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• Get Your Relief Pitcher Transactions in Before It’s Too Late

The Ian Anderson-for-José Suarez trade is the baseball equivalent of going to lunch at a diner and trading your pickle for your friend’s coleslaw....2025
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• San Diego Padres minor league preview

Boston Bateman aka Sasquatch | Photo by Marison Bilagody/MLB Photos via Getty Images El Paso Chihuahuas get going on Friday The Padres major league season is around the corner. Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr. and their teammates play the first of 162 this Thursday. The following day the El Paso Chihuahuas, the Padres Triple-A affiliate, begin their season versus the Salt Lake Bees (Angel...2025
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• Milwaukee Brewers 2025 preview by position: Relief Pitching

Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images With Devin Williams gone, how does Milwaukee’s bullpen shake out? Looking back at our relief pitcher preview from 2024, the Brewers’ bullpen has a new look. Trevor Megill is expected to take over as the closer, with Joel Payamps likely to set him up. Beyond that, returning arms include Jared Koenig, Bryan Hudso...2025
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• Milwaukee Brewers 2025 regular season award predictions

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Brewers are set to begin their 56th season in franchise history this Thursday against the Yankees Our contributors at Brew Crew Ball are excited to get the 2025 season underway after an offseason that resulted in a new-look team, including the loss of Willy Adames and Devin Williams and the addition of Nestor Cortes and José Quintana, among other moves. Here a...2025
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• Game Thread: D-Backs at White Sox

Relief pitcher Brandon Eisert will start this afternoon for the South Siders. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Last Spring Training Sunday! Happy Sunday! Just two games left until the team heads home for Opening Day! The Arizona Diamondbacks will face off against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch this afternoon in Glendale. The D-Backs will have a split squad against our full squad,...2025
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• Manny Machado home run lifts Padres over Reds

Manny Machado | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Dylan Cease dominant in final spring outing San Diego Padres relief pitcher Juan Nunez induced a bases loaded ground ball to shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who flipped to second baseman Jake Cronenworth. Cronenworth then threw to Luis Arraez at first base to complete a difficult double play to end the top of the seventh inning, keeping the game tied, 0...2025
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• Game Thread: D-Backs at White Sox
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• Padres need surprises in 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Who will be breaking out this season? At Padres FanFest on February 1, General Manager A.J. Preller participated in a leadership Q&A with Mike Shildt and Erik Greupner. During the discussion, he acknowledged the team would need a “couple” of surprises for the 2025 season to round out the roster. Hampered by some big contracts and a limited payroll, Preller ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox vs. Brewers

Relief pitcher Jordan Leasure takes the mound for a start today. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images A Midwest duel takes place today Two teams from the Midwest face off today as we approach the final two weeks of Spring Training. Yes, in just 14 days, we’ll watch the White Sox lose games that count. Reliever Jordan Leasure takes the mound for the 5-12 White Sox this afternoon. Leasure has pitch...2025
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• An updated look at the Brewers’ pitching staff after the Jose Quintana signing

Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images How does the veteran lefty shake up the staff? The Brewers made their biggest free agent acquisition of the offseason on Monday, when they signed veteran lefty Jose Quintana to a one-year deal. Quintana isn’t the player he used to be, but he’s still a solid innings eater, and he’s likely assured a spot in Milwa...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 28

As pictured here during the 1924 World Tour and at the time White Sox captain about to embark on a career (4.0 WAR) year, Bibb Falk (far left) would be traded to Cleveland in a giveaway deal five years later. | Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Cleveland hoodwinks the South Siders for Bibb 1929 The White Sox traded star left fielder Bibb Falk to Cleveland for catcher...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Five things we know (so far) from Colorado Rockies spring training

Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Let’s start with a caveat: Spring training games mean nothing. Still, it’s great to have baseball back and ponder the possibilities. I spent the last 10 days going through video clips the Colorado Rockies sent out every day. In those notes, I’ve tried not to editorialize: ...2025
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• Changes, Tampa Bay Rays
The Rays acquired the following players for their 2025 active roster: Danny Jansen, catcher Eloy Jimenez, outfielder Alex Faedo, relief pitcher Mike Vasil, relief pitcher In addition, Tampa Bay also signed the injured Ha-Seong Kim as a free agent. He is recovering from labrum surgery on his throwing shoulder. The Rays cautiously have been projecting late […]...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bobby Shantz

