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• Opening Day Thread: Guardians vs. RoyalsA fan look out over the Waterworks Spectacular prior to the game between the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday, March 28, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/MLB Photos via Getty Images Let’s go Royals! After a long offseason wait, it’s finally time: Opening Day 2025. The Cleveland Guardians have traveled to play the Kansas City Roy...2025See also Minnesota Twins breaking news today
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2025 seasonBobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals walks to the on-deck circle | Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Time to figure out which of the RR writers has the juice! Last year, the Royals went to the playoffs for the first time in almost a decade. This year, they have an opportunity to advance past the Division Round for the first time in a decade. The offseason wasn’t nearly as busy...2025Visit the page Bobby Witt latest news
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• The best pictures from 2025 Spring Training photo dayJayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Say cheese! The regular season looms. Spring Training is coming to a close. And in just under the wire is our annual look at the best pictures from Royals Spring Training photo day, which we have run here at Royals Review for a decade. Yes, in years past, this post happened shortly after the pictures were originally snapped. This year, well, not so much. But ...2025See more Spring Training news and rumors
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• Royals Review 2025 NCAA March Madness Bracket ChallengeMar 14, 2025; Kansas City, MO, USA; Brigham Young Cougars center Fousseyni Traore (45) and Houston Cougars guard L.J. Cryer (4) go after a lose ball during the second half at T-Mobile Center. | William Purnell-Imagn Images Do you have what it takes? It’s that time of year: March Madness, baby. If you’re hankerin’ to enter in some brackets and earn some internet brownie points by winning a ...2025
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• Please welcome new writer Matt Chabot!Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Chabot is not a chatbot! We continue to add to our staff to prepare for the upcoming season! I’m proud to announce the addition of Matt Chabot. You may already be familiar with his work at Farm to Fountains. Hello everyone! My name is Matt Chabot and I am a new recap writer here for Royals Review. I grew up in Annapolis, Maryland an...2025Visit the page Keith Gillett Icon breaking news
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Mesa preview, Thursday 3/6, 7:05 CTRick Scuteri-Imagn Images It’s the Cubs’ only home night game of spring 2025. Thursday notes... LOTS AND LOTS OF RUNS: The Cubs have scored at least 10 runs in four of their 14 spring games. They reached double digits in 12 of 162 during the regular season last year. They have scored 101 runs in their 14 games. In the regular season, since 1901, the Cubs have scored at least 101 runs in ...2025Read about Rick Scuteri news today
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2025 season
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• MJ Melendez is at the biggest turning point in his careerMJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals hits a two run home run against the New York Yankees during the fourth inning in Game One of the Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 05, 2024 in New York City. | Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The clock is ticking From the moment a rookie steps onto a big league field for the first time, a clock starts ticking. That clock will eventually ...2025See also Kansas City Royals injury update
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• Can The Royals (Mostly) Run It Back?Denny Medley-Imagn Images The 2025 plan is very similar to the 2024. The success plan for the Kansas City Royals in 2024 was pretty simple. Have good starting pitchers every day, let Bobby, Salvy, and Vinnie power the offense, rebuild the bullpen, and hope everything else works out. The plan worked far better than any of us expected. The goal was not to be a laughingstock. By June, the goa...2025Continue with Denny Medley injuries
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• Royals Review holiday mailbagPhoto by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images You give the gift of questions about the Royals! December can be the most wonderful time of the year for baseball fans. Michael Wacha realized there’s no place like home for the holidays, and the Royals acquired Jonathan India as a present without a bow. But since then, baby, it’s cold outside. It has been a silent night for Royals f...2024Click for news about Michael Wacha
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• Year end recapThe envelope please Now that Christmas and the end of the year is upon us, it’s a good time to look back and evaluate the year. In terms of the big picture, it was great. When the season started, who among us really believed that the Royals would develop into a playoff team? Certainly not yours truly. The starting pitchers delivered big time. Vinnie and Salvy put together solid seasons and Bobby J...2024See more Matt Quatraro injury
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• The Royals Review Hall of Fame ballotsPhoto by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Who deserves enshrinement in Cooperstown? Baseball writers are currently mulling over this year’s Hall of Fame candidates, with selections to be announced on January 21. None of us at Royals Review have a vote but who would we vote for if we did? You can see the list of eligible candidates and their career statistics here. Here are our ballots with some wr...2024Click for news about Carlos Beltrán availability report
