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• MLB Pipeline’s updated list of the top 30 Brewers prospects

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Here’s what you need to know about every prospect that made the list MLB Pipeline recently released the updated version of their top 30 organizational rankings. Here’s a quick primer on each of the prospects who made the list: No. 1: SS/3B Jesus Made Made, an 18-year-old who the Brewers signed out of the Dominican Republic in January of 2024, is the best prospect t...2025
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• The two-seam fastball is the most undervalued pitch in baseball. And the Royals know it

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Even in an era where everyone wants to throw hard and get strikeouts, the two seamer is making its return For nearly every pitcher in baseball, establishing a quality fastball is one of the most essential steps for someone to find success. Fastball pitches (4-seam, 2-seam, sinker, cutter) make up just shy of 50% of all pitches thrown in the major league...2025
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• Brad Lord is a band-aid for the Washington Nationals pitching staff

Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images In his rookie season, Brad Lord has been the pitching version of a super utility man for the Washington Nationals Brad Lord is back in the starting rotation! In his rookie season, the former 18th round pick has been a bright spot in what has been a very disappointing pitching staff. He has been going back and forth between roles and excelling in all of them. A st...2025
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• Braves look to pull off an early series win with a bullpen game

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Davis Daniel is set to take the mound and help the Braves secure an early series win against the Giants. Series opener win, complete. What’s next this time? After a winning start in the Yankees series and promising leads to follow, the Atlanta Braves just couldn’t pull it together for a series win despite their offensive production spike. Maybe this series will be...2025
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• Milwaukee extends win streak to 11 with 6-0 victory in Seattle

Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images The Brewers are now 20 games over .500 and in sole possession of first place in the NL Central Brandon Woodruff went six two-hit innings and the offense provided ample run support as Milwaukee took the series opener in Seattle, 6-0. Through five innings, this game was a good old fashioned pitchers’ duel. Mariners starter George Kirby carried a no-hitter into the...2025
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• White Sox 7, Pirates 1: How SWEEP it is!

Mike Tauchman landed a ball in the Allegheny River in the first inning on Sunday. | Justin K. Aller/Getty Images South Siders secure first series sweep of the season What a series for the Chicago White Sox, as they swept the Pittsburgh Pirates this afternoon with a 7-1 win, their first series sweep of the season. Doing it on the road is impressive. Now, the Sox are the last team in basebal...2025
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• MLB Pipeline’s updated list of the top 30 Brewers prospects
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• What should the Washington Nationals target at the MLB trade deadline

Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images With the trade deadline approaching, the Washington Nationals need to target the right kinds of players in their trades The MLB Trade Deadline is less than two weeks away. While the Nationals will be sellers for a fifth straight deadline, this one will be different. It is the first deadline in nearly 20 years where Mike Rizzo is not part of the organization. Rizz...2025
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• Kris Bubic’s transformation into an All Star

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Kris Bubic has taken a bit of an unusual path, but it has ended with the Royals having a legit All Star pitcher Kris Bubic was selected as the 40th overall pick in 2018. He does not throw particularly hard, nor have his strikeout rates ever been eye popping. And yet, Bubic is at the All-Star Game, to be played tonight. I’m not sure very many people who were not...2025
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• Freddy Peralta named as Milwaukee’s lone All-Star

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images This is the second career All-Star selection for the veteran right-hander RHP Freddy Peralta will be the lone player representing the Brewers at the 2025 All-Star Game. Peralta, who’s been with Milwaukee since 2018, currently sports a 2.91 ERA (138 ERA+) with 9.5 K/9. He’s been the most dependable member of a rotation plagued by injuries during the early pa...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?

Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images The Rockies and White Sox get all the attention for tanking their seasons... Happy Wednesday, BCB readers! Lots of little goodies for you in today’s news. A three-time All-Star has announced his retirement, the O’s appear to have given up the ghost for the season, plenty of trade deadline chatter, and how Chris Sale’s latest injury might impact the Braves. Ple...2025
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• Gamethread: Diamondbacks at White Sox

Jordan Leasure is the opener for the White Sox on Tuesday and will be making his first career start. | Colton Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jordan Leasure will make his first career start as the opener for the South Siders after a brutal loss Monday The White Sox (25-54) return to the South Side Tuesday in an attempt to redeem themselves after getting walloped in a 10-run shutout loss t...2025
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• Braves News: Didier Fuentes debuts, Jurickson Profar rehabbing, and more

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. On Friday night, the Atlanta Braves sent out the youngest pitcher in Major League Baseball for his big league debut. Didier Fuentes, 20, got the start against the Miami Marlins. Unfortunately, things did not go in his favor and Miami won the contest 6-2. Didier Fuentes, Nasty 80mph Curveball. 1st MLB K pic.twi...2025
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• 2025 Brewers Minor League Roundup: Week 12

Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images Marco Dinges continues to impress, Jacob Misiorowski makes major league debut Triple-A Nashville (40-27) The Sounds went 2-3 this week against the Norfolk Tides. Nashville is now 13 games above .500 and half a game up in the International League West. Pitching prospect Jacob Misiorowski (Brewers’ No. 4) threw five no-hit innings in his major league debut. Miz...2025
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• Keibert Ruiz is not the Washington Nationals catcher of the future

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Keibert Ruiz’s performances the last couple of years have shown that he is not the guy behind the plate for the Nationals The Washington Nationals have a major problem behind the plate. Despite signing an 8-year contract extension in 2023, Keibert Ruiz has become a liability on both sides of the ball. Ruiz has become a tough watch and it is clear that this team jus...2025
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• Cub Tracks has no need to fear

Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. Cubs lost a close one as the Tigers hit the ball just a bit further than the Cubs did. A win today would assuage doubts? The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Weird to be the underdog, but there you go. The team with the second-best reco...2025
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• Cub Tracks is beautiful, and so are you

Javier Assad was part of the Torneo Apertura 2024 Liga MX at Caliente Stadium, November 1. | Photo by Francisco Vega/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Won’t you come out to play? 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, #...2024
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"com/hbZNPe4Mjn— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) July 7, 2025 Cameron’s only runs given up came off the bat of Tommy Pham via a two-run home run, one of three very nice contributions Pham made in a sort of “Tommy Pham revenge game” situation."

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"com/XUqufI3C8S— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 29, 2024 Strider allowed a one-out single to Bohm in the second, but added two more strikeouts to keep the game scoreless."

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"com/23NYPO02zc— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 18, 2023 However, after the second inning, Strider labored."

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"com/tp4okMYIqD— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) August 25, 2022 The Cubs tacked on two more in the eighth."

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• MLB Pipeline’s updated list of the top 30 Brewers prospects
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• The two-seam fastball is the most undervalued pitch in baseball. And the Royals know it
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• What should the Washington Nationals target at the MLB trade deadline
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• How Washington Nationals ace MacKenzie Gore became an All-Star

Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images In 2025, MacKenzie Gore went from a talented but inconsistent arm to an All-Star ace for the Washington Nationals Ever since MacKenzie Gore was the 2017 Gatorade National High School player of the year and put up some of the most insane stats you will ever see, evaluators knew he had the talent to become an ace. Gore went number three overall in the 2017 Draft an...2025
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• Braves select LHP Landon Beidelschies with 6th round pick in 2025 MLB Draft

Photo by Andy Altenburger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves finally dip into the college pitching ranks in round six With their 6th round pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, the Atlanta Braves selected LHP Landon Beidelschies from Arkansas. Beidelschies has reliever risk but give the Braves a live lefty college arm. Bio DOB: 03/28/2004Height: 6’3”Weight: 230 lbsBats/Throws: L/L Rankings...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?
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• Gamethread: Diamondbacks at White Sox
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• 2025 Brewers Minor League Roundup: Week 12
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• Keibert Ruiz is not the Washington Nationals catcher of the future
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• The two-seam fastball is the most undervalued pitch in baseball. And the Royals know it
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• How Washington Nationals ace MacKenzie Gore became an All-Star
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• Kris Bubic’s transformation into an All Star
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• Can the Braves clinch the Angels series with Elder on the mound?

