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• Effectively Wild Episode 2249: Our Bold Preseason Predictions, Revisited

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, Ben Clemens, Michael Baumann, and podcast scorekeeper Chris Hanel convene to play “College Baseball Player or Fictional Republican Politician?” and reveal the victors of the 2024 minor league free agent draft and bold preseason predictions game, including recaps of each prediction. Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio ...2024
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• Royals Rundown: Michael Baumann talks Singer trade, 2024 gains, ballot outlook

FanGraphs writer Michael Baumann joins Jeremy Greco and Jacob Milham on today’s episode. The trio discusses the Kansas City Royals trading away Brady Singer and what went right in 2024. Plus, hear about Michael’s writing journey, more than a decade long, and where he sits on Billy Wagner’s Hall of Fame case. Email Jacob directly at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Michael on BlueSky at...2024
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• Outside The Confines: An ‘intriguing’ winter

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The Reds and Royals make a deal. Chinese Taipei wins Premier12 in a shocking upset. A survey of the free agent market and other news from around baseball. Good morning. Thanksgiving week is officially underway. Have an intriguing holiday. We had one trade this past Friday as the Reds traded Jonathan India and Joey Wiemer to the Royals for Brady Singer...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Could the Blue Jays be serious about Juan Soto?

Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images The Canadian club was also in the discussion about Shohei Ohtani last year, could they be ready to spend? Happy Monday, BCB friends! Not a load of preamble today, but plenty of links to jump into. Today we’ll be looking at whether to not the Blue Jays could be a sleeper contender for Juan Soto; why the Dodgers aren’t a sure thing for netting Roki...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Cold Stove

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images The offseason is off to a slow start. A look at the market for Juan Soto, Garrett Crochet and others. A deal has been reached to stream games in market. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. You’ve already been informed of the Rays stadium plans for next season. Here are the first and second All-MLB team, if you care about that sort of thing....2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market

Photo by J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images But what will it take to sign him? There are plenty of big names out there who have now hit the free agent market, but likely none is bigger than Yankees’ slugger Juan Soto. Soto, agented by Scott Boras, is sure to fetch a tidy sum, and plenty of teams are already making overtures to try and get him on their roster. Al will have m...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Bad blood reigns in the Dodgers/Padres series. The Tigers shocked the Guardians. And other news from around the playoffs. Good morning. I suppose it’s a good morning if you’re a Mets or Padres fan. I assume you know the scores of those games yesterday, so I’m not linking to any game recaps. I will link to the brouhaha that took place at Dodger Stadium durin...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 9, 2024

Post-season baseball returns to Kansas City. Seth Lugo talks to Jaylon Thompson about his approach for Game 3. “Execute pitches, stay in the strike zone, but if you leave it over the middle of the plate they’re going to put a good swing on it,” Lugo said. “If it’s borderline, they’re probably going to take it. “If you get some calls you put pressure on them. That’s pitching.” Vahe Gregorian wr...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images The player is poised to make history as he prepares to make his debut. Happy Friday, everyone! We’re halfway through September, which means we only have two full weeks of regular season baseball left. There are still some questions about who will slot in for the wild card spots, and some teams who are poised to win their divisions might want to worry a bi...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani had one heck of a weekend

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Grand slams, records made, hard hits, and first pitches. We all know Shohei Ohtani is a generational talent, and probably one of the best baseball players of all time, but he had an incredible weekend that helped prove it. First, he was the fastest player to reach the 40/40 club, he reached the milestone in 126 games, something none of the other five p...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Joey Votto calls it quits

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The most interesting man in baseball retires. The Mariners fire their manager. A look ahead to the stretch run and other news from around MLB. Good morning. Driving to the stadium right now. My Uber driver asked, "Are you a player?" I said, "No."— Joey Votto (@JoeyVotto) August 22, 2024 Longtime Reds first baseman Joey Votto an...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 23, 2024