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• Three things the Royals need to do this offseasonHa-Seong Kim #7 of the San Diego Padres singles in the third inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 18, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. | Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The offseason blueprint For a dozen years, Royals Review hosted the annual SB Nation MLB Offseason Simulation, where 30 writers from the 30 team sites would get together digitally over the course of a...2024See more Seong Kim injury report
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• Remembering Doug BirdGetty The former Royals pitcher died last month. Doug Bird, one of the Royals’ first closers, passed away recently at the age of 74. Closer wasn’t even the appropriate term for a pitcher like Bird. They were called “firemen.” These were hurlers who could throw multiple innings or start a game when needed. Closers are cool. Firemen were awesome. Bird was drafted four times, the first time b...2024Read about Red Sox availability report
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• The mailbag column: Free agency, leadoff hitters, and MJ MelendezPhoto by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images My attempt at being a better postman than Kevin Costner Earlier this week on X, Royals Review put out the call: send in your questions and we’ll answer them by the end of the week. Well, that time is upon us, and you had questions about the Royals’ offseason, some trade candidates, and potential free agent targets, among other topics. Let’s get to it. ...2024See more Dustin Satloff
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2024 seasonPhoto by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Our writers discuss the off-season and expectations for this year. After one of the busier off-seasons in recent Royals history, the 2024 regular season is finally here! The Royals spent over $100 million on free agents, adding infielder Adam Frazier and Garrett Hampson, outfielder Hunter Renfroe, starting pitchers Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, and relie...2024See more articles Julio Aguilar injury status
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• The best former Royals player for each MLB teamPhoto by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images What Royals were great with other teams? There is a lull in the baseball season, the perfect time to engage in frivolities and shenanigans. You may have played the internet baseball trivia game Immaculate Grid that asks you to find players that meet specified requirements, many times, “who played for these two teams?” I don’t know if that in...2023See also MLB Photos
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• Former Royals pitcher Vida Blue dies at age 73
Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images Blue was one of 11 players to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year. Six-time All-Star pitcher Vida Blue died at the age of 73 over the weekend, according to a statement by the Oakland Athletics. Blue won 209 games over 17-year career and is one of 11 players to win both the Cy Young Award and MVP in the same year. He spent two years with the Royals in 1982...2023Check it out Vida Blue
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"com/JRRSYCpwym— Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) February 13, 2025 I won’t go too into Melendez’s swing because friend of Royals Review Craig Brown already did a great deep dive into the swing differences and how a new, more compact swing could help MJ." - 2024
"This year, I had the most faith in the team, picking them to bring home more wins than any other Royals Review writer." - 2023
"As former Royals Review writer Shaun Newkirk pointed out on Twitter, this team was assembled via decisions made from two to four years ago." - 2018
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"He’s only 28, and Crasnick noted the interested parties believe Latos could regain his old form and become a viable contributor: There is a slight downside, however, as Latos has had a reputation as a clubhouse headache, which may turn some teams off, per Royals Review: Latos certainly won’t net the $9."
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• Why weren’t the Royals a match for Nolan Arenado?Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images The Royals checked in on the Cardinals third baseman, but talks didn’t go anywhere. Last Friday, Katie Woo, the St. Louis Cardinals beat reporter for The Athletic, published an article on the Cardinals’ attempts to trade eight-time All-Star and ten-time Gold Glove-winning third baseman Nolan Arenado. Arenado is still a member of the Cardinals, so that tells yo...2025Read about Nolan Arenado contract rumors
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• MJ Melendez is at the biggest turning point in his career
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• Royals Rundown: Kansas City Royals’ Free Game Simulcasts, Playoff Odds, and Orioles Outfield Help?MLB The Show snubs Bobby but might be best installment yet. The Kansas City Royals are shaking things up for the 2025 season! In this episode of Royals Rundown, Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco break down the Royals’ decision to simulcast ten games for free and what it means for fans, viewership, and the team’s growing audience. The duo also dives into the latest FanGraphs playoff odds, analyzing the...2025See more articles Kansas City Royals salary
