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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Cubs bounce back with an offensive explosion and win 16-0. This game almost became as silly to write about in the good direction as the previous two games did in the wrong direction. The subtle difference here is that this one was a 2-0 game through six innings. The final score is not indicative of how much of a nail-biter as this one was for tho...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming

Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening. The Cubs and Dodgers looked like they would be locked in a classic pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of this game. Ben Brown and Roki Sasaki were both dealing, and both teams flashe...2025
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• Best Batter Today
Kyle Tucker of the Cubs moves back into the top five of the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings with a two for four and a walk in a 16-0 win over the Dodgers. Fifteen of those runs came against the bullpen in the last four innings after Roki Sasaki allowed one run over first five innings. […]...2025
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• Chicago Cubs Score and Recap (4/12/25): Cubs 16, Dodgers 0 – Cubs Put Up Blockbuster Performance in Hollywood
The Cubs came into Saturday night’s game hoping to respond to a series-opening loss to the Dodgers Friday at Chavez Ravine. Chicago exploded for double-digit runs in the late innings to win huge. Michael Busch got the scoring going when he had an opposite-field solo home run against highly-touted rookie Roki Sasaki in the 2nd … The post Chicago Cubs Score and Recap (4/12/25): Cubs 16, ...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: At least Miguel Rojas did some funny impressions while pitching
Every Roki Sasaki start seems to be an event in terms of scrutiny and today will be no different as the results were good but the process to getting there was shaky. But don’t let that distract from the main problem of the offense not getting going yet again, while Ben Casparius melted down and …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki Reaches New Career-High in Start vs. Cubs

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki threw a career-high five innings against the Chicago Cubs in his fourth Major League start Saturday night. More news: Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Wants to Win the Cy Young Award This Season Sasaki allowed four hits, one earned run, and two walks. During his 81-pitch outing, the right-hander threw three …...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 7, 2025

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Kris is Bubalicious. Bobby Witt Jr. fell a home run short of the cycle on Sunday. The elusive cycle remains at large for the time being. “In some ways, it’s luck,” Witt said. “But in some ways, you just let the game happen.” Anne Rogers writes about Kris Bubic’s dominant start on Sunday. Bubic has always had a good changeup, but it has way more depth to it now t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 4, 2025

Currently, does Jonathan India have the best mane on the team? | Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Time to get back to winning At The Star, Jaylon Thompson collected quotes from around the league concerning how teams feel about the Royals: “I think they understood the work that it took,” Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington said. “They are not going to let up on that side, with the ...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2304: You Say Suspension, I Say Extension

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about several oddities of the early season, including pitcher Ryne Nelson’s single and a drone encounter with an A’s bat boy, then discuss Jurickson Profar’s PED suspension, Garrett Crochet’s extension, and Jonathan Lucroy‘s reaction to Roki Sasaki’s apparent post-start tears, before bantering about whether full ABS would enco...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row staff offers their season predictions

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How many games will the Rockies win in 2025? Who will take home hardware around baseball? It’s that time of year again...Purple Row staff predictions! The Rockies start their 162-game quest tonight in sunny Tampa, FL at Tropicana George M. Steinbrenner Field as they take on the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing their season in the sp...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• Predicting which White Sox prospect will debut first

Chase Meidroth has been getting some significant playing opportunities throughout this Cactus League season. | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images An under-the-radar scrapper seems to have an open road to breaking camp to Chicago next week Prospect hype continues to dwindle, as the Chicago White Sox are one week away from Opening Day and roster cuts are well underway. Although the Sox have MLB’s si...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 20, 2025
Shohei Ohtani, DH (LAD) Ohtani's path to back-to-back 50/50 seasons began on Wednesday in Japan when the Dodgers' superstar blasted his first home run of the regular season, a towering fly off a 99-mph fastball that was initially ruled fan interference but later overruled via replay review. Ohtani finished the 2-game Tokyo series with three hits, including two extra-base hits, and two walks in 10 ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 2

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The Cubs were swept by the Dodgers in Tokyo. An early season heavy sigh. Probably not going to be the last one before May either. If you paid attention this offseason, you are probably aware that the Cubs schedule is incredibly front loaded. At least if last season is predictive of this season. On paper, the Cubs have a harder March/April schedule than an...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Tokyo story

