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• Is the Golden At-Bat coming soon to baseball?

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Imagine having the choice to see Ronald Acuña Jr. having the bat in his hands for every big late at-bat with the game on the line. Sounds like a golden idea, right? Maybe, maybe not! By now, I’d imagine that you’ve all heard about or read Jayson Stark’s article over on The Athletic about the “buzz” surrounding the idea that Major League Baseball may ad...2024
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• Jackson Merrill takes second place in the NL Rookie of the Year

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Merrill-Skenes debate was running wild in 2024 and it’s probably going to continue for the next couple days after the results tonight Jackson Merrill or Paul Skenes? That was the debate for weeks during the regular season. Both had impressive seasons—one had the most hype for a pitcher since Stephen Strasburg’s debut and the other was ...2024
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• Previewing the relief pitcher market for the Atlanta Braves

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images We’ve previewed the market for shortstop, starting pitchers, and outfielders – now let’s look at how the Braves might bolster their bullpen. The 2024 Atlanta Braves relied on an undeniably elite bullpen that ranked 3rd in fWAR, 3rd in ERA, and 2nd in FIP. Entering the offseason, they seemed poised to handle the potential loss of A.J. Minter to free a...2024
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• 2024 Season in Review: Lucas Erceg

Lucas Erceg #60 of the Kansas City Royals throws a pitch during the sixth inning against the New York Yankees during Game Four of the Division Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Great stuff, great performance Kansas City Royals fans, myself included, were blown away by the skill and dominance of the 2014 and 2015 Royals...2024
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• A’s Not Discussing Rotation Move For Mason Miller
Last offseason, the Athletics moved Mason Miller from the rotation to the closing job. General manager David Forst said at the time that the A’s were open to building the right-hander back up as a starter after one season in relief. That doesn’t seem to be on the table for now. “We’re not talking about moving…...2024
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season

David Butler II-Imagn Images The top-25 teams in men’s college basketball for 2024-2025 season, previewed by our experts Another chapter in college basketball begins on Monday as the 2024-25 season kicks off. Last April, UConn, led by head coach Dan Hurley, cut down the nets in at the national championship in Arizona, beating Purdue 75-60. With the transfer portal, new incoming freshmen...2024
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• AL Week 27 Strategy-September 21, 2024
In The Field SS Bo Bichette was scratched from the Blue Jays lineup on Wednesday with a right finger contusion. He was placed on the 10-day IL on Tuesday. Bichette has been a major disappointment this year (.225 AVG with 4 HR, 29 R, 31 RBI, and 5 SB in 81 GP). OF Victor Robles (hand) left Tuesday's game early with a bruised hand. He was also out of the lineup on Wednesday but returned on Friday....2024
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• AL Week 23 Strategy-August 24, 2024
In The Field 1B Ryan Mountcastle left Thursday's game early with a sore wrist. The injury occurred on a slide into second base in the second inning. He was not in the lineup on Friday or Saturday. OF Mickey Moniak left Thursday's game early due to left elbow irritation. He is considered day-to-day. OF Jazz Chisholm Jr. (elbow) was activated off the 10-day IL on Friday and returned to the lineup ...2024
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Oakland Athletics

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Brewers to visit Oakland for final time as Crew wraps up short road trip Coming off a disappointing series loss to the Cardinals, the Brewers are hoping to bounce back this weekend as they wrap up their short six-game road trip in Oakland against the Athletics. The A’s have been near the bottom of the league for a few years now, as they currently sit with the fo...2024
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• AL Week 21 Strategy-August 10, 2024
In The Field SS Carlos Correa (heel) is still not running at full speed and is unlikely to be with the Twins during their current season with the Guardians. Once he starts a rehab assignment we will have a more clear understanding of when he will return. Correa is hitting .308 with 13 HR, 51 R, 47 RBI, and 0 SB. OF Tyler O'Neill was placed on the 10-day IL on Wednesday due to an infection on hi...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The dust has settled after a frenzied final few hours of trade activity. How did your team fare? The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone. There will be waiver claims, minor signings, injury returns, and other internal promotions from this point onward, but in general, each team’s roster now features the primary players who wi...2024
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• AL Week 19 Strategy-July 27, 2024
In The Field OF Giancarlo Stanton is not expected back this weekend according to manager Aaron Boone. He continues to work out but isn't ready to return. The Yankees and Stanton hope that he returns on Monday. 1B Triston Casas (oblique) has been able to take full batting practice and is expected to start a rehab assignment soon. OF MJ Melendez (ankle) started a rehab assignment on Thursday and i...2024
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres celebrate Dylan Cease no-hitter

