...2025
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• Soto hits first HRs at Citi Field since Mets signing
Juan Soto, who signed a $765 million contract this offseason, finally cleared the fences with his first two home runs at Citi Field since joining the Mets....2025
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• Why Mets' Carlos Mendoza still isn't worried about Juan Soto amid slow start

Soto's numbers so far hardly match the value of the 15-year, $765M contract that he received from the Mets this past offseason....2025
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• New York Mets owner Steve Cohen sounds off on Juan Soto’s early-season power outage

Mets owner Steve Cohen opened his checkbook like never before for Juan Soto this winter, committing to a $765 million contract....2025
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• How Trent Grisham went from a salary dump in the Juan Soto trade to one of the Yankees' most valuable hitters

Grisham is already just one home run shy of his full-season 2024 total...2025
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• James Wood is a Superstar

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images James Wood is the next transcendent star to take center stage in the Nations Capital, and they can’t let him leave Despite the teams short history, Washington Nationals fans have seen a lot of star players over the years. We have seen Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, Anthony Rendon, and Trea Turner, so we know what stars look like. James Wood is the Nationals newest star. ...2025
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• The Steady Rise of Reese Olson - April 24, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta
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• Free Agent Prediction Contest Winners Notified
4,344 people entered into our 2024-25 MLB Free Agent Prediction Contest, and only one was able to manage a batting average over .230. Congratulations to Allan Cameron, who correctly predicted the destinations of 13 out of 48 free agents for a robust .271 average! No one else topped 11. Allan was correct on Juan Soto,…...2025

• The Washington Nationals need a new hitting coach
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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
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• Braves News: Series Sweep, Drake Baldwin, Trades, More

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images A successful weekend for the Braves. At the start of the season, Drake Baldwin could find little to no success despite doing everything right at the plate. Well fortunately, the results are starting to reward the routine, as Baldwin played a big role in multiple wins for the Braves this weekend. This included his first home run at Tr...2025
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• White Sox Reacts Survey: Welcome to Chicago!

Three names stand out as cornerstones of a successful 2025 Our latest Reacts survey skews a bit more positive than has in recent weeks, asking all readers who the best addition to the White Sox has been in 2025. The results were essentially a three-way tie ... not a bad thing at all, for a team in need of improvements from Player 1 to 26: With “full” control over both Smith and Meidro...2025
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• Cristopher Sanchez Brings the Heat - April 18, 2025
Cal Raleigh (C-SEA) went deep again as he went 1-5 with a solo shot, a walk, and a stolen base against the Reds on Thursday. The 28 year-old slugger is now batting only .216 through his first 84 PA of the season, but has mashed 8 homers while driving in 11 runs and swiping 3 bags. Raleigh's strikeout rate is actually down to 26% (28% last season, 28.5% career) while he's still walking a good bit (...2025
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• Is it time for the Royals to get a new hitting coach?
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• Yankees series preview: ALDS rematch
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• Juan Soto strikes out in big ninth-inning spot to end Mets’ Opening Day letdown

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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images What do you all think will happen during the 2025 MLB season? It’s Opening Day! Rockies baseball is back! Earlier today, we shared our Purple Row staff predictions, and for the second-straight year, we asked the community to offer their same predictions! We received 35 responses, up from 28 in 2024, and here’s what y...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How many games will the Rockies win in 2025? Who will take home hardware around baseball? It’s that time of year again...Purple Row staff predictions! The Rockies start their 162-game quest tonight in sunny Tampa, FL at Tropicana George M. Steinbrenner Field as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing their season in the sp...2025
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• Washington Nationals getting more production from the bottom of the lineup

Brad Mills-Imagn Images After struggling early in the season, the bottom of the Nats lineup has been performing well lately due to new faces Early in the season, the bottom of the lineup was really struggling. Guys like Dylan Crews and Paul DeJong just kept striking out. While Jacob Young is a great defender, he is not much of a factor with the bat. It seemed like once you got past guys li...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread
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• James Wood is a Superstar
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• Mets fans’ inner Juan Soto strife shows sports superstitions can add pure entertainment