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The Dodgers take Japan, but Mookie Betts isn’t feeling so good. Some season previews. Everyone is looking for healthy pitching. And other MLB news. Good morning. I’m now convinced the Hanshin Tigers are the best team in baseball. The big news that came out of Tokyo last night is that Dodgers star Mookie Betts will miss both games against the Cubs with a...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 26, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images The best slugger in Northwest Arkansas Naturals history is back in Kansas City. MLB.com’s Anne Rogers and David Adler look at some of the intense work from Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. this spring at getting better on the basepaths. They’re incorporating audio components along with the visual technology on when to react, as well as ways to o...2025
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• Rockies 14, White Sox 3: Early spring blues

Dominic Fletcher notches his first bomb of the year. | Emilee Chinn/Getty Images Colorado stomps Chicago pitching for yet another L It’s preseason, but the White Sox are picking right up where they left off. With a 14-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies, Chicago is still on the hunt for their first Cactus League victory. Davis Martin, Fraser Ellard, and Garrett Schoenle were the few bright s...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Free the hair!

Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images The Yankees’ most old-fashioned policy has ended Start spreading the news! The Yankees are changing one of their silliest and longest-standing rules about player grooming: they will now allow players to have “well-groomed” beards. On the face it it (pun very much intended) this is not massive news, but considering how set in their ways the Yankees have b...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Can Nate Pearson start?

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Nate Pearson should be given a chance to start. It’s a new year here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and warm up. There’s no cover charge this evening. We can take your coat for you. The hostess will lead you to a tab...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 15, 2023

Do not do this! | Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images Our final Asian Baseball Wrap: NPB Busy week, huh? First, Will Smith comes back. Then the Royals splash some cash at Seth Lugo. To make room, they traded Taylor Clarke to the Brewers and get some minor leaguers back in return. They also signed Chris Stratton (and have not yet made a corresponding move). I don’t think we’ve...2023
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"Are the Dodgers ruining baseball? Inside the Roki Sasaki signing -- and a spending spree that has rocked MLB"

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"Roki Sasaki, the Japanese right-hander considered one of the most talented pitchers in the world, will be posted to the MLB, the Chiba Lotte Marines announced Saturday."

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"Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki brought two bags full of candy and signed a baseball for William Escala as an apology for hitting the Czech Republic outfielder with a 101 mph pitch."

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"Roki Sasaki struck out 19 batters during a perfect game, making his showing arguably the greatest pitching performance in Japanese baseball history."

• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images What do you all think will happen during the 2025 MLB season? It’s Opening Day! Rockies baseball is back! Earlier today, we shared our Purple Row staff predictions, and for the second-straight year, we asked the community to offer their same predictions! We received 35 responses, up from 28 in 2024, and here’s what y...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Further thoughts on the MLB Tokyo Series, the Cubs, the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani

Al Yellon The Cubs participated in the games, but they still have a long way to go in Japan. TOKYO — The window display you see above is in a random store in the Shibuya District in Tokyo. The Shibuya Crossing is one of the most famous spots in Tokyo; I wrote a bit about it the other day. But it’s not just in random stores in Shibuya where you see images of Shohei Ohtani. It’s literally e...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 2
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• Dodgers Add Roki Sasaki To 40-Man Roster
The Dodgers have finalized their roster in advance of their Opening Day tilt with the Cubs. Los Angeles officially added Roki Sasaki to their 40-man roster. They also selected the contract of veteran reliever Luis García, who had been in camp as a non-roster invitee. Brusdar Graterol and Michael Grove were placed on the 60-day injured…...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: At least Miguel Rojas did some funny impressions while pitching
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images The offense was stifled in Los Angeles, as the Cubs lose 3-0. This is a frustrating one to write. That cover photo should be Matthew Boyd. Coming off of two strong starts against quality opponents, in his third start he drew the defending World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. And that’s not any ordinary defending champion, that team is a poor man’s All-Star team...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night
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• Nationals News: Dylan Crews is starting to figure it out

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images After a very slow start, Dylan Crews is beginning to show signs of life at the plate One of the biggest stories of the Nationals first week was Dylan Crews’ very slow start. The former number two overall pick looked lost at the plate. He hit rock bottom when he struck out in eight straight at bats. The numbers are still not pretty, but Crews is beginning to make...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: Another All-Star to Injured List, LA Linked to Blockbuster Trade, Dave Roberts Talks Andy Pages Struggles

