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• Will the 2026 Orioles be good enough defensively?

Defensive metrics continue to be controversial in baseball circles, with critics often citing multiple statistics telling differing stories about a player’s work in the field. How could Angels shortstop Zach Neto have 13 Defensive Runs Saved (a Fielding Bible metric) and -8 Outs Above Average (a Statcast metric) in the same season? The consensus is […]...2026
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images The All-Star third baseman is headed to the Bronx. According to Mark Feinsand and multiple reports, the Colorado Rockies have traded third baseman Ryan McMahon to the New York Yankees. Breaking: The Yankees are acquiring 3B Ryan McMahon from the Rockies, per source. Colorado will receive two prospects in return.— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand...2025
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• Guardians series preview: Are these teams buyers or sellers?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images This is an important series for two AL Central teams on the bubble. The Royals and Guardians face each other this weekend with both teams on the bubble of a post-season race. The Guadians are three games back of a Wild Card spot, while the Royals sit another 1.5 games behind them. Both teams are playing well as of late - the Guardians have won 11 of their...2025
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• Brady House is finding his footing with the Washington Nationals

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Brady House’s combination of a brilliant glove and growing comfort at the plate is making him a force Brady House looked uncomfortable at the plate in his first couple weeks as a big leaguer. He was clearly getting up to speed with the challenges of big league pitching. However, he has found his feet this month and is looking like a threat at the plate. From the sec...2025
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• The Washington Nationals Should Try CJ Abrams at Second Base After The Trade Deadline

Getty Images Why the Nats need to use the rest of the season to begin Abrams transition away from shortstop We’re 9 days away from the 2025 MLB trade deadline, and we can expect the Nationals roster to look pretty different after it passes, as all expiring deals are on the trade block, as well as some players with control still, such as Nathaniel Lowe. With lots of players coming off the r...2025
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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Will these two teams make a deal? The Royals head to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field this week, just a train ride away. They swept the Cubs there in 2021, but have lost the series to them each of the last two seasons. The Cubs have missed the playoffs each of the last four seasons, but come into this series with the second-best record ...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Outfield

Brad Penner-Imagn Images The future of the Rockies’ outfield has only gotten less certain after the first half. The historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies look very different than they did when the season began in a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. With this in mind, the staff at Purple Row felt it would be useful to revisit the “State of the Position” series that we run in Ma...2025
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• Dodgers series preview: Ohtani takes the mound

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Japanese phenom is scheduled to pitch this weekend. For a team reeling with nine consecutvie losses at home, the Dodgers are probably the last team you want to see on the schedule. The franchise has become the bullies in baseball, combining lavish spending with a smart front office to produce 100-win seasons in five of the last seven full years, includin...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Cardinals series preview

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images At last, the Cubs face their biggest rivals. The Cubs have played 77 games this year and the Cardinals 78. This is the first time the teams have met in 2025. Have I mentioned how much I detest the balanced schedule? The good news for this rivalry is that all 13 games between the two teams remain, including the final three games of the season at Wrigley Field. For m...2025
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• Twins series preview: Expect a low-scoring series

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Twins pitching has been outstanding lately. After a late-season collapse, the Twins were strangely quiet this offseason. But despite some early injuries, they have shown they will be a contender in the Central Division with strong pitching and an opportunistic offense. The Twins have gotten hot recently, enjoying a 13-game winning streak in May. Their 16-7 home reco...2025
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• Alex Verdugo is as advertised

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Alex is pretty much who we thought we was, with the good and the bad Bringing up Alex Verdugo in mid-April gave the Atlanta Braves a shot in the arm. When he arrived, the outfield that was already missing Ronald Acuña was being rocked by the Jurickson Profar suspension and some pretty poor play from bench players forced into the lineup. He helped the Braves grab a ...2025
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• Orioles series preview: The biggest disappointment in the league

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Orioles were hoping to be contenders, but have not played like it at all. Not long after the Orioles fell to the Royals in the 2014 ALCS, the team fell into a rut and decided to embark on an aggressive rebuild. They stripped the team to the studs, endured some truly god awful seasons, but then rebounded to build the best farm system in baseball. That pa...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: Has Jordan Beck truly arrived?

