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• The Braves hope to rebound against the Reds - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta and Cincinnati renew their old NL West rivalry. The Atlanta Braves wrap-up their home stand this week with a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. After a disappointing series loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta will try their luck against another former NL West foe. The Reds have been an early-season surprise in the NL Central...2025
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• Dodgers Warned to ‘Turn It Up’ After NL West Shake-Up Puts Postseason Path in Jeopardy
The Dodgers, according to a baseball insider, must start playing to expectations or it could endanger a chance of a repeat....2025
• Braves vs. Dodgers 5/2/2025 Game Thread

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Atlanta Braves are back home following a successful trip out West that saw them go 4-2 against the Diamondbacks and Rockies, respectively. Now, they’re returning to Cobb County in order to square off against another NL West foe in the form of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Atlanta’s going to be looking to set the record straight aga...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• Braves look to exact revenge on the Dodgers - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta welcomes in some of the biggest stars in the game with refrains of, “Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!” The Atlanta Braves return home to Truist Park to start the month of May with revenge on their minds as they clash with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After wrapping up an April with a 14-16 record after a 4-2 road trip to end of the month, the Braves were a...2025
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• Diamondbacks in danger of falling further back in NL West after injury double whammy

The Diamondbacks were hit with a double dose of bad news on Thursday when they placed their top two relievers on the injured list....2025

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• Diamondbacks in danger of falling further back in NL West after injury double whammy
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• BCB After Dark: Grade the Cubs first month

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you to grade the first month-plus of the season. It’s Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Thanks for stopping by. We’re always glad to see you. Let us know if you need anything. There are still a few tables available. Bri...2025
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• San Diego Padres need to rebound from the season’s first rough stretch

San Diego Padres snapping a four-game losing streak | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images The return of injured starters could change the Friars’ fortunes. The first month of the 2025 major league baseball season was going as smoothly as you can imagine for the San Diego Padres. But what a difference a week makes. Last week, the Padres were atop the National West standings ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Tyler Glasnow will join Blake Snell on the IL. Happy Wednesday everyone, we’re halfway through the week, and wrapping up the first full month of baseball play. For the Dodgers, it hasn’t been a great month at all. Despite all their efforts to stockpile the best players in baseball over the offseason, they are struggling to maintain a hold on first in the NL...2025
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres welcome in the Giants

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Everything you need to know about your San Diego Padres on the morning of April 29, 2025. #Padres Luis Arráez is expected to be activated from the IL for tomorrow’s game, sources tell @ElExtrabase.— Daniel Álvarez-Montes (@DanielAlvarezEE) April 28, 2025 Articles to read San Diego Padres bullpen is the season’s first-month MVP (Thomas Conroy, Gaslamp ...2025
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Over the weekend, the baseball discourse took a strange turn. Here’s a sample from Ken Rosenthal on Monday: The Orioles’ 10-17 record is the third-worst in the majors, ahead of only the Chicago White Sox (7-21) and Colorado Rockies (4-23). Their 5.83 rotation ERA is also the third-worst, ahead ...2025
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• Cub Tracks flies like a seagull

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, -four days a week, rain or shine. Put some mustard on that bird. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overn...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ San Francisco Giants

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Crew heads back west as they’ll take on former shortstop Willy Adames for the first time by the Bay The Milwaukee Brewers are set to head west for the second time this year, this time a little closer to the coast as they’ll be by the Bay to take on the San Francisco Giants. Milwaukee, coming off a solid 4-2 homestand that featured series wins over the Tigers and A’s...2025
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• Padres are hunting, not fishing

Bogaerts and Tatis Jr | Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Notes from week #3 All stats except their record are entering April 18 The San Diego Padres are 15-5, the best record in baseball. Top of the NL West and 0.5 games up on the Dodgers. They just lost their first home game after going 11 straight wins. There isn’t much to criticize, but the most impressive thing is how they keep do...2025
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• The best organization in baseball just won another World Series title

The Dodgers have been the cream of the crop in baseball for a long while, now. There’s no sign of that changing anytime soon, either. For the second time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. For the first time since 1988, they’ll actually get to have the full treatment that comes with being World Series — meaning, the team and their fans will actually get to enjoy t...2024
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• Is There Anybody Left in Los Angeles Whom Yasiel Puig Hasn't Alienated?
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• Kirk Gibson on His Parkinson's Disease Fight: 'It's Not a Death Sentence'
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• 'An Absolute Blast': Harper and Trout Recall Days as Teammates in Fall League
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• The Cautionary Tale of Ken Caminiti: The Steroid Era's First Truth-Teller
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2025
"Padres pass first NL West test with two-game sweep over SF"

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"The Padres clinched a playoff spot Tuesday night when they turned a triple play to preserve a 4-2 victory over the NL West-leading Dodgers."