The Los Angeles Dodgers added another pitcher to the injured list bringing their total to 12, and it’s only the first week of April. Two-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell will be forced to miss his next couple starts as a result. In other pitching news, Roki Sasaki revealed what changes led to his …...2025
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• MLB Opening Day 2025: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Compares Latin, Japanese Baseball Fans Following Tokyo Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers returned to the city after making their season debut overseas. The Dodgers’ trip to Japan was full of memorable moments, including the team’s historic Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs. More news: Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Believes Yoshinobu Yamamoto Could Win Cy Young This Year Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki …...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Tokyo story
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• Roki Sasaki Makes Massive Announcement Following Dodgers First Cactus League Game

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Roki Sasaki announced he has gotten married via Instagram. Sasaki posted a picture of two Dodger hats with the caption: “Thank you for your continued support. The other day I entered into the family with a common woman. A fresh start in public and private sector and I’m full of …...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 20, 2025

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Ignore yesterday’s headline that had the wrong date! Daniel Lynch IV is entering camp with a new perspective, having welcomed a child into the world last month: There are quite a few parallels there to becoming a first-time dad, as Lynch realized mid-conversation. “You find yourself thinking of yourself a lot less,” Lynch said. “Which I th...2025
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• Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, 20, throws 19-strikeout perfect game

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• Are the Dodgers ruining baseball? Inside the Roki Sasaki signing -- and a spending spree that has rocked MLB
L.A.'s run of star additions has angered opposing fan bases and sounded alarms across the sport. But is the team or the system to blame?...2025
• Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki throws 19-K perfect game in NPB

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• Roki Sasaki To Sign With Dodgers
Japanse right-hander Roki Sasaki has announced on Instagram that he is signing with the Dodgers. Hat tip to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. Since Sasaki is subject to the international bonus pool system, it will technically be a minor league deal, but he is sure to be on the club’s Opening Day roster as long…...2025
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• Teoscar Hernández ‘Praying to God’ Dodgers Bring Kiké Hernández Back in Free Agency

The Los Angeles Dodgers have had an A-plus offseason. They’ve added two starting pitchers in Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki, the best reliever on the market in Tanner Scott, and brought back outfielder Teoscar Hernández and right-handed pitcher Blake Treinen. They’ve also added potential breakouts in outfielder Michael Conforto and infielder Hyeseong Kim. Read more: …...2025
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• Japanese star Roki Sasaki says he's joining Dodgers
Roki Sasaki, the prized Japanese pitching prospect who has had scouts drooling over his potential since high school, has chosen the Los Angeles Dodgers as his major league team, he announced on Instagram on Friday....2025
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• Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers: Japanese ace agrees to deal with World Series champs

The 23-year-old pitcher has been making international headlines since he was a teenager...2025
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• Sasaki, 20, tosses 19-K perfect game in Japan

Pitching phenom Roki Sasaki had 19 strikeouts while throwing a perfect game in a record-setting performance Sunday in Japan's top professional league....2022

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• Preseason Prep - March 20, 2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 12, 2025
Roki Sasaki SP LAD Sasaki will make his MLB debut March 19 against the Cubs in the second game of the Tokyo Series, Kirsten Watson of Spectrum SportsNet LA reports. His splitter has caught the eye of hitters, though not their bats. Turns out he's got just 518 rpm on the splitter; the lowest rpm on a splitter of 2024 was 577 rpm. Slow is good when it comes to RPM on a splitter, but his 96.3 mph on ...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 7, 2025
Roki Sasaki, SP, Dodgers Roki Sasaki signed with the Dodgers out of Japan this offseason, and he's ready to make his mark in the major leagues. He is only 23 years old but has been a superstar in Japan for several years. His most notable achievement was throwing a perfect game in 2022. He did deal with some injuries and regression in 2024, but he posted his career worst ERA of just 2.35, which sho...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
Fantasy Relevance for the Dodgers deeper rotation options? Baseball fans know that the Dodgers loaded up on starting pitching in the offseason adding 2-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, Phenom Roki Sasaki and re-signing the legendary Clayton Kershaw. With Shohei Ohtani expected to take the mound this year and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow returning it's an electric top 5. That being ...2025
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers preview, Saturday 4/12, 8:10 CT

