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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 9

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Brewers remain in the middle of the pack as Cubs stay atop rankings Welcome to the ninth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s ran...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8

Ken Blaze-Imagn Images Cardinals surge, but Cubs remain at top of the pack Welcome to the eighth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s rank some teams! 1. Chic...2025
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• Cardinals series preview: I-70 Series redux

SetNumber: X32249 TK6 F8 The past is fun, but the future might be exciting for both teams. This marks the 40th anniversary of the Royals defeating the cross-state rivals, the Cardinals, in the 1985 World Series. Many members of that club are in town to be honored, as well as members of the 2015 team celebrating their 10th anniversary. For most of the 40 years since the Show-Me Showdown, th...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 7

Dave Nelson-Imagn Images Brewers continue to play average baseball, Cubs stay in front Welcome to the seventh week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s rank some te...2025
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• Cardinals’ Ryan Helsley could be trade deadline’s most coveted closer

The best reliever available is expected to be Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley, who’s a free agent after the year....2025
• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 6

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers fall behind Reds in our edition of the power rankings as true competition in NL Central becomes clearer Welcome to the sixth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% ac...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 5

Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images Cubs have another hot week, the rest of the division ... not so much Welcome to the fifth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s rank s...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers head to St. Louis to take on the Cardinals for first time this year The Milwaukee Brewers are set to head to St. Louis for the first time this year, as they’ll take on the struggling St. Louis Cardinals. The Brewers dropped three of four in San Francisco to the Giants in what was an unconventionally sloppy week for the Crew’s defense. On the other side, St. ...2025
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• Braves bullpen bends and breaks in loss to Cardinals

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images This was another one of those games for the Braves where it was all good, right up until it wasn’t! Atlanta’s bullpen was called upon to get the Braves through this game after Spencer Strider suffered a hamstring injury in extremely unfortunate fashion. The bullpen bent all night but it eventually broke later on, as the Atlanta Braves ended up suffering a...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 4

Jovanny Hernandez / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The Cubs continue to set the bar for the rest of the division, but the gap is closing Welcome to the fourth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 1...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 3

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images With another strong week, the Brewers now sit in a tie for first in the division Welcome to the third week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado...2025
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• Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each National League team

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Mets and Cubs have made big moves, but several other contenders still need to strike. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! December is a time full of giving and receiving gifts to celebrate the holidays. Now that the winter meetings have passed, only a few days remain before Christmas and turning the page to 2025. Each team has question marks wort...2024
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• 10 MLB stars who could be traded before 2025 Spring Training

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Which players could still be traded before Spring Training? It usually happens about a week before Christmas. The Black Friday rush has come and gone, Cyber Monday is no more, and after loading up their store shelves and supply rooms with merchandise at Thanksgiving, inventory begins to diminish. Suddenly, Amazon can’t get that trampoline to your house i...2024
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• MLB Winter Meetings Wrap-Up: Day 1

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images The fireworks came yesterday. What else is happening? Baseball’s winter meetings got underway on Sunday with the announcement of Baseball’s Classic Era Hall of Fame ballot, and then the party really got started last night when Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets for a mind-boggling $765 million. Soto’s signing on the eve of the official start of the meetings f...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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• Trip to Greece

My wife and I went to Greece last month. My original "live journaling" draft of this post was really just a bunch of complaining leading up to the trip-- hey, I'm a homebody who doesn't like to leave the house if I can help it-- but it turned out to be a very nice vacation so I'm going to delete the intro bitching and just share some pictures I took. A few incoming baseball cards are at the end, t...2023
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"Phillies, Diamondbacks Interested In Ryan Helsley"

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"Ryan Helsley, who the Cubs manhandled Thursday evening, entered for the save chance."

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"The Cardinals have won their arbitration hearing against right-hander Ryan Helsley, reports Katie Woo of The Athletic."

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"Wesneski’s gem is the sixth this year and the second in less than a week, as Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals did it against the Reds last Friday."

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"Louis placed right-hander Ryan Helsley on the 10-day injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow, opening a spot on the active roster."

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"They also activated reliever Ryan Helsley from the injured list and optioned lefty Rob Kaminsky."

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"A trio of reinforcements is headed onto the MLB roster: infielder Yairo Munoz along with righties Ryan Helsley and Giovanny Gallegos."

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"Lefty Genesis Cabrera, right-hander Ryan Helsley, outfielder Lane Thomas and infielder Ramon Urias have all had their contracts selected and been added to the 40-man roster."

