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• Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday to be on the cover of latest Topps Chrome Update
The edition also features Paul Skenes, Jackson Merrill, Jackson Chourio, Wyatt Langford and Shota Imanaga....2024
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• The Pirates starting pitching staff is in a good place

Paul Skenes highlighted the Pirates' impressive pitching staff in 2024. Jared Jones, Mitch Keller, Luis Ortiz, and Bailey Falter also contributed significantly, showcasing depth and potential for future success....2024
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• Paul Skenes turned in a historic rookie season, and it’s just the beginning for him

Paul Skenes had a historic rookie season with the Pirates, showcasing dominance and setting records. He’s expected to improve further and contend for future accolades....2024
• Pirates want to take training wheels off phenom Paul Skenes

Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes is just getting warmed up....2024
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• Outside The Confines: The regular season ends*

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The regular season ends, except for two makeup games today. A look back and a look ahead to the playoffs. Plus other MLB news. So in case you don’t know already or don’t want to click on the links, the Braves and Mets play their two makeup games in Atlanta today. Each team just needs to win one game to make the playoffs. So whoever wins g...2024
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• Why Pirates' Paul Skenes should get serious Cy Young consideration

Sale is likely to win it, but Skenes still has a very convincing argument to win it himself....2024
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• Outside The Confines: The regular season ends*
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Pittsburgh Pirates

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers hit the road for final time this season as they head to Pittsburgh With the NL Central all locked up for the Brewers, they dropped three straight to the Diamondbacks before winning a thrilling game on Sunday afternoon, coming back from an 8-0 deficit to win 10-9. They’ll look to keep that momentum going as they hit the road for the last time this season, tak...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs shut out the Nationals 5-0 and take three of four. You can only ever beat the team that is scheduled to play you. There is a pretty high amount of randomness in scheduling. I suspect the schedule did the Cubs no favors in 2024. There were a lot of subpar teams baked into the last half the season and particularly the last 40 games or so. When the...2024
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• Shohei Ohtani on verge of historic feat

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani is on the verge of one of the most impressive offensive seasons in MLB history Unicorn. Superstar. Five-tool player. “Showtime.” Greatest of all time? Pick your nickname or adjective, it likely describes Shohei Ohtani. One of Major League Baseball’s most electric players in over 100 years, Ohtani and the LA Dodgers are 88-61, leading the N...2024
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• Game thread CXLIX - Royals at Pirates

Michael Wacha #52 of the Kansas City Royals throws in the first inning against the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium on September 08, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals enjoyed their first beatdown in a while, last night. Can they do it again? It’s a Saturday day game in Pittsburgh, and the Royals have a chance to keep the good times rolling quickl...2024
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• Pirates series preview: Arrrrgh you ready for some baseball?

Photo by David Dermer/Diamond Images/Getty Images The Royals look to plunder Pittsburgh. The Pirates haven’t had a winning season since 2018, but their rebuild seems have brought them to the cusp of being a .500 team, with hopes they can get over the hump next year. They have the third-youngest pitching staff in baseball with two of the more electric young arms in baseball. The team flirte...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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• Pirates should strongly consider shutting rookie ace down for year

If the Pittsburgh Pirates lost rookie All-Star Paul Skenes to injury playing out the string on a lost season, it would be heartbreaking for the fan base....2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: What could the 2025 starting rotation look like?

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, September 4, 2024 The Colorado Rockies will have plenty of questions heading into the offseason as they prepare for the 2025 season and beyond. Recently we have seen the team try to get a leg up on answering some of those questions with a lineup full of young position players and an influx of young bullpen arms...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Running back the bullpen

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which reliever you would most like to see return in 2025. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come on in and join us. We’re saving a table for you. The dress code is casual. The show will start shortly. Bring your own beverag...2024
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• Cub Tracks gets into the end zone

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes plus extras, four days a week. The Cubs put up a seven spot with late runs and looked good in the first game of a weekend series at PNC Park. 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, over...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports The superstar posted the news to social media. Surprise! Shohei Ohtani has tied the knot, and for someone worth nearly a billion dollars, and a superstar athlete in both his native Japan and his present home of the US, one might expect some high-profile nuptials, but instead Ohtani has kept his wedding relatively quiet. Ohtani has married a woman from Japan ...2024
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"Paul Skenes' rise has been stunning but those who watched him play at Air Force witnessed him pull off an impressive two-way feat that earned him the nickname Shohei Paultani."