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs look to even up their series at Dodger Stadium. Saturday notes... SECOND THINGS SECOND: The Cubs’ loss last night dropped their record to 54-66 in all first games of series against the Dodgers at Los Angeles, and to 16-20 in first games after arriving from Chicago. In all second games at L.A., the Cubs are just 43-75. But they are 28-36 afte...2025
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• Dodgers Lineup vs Cubs: Will Smith Out, Max Muncy Returns as Roki Sasaki Seeks Revenge Against Cubs

The Los Angeles Dodgers look to remain undefeated at Dodger Stadium this season with another win over the Chicago Cubs Saturday night. Right-hander Roki Sasaki will be on the mound for the Dodgers. More news: Dodgers’ Alex Vesia Makes Incredibly Exciting Announcement Here’s what the Dodgers lineup looks like for Saturday’s matchup with Max Muncy …...2025
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• Dodgers vs. Cubs odds, prediction, props: Free 2025 MLB picks, April 12 best bets by proven model

SportsLine's proven model has simulated Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers and starting pitcher Roki Sasaki on Saturday 10,000 times...2025
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• Dave Roberts Says Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani in ‘Lock Step’ Over Slowed Pitching Progression

One of the many exciting events for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2025 is going to be the return of superstar Shohei Ohtani on the mound. While the defending champions added Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki this offseason, Ohtani would be one of multiple aces in the starting rotation for the Dodgers. More news: Landon …...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers series preview

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images Hello, old friend from Tokyo. Since these teams met in Tokyo, the Cubs are 9-4 and the Dodgers are ... 8-4. So which team is better? And the Cubs have, theoretically at least, faced better opponents (D-backs, Padres, Rangers) while the Dodgers have feasted on a Braves team in a tailspin. Fun fact: Shohei Ohtani still isn’t close to returning to pitching d...2025
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• Nationals News: Dylan Crews is starting to figure it out
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• Roki Sasaki Removed in 5th Inning After Much Improved Performance for Dodgers vs Phillies

There was doubt surrounding the abilities of Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki after he had two shaky performances in Tokyo and in his Dodger Stadium debut. But Sasaki silenced his critics Saturday against a red hot Philadelphia Phillies lineup. The right-hander retired 12 of 17 batters he faced after giving up back to back …...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16
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• Further thoughts on the MLB Tokyo Series, the Cubs, the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani
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• Dodgers 6, Cubs 3: Let’s have an overreaction party!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images As a Dodgers official I rode down in an elevator with after the game said, “It’s just two games.” TOKYO — You could look at it the way I noted below the headline. Or you could look at the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome, a sweep the Dodgers completed without two of their best players (Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman) and utterly panic as t...2025
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• Padres underwhelming offseason gives way to promise of a new year

Manager Mike Shildt (left), Fernando Tatis Jr. (middle), General Manager A.J. Preller (right). | Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images San Diego enters camp on a positive note The lack of activity by the San Diego Padres made for a long offseason. The majority of moves the team made came in the form of minor league contract signings, adding players like Oscar Gonzalez, Yonatha...2025
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• San Diego Padres FanFest 2025: What we learned

Don Orsillo, Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill and Mark Grant at Fanfest 2025 | Photo by Cheri Bell The sky is not falling The San Diego Padres held their 2025 FanFest celebration February 2nd with an improvement over the 2023 version. With the signing of Xander Bogaerts and the trade for Juan Soto, excitement was high in 2023 and Petco Park had ten of thousands of people clogging the concour...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 29, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Bobby Witt Jr. isn’t the video game cover boy? MLB.com’s Anne Rogers detailed how the rotation stands now. She writes as if five pitchers, including Kris Bubic, are competing for the final rotation spot. The Royals are confident in Bubic’s potential return to the rotation, even after seeing how much success he had in the bullpen last year when he returned from...2025
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• Outside the Confines: Winning the press conference

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images More on Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers. The Hall of Fame inductees met the media. Anthony Santander’s deal is not what it seems. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Jeff Passan has the story of why Roki Sasaki decided to sign with the Dodgers. Yes, in many ways it is obvious, but Passan has a bunch of details you may not be aware of. Jack Har...2025
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