• Cardinals’ Ryan Helsley could be trade deadline’s most coveted closer
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• Phillies, Diamondbacks Interested In Ryan Helsley
The calendar has not yet even flipped to May, leaving more than three months to go until MLB’s trade deadline on July 31. That hasn’t stopped some teams from assessing their needs and even beginning to look into potential targets for the summer, however, and USA Today’s Bob Nightengale writes that the Phillies and Diamondbacks…...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals
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• Braves News: Roster predictions, Braves add a catcher, more

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Well the offseason continues to crawl onward, with the pace of transactions of note slowing down dramatically league-wide of late, setting international free agency aside. There are still a good number of options available both on the free agent and trade markets. Perhaps with less market momentum, the values will be...2025
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• Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each National League team
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 23, 2024

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Bobby Witt Jr. was one of the signature players in baseball. MLB.com lists every team’s best single-game performance Royals: One of many games in which Witt flashes all the tools, April 11 Bobby Witt Jr. had a long list of standout games in 2024, but perhaps his best was all the way back in April against the Astros. On April 11 at Kauffman Stadium, Witt...2024
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• 10 MLB stars who could be traded before 2025 Spring Training
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• MLB Winter Meetings Wrap-Up: Day 1
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• What will the Royals do at the Winter Meetings?

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports This could be the busiest week of the off-season. The Winter Meetings began on Sunday in Dallas, with teams meeting to work out trades, meet with agents about free agents, and conduct business like the draft lottery and Rule 5 draft. The Royals have already made some significant moves, re-signing Michael Wacha to a three-year, $51 million deal and acquiring s...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for November 30, 2024

Photo by Adam Glanzman/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Royals re-sign Diego Hernandez. David Schoenfield at ESPN Insider lists one move each team should make. [$] St. Louis Cardinals trade RHP Ryan Helsley to the Kansas City Royals for RHP Blake Wolters These two franchises rarely make deals with each other — only one since 2016, and that was simply St. Louis acquiring Anthony Misiewicz f...2024
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8
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• Brewers walked off by Cardinals in 6-5 loss

Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins | Photo by Jeff Le/Getty Images Offense comes back late, Murphy gets heated, and Arenado walk-off secures the loss Box Score The Brewers took another brutal loss in Saturday’s matchup against the Cardinals. The Brewers’ fell into an early deficit but came back in the ninth inning on Chourio’s game-tying home run, only to take the loss when Nolan Arenado h...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 3
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images These were all fun, well-played, or both. Now that you’ve read yesterday’s recap of the five worst Cubs games of 2024, here are five that should make you smile. Walk-offs, of course, always generate big cheers and excitement, no matter how they happen. I’ve got some of those here, but there are also other entertaining wins that deserve recogn...2024
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• Previewing the relief pitcher market for the Atlanta Braves
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• 2024 Heroes and Goats: Emmanuel Clase and the Guardians, part 1

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look at Heroes and Goats for the first half of the season. Emmanuel Clase was awarded the AL Reliever of the Year for 2024 after helping the Guardians reach the playoffs. Clase pitched in 74 games and allowed only 10 runs, five earned, in 74⅓ innings. This was a particularly and uniquely impressive season. He matched those 10 runs allowe...2024
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• Cardinals 5, Cubs 4: The complaint department is OPEN

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images This space intentionally left blank because otherwise it might have bad words in it. As most of you know, I have been watching Cubs baseball for more than 60 years. In that time I’ve seen a lot of bad baseball and a lot of losing. Most of the time, I can slough off the losses, been there, done that, seen it before. This one pissed me off. The Cubs should ...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 121

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports A most improbable come from behind victory; the Cubs win 5-4. One of the best times to be a sports blogger is when you have to proverbially tear up the story you had mentally written. That is, when it is in this direction. All too many times this year, I’ve had a triumphant story prepared and had to throw it away and write about a frustrating loss. Ther...2024
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• Cubs 5, Cardinals 4: Mike Tauchman walks it off

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images That was... unexpected. And fun! Just when you were sitting with your head down, thinking sad thoughts about the Cubs, they pulled off a stunning 5-4 walkoff win over the Cardinals, a great way to start the homestand. Usually I go in chronological order in these recaps, but I think I’ll start with Mike Tauchman’s walkoff double [VIDEO]. That was...2024
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• Brewers walked off by Cardinals in 6-5 loss
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• Braves News: Roster predictions, Braves add a catcher, more
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• The 5 best Cubs games of 2024
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• Bullpen shines, offense sputters in second straight extra-innings loss

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images A dramatic late comeback was undone by a failure to score in extra innings Box Score Having split their games on Monday and Tuesday, the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals needed to decide a series winner tonight at American Family Field. After Brewers starter Colin Rea got off to a shaky start, it looked like it might be a high-scoring affair, but after th...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 121
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• Cubs 5, Cardinals 4: Mike Tauchman walks it off
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• Braves come up short in comeback bid against Cardinals, fall 4-3

