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• Royals get stepped on literally and metaphorically in 8-3 loss to Mets

The Royals got stepped on literally and metaphorically. | Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Mets’ seven runs in the 8th and 9th killed the vibe. Welp, the bullpen blew it. Michael Wacha ran into some trouble in the third inning - he had to face Juan Soto with the bases loaded and one out - but he managed to get out of the jam giving up only one run on a bases-loaded walk. It was good enough - ...2025
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• Royals vs Mets Game 95 Gamethread

Michael Wacha will start tonight. | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The second-place NL East team and 2015 World Series losers come to the K. The very expensive 53-41 Mets are visiting Kauffman Stadium before the All-Star Break for a three-game weekend series against the 46-48 Royals. The Mets are coming off a doubleheader loss to the Orioles yesterday; they avoided the sweep only by winning the...2025
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• Mets series preview: 10 years later

Can you believe it’s already been a decade? A couple months from now, it will officially be 10 years since the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets in 5 games to claim their second World Series title in franchise history. (11-year-old Trenton was so happy.) This final series before the All-Star Break for each team is a big one. The Royals come in after sweeping the lowly Pirates, and winners ...2025
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• Free MLB player props, odds for July 11: Use Kodai Senga, Ketel Marte, George Springer in Friday MLB prop bets

SportsLine's model is on a 45-38 roll on MLB picks and revealed its MLB prop picks and MLB betting picks for sites like PrizePicks, DraftKings and FanDuel...2025
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• Mets To Designate Rico Garcia For Assignment
The Mets will designate right-hander Rico Garcia for assignment today in order to open a spot on the roster for the return of ace Kodai Senga, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. Garcia signed a minor league deal with the Mets over the winter. The 31-year-old righty was selected to the major league roster eight days…...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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• Royals get stepped on literally and metaphorically in 8-3 loss to Mets
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• Mets' Senga, Manaea may rejoin rotation vs. K.C.
Mets ace Kodai Senga (hamstring) and Sean Manaea (oblique/elbow) may rejoin the team's starting rotation against the Royals next weekend....2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ New York Mets

Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Brewers head to New York to take on the struggling Mets It’s hard to believe, but the Milwaukee Brewers are set for their final road trip of the first half of the season this week, as they’ll head east to take on the New York Mets and Miami Marlins. First up are the Mets, who they’ll battle for three games begin...2025
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• Kodai Senga feels ‘great’ during rehab in optimistic sign for Mets rotation

If we learned anything last year, it was to not look too far ahead when it comes to Kodai Senga returning from an injury....2025
• Chris Sale takes the mound as Braves look for another win over Mets

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Sale will pitch with three extra days of rest. Coming off arguably their most important win of the season, the Atlanta Braves will turn to reigning Cy Young winner Chris Sale on Wednesday night against the New York Mets. Sale was a little slow out of the gate this season (by his lofty standards, anyway) but has been as good as anyone in the National League over the ...2025
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• Mets rotation takes another hit as Tylor Megill lands on IL with elbow sprain, likely out at least 4-5 weeks

Kodai Senga recently hit the IL and the Mets are still without Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas...2025
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• Kodai Senga’s early injury timeline revealed as Mets struggle without ace

Mets ace Kodai Senga will be out for some time due to the hamstring injury he suffered last week while trying to cover first base....2025
• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 14, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Happy Birthday, Bobby Witt Jr.! Jonathan India exited last night’s game after he appeared to injure his shoulder. David Lesky is running out of things to say about the lack of hitting. I have nothing to say about this offense. Something has to change, but I’m just not sure it will. As I said yesterday, the biggest hope right now is to get to a point when o...2025
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• Ragans rejects runs, relievers repel rallies, Royals romp 4-0
Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Outstanding pitching offset many missed opportunities offensively Cole Ragans shoved and Kansas City rode early offense to a 4-0 win over the New York Mets this evening at Kauffman Stadium. Ragans got off to an inauspicious start, putting the first two batters of the game on base. However, he managed to bear down and retire the next three to snuff the threat....2023
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• MLB surprises, disappointments and more from the month of April
Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The Braves are rolling, but what about the rest of the league? When I was in high school, my best baseball bud was Conor. In addition to being the most-skilled player I had ever shared a field with, he luxuriated in baseball lore and fandom in a way that I, who had only actually learned about baseball a few years prior, found it hard to catch up with. Th...2023
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"The Mets put this on the board for pitcher Kodai Senga, whose signature pitch is the Ghost Fork."