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, May 1st, 2025 When a season starts off as bleakly as this one, it can be hard to find the positives among all the bad press. While the losses continue to mount, one may have to squint to identify any morsels of good work being performed at Coors. Luckily, every team, every year, has something to write home about, ...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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• Brewers series preview: They just had the worst opening series in baseball

Brad Penner-Imagn Images The Brewers are coming off a spanking by the Yankees. The Royals will be tested early as 20 of their first 23 games will come against 2024 playoff teams, including three against the Milwaukee Brewers this week. The Brewers won 93 games last year and were two out away from advancing to the NLCS before they blew the lead and the series to the Mets. But gone from tha...2025
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"How could Angels shortstop Zach Neto have 13 Defensive Runs Saved (a Fielding Bible metric) and -8 Outs Above Average (a Statcast metric) in the same season?"

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"Statcast gives him a -1 for Outs Above Average at third so far in 2025."

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"Here are Outs Above Average leaders so far: Baseball Savant | OAA As you can see, Arcia has graded out as the top defensive shortstop in baseball to this point, which passes the sniff test, as he’s made a number tremendous plays at short."

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"right now is leading the Royals in home runs, runs, RBI, slugging percentage, baserunning runs, Defensive Runs Above Average, Outs Above Average and basically anything that doesn’t involve taking a walk."

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"But outs above average (OAA) do not lie and Nico Hoerner had more of them than every other shortstop in MLB in 2022 except one: Statcast Outs Above Average Leaderboard — SS There are a lot of interesting things going on in that chart, and please forgive me for just screenshotting the whole thing and including it, but first, it’s notable just how good Nico was in 2022."

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"Mets’ Kevin Pillar isn’t buying his defense may be regressing"

2020
"The 25-year-old is coming off a solid rookie season that saw him perform well at the plate (95 wRC+, 96 OPS+) and very well with the glove in 698 2/3 innings in center field — plus-6 Outs Above Average, -plus5."

2019
"5 Ultimate Zone Rating and -6 Outs Above Average in just 607 2/3 innings of corner outfield work last season between the Jays and the Brewers."

2018
"Meanwhile, Statcast’s Outs Above Average metric has Cain tied for third among MLB outfielders, trailing only Delino DeShields Jr."

2017
"Twins, Red Sox are top out-making outfields"

• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees
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• Guardians series preview: Are these teams buyers or sellers?
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• The Washington Nationals Should Try CJ Abrams at Second Base After The Trade Deadline
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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Outfield
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• Maikel Garcia is having a fine year, but he’s not the long-term solution at third

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Moving him to second and adding a different third baseman improves the lineup Last Wednesday’s game against the Texas Rangers, Maikel Garcia had himself a day. At the plate, he blasted a three-run home run to give the Royals a lead they’d never relinquish, then later drove in the team’s insurance run on a nice poke to the opposite field that, with the assistance of...2025
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• Athletics series preview: The nomads have some hitting talent

Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images But there have been some growing pains with the Athletics. The Athletics are once again vagabonds, having departed Oakland. Their new home in Las Vegas is not yet ready for them, so they’ll spend some purgatory in Sacramento. But don’t call them the Sacramento Athletics! This year, they’re just known as the “Athletics”, a team that won’t even embrace their tem...2025
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• James Wood and Pete Crow-Armstrong are two young superstars who do things very differently

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals James Wood and the Chicago Cubs Pete Crow-Armstrong are young stud outfielders, but they are so different With the Chicago Cubs coming to DC, we are going to see two of the most exciting young outfielders in the sport in James Wood and Pete Crow-Armstrong. Both were highly touted outfield prospects who were traded early in their develop...2025
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• Who should hit at the bottom of the Royals’ lineup going forward?

Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images Can the bats come back alive? The Royals' offense has been one of the worst in baseball, and their slow start has resulted in a wide variety of changes in their batting order all season. The first four or five hitters for the Royals rarely change, but the back end of their lineup is consistently a revolving door, with hopes of getting a spark from someone ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Cubs

Shane Smith and his 2.08 season ERA looks to shut down the North Siders Friday afternoon. | Abigail Dean/Getty Images Chicago kicks off the Crosstown Classic with Shane Smith on the mound looking to snap the South Side losing streak MLB has launched its very first “Rivalry Weekend,” where typical City rivals will face off all on the same weekend, and when you’re done rolling your eyes what...2025
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• Will the 2026 Orioles be good enough defensively?
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• The Washington Nationals Should Try CJ Abrams at Second Base After The Trade Deadline
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• Eli White is kinda for real

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images Eli White has brought his contact and power numbers way up and his strikeouts way down Looking at Eli White’s skill set of defense and speed, I could really dream of the value he could create if he added a just a little pop to his bat. After all, he put up a .200/.274/.305 line over 117 PA and contributed 0.6 WAR in 2022. So it’s a decent defensive skill set. We...2025
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• Who should hit at the bottom of the Royals’ lineup going forward?
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Cubs
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• Alex Verdugo is as advertised
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• Royals Reacts Survey: Where should Jonathan India play?

