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• AL Week 22 Strategy-August 23, 2025
In The Field SS Zach Neto left Wednesday's game early after getting hit on the wrist by a pitch. X-rays came back negative, and he was back in the lineup on Thursday. Neto has backed up his breakout 2023 season with an even better year (.267 AVG with 21 HR, 74 R, 55 RBI, and 22 SB). SS Ha-Seong Kim was not in the Rays lineup on Wednesday due to lower back tightness and was placed on the 10-day I...2025
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• 2026-27 MLB Free Agents
The following players project to become free agents after the 2026 season. The player’s 2027 age is in parentheses. For MLBTR’s list of players who project to become free agents after the current season, click here. Updated 8-4-25 Catchers Travis d’Arnaud (38) Jonah Heim (32) Kyle Higashioka (37) Ryan Jeffers (30) Carson Kelly (32) –…...2025
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• POLL: How should the Braves handle Sean Murphy?

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images They’ve made it clear that they won’t trade him now, but should they ever? Sean Murphy is a very good ballplayer. Anyone who says otherwise is just unreasonably salty about losing William Contreras in the trade to acquire him. At the dish, Murphy has a 126 wRC+, which is just shy of his 2023 mark of 130. Behind the dish, he rates a...2025
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• Padres take final game against Rangers, win series

Kyle Hart | Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Kyle Hart returns to San Diego, deals San Diego past Texas Kyle Hart returned from Triple-A El Paso and announced his presence with a dominating performance. Hart retired every batter he faced over 3 2/3 innings and recorded two strikeouts, while leading the San Diego Padres over the Texas Rangers, 4-1 at Petco Park, Sunday. Hart followed David Morgan, ...2025
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• Who Owned Baseball (WOB) – Updated for July 5, 2025

Who Owned Baseball for July 5, 2025 Earning 1 WOB Pete Alonso homered twice, driving in 5, and walked, scoring 3 runs, as the Mets doubled up the Yankees, 12-6. Luis Castillo fanned 8 in 7 innings as Seattle shutout the Pirates, 1-0. Kyle Higashioka drove in 5 with 3 hits, including a homer, to […]...2025
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• San Diego watches former catcher lead Texas to win

Fernando Tatis Jr. (left) and Jake Cronenworth | David Frerker-Imagn Images Kyle Higashioka drives in five runs, Padres fall 7-4 Former San Diego Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka went 3-for-3 with a sacrifice fly, scored a run and drove in five runs for the Texas Rangers. Meanwhile, two San Diego catchers combined to go 0-for-2 with a walk as the Padres fell to the Rangers 7-4 at Petco Park,...2025
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• AL Week 22 Strategy-August 23, 2025
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• Maikel’s multiple missiles maul Metroplex men, Royals roll Rangers 6-3

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Garcia fell a double shy of the cycle. Maikel Garcia had a huge night and the pitching righted the ship after a rocky first inning as the Kansas City Royals took down the Texas Rangers 6-3 tonight at Globe Life Field. After Patrick Corbin breezed through the top of the first inning, Kris Bubic needed just two pitches to find himself in trouble. Sam ...2025
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• Rangers Place Corey Seager On Injured List
The Rangers announced Tuesday that they’ve placed shortstop Corey Seager on the 10-day injured list. The move is retroactive to May 11. Seager is again dealing with a right hamstring strain — the same injury that sent him to the IL from April 23 to May 3. Catcher Kyle Higashioka has been reinstated from the…...2025
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• AL Week 6 Strategy-May 3, 2025
In The Field 1B Triston Casas was removed from Friday's game with a knee injury. After the game, manager Alex Cora described the injury as significant. Testing revealed a ruptured patellar tendon, which means his season is likely over. The Red Sox are likely to give 1B Romy Gonzalez most of the at-bats at 1B while Casas is out. The Red Sox are going to have a lot of important roster decisions c...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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• Padres’ catching position still unclear

Elias Diaz | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Who will be behind the plate on Opening Day for San Diego? The San Diego Padres thought that Luis Campusano was going to be their franchise catcher for years to come. His struggles at the plate throughout his tenure with the Padres have been consistent and his defensive ability has been unimpressive. Campusano has appeared in...2025
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• Is the 2025 Padres offense good enough?