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• Vinnie Pasquantino might have been the best RBI guy in baseball last yearVinnie Pasquantino #9 celebrates with Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals after Perez hit a grand slam during the sixth inning of game two of a doubleheader against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on August 26, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. | Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Looking at RBIs from a different angle and adding some context can show who the truly elite run p...2025Visit the page Vinnie Pasquantino trade rumors
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 10, 2025Sadly, there is no picture of the Royals Spring Training truck so we’re stuck with nonsense from Boston | Photo by MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Pitchers and Catchers report in a little over a month The Royals tweeted out some gorgeous pictures of Kauffman Stadium in the snow. ❄️ pic.twitter.com/5fDgNwVQbQ— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) January 9, 2025 Max covered t...2025Visit the page Spring Training
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• Royals Rundown: Rumors, MLB Spending Woes, and Taylor Ward Trade TalkJoin Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco on the latest Royals Rundown podcast as they navigate through a quiet Kansas City Royals front. With no major transactions to discuss, the duo dives into league-wide updates and explores the current state of MLB spending. Jeremy shares his insights on Ken Rosenthal’s recent article about revenue issues and the lack of spending by teams like the Marlins, Cardinals...2025Click for news about Taylor Ward
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• Please welcome new writer Jared PerkinsPhoto by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A new year brings a new writer. A new year means some new writers here at Royals Review. Some of you may be familiar with Jared Perkins from his time writing at Royals Farm Report and other publications. He has a lot of experience writing about Royals prospects and he’ll continue to cover the farm system here. Here is more from Jared...2025Click for news about Keith Gillett Icon
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• Cubs vs. Guardians at Mesa and Royals at Surprise preview, Saturday 3/1Justin Turner | Steve Sher The Cubs split their squad and play two games Saturday. Saturday notes... DOING THE SPLITS: Today is the only Cubs split squad date of Spring Training 2025. All the info you’ll need for today is here, except for the lineups for the night game. Those will be found in the day game recap. ALL TIED UP: No Major League team ever has played three consecutive regular...2025Continue with Justin Turner scores
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• Will Bluesky be a bigger deal in 2025 for baseball fans?The Bluesky logo appears on a smartphone with Bluesky visible in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on November 24, 2024. | Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images A new way to follow highlights is here Nothing encapsulates the essence of social media platforms like microblogging websites. Thanks to character limits, every post is bite-sized and therefo...2025Check it out Spring Training scores
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• MJ Melendez is at the biggest turning point in his career
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• Why is the National Baseball Hall of Fame the most revered among sports?Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images Very well might be a question without an answer. On Tuesday, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce its newest class of inductees. Here at Royals Review, our writers took a look at the ballot and voted a few weeks ago. That’s just one of—what?—hundreds, if not thousands, of articles across the land about the Hall of Fame and who will get the call. Like...2025Read about Billy Wagner
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• Vinnie Pasquantino might have been the best RBI guy in baseball last year
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• Come write for Royals Review!Photo Illustration by Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images Get paid for your baseball takes! Ever wanted to voice your opinions on the Royals on a platform of thousands of fans? Royals Review provides fans an opportunity to write about the team they love (and love to be mad at sometimes!) and we are hiring for the upcoming season! We are looking for all sorts of diverse backgrounds and vi...2025
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• Royals Rundown: Guardians’ Moves, Lorenzen’s Two-Way Potential, and Ricky Henderson TributeJacob Milham and Jeremy Greco bring you the Royals Rundown Podcast’s Christmas week edition! Despite the festive season, Jeremy isn’t feeling the holiday spirit, but that doesn’t stop the duo from diving into the latest Kansas City Royals updates. They discuss the surprising moves by the Cleveland Guardians and what it means for the Royals’ chances in 2025. Plus, they explore Michael Lorenzen’s po...2024See more articles Jacob Milham
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• Please welcome new writers Connor Moylan, Trenton Kraxner, and Kevin RuprechtOld friend alert! The Royals still have yet to add the big bat to their lineup, but we went ahead and added a few of our own. Straight from the University of Kansas, please welcome Trenton Kraxner. He has written for the University Daily Kansan and will be writing recaps and other articles. Hi, my name is Trenton Kraxner, I am a senior at the University of Kansas currently. I will be graduating t...2025See more Eric Hosmer
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• Why weren’t the Royals a match for Nolan Arenado?
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• Will Bluesky be a bigger deal in 2025 for baseball fans?