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Royals have tried him at third and left, but should he be back at second? Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Kansas City Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Royals were in desperat...2025
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• One month in: The Rockies, the White Sox, and . . . the Orioles?
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• Brewers series preview: They just had the worst opening series in baseball
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Outfield
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• Who should hit at the bottom of the Royals’ lineup going forward?
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• Thursday Rockpile: Has Jordan Beck truly arrived?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 21, 2025

PHOTO DAY PICTURES ARE HERE!!!!! I’ll leave the best ones for whoever is doing our Photo Day story, but I figured the “Vinnie with a Pasquatch necklace” is good for today. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images SPRING TRAINING GAMES START TODAY! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Royals have their first Spring Training game today! The squad faces off against the Rangers at 2:05 PM Royals time. No TV t...2025
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• Remaining opportunities to help the outfield this off-season

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Will the Royals add to this bunch? The Royals had a pretty good offense last year, finishing sixth in the American League in runs scored despite a September swoon. But that performance was largely carried on the strength of an MVP-season by Bobby Witt Jr. and solid hitting from catcher Salvador Perez and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. Meanwhile, the o...2025
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• The five signature Royals players of the 2024 MLB season

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This past season exceeded all expectations, but these players had a larger role than most. When you think back on the Kansas City Royals’ 2023 season, what stands out more—the moments or the overall result? For me, it’s the moments. I think of Jake Eisenberg’s electrifying call of the walk-off grand slam against the Minnesota Twins. I...2024
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Ramon Laureano

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Laureano was a scrapheap addition who did wonders for the Braves’ battered outfield and even wrested a starting role from others in the process. In a season where so many things went wrong for the Atlanta Braves, there may not have been a more pleasant and unexpected surprise on the offensive side of the ball than Ramon Laureano. It’s prob...2024
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• 2024 Season in Review: Orlando Arcia

Photo by Edward M. Pio Roda/Getty Images After Orlando Arcia’s 2024 season, shortstop remains a question moving forward for the Braves. The shortstop plan for the 2024 Atlanta Braves was pretty simple. Orlando Arcia was going to be their defensive-first shortstop, who could bat at the bottom of the lineup while the remaining eight hitters in the deepest lineup in baseball did what they do...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Bobby Witt Jr., Royals looking to make their mark on the postseason

Bobby Witt Jr’s MVP-like performance helped push the Royals back to the postseason. Kauffman Stadium was built for speed. Ironically, that wasn’t the intent. When the stadium was constructed for the 1973 season, the team anticipated home runs would go up since the dimensions were actually smaller than their previous home at Municipal Stadium, where hitters had to smack a ball 360 feet down the le...2024
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• The greatest Royals shortstop seasons of all-time

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Bobby Witt Jr. is among the best already, but that is not saying very much Shortstop has been a pain point for the Royals since the beginning of the organization. When Freddie Patek has your only run of more than three seasons over 2 WAR in over half a century, you can tell just how rough filling the position has been for this organization. That dearth of t...2023
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• Is Bobby Witt Jr. becoming a superstar before our eyes?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The kid is coming into his own. The expectations have been high for Bobby Witt Jr., perhaps his entire life. The son of a former big leaguer, Witt had a leg up, but he also combined his advantage with hard work to become Gatorade High School Player of the Year and the #2 overall pick in the 2019 draft. Jim Callis at MLB Pipeline called him the “second-best sh...2023
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• Five reasons I am thankful for the 2022 Cubs
Willson Contreras celebrates a walkoff single against the Brewers on August 20 | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports There were some really joyous moments amidst a middling baseball season. I’ve been a Cubs fan for the vast majority of my conscious life. My first major league baseball memory is the Sandberg Game, and that was really it for me. I was in love with the ivy, the bleachers and the blu...2022
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• Just like everyone predicted, Orlando Arcia and Marcell Ozuna are leading the way for the Braves

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images The dynamic duo everyone saw coming. If you don’t know, here’s the current fWAR leaderboard for the Braves: FanGraphs | Leaderboards Yes, the best two players on the team to this point of the season have been Orlando Arcia and Marcell Ozuna. You would’ve gotten some decent odds on that before the season. Ozuna is the least surprisin...2024
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• Royals trade Edward Olivares to the Pirates