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"Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews both promoted to Double-A less than two months after 2023 MLB Draft"

• Outside The Confines: The regular season ends*
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 151

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs come up short despite two Happ homers. In a season that hasn’t had a massive amount of Cub storylines that have been fun to follow, one that has been for me is Ian Happ. On May 21, Ian’s OPS bottomed out at .624. The Cubs won that day against the Braves and were 27-22. Amazingly, a significant swath of Cubs social media declared Happ a bum and would ...2024
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• NL ROY Race Stays Sizzlin' - September 17, 2024
Jackson Merrill The rookie phenom went 2-3 R, HR, RBI, BB as he continues to compete with Paul Skenes for NL Rookie of the Year. Merrill has been a fantasy goldmine, hitting 24 homers and stealing 16 bases. He slowly got better throughout the year, and is now an elite fantasy option. He is slashing .306/.335/.608 in the second half. His .299 xBA is 96th Percentile and his .533 xSL is 95th Percenti...2024
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• Shohei Ohtani on verge of historic feat
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• Royals race past pathetic Pirates, 5-1

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals hits an RBI double in the seventh inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates during inter-league play at PNC Park on September 14, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Featuring: The return of Two-Hit Witt! It’s a well-known fact that Bobby Witt Jr. has been slumping lately. Well, slumping for Bobby anyway. In the ...2024
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• Pirates series preview: Arrrrgh you ready for some baseball?
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• Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
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• Royals Rumblings - News for September 10, 2024

Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Just keep showing up. New Royals outfielder Robbie Grossman had some words of wisdom for his new teammates, writes Pete Grathoff. The veterans also offered some advice to their new teammates, even though they joined the Royals during that ugly seven-game losing streak. “Just keep showing up. We’ve got a good team,” Grossman said of...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Bradley Blalock adjusts to MLB life with the Colorado Rockies

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, September 6, 2024 For the last three seasons, Colorado Rockies fans have been clamoring for the team to do two things: Be active in acquiring players and letting the kids play. This year, the Rockies have definitely been promoting prospects. (Whether they receive adequate playing time is a separate question.) So...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The regular season ends*
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Pittsburgh Pirates
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156
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• Game thread CXLIX - Royals at Pirates
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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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• Friday Rockpile: Bradley Blalock adjusts to MLB life with the Colorado Rockies
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs return home from a terrific trip with a disappointing 5-3 loss. Last night’s game was simultaneously totally predictable and a little shocking to me. After an 8-1 road trip, a letdown game was so completely foreseeable. I essentially wrote about it yesterday. It isn’t surprising and it isn’t per se the gambler’s paradox. A team isn’...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 134

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs win one of the wildest games I can remember, 14-10. What a wild ride that one was! The Cubs jumped on Pirates rookie sensation Paul Skenes and scored three runs over the first two innings. Maybe, at long last, a sweep was finally a possibility. Unfortunately the bad version of Kyle Hendricks showed up. The homer in the first was “Whatever.” Bu...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 29, 2024

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports There’s a game today? Imagine that. Despite yesterday’s loss, the Royals are pleased with how their series in Cleveland went: The Royals would have liked a sweep, but they’re leaving Cleveland just one game behind the Guardians for the American League Central lead with 29 games left. By briefly tying them atop the division with Tuesday’s win, the Royals clinched...2024
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Pittsburgh Pirates
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• Good Morning San Diego: Padres host White Sox in home finale

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Everything you need to know about MLB news and your San Diego Padres for Friday, September 20, 2024. San Diego Padres News Joe Starkey: I’d pick Paul Skenes, but Jackson Merrill has a great case for NL Rookie of the Year (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Cease a beast before Padres bop back-to-back-to-back HRs (MLB.com) Michael King, wife go extra mile to fight ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
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• Outside The Confines: In a club of one
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• Friday Rockpile: Bradley Blalock adjusts to MLB life with the Colorado Rockies
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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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• Wednesday Rockpile: What could the 2025 starting rotation look like?
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• BCB After Dark: Running back the bullpen
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• Cub Tracks’ meatloaf plus