He was a lefty with the heart of a lion. My father used to regale me with stories about old baseball players and teams. I suppose that’s the reason I’m more interested in the old times than the modern game. Dad was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, so I heard a lot of stories about “Dem Bums” growing up, but he also had an appreciation for any player with talent. He admired stars like Stan Musial and Willie...2025
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• Imagine being proud of beating the 2024 White Sox

Beautiful bastard Grady Sizemore is the new face of a (hopefully) new White Sox team. In a not-so-classic Crosstown, the South Siders still maintain a superior record overall against the Cubs Welcome to the second Crosstown Classic of the 2024 season, Chicago. You’ll find your respective sections of postgame coverage below, divided into sections for South Sider or North Sider. White Sox F...2024
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• KC swept away by Atlanta and Albies, 5-4
William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports Is Barlow done as an effective reliever? I’m in Atlanta on vacation and so I was required to watch the away broadcast for today’s game. Fortunately there was a familiar voice; former relief pitcher Peter Moylan is the color man on Atlanta’s broadcast and he was quite entertaining. In the top of the ninth immediately after Scott Barlow entered the game and g...2023
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• Yankees place Aroldis Chapman on IL due to leg tattoo infection
The New York Yankees placed relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman on the 15-day injured list Saturday evening after a recent tattoo...2022
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• 1 Year Later, Pro Baseball's 1st Openly Gay Player Still Leads by Example
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"Yankees Move Clayton Beeter To Relief Pitching"

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"A.J. Minter takes his place among the best Atlanta Braves relievers"

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"Royals defeat the best team in baseball in wild 6-5 comeback victory"

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"Jordan Romano wins Tip O'Neill Award as top Canadian baseball player for 2022"

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"How Red Sox stole Garrett Whitlock when Yankees ‘risk’ backfired"

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"Klay Thompson fireballs Giants pitcher who chose not to kneel during anthem"

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"Sizing up the relief pitcher market so far -- and where it could go from here"

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"Source: LHP Watson reaches deal with Giants"

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"Steelers name rookie T.J. Watt as the starter over James Harrison"

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"Freeman stays hot with HR, Freiman follows suit"

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"Cubs Clinch 2015 Playoff Berth: Highlights, Twitter Reaction to Celebration"

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"San Francisco Giants Celebrate After Winning 2014 World Series"

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• Milwaukee Brewers 2025 regular season award predictions
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• Manny Machado home run lifts Padres over Reds
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• Padres need surprises in 2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 20

With key support of manager Ozzie Guillén (left), Sergio Santos became a key component of the White Sox bullpen. On this day 16 years ago, before his transformation from hitter to pitcher began, the White Sox traded Santos to the Giants to give him one last shot to make it as a shortstop. | Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Sergio Santos gets one last sho...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox vs. Brewers
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• An updated look at the Brewers’ pitching staff after the Jose Quintana signing
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• Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitcher Sleepers for 2025
Five relievers to target in 2025 fantasy baseball drafts The post Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitcher Sleepers for 2025 appeared first on Pitcher List....2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 28
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• Milwaukee Brewers 2025 regular season award predictions
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• Padres need surprises in 2025
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• An updated look at the Brewers’ pitching staff after the Jose Quintana signing
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 11 through 15

Cole Mathis | Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times / USA TODAY NETWORK Our overview of Cubs prospects continues with a catcher, two shortstops, a third baseman and a right-handed starter. It’s day three of our countdown of the top prospects of the Cubs system for 2025. Today we look at prospects 11 through 15. To be eligible for this list, you have to have fewer than 130 major league plate appeara...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 26

On this day two years ago, we said goodbye to White Sox ace Gary Peters. | Topps Saying goodbye to a South Side southpaw great 1983 The White Sox and GM Roland Hemond outfoxed the Cubs by hinting through the media that they might select pitcher Fergie Jenkins after the Cubs left him unprotected in the free agent draft. Jenkins, the future Hall-of-Famer, was getting close to the magical 300...2025
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• Ichiro, Sabathia, Wagner inducted to Baseball Hall of Fame