Jason Heyward | Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Replacing Jurickson Profar and Kyle Higashioka will be a tough task During the current off-season, the Padres were unable to re-sign two prominent members of the 93-win 2024 team. Both left fielder Jurickson Profar and catcher Kyle Higashioka left the team in free agency. Replacing their offensive output for the upcoming season has been ...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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• What each American League team has done this offseason

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Are the Royals keeping up? It’s a new year, and we should see MLB offseason begin to pick up as spring training nears. The Royals have made a few moves, but still have work to do. They’re not alone as many teams still have unfinished rosters. Let’s take a look around the American League at what each team has done so far this off-season - w...2025
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• MLB Playoffs: NLDS preview

Two sets of division rivals face off with a trip to the NLCS on the line. The Wild Card series has come and gone and as far as the National League goes, we’ve been left with a pair of spicy divisional matchups that are very likely to deliver when it comes to intensity and drama. The San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers are getting quite used to seeing each other in the postseason, while th...2024
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• Kyle Higashioka responds to fan who promised to tattoo face ‘on his a–‘

Kyle Higashioka is hitting homers on the field and on Twitter. Out of all the tweets the Yankees catcher could’ve replied to — after he homered twice in Monday night’s 3-1 win over the Blue Jays — he chose one that has fans cracking up. Following the Yankees victory over Toronto, Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, a......2021
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• After 9 years, Higashioka earns 1st callup
Kyle Higashioka had just started pushing Italian food around a plate at a Buffalo, N.Y., restaurant on Saturday evening when he received the phone call that he has been waiting nine Minor League seasons to get....2017

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"With one out, he plunked Kyle Higashioka with a breaking ball."

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"6:47pm: The Rangers and free agent catcher Kyle Higashioka have made progress on a deal, reports Jon Morosi of the MLB Network (X link)."

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"Hendricks came oh-so-close to yet another quality start and fine outing, but with two out in the sixth, Anthony Volpe homered with a runner on base to make it 3-1, and Kyle Higashioka followed with another one, back-to-back."

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"He, Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka (all on the Covid list) are “more than…"

2021
"As expected, All-Star outfielder Aaron Judge, third baseman Gio Urshela and catcher Kyle Higashioka landed on the COVID-19 injured list."

2020
"Catcher Erik Kratz joins the active roster after signing a Major League contract with the team, and Kratz will take the place of catcher Kyle Higashioka, who is headed to the 10-day injured list (retroactive to August 6) due to a…"

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"Fellow backstop Kyle Higashioka has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in his place."

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"When Kyle Higashioka earned his call-up with the Yankees last April, he became the latest MLB Youth Academy alumni to break through to the big leagues."

2017
"Kyle Higashioka, who has been elevated to the Yankees’ roster, had some pragmatic motivation to learn Japanese: He thought it might help him communicate with pitcher Masahiro Tanaka."

2016
"The Yankees have added catcher Kyle Higashioka and right-hander Domingo German to their 40-man roster and reinstated infielder Dustin Ackley from the 60-day disabled list, as well as right-handers Nathan Eovaldi, Chad Green, Branden Pinder and Nick Rumbelow."

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"Infielders Cole Figueroa and Jonathan Galvis, catchers Francisco Arcia and Kyle Higashioka, outfielder Slade Heathcott, and pitchers Jacob Lindgren and Nick Rumbelow have all been sent down."

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• Padres take final game against Rangers, win series
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• San Diego watches former catcher lead Texas to win
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• Royals move for Ragans one of league’s best trades since 2023

Denny Medley-Imagn Images Where does the acquisition of Ragans rank among deals since 2023 offseason? When I go to a baseball game, I always hope to see something I’ve never before seen happen during the game. I’ve always dreamed of seeing a perfect game, but I’d settle for a no-hitter. I’d love to see a batter go off and homer multiple times—three would great, but four would be utterly a...2025
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• AL Week 6 Strategy-May 3, 2025
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• Padres catchers continue to be an area of weakness on offense

Brett Sullivan | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Four catching candidates struggling this spring The San Diego Padres are a team in waiting. They are waiting for their catcher of the future, Ethan Salas, to get the experience and show the growth that will allow San Diego to add him to the big league roster. The Padres are left to plug in placeholders and hope for the bes...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, NL West