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"0% according to FanGraphs) but you know they’d love to move up the Wild Card standings by taking the series from the Cubs at Wrigley: FanGraphs NL West Division odds as of 8."

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"LA secures its 10th straight trip to playoffs, eyes NL West title next"

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"Scherzer still needs to waive his no-trade rights, although recent reports suggested he’d be willing to do so to move to one of the NL West contenders."

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"Three NL West organizations are reportedly engaged with the Boston organization on the exceptional right fielder, adding to the intrigue."

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"Bumgarner is leaving San Francisco but staying in the NL West"

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"The longtime Dodgers catcher is returning to the NL West after spending the end of the 2016 campaign with the Phillies and 2017 with…"

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"Erick Aybar and Jose Pirela went deep on Sunday afternoon, sending the Padres to a 6-4 victory, their third over their NL West rivals in two days."

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"Dodgers rout D-backs with HR spree to keep pace in NL West"

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"The NL West leaders have won 16 of their last 20."

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"He was the guts of a team that was a surprise winner in the NL West."

• The Braves hope to rebound against the Reds - and here’s how you can watch
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• Braves look to exact revenge on the Dodgers - and here’s how you can watch
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• San Diego Padres need to rebound from the season’s first rough stretch
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• Braves News: Atlanta wins on the road, trade rumors (already), Craig Kimbrel, and more

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday Last night was a rare sight, indeed — at least as far as this season is concerned. The Atlanta Braves ended up cruising to a victory, on the road, in the NL West, no less. Indeed, this looked more like the Braves that we’re used to seeing in Cobb County — especially considering that they had a big eighth inn...2025
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• The Royals have been the Rockies before

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images It’s terrible as a baseball fan for it to be April and your team is already hopeless. It feels quite dramatic to say the season was on the brink for the Kansas City Royals before Tuesday’s game against the Colorado Rockies, but us fans were starting to get a little nervous. The Royals came into Tuesday’s game 9-14, fresh off an extremely disappointing road trip ag...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Phillies series preview

Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images At last, a team the Cubs haven’t seen yet this year. Hi there, new 2025 Cubs opponent! The Cubs have spent the entire year to date, 26 games, traversing the two West divisions — 20 games against three NL West teams and six against two AL West teams. Now, a team from the NL East arrives at Wrigley Field. The Phillies were supposed to b...2025
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• Atlanta Braves News and Notes 4/24

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images News and notes from Thursday Yesterday was an off day, which means that there wasn’t a lot to discuss as far as the Atlanta Braves are concerned. With that being said, considering how some off days have gone during this season so far, sometimes “no news” qualifies as “good news” so I’d imagine that it’s best to just be grateful and hope that the B...2025
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• Looking Ahead To Club Options: NL West
Over the coming days, MLBTR will look at next offseason’s option class. Steve Adams will highlight the players who can opt out of their current deals, while we’ll take a division-by-division look at those whose contracts contain either team or mutual options. Virtually all of the mutual options will be bought out by one side.…...2025
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• How the Padres rounded out their starting rotation

Nick Pivetta | Photo by Brendon Baranov/MLB Photos via Getty Images Nick Pivetta and Kyle Hart step in Prior to the start of spring training, the Padres had their top three starters—Michael King, Dylan Cease and Yu Darvish—with Randy Vasquez and Matt Waldron available for the back end. Depth was an issue with only Henry Baez, Ryan Bergert, Omar Cruz and Jhony Brito listed on the 40-man ros...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?
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• Braves get so close to sweeping the Snakes

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Atlanta’s lineup continued their resurgence as the Braves slugged their way into a series win over the Diamondbacks. Well, there’s no doubt about it at this point: The Atlanta Braves are getting back on the right track. After starting the season with seven straight losses, the Braves are now suddenly within striking distance of .500. They had a productive homestan...2025
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• GDT: Are the Padres good this year?