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images After the array of news that seemed to dog-pile on the team over the past few days, a clutch win to end game two in the series, and a three-game losing streak at home was a definite must. The bottom of the sixth is when yesterday’s game took a turn in the right direction for the Atlanta Braves after a seven-run inning. Now, the...2025
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• 2025 Brewers Minor League Roundup: Week 12
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• Excellence is becoming the norm for Nationals ace MacKenzie Gore

Brad Penner-Imagn Images When MacKenzie Gore takes the ball these days, the Washington Nationals faithful expects good things to happen Despite the frustrating loss, MacKenzie Gore delivered yet another quality start where he showed off his dominant stuff. We have come to expect Gore to have lines like he did tonight, 6 innings, 2 runs, no walks and 6 strikeouts. This has become close to a...2025
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• Keibert Ruiz is not the Washington Nationals catcher of the future
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• Michael Soroka has the second highest ceiling in the Washington Nationals rotation

Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images Last night, Michael Soroka showed how dominant he can be. Besides MacKenzie Gore, he has the best stuff in the Nationals rotation On a few occasions, Michael Soroka has been so close to completing a wonderful start. However, each time he stumbled in the sixth inning, hurting his final line. Last night against the Texas Rangers was different though. Soroka found a...2025
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• Cub Tracks has no need to fear
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• Brad Lord is a band-aid for the Washington Nationals pitching staff
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• Game Thread #81: Milwaukee Brewers (44-36) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (32-49)

Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images Paul Skenes and Jacob Misiorowski face off with the series on the line Happy Skenes vs. Misiorowski Day! Today’s rubber match against the Pirates features two of the most exciting young pitchers in baseball. Most of you know how good Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes has been since making his debut. The second-year flamethrower is one of the best pitchers in the game. He...2025
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• Retribution for India may still be in the Cards

Before the contact. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Sangre por sangre. Literature and cinema are full of great tales of revenge. It’s one of the tentpoles of storytelling, one that meets the primal bases of most everyone alive, something to which each person can relate, regardless of whether they admit. Great revenge movies include Unforgiven, the John Wick franchise, Gone Girl, Cape Fear, ...2025
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• One Pitch, Three Runs, No Reward: Rays 1, Blue Jays 3

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images One swing erased five innings of brilliance from Pepiot in a painful loss. One strike away. That’s how close Ryan Pepiot was, not once but twice, to escaping the sixth inning unscathed on Wednesday night in Toronto. Instead, one 0-2 pitch turned a night of promise into another gut-punch loss for the Tampa Bay Rays. Alejandro Kirk, down to his final strike...2025
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• Peralta shines, offense does just enough in Brewers’ 4-0 victory over Cubs

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Big hits from unlikely sources get Brewers over the line Box Score After two ugly losses to their biggest rival, the Brewers turned to their ace, Freddy Peralta, to stop their three-game skid. Peralta responded with six fabulous innings, followed by three more good ones from the bullpen, and Milwaukee’s struggling offense did just enough — and capitalized on Ch...2025
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• Nick Pivetta throws gem, Padres pound Rockies

Nick Pivetta | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Fernando Tatis Jr. homers in return to lineup The San Diego Padres came to life at the plate in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Colorado Rockies. The Padres batted around in the six-run inning that knocked Rockies starting pitcher German Marquez out of the game. San Diego rode the momentum of the big inning to an 8-0 win at Pe...2025
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• White Sox 11, Red Sox 1: Chase Meidroth vs The World

We have entered the Chase Meidroth Era. All hail our new overlord! | Emilee Chinn/Getty Images Boston’s comedy of errors opens the door for a big Pale Hose win Happy Friday, friends! And welcome to the Chase Meidroth Era, White Sox fans! If you tuned into this battle of Sox, you were treated to a rare, fun baseball game for the South Siders. And let’s face it, fun games are will be a rarit...2025
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• Robert Suarez struggling in spring