Salvy and Shin-Soo Choo | Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports I’m doing my part: Royals on a 7-week Thursday unbeaten streak! I was going to jump straight into the links but I think it’s time to stop and smell the context. The Royals are about to enter their 20-game gauntlet against some of the best teams in baseball: 3v PHI, 4@ CLE, 4@ HOU, 3v CLE, 3v MIN, and 3@ NYY. After that stretch, the r...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Going for gold

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Major leaguers press to be allowed to compete in the 2028 Olympics. Aaron Judge wants to play, but no one will pitch to him. More on the White Sox and other news from around the league. Good morning. With the 2024 Paris Olympics now over, some people are looking forward to 2028 Los Angeles, where baseball will be a sport again. Jake Mintz looks at the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The White Sox fired their manager as they challenge for the all-time record for losses. And other news from around MLB. A leaked script from Major League 4. Jerry Reinsdorf: Here are a list of candidates for the new White Sox manager. Chris Getz: I’ve never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime. Ozzie Guillen, Jim Leyland, To...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for January 27, 2024

Photo by: Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images One downtown stadium site may have an issue. Anne Rogers writes about the Royals’ depth at shortstop. The only question is how far Witt can go. In his second season in the Majors, the 23-year-old hit 30 home runs and stole 49 bases, becoming the first Royal in franchise history to notch a 30-30 season. He hit 28 doubl...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ best paw forward
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Clark is looking for a Clark bar and a Clark station, on Clark St. 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, steeped in writers’ tears, and then c...2023
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"Michael Baumann writes thinks everyone is overreacting to the late singings this winter and that a signing deadline would mostly benefit the owners."

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"He’s dealt with a litany of injuries through his career as FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann highlighted humorously in this write-up: (Interior doctor’s office, day."

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"”— Michael Baumann (@baumann_md) October 9, 2022 They've lost this fan."

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"In a crossover event Marvel would envy, Meg Rowley and guest co-host Michael Baumann of The Ringer discuss Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, what the loss of Charlie Morton means for Atlanta, the narrative role of the starter, how to navigate the moral conundrum that is fandom, the ever-growing length of postseason […]"

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"Baltimore is also adding six players to the 40-man roster in advance of tonight’s deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 draft: infielder Rylan Bannon, outfielder Yusniel Diaz, right-handers Michael Baumann and Isaac Mattson and left-handers Zac Lowther and Alexander Wells."

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"The tweet in question, from The Ringer’s Michael Baumann, jokingly details a ludicrous course of treatment for Bauer, currently on the mend from a broken right fibula, including plans to “rid his body of CIA nanites."

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"The Orioles signed two of their top pitchers on Friday, inking second-round supplemental Draft pick Zac Lowther and third-rounder Michael Baumann."

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""It was a strategy born of desperation," as The Ringer's Michael Baumann noted, "but from that desperation sprung a solution that was, through 10 of the 11 wins Cleveland needed to take home a title, practically unbeatable."

2015
"However, as former Grantland writer Michael Baumann noted after Iwakuma threw a no-hitter against Baltimore in August, the right-hander's strong second half does point to big things ahead: Iwakuma is like the contrapositive of Clayton Kershaw."

• Effectively Wild Episode 2249: Our Bold Preseason Predictions, Revisited
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• Outside The Confines: An ‘intriguing’ winter
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• Outside The Confines: Could the Blue Jays be serious about Juan Soto?
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• Outside The Confines: Let the offseason begin!