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. A comeback for the ages and the Cubs head to DC after feasting on the Pirates’ pitching. Maybe they are real. They’re certainly spectacular! WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, gro...2024
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• Cubs 14, Pirates 10: The Christian Bethancourt game

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs backup catcher drove in seven runs to lead the team’s comeback win of the year, and a sweep of the Pirates. So let’s say you hadn’t watched this game, hadn’t heard anything about it, had a news blackout this afternoon. And then I told you that Kyle Hendricks would have the shortest and worst start of his career, that Paul Skenes was on the mound f...2024
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• Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews both promoted to Double-A less than two months after 2023 MLB Draft

The former LSU teammates are moving on up with the Pirates and Nationals, respectively...2023
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• Omaha dreams of moments like this, where Rhett Lowder and Paul Skenes could go head-to-head in MCWS
NCAA.com's Mike Lopresti previews the final game of the Wake Forest vs. LSU series with a spot in the 2023 Men's College World Series championship series on the line....2023
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• Get to know Pirates' No. 1 pick Paul Skenes
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• No. 1 MLB Draft pick Paul Skenes signs with Pirates for record bonus, per report

The former LSU star is getting a $9.2M signing bonus, the biggest in MLB history...2023
• How the Air Force fueled the rise of Paul Skenes
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• Pirates ink top pick Skenes to record $9.2M deal

The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft, to a record $9.2 million deal....2023
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• LSU's Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews become first teammates to go 1-2 in MLB draft history

The Pirates and Nationals both picked Tigers weeks after LSU's national title...2023
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• Cubs prospects make midseason Top 100 lists from Baseball America, MLB Pipeline

Pete Crow-Armstrong | Dylan Heuer Two major publications updated their top prospects lists this week. Two major publications, Baseball America and MLB Pipeline, both updated their Top 100 prospects lists to include recently-drafted players. And while the two lists are quite different, both lists include several Cubs prospects. Both organizations agree that Orioles shortstop Jackson Hollida...2023
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• NL ROY Race Stays Sizzlin' - September 17, 2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11

Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Now, we get to the top half of this year’s PuRPs list! Now we enter the top half of the mid-season 2024 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list. Previously we had PuRPs 30-26, 25-21, and 20-16. As a reminder, in this edition of the PuRPs poll, 35 ballots were cast, with 30 points granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. For each player on the PuRPs li...2024
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• Lewis Leads White Sox to 20th Straight Loss - Aug 5, 2024
Royce Lewis, 3B, MIN Lewis had another big day against the White Sox on Sunday, going 2-4 with a HR, 3 runs, and 3 RBI. His 3-run homer off Chris Flexen in the 2nd inning gave the Twins a 7-0 lead and all but ensured that the White Sox would be heading towards their 20th consecutive loss. Lewis continues to post absurd numbers on a per-game basis; in 9 games since returning from his most recent ...2024
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• Player Analysis - July 24th, 2024
Steven Kwan, OF, CLE Kwan went 2 for 3 with a solo homer on Tuesday night. The round-tripper was his 10th of the season which is already a career-high and is one shy of the 11 he hit during his first two big league seasons combined. Kwan's league-leading 8.3% K% and 7.0% Whiff% have translated to a robust .347 AVG and .401 OBP. These numbers are fantastic but not too surprising given Kwan's skill ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 8, 2024