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• Vinnie Pasquantino might have been the best RBI guy in baseball last year
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• The Royals want your trust. Have they earned it?The Royals are asking for a lot of money but are offering very little in the way of details about how they’ll spend it. Ordinarily in this space, you’d be reading right now A Noted Non-Overreactor’s over-reactions to Opening Day. I could be talking about how Cole Ragans is going to win the Cy Young and Maikel Garcia is going to be a huge breakout star this year and all manner of other more fun top...2024See more Cole Ragans
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• There’s no shortcut to the Royals’ biggest problem
Ronald Acuna Jr. #13 of the Atlanta Braves beats the tag by Michael Massey #19 of the Kansas City Royals during the eighth inning at Kauffman Stadium on April 16, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images A lack of talent on the roster Internet slang changes all the dang time, with older phrases falling out of favor and new ones seemingly appearing out of nowhere. A...2023Visit the page Ronald Acuna
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• Remembering the life of UL WashingtonPhoto by Ron Vesely/Getty Images The toothpick guy Stringtown, Oklahoma, population 410, sits in the southeast corner of the state. For a small village, it has produced some interesting people, most notably country music superstar Reba McEntire and lead singer and guitarist Jerry Cantrell of the rock band, Alice in Chains. Stringtown also produced one UL Washington. That’s UL with no perio...2024See more articles Frank White
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• Historic 11-hit, nine-run first inning sweeps the Royals past Houston in a 13-3 winPhoto by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Kansas City sweeps the bad guys and wins every game of the home stand I watched a 2003 Royals team led by Darrell May and Angel Berroa open its season with nine straight wins. I watched a 2013 team that had never won 15 of 20 games in the Dayton Moore era win 15 of 17. I watched a 29-32 Royals team that was dead to rights win 10 straight games and eventually ...2024Continue with Dayton Moore
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• Chiefs-Saints rapid reaction: Undefeated into the byeJay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Kansas City battled its way through a lot of adversity to head into its bye week with a 5-0 record. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the New Orleans Saints 26-13 on “Monday Night Football,” The Chiefs’ defense stays golden. The Chiefs’ defense has had an outstanding start to the 2024 season, holding opponents to 17 points a game. If there was anything to compla...2024See also Jay Biggerstaff Imagn
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• The Royals offense and season goes out with a whimper, falling 3-1 to the YankeesJay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images It was a heckuva season, friends Had every Kansas City Royals fan been asked how they would feel if the 2024 season ended with a loss to the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series, we would have all taken it in a heartbeat. Fangraphs projected 75 wins for Kansas City this season, a significant 19-game improvement off their 56 in 2023, but sti...2024See more articles Kansas City Royals
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• What to know about Royals 2023 Opening Day
Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball is back! Happy Opening Day! The 2023 MLB regular season begins today, with the Royals opening up at home in Kauffman Stadium against the Minnesota Twins. You can watch coverage on Bally Sports Kansas City beginning at 2 p.m. with Joel Goldberg and Jeff Montgomery hosting Price Chopper Royals Live pregame, plus pre-game festivities ...2023Visit the page MLB Photos
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• Royals get walked off by the worst team in baseballKansas City Royals center fielder Kyle Isbel (28) reacts after a called strike three Oakland Athletics during the fifth inning at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. | Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY Sports Bad pitching. Bad. The Kansas City Royals lost to the Oakland Athletics tonight via a walkoff home run by Brent Rooker, sending a tied 4-4 score to its final 6-4 count in the bottom of the nin...2023Check it out Kansas City Royals
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The 2023 season begins
Photo by Ron Schwane/Getty Images What do our writers think of the upcoming season? The Royals made some big changes in the front office and the dugout, with general manager J.J. Picollo now in charge, and Matt Quatraro coming over from the Rays to lead the field staff. But aside from that and some other coaching changes, it was a quiet off-season for the Royals. They have staked their fut...2023See also Matt Quatraro
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• Opening Day Thread: Guardians vs. Royals
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• What to know about Royals’ 2025 spring trainingPhoto by Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images Get ready to baseball! Happy Pitchers and Catchers Report Day! The winter in Kansas City may be especially cold with several inches of snow on the ground, but in warm and sunny Arizona, Royals players are assembling to begin spring training. It is a season of renewed hope after a surprising post-season run last year, with the highest pre-season expect...2025See more articles Texas Rangers
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• Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise preview, Monday 2/26, 2:05 CTAllan Henry-USA TODAY Sports Another away game for the boys in blue. There have been a few questions raised about when Cody Bellinger might play in a spring game. First, we only know about the signing through Jeff Passan and some Cubs reporters who confirmed it via a source. The team has not officially announced the signing, though it was reported that Bellinger was in Cubs camp Sunday tak...2024See more Cody Bellinger buzz
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• Zack Greinke has played for some bad Royals teams - is this the worst?
Rhona Wise-USA TODAY Sports Royals fans have seen some bad baseball. Longtime Royals Review reader Roy from Omaha posed an interesting question last week: Ask Zach Greinke which team was the worst team he played on - the 2005 or the 2023 Royals, since he played for both. Great question! Let’s do a breakdown and see if we can make any sense of this. The 2005 Royals finished an all-time Roy...2023Visit the page Zack Greinke scandal
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• Better know a draft prospect: 2023 primer
SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network / USA TODAY NETWORK The draft will be here before you know it The 2023 MLB Draft will take place July 17-19 in Los Angeles. While that is still over three months away, teams have already begun preparations as colleges and high schools around the country begin their spring seasons. In that spirit, we will also begin preparations here at Royals Review. In the m...2023Continue with Dayton Moore buzz
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• Overreacting to Opening Day 2023
Photo by LG Patterson/MLB Photos via Getty Images That didn’t go great Baseball is back! And now that we are through the euphoria of the first meaningful baseball games of 2023 it’s time to react completely rationally and reasonably to the results thereof. Since many of you think I’m a robot, who is better positioned to do this? The pitch clock is amazing In our first regular season game ...2023Click for news about MLB Photos whispers
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