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Everything you need to know about MLB news and your San Diego Padres for Friday, July 26, 2024. San Diego Padres News Padres’ Cease throws no-hitter against Nationals (ESPN.com) Spectacular Cease spins 2nd no-hitter in Padres history (MLB.com) Padres’ Dylan Cease no-hits Nationals in 3-0 win (Yahoo! Sports) Padres’ Dylan Cease throws no-hitter; second ...2024
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"Here’s the full list of Sporting News MLB award winners: MLB Player of the Year Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers AL Rookie of the Year Mason Miller, A’s NL Rookie of the Year Jackson Merrill, Padres AL Comeback Player of the Year Vladimir Guerrero Jr."

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"The A’s debuted one of their top pitching prospects Wednesday, hard-throwing righthander Mason Miller, and he matched zeroes with Justin Steele for the first three innings."

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• Previewing the relief pitcher market for the Atlanta Braves
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• AL Week 27 Strategy-September 21, 2024
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• White Sox again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, fall to Oakland 3-2

Davis Martin deserved a better outcome. | Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Two bad teams, two awful owners, but someone had to win As Yogi the bard would put it, it was deja vu all over again: Excellent starting pitching performance. Check. Feeble offense after the second inning. Check. Bullpen failure. Check. A soupcon of ill fate. Check. The excellent pitching came from Davis Martin, ma...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
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• The latest on Royals trade rumors

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The trade market has really picked up this weekend. The deadline to make trades is Tuesday at 5 pm CT, but teams are getting a jump on the market with a flurry of deals already this weekend. Here are the latest trade rumors about the Royals. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Royals made a run at Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena, who was instead t...2024
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• AL Week 19 Strategy-July 27, 2024
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• Jackson Merrill takes second place in the NL Rookie of the Year
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• 2024 Padres Season Review: Jackson Merrill

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Our Rookie of the Year! Jackson Merrill: 5.3 fWAR, 156 G, .292 AVG, .326 OBP, .500 SLG, 130 wRC+, 77 R, 90 RBI, 24 HR Baseball Savant Positives From This Season Where do we start? Merrill hadn’t played a game in the big leagues let alone in center field before 2024 and by the end of the season he was a name all baseball fans knew aro...2024
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• AL Week 27 Strategy-September 21, 2024
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• AL Week 21 Strategy-August 10, 2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
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• AL Week 19 Strategy-July 27, 2024
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• Jackson Merrill takes second place in the NL Rookie of the Year
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Athletics series preview

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images These are not last year’s 112-loss A’s. They’re a much better team now. The Cubs need to take them seriously. Last year, the Cubs played the Athletics in Oakland in April, when the A’s were on their way to a 12-50 start. The Cubs swept the series and outscored the A’s 16-3. Oakland went on to lose 112 games. I am here to tell you that this year’s ...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Dylan Cease throws a no-hitter. The trade deadline is underway and we’ve got two trades and a ton of rumors. The life of an A’s superfan. Just so you know, most of this column could be out of date by the time you read it. Things are starting to move. Here’s one you might not have heard yet. Late last night, the Rays dealt outfielder Randy Arozarena to th...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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• Four takeaways from the 2024 MLB All-Star Game

Photo by Brett Patzke/MLB Photos via Getty Images A Sock, Shohei, Skenes, Soto, and so, so much Texas. Major League Baseball held its 94th All-Star Game on Tuesday night in Texas, the first to be hosted by the Rangers since 1995. That particular Midsummer Classic featured some of the most dangerous hitters of the ‘90s, like Barry Bonds, Frank Thomas, Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken Jr., and Mike Pi...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 16, 2024

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Bobby hits some dingers! Bobby Witt Jr. fell just short to Teoscar Hernandez in the Home Run Derby finals. “Texas-sized crowd — it was just a lot of fun to be able to do that and experience that with my brother-in-law, with my family in the stands, and being able to make it to the finals,” Witt said. “It was awesome. Teoscar put on a great show. It was so...2024
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• Jackson Merrill earns June Rookie of the Month

Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Merrill’s first big league award has come! Congrats to Padres rookie center fielder Jackson Merrill, as he is taking home the June Rookie of the Month award for the National League. After seeing his OPS drop down below .700 in May, the 21-year-old got it all the way up to .792 before June concluded. Last month his power really came on, hitting nine home runs (...2024
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• Cubs 12, Athletics 2: Sweep!
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs put together another varied offensive performance and swept a series for the first time in 2023. Let’s stipulate right now that the Oakland Athletics are a bad, bad baseball team. The roster resembles an expansion club, they don’t have any real good hitters nor pitchers and they have a chance to lose 110 or more games this year. The Cubs? Well, on...2023
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• Cubs 4, Athletics 0: More solid pitching and timely hitting
John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs won their third game in a row. OAKLAND — The Cubs ran into a surprisingly tough A’s pitching staff Tuesday night and the teams matched zeroes for seven innings. Then the Cubs put together several timely hits in a row and took advantage of an Oakland error and won their second straight from the A’s 4-0, as four Cubs pitchers combined to throw a two-hit s...2023
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• Kyle Hendricks will make a rehab start for Iowa this Thursday
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The righthander is on the road to return to the Cubs. Cubs righthander Kyle Hendricks, the last remaining active Cub who played for the team in the 2016 World Series, had two rough years in 2021 and 2022 and has not pitched in a game at all since a three-inning outing at Milwaukee July 5, 2022. Diagnosed with a shoulder injury, Hendricks chose rehabbing i...2023
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• Royals escape MLB oubliette, defeat Athletics 5-1
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The recent promotions are looking good Coming into today Athletics’ starter Mason Miller had never allowed a major league home run. He also throws 100 MPH. Neither thing helped him as he faced Salvador Perez in the first inning. Salvy’s 462-foot home run is the longest home run of his career. pic.twitter.com/6NI8Tx8NSK— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) May 7,...2023
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• Royals fall to A’s 5-4, tie for worst record in baseball
Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Singer struggles with his control. After a beautiful pregame ceremony to honor Royals great Lorenzo Cain, the current squad made fans yearn for the past in a 5-4 loss to the A’s that tied them with Oakland for the worst record in baseball at 8-26. Brady Singer struggled with his control all evening, lasting just four innings and allowing five runs on six ...2023
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• Athletics To Promote Mason Miller
The Athletics are planning to promote pitching prospect Mason Miller, reports Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle. It seems possible that Miller will join the team today and could make his major league debut tomorrow. He’s not yet on the 40-man roster and will require a corresponding move. More to come....2023
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• Chris Sale wins Sporting News NL Comeback Player of the Year Award

Photo by Kevin D. Liles./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Chris Sale and Raisel Iglesias were also named as pitchers for The Sporting News NL All-Star Team, as well! Despite the fact that the World Series hasn’t even started yet, that hasn’t stopped award season from kicking off and the first organization to announce their winners is the Sporting News. They’ve also announced their All-Star team...2024
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• A's rookie Mason Miller throws seven no-hit innings before being pulled after 100 pitches

Miller and Mariners rookie Bryce Miller put on a show in Oakland, a fun duel between rookies...2023
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• AL Week 23 Strategy-August 24, 2024
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• AL Week 19 Strategy-July 27, 2024
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• AL Week 13 Strategy-June 15, 2024
In The Field 1B Triston Casas (ribs) is swinging a bat off a tee at lower intensities. He has experienced a setback during his recovery so the Red Sox and Casas are taking his recovery slowly so that he doesn't have another setback. OF Taylor Ward (back) and C Logan O'Hoppe were out of the Angels lineup on Wednesday. OF Hunter Renfroe does not have a fractured toe after it was initially reported...2024
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• AL Week 11 Strategy-June 1, 2024
In The Field 2B Brandon Drury (hamstring) told Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com that he expects to return from the IL on June 11. He has been out since May 9 with this injury but has been able to ramp up his activity level. Drury will need a rehab assignment prior to being activated so that will give a more concrete date for his return. The most likely scenario when he returns is that 3B Luis Guillorm...2024
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• Oneil Cruz Makes Exit Velo History - May 22, 2024
Oneil Cruz Cruz went 3-5 with two doubles on Tuesday, but more notably hit two baseballs over 120 EV, the first time that has ever been recorded in a single game by a single player in tracking history. In fact, he hit three balls over 115, which also had never been done by the same player in the same game. Unfortunately, while impressive, Cruz has not been able to do any of this on a consistent ba...2024
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• MLB Week 7 Roundup: You’ll never guess who the hottest team in baseball is!