Thomas Shea-Imagn Images Time to take a look at the NL West standings and take a big sip of wat- Go Rays!...2025
• Another tough series out West awaits the Braves

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Four of the five NL West teams have gotten off to great starts so far. Atlanta will face another one of those four in Arizona. The Atlanta Braves are showing tangible signs of life. They just went 5-1 on a six-game homestand. The offense is starting to come to life. Bryce Elder made a good start. While the Braves are still floating around under .500...2025
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• Atlanta Braves News and Notes 4/24
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers series preview

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images What, YOU again? When this series ends, the Cubs will have played 26 games in 2025, or about 16 percent of the season. Seven of those games (26.9 percent)will have been against the Dodgers — and then there will be no more against Los Angeles this year, unless the two teams meet in the postseason. Thanks, schedule-makers. (And if this looks familiar, yes, I wrote up...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ San Francisco Giants
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• Braves inch closer to .500 with another series win

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Atlanta may not have swept the worst team in the NL but a series win capped off a productive trip out West. The Atlanta Braves entered this series with Colorado with a bit of confidence in their step and a wind behind their sails. After all, they had just gotten done toppling a tough Diamondbacks team for their first road series win...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Grade the Cubs first month
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• San Diego Padres need to rebound from the season’s first rough stretch
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• Braves get so close to sweeping the Snakes
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres score once in third consecutive loss

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Everything you need to know about your San Diego Padres on the morning of April 27, 2025. Articles to read Padres end scoreless streak at 30 innings, but lose to Rays 4-1 (Matt DeWalt, Gaslamp Ball) San Diego Padres Kyle Hart was a victim of his ineffectiveness (Thomas Conroy, Gaslamp Ball) Padres fall to Rays, drop out of first place in NL West (Jeff ...2025
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• Another tough series out West awaits the Braves
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• Atlanta Braves News and Notes 4/24
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ San Francisco Giants
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• Outside The Confines: What’s wrong with the Braves?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Some trends are emerging to start the season, like the Braves struggling and the Padres’ strong pitching. The minor league parks are looking a little bush league. And other news from MLB. Good morning. After winning their first eight games, the Dodgers are 3-6 and in third place in the National League West. I still wouldn’t bet against them winning 100 g...2025
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• Dodgers rout D-backs with HR spree to keep pace in NL West
Starting pitcher Bud Norris lasted just one out, but that hardly mattered as an offensive outburst from the Dodgers covered an unexpected bullpen game in an 14-3 victory for Los Angeles on Sunday....2016
• Oh Maeda! Dodger outduels Shark, sinks SF
A pitchers duel went the Dodgers' way Sunday as Kenta Maeda shined yet again to continue an excellent start to his MLB career. With the 3-1 win, the Dodgers took the weekend series over the Giants and a division lead in the NL West....2016
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• Shark takes tough-luck loss vs. Maeda, LA
A pitchers duel went the Dodgers' way Sunday as Kenta Maeda shined yet again to continue an excellent start to his MLB career. With the 3-1 win, the Dodgers took the weekend series over the Giants and a division lead in the NL West....2016
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• Oh Maeda! Dodger outduels Shark, sinks SF
A pitchers duel went the Dodgers' way Sunday as Kenta Maeda shined yet again to continue an excellent start to his MLB career. With the 3-1 win, the Dodgers took the weekend series over the Giants and a division lead in the NL West....2016
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• Kershaw snags 14th win as LA edges closer to title
Clayton Kershaw limited the Rockies to three hits over seven innings, Justin Turner doubled home the tiebreaking run and Scott Schebler homered late in a 4-1 win Monday night that trimmed the Dodgers' magic number to 12. The NL West leaders have won 16 of their last 20....2015
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• Kershaw snags 14th win as LA edges closer to title
Clayton Kershaw limited the Rockies to three hits over seven innings, Justin Turner doubled home the tiebreaking run and Scott Schebler homered late in a 4-1 win Monday night that trimmed the Dodgers' magic number to 12. The NL West leaders have won 16 of their last 20....2015
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• Zack's gem helps LA keep firm grip on lead
Zack Greinke continued his dominance of National League hitters as he tossed eight three-hit innings to lead the Dodgers over the D-backs, 4-3, on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field. With the win, the Dodgers captured the series and maintained an 8 1/2-game lead over the second-place Giants in the NL West....2015
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• Greinke's gem helps LA keep firm grip on lead
Zack Greinke continued his dominance of National League hitters as he tossed eight three-hit innings to lead the Dodgers over the D-backs, 4-3, on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field. With the win, the Dodgers captured the series and maintained an 8 1/2-game lead over the second-place Giants in the NL West....2015
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• NL West Notes: Barnes, Tomas, Giants
When Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi isn’t working to get an edge on rival teams, he’s trying to out-maneuver those within the organization in fantasy football, as Andy McCullough writes in a fun piece for the Los Angeles Times. Dodgers players are regretting their decision to allow the executive into the team’s league, it seems, as he…...2018
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Why Won't Anyone Take a Chance on Yoenis Cespedes?
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• Will Padres' Upton-Kemp-Myers Push to Win Now Pay off Big or Backfire?
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• Brandon McCarthy to Dodgers: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Should the Dodgers Bench Yasiel Puig If He Keeps Up Vanishing Act?
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• The Braves hope to rebound against the Reds - and here’s how you can watch
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• Braves vs. Dodgers 5/2/2025 Game Thread
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• Braves inch closer to .500 with another series win
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• BCB After Dark: Grade the Cubs first month
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• San Diego Padres need to rebound from the season’s first rough stretch
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?
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• Braves get so close to sweeping the Snakes
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• Braves News: Atlanta wins on the road, trade rumors (already), Craig Kimbrel, and more
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• Another tough series out West awaits the Braves
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• Three questions A.J. Preller must answer before Opening Day