Will the Dodgers hoist the World Series trophy again in 2025? | Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images One team in particular dominates all talk about this division. Something something Dodgers. Given what the Dodgers have spent the last couple of offseasons, they should win this division by eleventy-seven games, right? As you surely know, baseball doesn’t work that way. They l...2025
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• Rangers 5, White Sox 4: Stopping short of a sweep

Austin Slater celebrates a home run in the sixth inning, but it wasn’t enough for the win. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images South Siders give up the lead in the ninth, as they blow the game at home The Chicago White Sox have lost the finale against the Texas Rangers, as they come up short of the sweep yet again, 5-4. This was a tight game all the way through, but Jordan Leasure was unable ...2025
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• Royals move for Ragans one of league’s best trades since 2023
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• Padres’ “Baltimore boys” impress on opening day

Jackson Merrill robs a home run | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Gavin Sheets and Jackson Merrill celebrate the new season The San Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4 on Opening Day at Petco Park. With Michael King struggling with his command, the bullpen and offense came through. They rallied from behind, something Padres fans got used to last season. A continuati...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West

Kyle looks weird in that red uniform | Photo by Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are a lot of things still up in the air for this division. The Cubs went 9-6 against AL West teams last year, including an unlikely sweep of the Astros at Wrigley Field. Houston went on to win the division, but this year... might be different. Houston Astros Key departures: Kyle Tucker, Alex Br...2025
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• Padres’ catching position still unclear
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• San Diego Padres FanFest 2025: What we learned
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• Juan Soto’s massive deal with the Mets proves the Padres did the right thing a year ago

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images No doubt A.J. Preller made the smart move around this time last year The Padres giving $765 million to one player? No way that was going to happen. Breaking: Juan Soto to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 9, 2024 Did trading Juan Soto hurt? Of course it did. But seeing what Michael King has developed into, what Kyle Hi...2024
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• Three Padres questions heading into Winter Meetings week

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Things I’m wondering about before A.J. Preller, Mike Shildt and co. head to Dallas The best week of the offseason is almost here. The Winter Meetings get underway tomorrow in Dallas and perhaps some Padres fans like myself are sitting here today with some questions about what may happen over the next few days. Here are mine: Will the Padres talk with Ro...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Wild, Wild Card

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images A manager comes out of a short retirement. Pete Alonso hits a clutch home run to send the Mets to the NLDS. And other news from the Wild Card round. Part of the problem with doing a links post during the postseason is that some of your links can be out of date by the time you post them. Before we get to the games, there was breaking news last night...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 28

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images More good results on Saturday have the Braves on the precipice of completing a feverish comeback to slip into the playoffs It was a tightly contested Saturday night of games, but the Atlanta Braves did their part and took care of business thanks to a walk off from Travis d’Arnaud. That was enough to make the day a win for the Braves, but ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A Trout setback

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Bad news for Mike Trout and the Angels Happy Wednesday, friends! It sounds like bad news for a rehabbing Mike Trout who was hoping to be back with the Angels later this week. Trout was pulled from a recent rehab start after only two innings, feeling soreness in his post-op knee. This obviously isn’t ideal news for Trout, who wants to get back into the ...2024
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• Higashioka honored for grandfather's war service

San Diego Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka received a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to his grandfather's World War II unit Monday during a ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Army....2024
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• Cubs 7, Yankees 4: A big-time comeback win
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Cubs scored six unanswered runs to end the first half on a high note. Here is one way to show how much the Chicago Cubs have improved over the last year or so. In June 2022, the Cubs visited Yankee Stadium and got swept. They were outscored 28-5 and were embarrassed to the point where Frank Schwindel threw a 35 mile per hour pitch hit for a home run, t...2023
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• Yankees Notes: Donaldson, Andujar, Chapman, Sears
The Yankees announced Monday that third baseman Josh Donaldson has been placed on the Covid-19-related injured list. Miguel Andujar has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as a substitute player in his place. Donaldson hasn’t yet tested positive but reported symptoms to the team. He, Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka (all on the Covid list) are “more than…...2022
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• Matt Olson, Austin Riley homer, but late lead slips away in loss to Yankees
Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Charlie Morton and Ian Anderson turned in solid outings on the mound. Charlie Morton was solid in his spring debut and Ian Anderson bounced back with a good performance, but a late lead slipped away in the ninth as the Atlanta Braves fell to the New York Yankees, 10-6. Morton looked crisp in his first inning of work and showed good movement with his curveball...2023
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• Yankees’ Dillon Lawson transformation includes unreal turnaround from one star
The 2022 New York Yankees, as the end of July approaches, feel like an historically great team with a few pressing injury concerns that must be addressed at the trade deadline. Occasionally, the offense hasn’t shown up to its full capacity, with rallies gutted by under-performers like Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka, but overall, the […] Yankees’ Dillon Lawson transformation inclu...2022
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• Charlie Morton deals as Braves complete sweep of Yankees