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"A New York Mets insider revealed if the team would consider signing Trevor Bauer to replace injured ace Kodai Senga for the next few months."

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"Drew Smyly will start for the Cubs and Kodai Senga will go for the Mets."

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"The Mets have agreed to a five-year, $75MM deal with right-hander Kodai Senga, SNY’s Andy Martino reports (Twitter links)."

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"Right-hander Kodai Senga signed a new five-year contract with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, according to The Kyodo News and other outlets."

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"Right-hander Kodai Senga of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in Nippon Professional Baseball is eyeing a jump to the Major Leagues down the line, per a report from th"

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• Braves News: Atlanta routs Rockies, Nacho Alvarez rehabbing, and more

Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves started the weekend series on a high note after Friday night’s 12-4 defeat over the Colorado Rockies. Bryce Elder got the ball to start the game; he threw 3.1 mediocre innings and allowed each of Colorado’s runs. The Atlanta offense, however, finally came to life and put together a few crooked number ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Javier Báez is El Mago again. A Brewers rookie has an impressive debut. A look ahead to the trade deadline and the draft. And other baseball news. Let’s go surfing now. Everybody’s learning how. Come on and safari with me. I’m leading with this one because it’s the one that will bring the most joy to your heart. Jesse Rogers tells of how the Tigers’ Javier ...2025
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• Pete Alonso still feels ‘awful’ over Kodai Senga injury — even though it happened before his throw

No one looked more dejected than Pete Alonso. And no one could find a way to change that expression either, no matter the encouragement offered....2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Cubs

Shane Smith and his 2.08 season ERA looks to shut down the North Siders Friday afternoon. | Abigail Dean/Getty Images Chicago kicks off the Crosstown Classic with Shane Smith on the mound looking to snap the South Side losing streak MLB has launched its very first “Rivalry Weekend,” where typical City rivals will face off all on the same weekend, and when you’re done rolling your eyes what...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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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month

Photo by Suzanna Mitchell/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Mahle highlight baseball’s biggest surprises. There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club ...2025
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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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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Mets have spent a lot and have done just okay in the process, and it remains to be seen whether 2025 will be different. While the Dodgers’ unabashed spending spree this offseason has drawn ire and thinkpieces in equal measure, it behooves us to remember that they’re not alone in their Scrooge McDuck-ness — the Mets are also right there. Steve Cohen’s c...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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• Wyatt Langford, Josh Smith Lead Rangers in 16 run Outburst - June 13, 2025
Wyatt Langford (OF - Rangers) Langford went 2-4 with a home runs and 3 RBIs Thursday. Langford has seen an improvement in his hard hit metrics with increase in exit velocity, max exit velocity and hard hit hard compared to last year but his k rate is up 5% to 25%. He is chasing pitches and missing pitches at a slightly higher rate then a year ago but still has put up a usable fantasy line with 12...2025
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 63 thread: Kodai Senga vs Ryan Rolison

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Fresh off a sweep, the Rox head back home to welcome Ryan Ritter to the Bigs. Hey, this seems familiar. And it should! It was about this time last week that the Mets and Rockies locked horns. That contest saw the Mets secure the win fairly easily, but that was then. After all, your Colorado Rockies are more motivated than ever. On the heels of their first road sw...2025
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 63 thread: Kodai Senga vs Ryan Rolison

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Fresh off a sweep, the Rox head back home to welcome Ryan Ritter to the Bigs. Hey, this seems familiar. And it should! It was about this time last week that the Mets and Rockies locked horns. That contest saw the Mets secure the win fairly easily, but that was then. After all, your Colorado Rockies are more motivated than ever. On the heels of their first road sw...2025
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 58 thread: Antonio Senzatela vs Kodai Senga