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Hot stove is warming! Welcome to the official offseason friends. The World Series is over, the Dodgers have had their celebratory parade (featuring none other than Decoy Ohtani), they might have begun a dynasty era, and the Yankees have started to make major changes ahead of next year. Speaking of the Yankees, Gerrit Cole has opted out of his contrac...2024
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• Outside The Confines: LA strikes first

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images The Dodgers are ascendant with three-straight shutouts. Previews of both Championship Series and other news from MLB. Good morning. I think I won’t publish links to the articles where Kodai Senga assured everyone that he was ready to pitch Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. I think nearly all of America is a Guardians fan now. Even if m...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Iconic October baseball is upon us

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images This postseason is shaping up to be a fun one. Happy Monday everyone! We’ve already had plenty of excitement this postseason, with some unexpected winners in the Wild Card series, and some intense games to start off the Divison series. Today we’re going to look at an incredible home run robbery played off as a trick, a game-changing home run, and “pitc...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Saying goodbye

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The Oakland A’s are in their final days. The White Sox avoid history for one more day. The Reds fire their manager. And other news around MLB. The White Sox won last night, thanks in large part to the Angels dropping an easy infield fly in the bottom of the eighth. So the White Sox breaking the record of the 1962 Mets will have to wait until another day, and...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 9, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: In a club of one

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani is constantly making history. Happy Monday, friends (and happy birthday to me!). Hope your weekends were lovely and you’re ready to jump into some news updates. Over the weekend, Shohei Ohtani joined the unique tier of players as the only person to join the 46-46 club (and seems poised to potentially hit the 50-50 club). In other news, some big...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Joey Votto calls it quits
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 23, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 30, 2024

Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images It’s trade deadline day. Jaylon Thompson writes about how aggressive the Royals might be for today’s trade deadline. “We want to be aggressive; we want to do what we need to do for this team,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said. “At the same time, we want to be aware of what our future looks like. So we’ll be a little more calcu...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It’s a tidal wave of trades

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The trade deadline looms, and teams are taking advantage The trade deadline is looming this week and competitive teams aren’t afraid to trade prospects for a chance to win this year. All the big news this weekend has been trade-focused for the most part, so without preamble we’re just going to jump into all the big (and small) trade news that came up over...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies have drafted Charlie Condon. Now what?

Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen / USA TODAY NETWORK Colorado Rockies news and notes for Friday, July 19, 2024 When the Colorado Rockies drafted University of Iowa pitcher Brody Brecht as the 38th pick in the MLB Draft, he tweeted this: GOOD— Brody Brecht (@brody_brecht) July 15, 2024 Okay, this is the kind of content we at Purple Row are very here for. Mac Wilcox wrote a quick a...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 9, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: 51/51

Photo by Chris Arjoon/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani goes where no ballplayer has gone before. The White Sox rot from the head. A look ahead to the end of the season and the Mariners had some issues. Good morning. This Ohtani fellow is good, but he’s no Babe Ruth. After all, the Babe was a great pitcher too. Now if Ohtani learns to pitch next season, them maybe we can consider him the greates...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Matt Chapman signs a Giant deal

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Giants lock up their third baseman. Alex Bregman should be happy. The Yankees don’t have a closer. The Guardians have the best closer. And other news from MLB. Good morning. The Cubs still haven’t allowed a hit since Tuesday. The Giants signed third baseman Matt Chapman to a six-year, $151 million extension. Chapman explained why he re-sign...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A happy reunion

Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK The ‘84 Tigers celebrate an anniversary and Chet Lemon makes it there. The ‘62 Mets react to the ‘24 White Sox. Winners and losers from the Trade Deadline. And other news from around MLB. Chet Lemon may not be in the Hall of Fame, but he’s certainly a first-ballot inductee into the Hall of the Very Good. Jeff Seidel writes of former Tigers and White Sox grea...2024
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• Hisashi Iwakuma to Dodgers: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Jung Ho Kang Injury: Updates on Pirates Star's Knee and Return
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• The Drew Smyly signing by the numbers
Drew Smyly pitches against the Giants at Wrigley Field in September | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Smyly will return to the Cubs It’s hard to avoid a sense of déjà vu writing this piece because I’ve written it before — I also did this five years ago, the first time the Cubs signed Drew Smyly to a two-year deal when he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Cubs took a second f...2023
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• MLB.TV takes promised postseason games away from fans in the UK and other countries
Douglas DeFelice-USA TODAY Sports This is not a good look for you, Rob Manfred, but it’s also not surprising. Major League Baseball says it wants to promote the game internationally. To do so, it’s going to hold several games in Europe — the UK and France — over the next few years, including the London Series in 2023 involving the Cubs and Cardinals next June. This is a good thing. Promoti...2022
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• Outside The Confines: The Tigers claim the voice of the White Sox