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Morton tossed six scoreless innings Charlie Morton turned in a dominant performance to help the Atlanta Braves to a 2-0 win over the New York Yankees Wednesday night at Truist Park. Morton came into Wednesday’s start needing a good outing. He allowed a leadoff single DJ LeMahieu to start the game, but then retired the next three hitters in order, includ...2023
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• Tanner Houck Suffers Facial Fracture
Red Sox starter Tanner Houck exited last night’s game against the Yankees in the fifth inning following a frightening incident that saw the right-hander struck in the face by a line drive off the bat of Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka. After walking off the field on his own power, Houck was checked out and received…...2023
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• Kyle Higashioka continues to flex power for Yankees this spring

No one has hit more home runs this spring than Kyle Higashioka, who went deep for a third time in a 7-4 win over Pirates at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa....2022
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• Yankees Could Look To Trade Kyle Higashioka, Ben Rortvedt
The Yankees were surely glad to have some catching depth when Jose Trevino needed season-ending wrist surgery just after the All-Star break. Kyle Higashioka took over the starting role, while Ben Rortvedt earned a call back to the majors to serve as the backup. When Rortvedt struggled to hit big league pitching, the team had…...2023
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• AL Week 22 Strategy-August 23, 2025
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• Player of the Series: Junior Caminero

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The speedster stole home and also scored a winning run from second on an infield single Earlier this season, the Tampa Bay Rays were swept in a three game series in Texas against the Rangers. Over the past three days, the Rays returned the favor in Tampa as they took all three games against the Rangers. The starting pitching was solid for the Rays and th...2025
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• Royals move for Ragans one of league’s best trades since 2023
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• Beat the Streak Picks
The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.352 — Josh Jung batting against Antonio Senzatela. 0.339 — Josh Smith batting against Antonio Senzatela. 0.319 — Jonah Heim batting against Antonio Senzatela. 0.319 — Wyatt Langford batting against Antonio Senzatela. 0.312 — Kyle Higashioka batting against Antonio Senzatela. 0.310 ...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Rangers series preview

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Cubs welcome an AL West team to Wrigley Field. The Rangers won 90 games in 2023 and wound up as World Series champions. The follow-up was a flop, as they went 78-84 and missed the postseason. They come into Wrigley Field in first place in the AL West. For more on the Rangers, here’s Adam Morris, manager of our SB Nation Rangers site Lone Star Bal...2025
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• MLB Playoffs: NLDS preview
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• Riley still absent, Tromp starts, Arcia hits fifth as Braves take aim at Darvish

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The lineup is looking a bit ragged as the Braves look to snap a two-game skid The Braves’ lineup is looking a little ragged, as the absences of Austin Riley and Travis d’Arnaud have created a situation where Orlando Arcia is hitting fifth and Zack Short is hitting seventh. City Connect Saturday #BravesCountry pic.twitter.com/oko...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: San Diego Padres

Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sports After a supremely disappointing 2023 and an offseason full of cutting salary, the Padres will look to compete in 2024 with a pared-back roster The San Diego Padres entered the 2023 season with championship aspirations and a star-studded roster, but pulled off an epic faceplant and missed the postseason entirely. The offseason has been a sea change both on an...2024
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• What’s next for the Rays?

Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports Three things to expect this month now that the Winter Meetings are over. This year’s Winter Meetings didn’t feature a ton of splashes, as was expected as the market waited for the big three dominos to fall: Juan Soto (Yankees), Shohei Ohtani (Dodgers), and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (TBD — and expected to sign the second largest pitching contract in MLB history). B...2023
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