San Diego Padres closer Robert Suarez | Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Padres have time to revamp the roster By making very few moves during the offseason, the San Diego Padres have dampened the hope of the Friar Faithful for the 2025 season. This reflects the current state of the franchise, and there is no point in debating the topic…or is there? The Padres 93-win 2024 season was dis...2025
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• Xander Bogaerts needs to win over San Diego

Xander Bogaerts | Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Entering his third year, X is still unproven Xander Bogaerts joined the San Diego Padres as a free agent in the 2022-23 offseason, signing a contract for 11 years and $280 million, which included a no-trade clause. People around San Diego and baseball wondered if he was worth such a contract because no one predicted he would receive such a...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: Wait... the Rockies aren’t worse than the White Sox, right?

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, February 6, 2025 Earlier this week, we received one of the most-discussed pieces of the offseason cycle: the 2025 iteration of Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA standings. Speculation abounds! These projections, while of course not iron-clad, are some of the most respected and studied in the baseball landscape, so ...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: How should Rockies fans manage expectations in 2025?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, January 3, 2025 Another year is here and another season is on the horizon. While hope certainly springs eternal, it’s also important to adjust the hope settings to somewhere between “not as bad as the 2024 White Sox” and playoff contention. Last year, I turned to Clint Hurdle’s advice as my expectations guide...2025
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• Takeaways from Braves-Rockies: A missed opportunity

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Braves still won the series but they also missed a golden chance gain as much ground as possible in the NL Wild Card race. Heading into this series, the Atlanta Braves were going for a sweep in order to set the record straight against a Colorado Rockies team that tripped them up in a major way back at Coors Field. For the first two ga...2024
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• NL West Notes: McCarthy, Barnhart, Molina, Slater
The Diamondbacks have gotten a lot of trade interest in outfielder Jake McCarthy but Arizona isn’t yet interested in dealing the 26-year-old, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale writes. This isn’t the first time McCarthy’s name has surfaced in trade rumors, though the buzz quieted after McCarthy turned in a lackluster 2023 season. The outfielder finished fourth…...2024
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• NL West Notes: Melvin, Giants, Musgrove, Rojas
With the Giants looking for a new manager and Bob Melvin’s future with the Padres perhaps in question, there has already been speculation that the two situations could be simultaneously resolved by Melvin leaving San Diego to take over the Giants’ dugout. Melvin is both from the Bay Area and is both a former Giants…...2023
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• Braves have another meeting in the desert while looking for a winning oasis
Joseph Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK For the second year in a row at around the same time, the Braves felt compelled to have a clubhouse meeting. The different circumstances suggest that the standards have risen. By now, most of Braves Country and a lot of the baseball world is at least aware of the lore from last season. After playing a calamitous baseball game on May 31 in ord...2023
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• NL West Notes: Bellinger, Longoria, Diamondbacks, Johnson
With former MVP Cody Bellinger projected to earn $18.1MM in his last year of arbitration eligibility, there has been plenty of speculation that the 27-year-old might not be tendered a contract. Los Angeles president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman was non-committal about Belllinger’s situation, telling reporters (including Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register) that…...2022
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