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports The outfielder hit .265/.315/.432 in parts of four seasons with KC. The Royals have traded outfielder Edward Olivares to the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to reporter Anne Rogers. In return, the Royals receive infielder Deivis Nadal, a 21-year-old infielder who hit .212/.344/.377 with 8 home runs and steal in 318 plate appearances in Low-A ball. The move open...2023
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• It’s okay to believe once again

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Maybe this year is different. Blind optimism isn’t easy to find for fans of the Kansas City Royals. The team hasn’t finished above .500 since 2015 when they won the World Series. Although the losses have far outweighed the win total, there has still been some reason for hope to close out nearly every season in that span. Just as the Royals have an uncanny a...2023
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• All-Star shortstops Orlando Arcia and Dansby Swanson face off in Chicago

Former teammates Orlanda Arcia and Dansby Swanson have had All-Star season for their respective clubs this season. | Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images In their first season as starting shortstops for their current teams, Orlando Arcia and Dansby Swanson are having remarkably similar and successful seasons. This time last year, Atlanta had an All-Star shortstop, who was providing elite d...2023
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• Three hitters the Braves could look to acquire before the deadline
Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The Atlanta Braves have one of the strongest offenses in the league that features Ronald Acuna Jr., Matt Olsen, Austin Riley, Sean Murphy and Ozzie Albies. But, like every great lineup, this Braves team does have a couple of holes in it. The first is the DH spot, which is currently occupied by Marcell Ozuna and the other is left field where Eddie Rosario plays. T...2023
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees
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• Guardians series preview: Are these teams buyers or sellers?
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• The Washington Nationals Should Try CJ Abrams at Second Base After The Trade Deadline
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• Cubs series preview: To the friendly confines!
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• Nationals Prospects: Brady House found his power stroke yesterday

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images Brady House’s signature power was missing at the big league level but the Nats third baseman found it yesterday As an amateur and in the Minor Leagues, power was a big part of Brady House’s game. Most scouts considered his raw power his best trait. On MLB Pipeline, he has 60 grade power, which is very good. However, in his first 21 games in the MLB, that power was...2025
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• Let’s look at Nick Allen’s All-Star quality defense

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Rick Moranis stars in “Honey, I Blew Up the Glove” Does anybody remember the uproar over starting the light bat of Nick Allen over Orlando Arcia in the second game of the season? It does seem like a long time ago, or as least a long string of losses ago. The bat hasn’t really shown up, although he’s still outhitting Arcia (66 wRC+ to ...2025
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• Dodgers series preview: Ohtani takes the mound
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• Maikel Garcia is having a fine year, but he’s not the long-term solution at third
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• James Wood and Pete Crow-Armstrong are two young superstars who do things very differently
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• Friday Rockpile: Monfort’s ‘best defense’ or just a better defense for the Rockies in 2025?

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, February 14, 2025 On several occasions, the Rockies have been known to misjudge reality. From Dick Monfort saying the 2023 Rockies could be a .500 team to giving Kris Bryant a 7-year, $182 million deal in 2022 to failing to re-sign DJ LeMahieu and inking Daniel Murphy for the same price the Yankees gave LeMahi...2025
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• 2024 Cubs final season grades

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Obviously, we wish this year’s Cubs would have done better. But there were still some performances to celebrate. As they did in 2023, the Cubs dug themselves a deep hole early on this year, went on a pretty good run and were briefly in a wild-card spot, then couldn’t hold on to it in September. They did finish 83-79, the same record as last y...2024
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• 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets

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

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Will he continue to hit for the Cubs in 2024? This is Day Three of a Cubsmas Advent Calendar. You can read the explanation for the project and Day One here. One of the best moments of the Cubs’ 2023 season was the Christopher Morel walk off home run against the White Sox in August. You could hear the celebration throughout the neighborhood before Marquee Sports ...2023
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• Should the Atlanta Braves target this bullpen arm?
Should the Braves make a move for this bullpen arm? | Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports The Braves bullpen has been elite, but could they target a solid arm to upgrade? The All-Star week festivities have begun, which means that trade deadline season is quickly approaching us. The Atlanta Braves are in the fortunate position to where they do not really have any “needs”. However, teams could al...2023
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• Pollock ... declines his 2023 option!
The seemingly-impossible has arrived, as 0.4 rWAR AJ Pollock declined his option to return to the White Sox for $13 million in 2023. | David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Anderson’s club option exercised; Harrison’s declined; AJ give the White Sox an early holiday gift by accepting his $5 million buyout Two days to go until the five-day post-World Series signing moratorium ends, and the White Sox...2022
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