This has always been my favorite part of observing sports fans of every stripe, starting with this: My friend — fine family man, successful career, conversant on many issues outside of sports — actually believes this. And let’s be fair, we all do, if we care about sports in any kind of meaningful way....2025
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• Outside The Confines: Jackie Robinson Day moments

Photo by Aaron Gash/MLB Photos via Getty Images Yesterday was one of baseball’s most meaningful days. Jackie Robinson Day is a big event in baseball. All 30 clubs play, and all players wear the number 42—retired throughout MLB—to honor the late, great Jackie Robinson. While the event itself is typically a joyful one, recalling the barriers broken by Robinson that paved the way for so many ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions

Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Lots of players got contract extensions. More on the torpedo bat. The Dodgers are hot and the Braves are not. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. We’re leading off with a whole mess of contact extensions today and none of them are Kyle Tucker. First off, Red Sox lefty Garrett Crochet agreed to a six-year, $170 million contract. extension. Dan Szymborski...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ southbound Suarez

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Forget about the Tokyo Series. Try to win this one. 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, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then c...2025
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• Juan Soto flubs his first big moment with the Mets

Four-time All-Star right fielder Juan Soto had a chance for a storybook ending to his Mets debut. He spoiled it instead....2025
• COMC haul misc

Happy Opening Day, everybody. I recently got another shipment from COMC and I've been meaning to show off some highlights.Some refractors that caught my eye. I sorted Juan Soto refractors cheapest-first and grabbed that Béisbol one. I wanted an All-Etch logofractor, and ended up with Austin Riley, whom I've kinda fell into PCing, I guess. The blue 2008 Adrian Gonzalez pickup was inspired by a gcrl...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 strikes out in big ninth-inning spot to end Mets’ Opening Day letdown
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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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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
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• The Steady Rise of Reese Olson - April 24, 2025
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• Cristopher Sanchez Brings the Heat - April 18, 2025
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• Soto Slugs first HR for Mets in Win - March 29, 2025
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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
• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Washington Nationals need a new hitting coach
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• Don't Sell These Hitters - May 1, 2025
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• Washington Nationals stun the New York Mets in another walk off thriller

Brad Mills-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals came back from the dead to defeat a shell shocked New York Mets team Between the near meltdown in Colorado and the game on Friday, the Washington Nationals have been in some thrillers so far this season. However, this comeback win over the Mets is by far the win of the season. The Washington Nationals looked dead in the water from the jump, ...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets game thread

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals offense looks to bounce back after being shutout last night After a walk off win on Friday, the Nationals followed that up by being shutout. In what seems to be a pattern, the Nats have been unable to build on strong performances. Today, they will take on the Mets in the third game of a four game set. Davey Martinez is stacking the top ...2025
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• Opposing player spotlight: Juan Soto, Former National, Current Met

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Soto will be shuffling into Nationals Park with his third different team since the trade Hello there, old friend. This will be the third different team Juan Soto has suited up for while facing the Nationals. The first time, he returned with the Padres and was met with a standing ovation. The second time, wearing Yankees pinstripes, he received the same warm welcome...2025
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• New York Mets vs Washington Nationals series preview

Brad Mills-Imagn Images The Mets are starting to hit stride right into their series against the Nationals The leaders of the National League East are finally hitting their stride. Just in time for their series against the Nationals. After starting the season 2-3, the Mets haven’t looked back. Since then, they’ve gone 16-4, sitting at an MLB-best 18-7. They’re currently riding a seven-game...2025
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• The Steady Rise of Reese Olson - April 24, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta
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• Washington Nationals need Josh Bell to heat up

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images With their lineup scuffling the Nationals need their slugging DH to go on one of his patented hot streaks Throughout his career, Josh Bell has been a feast or famine player. Often, he is either red hot or ice cold. So far this season, Bell has been the ladder, hitting .133 with a .524 OPS. For the Nats offense to go on a run, especially without CJ Abrams, Bell h...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Jackie Robinson Day moments
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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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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• 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
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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