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Will Senzatela lose ten games before the Rockies win as many? The end of May is upon us, and the Colorado Rockies still sit at just nine wins. Antonio Senzatela enters the game with nine losses on his record. Will the Rockies win their tenth game before he loses his tenth? Let’s find out. Senzatela (1-9, 6.50 ERA) has allowed at least four earned run...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Cubs
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• Washington Nationals walk off the New York Mets in a thriller

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The Nationals won an absolutely thrilling game against the Mets last night Hustle and heart were the name of the game for the Washington Nationals last night. They were trying to take every extra base and make every diving catch. It cost them at times, like when Dylan Crews laid out for a ball he probably should have just kept in front of him. However, in the end, ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 9, 2025
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• Mets 4, Rockies 2: Lindor spoils Ritter’s debut

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The Rockies put up a fight, but a late Lindor double sank their hopes of victory The Colorado Rockies battled throughout the game, but a few missed opportunities kept the New York Mets in the contest long enough for Francisco Lindor to come through with a late, game-deciding hit that sent the Coors Field crowd home disappointed. Roli-tela Relay Antonio Senzat...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview

Brad Mills-Imagn Images The Cubs have a quick one-series road trip to New York. The Cubs have hung in there over their first 38 games, with a 22-16 record while playing only one team — the Pirates — that is currently under .500. (Yes, even the A’s, who the Cubs swept, are 20-18 and only two games out of first place in the AL West.) They’ve got one more good team to face, the Mets this week...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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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend

Kyle Schwarber should lead off for the Phillies for their third straight postseason | Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images There’s a lot of David and Goliath in these matchups They don’t call it the Wild Card for nothing, folks. It’s’ already been a few ridiculous days of baseball. It started with the Mets bonkers comeback against Atlanta in the first game of a doubleheader to make the post...2024
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 113

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images A sloppy mess in New York and a lopsided loss. If your name is Cody Bellinger, nice game. Hit the showers. Everyone else? You had a bad game. Just a reminder, this is the kind of sloppy play and sloppy managing that briefly had you in last place in the division and near the bottom of the NL. To be clear and fair, every coach, manager and player from th...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs return home with a 7-2 win Time for me to flip the script and change my equation. Normally, I start you with Tom’s rant and then circle back to three positives. I’m going to reverse that today. The simple reason is that the things that were good in this game outweigh my bigger picture look. So let’s get right at the positives. Matt Mervis had a ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Fernando-mania
The Dodgers finally retire Fernando Valenzuela’s number. The first arbitration decisions were announced. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. Pitchers and Catchers who intend to play in the World Baseball Classic report to Spring Training one week from today. The Dodgers announced that they will retire the number 34 in honor of left-handed pitcher Fernando Valenzuela as part of a t...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Flushing full of money
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Mets go on a huge spending spree, but how much better are they? A look at the crazy spending this winter. The stars come out for the WBC this time. A free agent got married. If Steve Cohen offers me a $10 million deal to write about the Mets, I’m outta here. Like you wouldn’t do it. We’re starting with all the Mets signings and I apologize is some of ...2022
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• Cubs 6, Braves 4: Takin’ care of business

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs wrapped up a successful homestand by winning a series against the team with the best record in baseball. The Atlanta Braves, who came into Wrigley Field with the best record in baseball, are a very good team. But you know what? So are the Chicago Cubs. After a blowout loss Friday, the Cubs played solid baseball in every way for two days (in the rain, t...2023
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• Ragans rejects runs, relievers repel rallies, Royals romp 4-0
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• Mets To Sign Kodai Senga
The Mets have agreed to a five-year, $75MM deal with right-hander Kodai Senga, SNY’s Andy Martino reports (Twitter links). Senga’s contract also has no-trade protection and an opt-out clause following the 2025 season, as per The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal (via Twitter). The deal will become official when Senga passes a physical. Senga is represented by…...2022
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• Mets' Kodai Senga touches 99 mph, shows off 'Ghost Fork' in spring debut vs. Cardinals