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images This might be the best offseason move yet. Well, one of the biggest moves of the offseason has nothing to do with players, or even with the shuffle of managers. The Detroit Tigers announced today that after Bally Sports Detroit parted ways with Matt Shepard the new play-by-play announcer for the season will be none other than White Sox great ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Behind the dish no more
Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images A former friend is going through some changes. Happy Monday everyone! The big stories over the weekend were the news that the floundering Cardinals are making a bit of a change about where former Cub Willson Contreras will be playing going forward; Royals pitcher Ryan Yarbrough experienced a scary moment on the mound; a former A’s MVP has passed away; ...2023
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• Minor League ballplayers officially have a union
MLBPA chief Tony Clark | Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images The MLBPA has been officially named as the representative of most minor league ballplayers in collective bargaining. The Major League Baseball Players Association has officially succeeded in its efforts to unionize the minor leaguers. Arbitrator Martin Schienman officially certified that more than 50 percent of minor league ball...2022
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• Lynch pitches well, but offense quiet in 3-2 loss to Orioles
Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Daniel Lynch had his best start of the season, going six innings with just three runs allowed, but the offense managed just two runs in a 3-2 loss in the series opener to Baltimore. Lynch walked just one hitter and struck out four in his longest start of the year and his first quality start. It was a shaky start for Lynch, when Austin Hays led off the ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: No Rays of sunshine

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Things are going wrong fast for the Rays. Also the Angels, who bet big on one last year with Shohei Ohtani. And other news from around MLB Just a few months ago, the Tampa Bay Rays were the biggest story in the game for the best start to a season since the 1984 Tigers. Now, they’re the biggest story in the game for not-as-pleasant reasons. The Tampa Bay Ray...2023
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• Nelson Agholor to Eagles: Twitter Reacts to Pick After Marcus Mariota Rumors
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• Outside The Confines: The White Sox tie an unwelcome record

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images They are on their way to the most losses in modern baseball history. We all know the White Sox are having a bad season, but now we officially know they’re one of the worst teams in modern baseball history. On Sunday night they lost to the Padres, and that loss saw them tie the 1962 New York Mets at 120 losses ($). And there’s still a week of baseball left....2024
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• Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 23, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Welcome to August

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The tail end of the season has begun. Welcome to August, friends, the tail end of the season is here, and we’re still reeling from the big (and small) moves of the trade deadline. Today’s links are heavy on trade deadline reviews, plus looking at the unfortunate end of Mike Trout’s 2024 season, an update on what’s happening with Freddie Freeman’s family, and...2024
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• Better know a draft prospect: Chase Burns

Scott Kinser-USA TODAY Sports Burns is a fiery competitor with a devastating slider. With the MLB draft just a month away, let’s continue evaluating some prospects that the Royals may consider drafting with the sixth overall pick. Following the write up of JJ Wetherholt, there are just two of the top college prospects that we have yet to evaluate here. Today, we will cover perhaps the top ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 7, 2024

Sweet! Max didn’t use this picture for the recap | Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The Royals Will Be Back (home for a series with Seattle) We’ve talked about it before and you know the drill - day game makes for an odd set of links in Rumblings. Anne Rogers profiled old friend Scott Barlow: On a mantle at home, Barlow has two bats signed by Perez and Witt. He has baseballs from miles...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Don’t bet on it

Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports MLB announces suspensions in a major gambling scandal. A look ahead to the trade deadline. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. If you’re going to get caught doing something stupid that’s going to get you into a lot of trouble, don’t do it for some spare change. Al has already written on this story, but Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was per...2024
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