Photo credit should read JOHN MABANGLO/AFP via Getty Images An all-time international baseball icon will get his day in the Cooperstown sun this July, alongside pitchers CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. Few Americans knew what to expect of Ichiro Suzuki when he first came to the United States in 2001. He had been an otherworldly hitter in Japan, tearing up the NPB with a .353/.421/.522 triple...2025
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• The right man, for the right franchise

Focus on Sport/Getty Images Jeff Torborg treated everyone he met well, made many friends and raised a great family. He will be greatly missed He was the right man, at the right time for the right franchise. Jeff Torborg, former major league catcher and former White Sox manager, passed away on Sunday, at the age of 83. He was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease the last several years, ...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15

Happy Birthday, Matt Duffy | Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to Matt Duffy* and others, and stories of baseball deeds and misdeeds. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colo...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2025

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images We are 2% through 2025 already. Kansas City Royals top prospect Jac Caglianone joined Baseball America’s Hot Sheet Show to start off the week. Eno Sarris of The Athletic ($) labels Kansas City’s outfield as the team’s clear problem ahead of spring training. The outfield is generally a sore spot in Kansas City, as the Royals show up twice on our list. Last y...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 6

Lefty sidewinder Tim Fortugno was claimed on waivers on this day, 30 years ago. A lefty sidewinder is added to the ill-fated 1995 club 1920 White Sox hurling hero Early Wynn was born, in Hartford, Ala. Wynn was a slow starter, making his debut in 1939 with the Washington Senators but really only finding his footing as a pitching star after World War II, primarily with Cleveland. For the 19...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: March 1

On this day 124 years ago, Clark Griffith (seated next to Charles Comiskey, top hat) jumped crosstown to the White Sox. Under Griffith’s guidance as player-manager 1901 White Sox club won the first MLB AL pennant. A massive crosstown heist helps ensure a pennant 1901 In a monumental move as the White Sox entered the major leagues for the first time, the club snatched pitcher Clark Griffith...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Five things we know (so far) from Colorado Rockies spring training
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• Braves News: Drake Baldwin, bullpen, spring training invites, more

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday It was a good day for Drake Baldwin, as he got a spring training invite and landed on ESPN’s top 100 prospects list. It does appear that he will start the season at AAA, especially after The Athletic’s David O’Brien reported that Sean Murphy is expected to start roughly 80% of the Braves’ games this season, which ...2025
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• Remembering the career of Bobby Shantz
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• Ichiro, Sabathia, Wagner inducted to Baseball Hall of Fame
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• The right man, for the right franchise
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 15
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• Today in White Sox History: January 14

On this day 28 years ago, Doug Drabek returned to the team he should never have left. Doug Drabek returns ... 13 years too late 1960 Chuck Comiskey makes it public that White Sox owner Bill Veeck (in poor health and needing to sell the club) has turned down his offer to purchase the team. Comiskey’s backers include Chicago businessman William Bartholomay and entertainer Danny Thomas. Veeck...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: January 10

Ed Walsh’s route to the Hall of Fame was perplexingly arduous. | Baseball Hall of Fame Ed Walsh is again denied entry to the Hall — and not for the last time 1945 Despite not even holding a Hall of Fame vote in 1943 or 1944, the BBWAA fails to elect a single player, despite several worthy candidates that include legendary White Sox hurler Ed Walsh. Walsh’s 66.5 WAR career (at the time, if ...2025
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• San Francisco Giants Celebrate After Winning 2014 World Series
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• Giants re-sign reliever Romo to 2-year deal
The Giants have re-signed right-handed relief pitcher Sergio Romo to a two-year contract, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced Monday. Per club policy, financial terms were not disclosed....2014
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• Giants re-sign reliever Romo to 2-year deal
The Giants have re-signed right-handed relief pitcher Sergio Romo to a two-year contract, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced Monday. Per club policy, financial terms were not disclosed....2014
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• Cubs Clinch 2015 Playoff Berth: Highlights, Twitter Reaction to Celebration
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• Steelers name rookie T.J. Watt as the starter over James Harrison
J.J. Watt's little brother will start immediately while Harrison slides into a relief pitcher role...2017
• Freeman stays hot with HR, Freiman follows suit
The Astros erupted for five runs in the fourth inning against relief pitcher Chris Volstad, including a two-run double by Jose Altuve, and cruised to a 9-5 win over the Braves on Wednesday afternoon at Osceola County Stadium....2016
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• Bryce Harper Nearly Completes Cycle, Teammate 'Burns' Hand Touching His Jersey
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• Herrera stays hot with RBI triple vs. Astros
Dilson Herrera had an RBI triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Michael Conforto against Astros relief pitcher Ken Giles in the fifth inning to push the Mets to a 3-1 win on Saturday afternoon at Osceola County Stadium....2016
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• Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitcher Sleepers for 2025
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• 1 Year Later, Pro Baseball's 1st Openly Gay Player Still Leads by Example
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• San Diego Padres minor league preview
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• Milwaukee Brewers 2025 preview by position: Relief Pitching
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• Game Thread: D-Backs at White Sox
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• Reds send left-handed reliever Alex Young to minor league camp
Left-handed relief pitcher Alex Young has been re-assigned to minor league spring training by the Cincinnati Reds. The post Reds send left-handed reliever Alex Young to minor league camp appeared first on Redleg Nation....2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox vs. Brewers
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• Spring Training Game Thread #19: Milwaukee Brewers (8-9) @ Chicago White Sox (5-12)

Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Jared Koenig gets the start for the Cactus Crew as they hope to collect their third straight win The Brewers take on the Chicago White Sox this afternoon with Opening Day just two weeks away. The visiting Brewers will send Jared Koenig to the mound first. The lefty makes his fourth appearance of the exhibition...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: Gavin Hollowell

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Gavin is tall and has “elite extension.” Makes him sound like Reed Richards. He will start the year in Triple-A, one presumes. Gavin Hollowell has the body and repertoire of a late-innings relief pitcher. He stands 6 foot 7 on the hill and has the FB/Cutter/Sinker/Slider/Change combination of a one-time starter. He hasn’t thrown the change in two years ...2025
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• Dick Allen is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame!

It’s too late for him to enjoy, but Dick Allen finally gets his due. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Our all-time great slugger finally gets his due Almost four years ago to the day, we lost Dick Allen. Ironically, his death came on the eve of yet another Hall of Fame vote that saw him fall short. Today, FINALLY, the Hall of Fame has righted and long-wrong by electing the timeless slugger to the...2024
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• Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia lead list of 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame hopefuls

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Ichiro Suzuki leads a long list of Hall of Fame hopefuls On Monday, the ballot for the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame voting was released. (We already covered the Classic Era ballot–formerly referred to as the Veterans Committee ballot–here.) There’s one obvious choice and a few others who have a shot at getting voted in this year, plus a handful of interes...2024
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• Previewing the relief pitcher market for the Atlanta Braves

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

Photo by Aaron Gash/MLB Photos via Getty Images Examining the different paths the Braves could take to upgrade at SS this winter. The Atlanta Braves offseason began earlier than they wanted, and now it’s Alex Anthopoulos’s job to go out and improve the team for 2025. There are four positions they can feasibly address this winter: shortstop, starting pitcher, left field, and relief pitcher....2024
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• A.J. Minter heads to salary arbitration

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images On the heels of an arbitration hearing to decide his 2024 salary, could this be A.J. Minter’s final season in Atlanta? This Friday, teams and arbitration-eligible players without a signed contract for the 2024 season will exchange salary arbitration figures. The Atlanta Braves have whittled their long list of arbitration-eligible players without a locked...2024
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• It has been a busy and effective offseason for the Braves despite what some might want you to believe

It has not been a decaffeinated offseason, thus far, for Alex Anthopoulos and his staff. | Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images It has been an active last six week for Alex Anthopoulos and staff as the Braves tweak their roster for the 2024 season. Since the disappointing end of the 2023 postseason, Alex Anthopoulos and his staff have been working at a frenetic pace churning t...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, July 31
Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Happy birthday to Leon Durham, Mike Bielecki, and others, plus a plethora of good stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s co...2023
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• Angels 6, Cubs 2: Déjà vu
Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports We have definitely seen this before, and we didn’t like the ending. The summary of The Typical 2023 Chicago Cubs Game: The Cubs run out to an early lead with some timely hitting. The Cubs starting pitcher throws pretty well into the fifth or even sixth inning. There are opposing runners on base when David Ross comes out to replace said starting pitcher. ...2023
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