Manager Mike Shildt takes the ball from Robert Suarez. | Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Padres closer has been roughed up in recent outings Results in Spring Training do not often hold up once the regular season begins. Hot hitters go cold. Dominant pitchers become pedestrian and players struggling seem to find success. Spring Training is all about players getting their work in and buil...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...2025
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• Braves fight back for 6-5 win over the Rangers
Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Braves claim series win over the Rangers with come from behind win In the rubber match of the series, and the final game of what has proven to be a difficult road trip, the Atlanta Braves sent their ace Spencer Strider to the bump. The Rangers also sent out their ace, in Nathan Eovaldi, who has stepped up in the absence of Jacob Degrom. In his last three s...2023
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• Braves bash Cubs in Max Fried’s return to the mound

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Fried tossed six scoreless innings while Atlanta launched three more homers. Max Fried made a triumphant return to the mound to help the Atlanta Braves to a big 8-0 win over the Chicago Cubs Friday at Wrigley Field. The Braves waited three months for the return of Max Fried and he got off to a good start with a perfect first inning. Fried’s first strike...2023
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• Spencer Strider deals as Braves beat Twins 4-1
Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Strider tossed seven scoreless innings and Atlanta’s offense came alive late. Spencer Strider turned in a strong performance and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit his 17th home run of the season to help the Atlanta Braves to a 4-1 win over the Minnesota Twins. Strider pitched out of some immediate trouble in the first. He allowed a leadoff single to Edouard Julien ...2023
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• Shohei Ohtani is doing things baseball hasn’t seen in 130 years
Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports It’s Shohei’s world, we’re just living in it I don’t know if you’ve heard, but that Shohei Ohtani guy is pretty good at this baseball thing. The Los Angeles Angels all world pitcher/DH is one of, if not the best player in baseball, and he’s hit a completely different level this season. Through Friday, Ohtani is tied for the MLB lead in home runs, while also ...2023
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• Cole Ragans, Bobby Witt Jr. lift Royals to 4-0 shutout win over Athletics

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Ragans is throwing fire! Cole Ragans pitched perhaps his best MLB game, tossing six shutout innings while Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run as the Royals shut the Athletics out 4-0 to salvage the series in Oakland. The Royals got on the board in the third inning off A’s starter Adrian Martinez when Dairon Blanco hit a solo home run, the...2023
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• Pitchers duel quickly turns into a slugfest as Braves avoid the sweep
Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Braves use late inning power to surge past D-Backs In a battle of aces, both Spencer Strider and Zac Gallen were at their best early. They were each doing what they do best, with Strider racking up countless swings and misses, while Gallen avoided the barrel as well as mixing in some whiffs of his own. Through five innings, both pitc...2023
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• Cubs 4, White Sox 3: Christopher Morel walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports ... and, my friends, this was the game of the year. So far, anyway. As baseball fans, each and every one of us lives for moments like we had at Wrigley Field Wednesday evening, a game in which our team seems headed for an inevitable, crushing defeat and then in a matter of just a few seconds, we are all sent into indescribable joy. Or, as a friend of mine...2023
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching efforts and timely hitting and defeated their arch-rivals. One day after the Cubs put together one of their biggest stinkers of 2023 in the doubleheader Game 2 loss to the Cardinals, they posted one of their best efforts of the season against the NL Central leaders. They got a solid effort in a spot start by Luke Farrell, shu...2022
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• What should the Washington Nationals target at the MLB trade deadline
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• 2025 Brewers Minor League Roundup: Week 12
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• I Knew Charlie Was Morton Just A Washed Up Ace
Chazz whiz, he looked good! Wait a second, did I just invent his new nickname? From Ground Chuck to Chazz Whiz: The Story of Charlie Morton as told to me by Statcast sliders. Yesterday, Charlie Morton went 7 IP, 2 ER, 3 baserunners (zero walks), 11 Ks, ERA at 4.84, and now we're talking II. Related to but not Travolta and Alley, and no relation to Michael Harris II. Morton did look legitimately be...2022
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• Hope You Didn’t Passover The Nestor Bunny
What transpired this preseason: Coolwhip reached out to me to see if I was going to write a Nestor Cortes sleeper, because he liked him and wanted to write one. I said, "Nah, I don't think I'm going to write one, but I like him too!" What Coolwhip didn't know, what no one could've known, I hadn't looked at Nestor Cortes at all. I said I liked him because Coolwhip said he liked him. Then I waited f...2022
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• Tanner Houck, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
I saw Tanner Houck had a slider that produced a .142 xBA and I gulped, then I went looking for some examples. Enjoy: Tanner Houck is a finalist for the PitchingNinja Filthiest Slider of the Year Award. ? pic.twitter.com/FlMOIsIVwI — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 16, 2021 When a hitter is swinging at a pitch that's either so far off the plate that the catcher can't get to it or if it hit...2022
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• Sean Manaea, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
Let's start here: Sean Manaea's 9Ks. ? pic.twitter.com/nQCTtvidNx — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 9, 2021 Not sure why it's so visually pleasing to watch a pitcher strikeout guys, but, mah gawd, I could watch that all day and twice on Muesday, the magical day that Narnia's itself between Monday and Tuesday. So, Sean Manaea, the real-life Girl Scout cookie--*intern whispers in ear*...n...2022
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• Hunter Greene, 2022 Fantasy Outlook
Unlike Riley Greene, Hunter Greene is an actual color. That color is not green, it's red. Not just red for the Reds, which is the team he will eventually play for in the majors, but the red is also for fire, which is what he brings with his speed ball that can touch 103 MPH. Okay, before we do anything else, we need to see that: Hunter Greene, Back-to-Back 103mph Fastballs. ?? pic.twitter.com/m9q...2021
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• Brad Lord is a band-aid for the Washington Nationals pitching staff
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• Braves look to pull off an early series win with a bullpen game
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• Milwaukee extends win streak to 11 with 6-0 victory in Seattle
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• White Sox 7, Pirates 1: How SWEEP it is!
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• What should the Washington Nationals target at the MLB trade deadline
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• How Washington Nationals ace MacKenzie Gore became an All-Star
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• Kris Bubic’s transformation into an All Star
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• Braves select LHP Landon Beidelschies with 6th round pick in 2025 MLB Draft
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• The Washington Nationals need to go big game hunting for a free agent starter