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta gave it all they had and made another vintage late-game comeback. This time, sadly, it wasn't enough. A four-run inning for the St. Louis Cardinals ended up being enough for their pitching staff to just about hold onto in this one. The Atlanta Braves made a serious rally in the ninth inning in order to make a comeback but ultimately they fell short and ...2024
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Oakland’s star closer and the rest of the A’s bullpen are helping to keep the team somewhat interesting so far. When it comes to the standings in the early portion of the season, my personal advice is not to really take anything too seriously until Memorial Day at the earliest. That way, it gives baseball an ample amount of time to actually start to get the t...2024
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• Cardinals Win Arbitration Hearing Against Ryan Helsley
The Cardinals have won their arbitration hearing against right-hander Ryan Helsley, reports Katie Woo of The Athletic. He’ll earn the $2.15MM salary submitted by the team instead of the $3MM figure he and his camp filed. Helsley, 28, has been inconsistent in the big leagues thus far but is coming off the best showing of…...2023
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• Cubs 3, Pirates 2: Hayden Wesneski is immaculate
Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs rookie posted the first immaculate inning for the team in 18 years. The “immaculate inning” — where a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces on nine pitches — has become more common in recent years as strikeouts in general have increased. They’re still fairly rare, and until Thursday night, no Cubs pitcher had thrown one in 18 years, s...2022
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• Cardinals Notes: Hicks, Reyes, Designated Hitter, Shortstop, DeJong,
The Cardinals have made one relatively minor move since the lockout was lifted, signing reliever Drew VerHagen to a two-year deal. He steps into a bullpen that also features Giovanny Gallegos, Ryan Helsley and T.J. McFarland and seems as if it’ll include flamethrowing righties Alex Reyes and Jordan Hicks. St. Louis brass has floated the idea of each of Reyes and Hicks lengthening…...2022
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• Cardinals Activate Miles Mikolas
The Cardinals announced Friday that right-hander Miles Mikolas has been reinstated from the 60-day injured list and will start tonight’s game. St. Louis placed right-hander Ryan Helsley on the 10-day injured list with a stress reaction in his right elbow, opening a spot on the active roster. Meanwhile, lefty Brandon Waddell has been placed on…...2021
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• Cardinals 5, Cubs 4: The complaint department is OPEN
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• NL Central Notes: Helsley, Reds, Stephenson
Ahead of their victory over Ryan Helsley in an arbitration hearing, the Cardinals reportedly discussed a multi-year deal with the right-hander, according to The Athletic’s Katie Woo. Woo notes that the sides were far apart, with the biggest issue being Helsley’s durability. As Woo notes, the Cardinals were concerned with Helsley’s rarely pitching on back-to-back…...2023
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• Braves unable to dig out of deep hole in 10-6 loss to Cardinals

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The bats were lively tonight for the Braves but it wasn't enough to keep up with the onslaught that the Cardinals unleashed upon Atlanta's pitching staff tonight. In the preview for tonight's game, I suggested that it wouldn't be a good idea to bet against the Atlanta Braves when it came to winning a slugfest. This might've been the ...2023
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• Chris Sale wins Sporting News NL Comeback Player of the Year Award

Photo by Kevin D. Liles./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Chris Sale and Raisel Iglesias were also named as pitchers for The Sporting News NL All-Star Team, as well! Despite the fact that the World Series hasn’t even started yet, that hasn’t stopped award season from kicking off and the first organization to announce their winners is the Sporting News. They’ve also announced their All-Star team...2024
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• Gray Leads Cardinals' Dominant Day On The Mound - May 4, 2024
Sonny Gray Gray was dominant on Friday, tossing seven shutout innings while allowing only three hits, one walk, and punching out six. He's been one of the best pitchers in baseball thus far. In five starts, he's gone at least five innings while allowing two earned or less. While five starts is his small sample size, right now he is posting his career best marks in K%, BB%, and HR%. If there is a c...2024
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• Preseason Prep - February 29, 2024
Jhoan Duran, RP (MIN) Duran was knocked around in his Grapefruit League debut, allowing four runs on three hits and a walk in two-thirds of an inning. The fireballer topped out at 100.5 mph, which is about a mile per hour less than his average from 2023. These details should be ignored at this point in the preseason as he will likely work his arm into increased velocity. Duran is entering his firs...2024
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 8
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• Cardinals series preview: I-70 Series redux
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 6
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• Brewers walked off by Cardinals in 6-5 loss
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 5
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• Braves bullpen bends and breaks in loss to Cardinals
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 4
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 2

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Brewers bounce back with four straight wins but remain second in NL Central rankings Welcome to the second week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without furth...2025
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• Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each National League team
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 23, 2024
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• Braves News: Roster predictions, Braves add a catcher, more
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 23, 2024
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• St. Louis Cardinals shockingly seem unwilling to part with All-Star who could bring back massive trade haul

The player the Cardinals could get the highest return on is All-Star closer Ryan Helsley, but St. Louis might be more inclined to keep him....2024
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• Milwaukee bullpen can’t hold lead as Cardinals win in extras

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Arenado’s walk-off grand slam puts exclamation point on back-and-forth game Box Score In a lengthy, back-and-forth game, the St. Louis Cardinals ultimately pulled out a come-from-behind victory in extra innings tonight over a Milwaukee Brewers team that ran out of gas at the back end of their bullpen. All three of the big stars of that bullpen—Bryan Hudson, Devi...2024
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• Spencer Schwellenbach and the Braves kick off the second half against Cardinals

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The second half is here and now it’s time for the Braves to hopefully get things going in the right direction. The All-Star break is over and done with and now it’s time to get into the business-end of the season as the Atlanta Braves will start off the second half by hosting the St. Louis Cardinals. Let’s start off with some good news/bad news. The goo...2024
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• The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm
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• Preseason Prep - February 29, 2024
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