Senga was signed to a five-year deal over the offseason...2023
• Padres Meet With Kodai Senga
The Padres had a meeting with highly sought-after free agent pitcher Koudai Senga in San Diego yesterday, according to Dennis Lin of The Athletic. He recently met with the Mets in New York, and has been drawing interest from a number of other teams, including the Angels, Red Sox, Rangers, Blue Jays, Mariners, Cubs and…...2022
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• Sources: Senga, Mets agree on 5-year, $75M deal

Right-hander Kodai Senga, 29, and the New York Mets are in agreement on a five-year, $75 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN's Jeff Passan late Saturday night, confirming reports....2022
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• Cubs 4, Mets 2: Marcus Stroman bites the hand that once fed him
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The righthander had an outstanding outing and timely hitting gave the Cubs another win. Marcus Stroman, who grew up just down the road from Citi Field on New York’s Long Island and who pitched for the Mets for two years, threw perhaps his best game as a Cub against his former team on a chilly, windy Wednesday at Wrigley Field. Stroman became the first Cubs star...2023
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• Latest On Red Sox Pitching Targets
The Red Sox have already been linked to multiple free agent pitchers, with such names as Kodai Senga, Andrew Heaney, Seth Lugo, and Tyler Anderson (since signed by the Angels), all reported as names on Boston’s radar, and the Sox also have interest in re-signing two of their own free agents in Nathan Eovaldi and…...2022
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• Wyatt Langford, Josh Smith Lead Rangers in 16 run Outburst - June 13, 2025
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• Royals vs Mets Game 95 Gamethread
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• Mets series preview: 10 years later
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• Free MLB player props, odds for July 11: Use Kodai Senga, Ketel Marte, George Springer in Friday MLB prop bets
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• Mets' Senga, Manaea may rejoin rotation vs. K.C.
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• Injuries to Kodai Senga and Tylor Megill Have Put the Mets Rotation on the Spot

The NL East leaders are suddenly down two starting pitchers, with two more rehabbing who aren't yet ready....2025
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• Trade Interest in $4,050,000 RHP Grows While Mets Navigate Kodai Senga Injury Watch
The Mets are receiving interest for a right-handed starting pitcher, per MLB insider, amid hamstring injury to budding ace Kodai Senga....2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series
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• New York Mets insider speculates on likely starting rotation for 2024 NLCS: Where will Kodai Senga slot in?

A New York Mets insider offers early speculation on the likely starting rotation for Games 1 to 4 of the NLCS....2024
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• 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are once again the favorites to win the division but as far as Atlanta is concerned, it’s all about what they do in October. For the past few years, the story of the National League’s Eastern Division has been one that feels very familiar to how it was during the 1990s. While the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East for six straight seasons dating b...2024
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• 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Things can’t get worse after a disastrous 2023 season... right? Everything went wrong for the Mets in 2023. Really, it’s been a downward spiral since the club lost a 10.5 game divisional lead to the Braves in the summer months of 2022 and then quickly bowed out in the Wild Card round against the Padres. A real shame. Objectively speaking, there was no reason ...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: Should Nolan Jones have been a ROTY Finalist?

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, November 9th, 2023 With the World Series over and the 2023 Major League Baseball season officially concluded, awards season is in full swing. The Rockies continued their Silver Slugger drought, for which they haven’t had a winner since 2019. Meanwhile, Brenton Doyle took home the Gold Glove for National Leag...2023
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• Astros series preview: Astroball keeps winning

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images With the sign-stealing scandal behind them, the Astros just keep on winning. There are only two weeks left in the season, but the Royals and Astros will play each other for the first time this year, meeting again in Houston next weekend. The Astros continue to roll on as a juggernaut, with the third-best record in the American League, but holding onto a...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47
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• Cub Tracks shortens up
Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news, four days a week. It’ll be interesting after the playoffs. Clark is in Mexico. Welcome to today’s edition 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. Welcom...2022
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