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images It is clear that the Washington Nationals need a top of the rotation arm to compliment MacKenzie Gore MacKenzie Gore has blossomed into the ace Nationals fans have always wanted him to be. He leads all of baseball in strikeouts and is learning to pitch through adversity. For more on Gore, MLB Network did a great breakdown on him after his start yesterday. However, ...2025
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• Rays 0, Red Sox 1: Bright Lights, Dim Bats

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images A sharp outing from Littell was wasted as the Rays' offense could not get it going against the Red Sox. Jake Mangum may have been mic’d up for the television broadcast, but the Tampa Bay Rays’ offense was muted. After scoring at least four runs in each of their last five games, they could only manage five hits in a 1-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox. The los...2025
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• Four-fifths of the word “booth” is “boot”

Solution to a certain announcer’s work. | pinterest.com But there’s no way the White Sox will boot the boob out of their booth For a while there, thanks to an easy opening homestand, the White Sox were in a tie for first in the AL Central (also tie for last, but we won’t mention that) because of some very good pitching, occasional long balls, and the division reverting to its historically ...2025
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• Pitching rotation candidates for Padres

Matt Waldron | Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images A look at five players who could win a job The current pitching rotation for San Diego consists of Yu Darvish, Dylan Cease and Michael King. The fourth and fifth spots in the rotation are vacant and need to be filled prior to Opening Day. The Padres have several options on their 40-man roster and each has potential to make an impact as a sta...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Spencer Strider

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The 2023 rotation star was one of the first big injury blows for the Braves in 2024. 2024 seemed poised to be a bit of a changing of the guard for the Atlanta Braves rotation —Spencer Strider earned the start on Opening Day, unseating Max Fried, who had held the title since 2021. With his 2023 campaign under his belt, the sky felt like th...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ going in style

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Hendricks Experience, one more time. A fitting farewell, if farewell it was. 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, steep...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Shōta time

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The Cubs are .500 after a fine pitching performance and a few unfortunate bounces. The bullpen was spotless. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground fr...2024
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