Bryce Harper has been on a tear this year, helping keep the Phillies at the top of the National League. | Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports The Phillies and Yankees hold the top spots in their respective leagues, while the Rockies ride good vibes right into a winning streak It’s been a wild week around the league! While we still have our heavy-hitting teams that have been holding out on top...2024
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• Mason Miller is the Man - April 27, 2024
Mason Miller, RP OAK He's the reddest of the red on StatCast and the baddest of the bad on the hill, Miller's one bad mutha---shut your mouth---I'm taking about Mason Miller! Seriously, five 100th percentiles in pitching metrics, including K%, Whiff % xERA and xOBA, he's slinging cheese like 1990 Dennis Eckersley(look him up). It was Miller time on Friday during an Oakland win over the Orioles. Mi...2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-March 2, 2024
Around the League Matt Chapman-Giants-3B Matt Chapman signed late Friday night with the San Francisco Giants on a 3-year, $54 million deal. Chapman is coming off a down year in Toronto in which he hit .240 with 17 HR, 66 R, 54 RBI, and 4 SB in 140 GP. The power dropping off was the biggest surprise. He posted a career-low .185 ISO. Digging deeper into his underlying skills reveals that he was ...2024
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• AL Week 24 Strategy-September 2, 2023
In The Field OF Jarred Kelenic (foot) was 1-3 with a walk and two runs scored in Thursday's rehab game. The Mariners are going to want to make sure that he is completely healthy before activating him. Kelenic was hitting .252 with 11 HR, 43 R, 45 RBI, and 12 SB in 90 GP. He was hitting the ball hard (11% Barrels and 50% Hardhit) but there was still a good chance that his 33% strikeout rate was g...2023
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• 2024 Season in Review: Lucas Erceg
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• Chris Sale wins Sporting News NL Comeback Player of the Year Award
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• Brewers drop series finale in final game in Oakland, 4-3

D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports Milwaukee is unable to complete the sweep in the team’s last game at the Coliseum Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers dropped their series finale in Oakland on Sunday afternoon, in what is very likely the team’s last series against the Athletics at the Coliseum. The first inning went by quickly, as William Contreras was the only player to reach for either team ...2024
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• The All-Star Game is coming Part 2: Votepocalypse

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals celebrates with Salvador Perez #13 after hitting a home run in the sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on May 26, 2024 in St Petersburg, Florida. | Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images This democracy can be dominated by royalty Last week we talked about what would have to happen to get a Royals catcher or baseman into the Al...2024
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• Philadelphia Phillies likely cost in a blockbuster Mason Miller trade revealed and it is shockingly steep

An MLB insider reveals the likely cost for the Philadelphia Phillies in a blockbuster Mason Miller trade, and it is shockingly steep....2024
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• What’s Mason Miller Worth On The Trade Market?

To say Mason Miller's start to the season has the baseball world buzzing would be an understatement. The second-year A's hurler, whom Oakland selected with the No. 97 overall pick in 2021, has emphatically asserted himself into the conversation for baseball's top reliever. Standing at 6'5" and averaging a comical 101.3 mph on his heater,…...2024
• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Oakland’s star closer and the rest of the A’s bullpen are helping to keep the team somewhat interesting so far. When it comes to the standings in the early portion of the season, my personal advice is not to really take anything too seriously until Memorial Day at the earliest. That way, it gives baseball an ample amount of time to actually start to get the t...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A call-up for the ages?

The arrival of Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh is getting a LOT of attention Two big stories lead the headlines heading into this Friday. The first is obviously the call-up of rookie pitching prospect Paul Skenes, who is poised to start for the Pirates against the Cubs on Saturday. Skenes touches triple-digits and has a five-pitch mix, making him an exciting part of the Pirates’ future and one of the mo...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Pick a closer

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you which closer from a struggling team would be your first choice for the Cubs. It’s the end of another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and join us. Your name is on the guest list. Let us know if there is anything...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Early success stories

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images MLB admits the uniforms are a problem. A look back at the first month of baseball. And other news from around the MLB. Good morning. According to a memo sent from the union to the players, MLB has reportedly finally admitted there was a problem with the uniforms. The uniforms will be changed, mostly back to what they were, by the start of next year at the...2024
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