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Four stars for the Royals! Anne Rogers talks to Bobby Witt Jr. about his first All-Star nod, which will take place in his home state of Texas. “I was going home no matter what, but now it just makes it more special,” Witt said. “I don’t really have a lot of words to describe it. It’ll be one of those moments that’s going to last a lif...2024
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• Riley Heats Up - June 18th, 2024
Austin RIley, 3B, ATL Riley stayed hot on Monday night, going 2 for 3 with a pair of doubles against the Tigers. Over the past four games, he is 8 for 13 with three homers, three doubles, and eight RBI. In his 229 PAs prior, Riley hit .220 with just three home runs, ten doubles, and 20 RBI. The 27-year-old has still been hitting the ball hard this season (48.8% Hard-Hit% and 91.7 avg exit velo) bu...2024
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• NL Week 8 Strategy-May 11, 2024
In The Field SS Nick Ahmed was placed on the 10-day IL with a left wrist sprain. The Giants called up SS Casey Schmitt in a corresponding move which means he is likely to fill in while Ahmed is out. SS Dansby Swanson (knee) was placed on the 10-day IL on Friday. He is eligible to return on May 18. DH Matt Carpenter joined the Cardinals on Saturday. He is likely to see some at-bats against right-...2024
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• Fantasy baseball: Weekend preview, Paul Skenes ready to debut
Our fantasy baseball experts take a quick peek ahead to the upcoming weekend of action to highlight....2024
• Preseason Prep - March 6, 2024
Edwin Diaz, RP (NYM) Diaz is right on track towards a successful return from the torn patellar tendon in his knee that forced him to miss the entire 2023 season. The electric closer was hitting the mid-to-high 90's with his fastball in a minor-league intrasquad scrimmage on Tuesday. The expectation is Diaz will appear in his first Grapefruit League game of the season next week. All signs point to ...2024
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• The Pirates starting pitching staff is in a good place
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• Pirates want to take training wheels off phenom Paul Skenes
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• Outside The Confines: The regular season ends*
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 156
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• Video Vault: MCWS showdown between Paul Skenes and Rhett Lowder lived up to all the hype
The 2023 pitching duel between LSU's Paul Skenes and Wake Forest's Rhett Lowder was one of the most anticipated matchups in Omaha's history. Let us look back at the game that somehow exceeded its lofty expectations in the 2023 MCWS semifinals....2024
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• Cubs 9, Athletics 2: The bats come alive...

David Banks-Imagn Images ... and Shōta Imanaga strikes out a whole bunch of A’s. In the end, the final 13 games of the Cubs’ 2024 season might not mean much. Any postseason hopes hang by a very thin thread. Nevertheless, it’s always nice to see the Cubs smash baseballs all around and out of Wrigley Field, especially with recent batting struggles at home. Monday night, an 18-hit attack led ...2024
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• NL ROY Race Stays Sizzlin' - September 17, 2024
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• Shohei Ohtani on verge of historic feat
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• Royals race past pathetic Pirates, 5-1
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• Game thread CXLIX - Royals at Pirates
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• Cubs 9, Athletics 2: The bats come alive...
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• Outside The Confines: A long-awaited debut for Kumar Rocker
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• Keepers From Rod

Well jeez I got distracted and meant to whip up this post last month, but yeah let's quickly bust out some incoming highlights. The big lot of cards from Rod last month helped me add many new cards to my PCs of active players, especially current and recent Padres.Six player stacks here, including 2024 Topps team set variations for all except Soto because of course he's not with San Diego any ...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Bradley Blalock adjusts to MLB life with the Colorado Rockies
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 138
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• Braves set to start huge roadtrip in Minnesota against the Twins

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The Twins are right in the midst of a battle for the AL Central. The Braves are in the midst of a battle for an NL Wild Card spot. Both teams badly need this series win. It’s time for the Atlanta Braves to visit The Land of 10,000 Lakes for the first time since 2019, as they’re set to start up a three-game series with the Minnesota Twins starting tonight...2024
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• Something new, something blue

Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK The Royals are hot Under the category of “you learn something new every day,” this summer I spent a few days in Milwaukee. Having never stayed in Milwaukee before, I spent some time walking around the downtown area, sampling the local cuisine and beverages and came across this sign. Wow, how many of you knew that the American Le...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Lost cause

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The White Sox keep losing. A Giant threw a no-hitter. A look down the stretch and other baseball news. Good morning. The White Sox catch a break this week in that they have three games coming up against the Athletics in Oakland. The A’s are the second-worst team in the American League. They’re still 19½ games better than the South Siders. The Chicago ...2024
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• Three storylines to watch for the second half of MLB season

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images The MLB All-Star break is over and now it's time for the contenders to start separating themselves from the pretenders. Now that we’ve gotten the American League’s annual paddling of the National League in the All-Star Game out of the way, it’s time to focus on the business end of the regular season. While we’re not quite in the money rounds of the seaso...2024
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• Paul Skenes is living up to the hype as MLB’s scariest new pitcher

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Paul Skenes was dominant again against the St. Louis Cardinals, and the opposing fans showed him some love On Tuesday night Paul Skenes took the bump for a start on the road against the St. Louis Cardinals, amidst your standard pre-game buzz. When he left in the bottom of the seventh inning in a scoreless tie, he did so to a s...2024
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