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• Angels Nearing Deal With Kevin Newman
The Angels are closing in on a deal with free agent infielder Kevin Newman, report Will Sammon and Sam Blum of The Athletic. The Angels recently announced that shortstop Zach Neto could miss the start of the 2025 season following shoulder surgery. Newman, 31, had a nice year in a utility role with the Diamondbacks…...2024
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• Cub Tracks rhesus pieces

Photo by Gusti Aldi/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Too much monkey business? Roll out the barrel! 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 ...2024
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• Zach Neto Could Miss Start Of 2025 Season After Undergoing Shoulder Surgery
Angels shortstop Zach Neto underwent shoulder surgery and could miss the start of the 2025 season. General manager Perry Minasian informed reporters such as Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com (X link) and Sam Blum of The Athletic (X link), though didn’t specify the exact nature of the injury or procedure. Per Minasian, Zeto sustained the injury…...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?

Photo by Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images No, but she did get great seats for the ALCS. The hullaballoo and backlash of Taylor Swift’s presence at Kansas City Chiefs games may now be moving over to baseball. It turns out the pop singer’s famous boyfriend Travis Kelce is a big Cleveland Guardians fan, so the pair headed to the first game of the ALCS to watch the Guardians take on ...2024
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 46, Kris Bryant

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Injuries again plagued Bryant in the third year of his ill-fated contract Welcome to the 2024 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2024. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseba...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024

One more day of celebration before the ALDS | Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images Let’s enjoy this ride one more day before the ALDS starts Make the playoffs and suddenly everyone wants to write about the Royals. Whereas normally, I’m looking for listicles and random tangential mentions of the team, I’m probably not going to be able to get to every single story posted yesterday. There’s just too...2024
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• Angels Nearing Deal With Kevin Newman
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• Zach Neto Could Miss Start Of 2025 Season After Undergoing Shoulder Surgery
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 46, Kris Bryant
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• Outside The Confines: A long, long streak ends

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images But one more keeps going. One incredible streak has finally come to an end, as Padres’ slugger Luis Arraez finally struck out. It took 141 plate appearances to get him. Meanwhile, Shohei Ohtani continues he quest for 50-50 as he gets to 48-48, already in a class by himself. The Mets did something fun for fans, the Royals are good for baseball, and is Mike...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The big showdown in Philadelphia

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Benches empty in Philadelphia. The White Sox have been dealt a bad hand. The Mets are surging. And other news from around MLB. I don’t want to pick on the White Sox, but it’s mind-blowing to think that they could go on a 79-game winning streak and still be under .500. Of course, there aren’t 79 games left in the season, so it’s kind of a silly way of sa...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Danny Jansen plays for both teams. Aaron Judge is really good. Juan Soto is getting paid. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. The Cubs are playing a morning game, so I guess that makes it a good morning. On the other hand, it’s Paul Skenes versus Kyle Hendricks, so. . . . As expected, Danny Jansen made history by being the first major leaguer t...2024
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports The White Sox fired their manager as they challenge for the all-time record for losses. And other news from around MLB. A leaked script from Major League 4. Jerry Reinsdorf: Here are a list of candidates for the new White Sox manager. Chris Getz: I’ve never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime. Ozzie Guillen, Jim Leyland, To...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Dylan Cease throws a no-hitter. The trade deadline is underway and we’ve got two trades and a ton of rumors. The life of an A’s superfan. Just so you know, most of this column could be out of date by the time you read it. Things are starting to move. Here’s one you might not have heard yet. Late last night, the Rays dealt outfielder Randy Arozarena to th...2024
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• Mike Trout “Basically Pain-Free,” Expects To Return By Late July
Fans around baseball received exciting news today as veteran superstar Mike Trout told reporters (including Sam Blum of The Athletic) this afternoon that he is “basically pain-free” with only occasional soreness as he works his way back from surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee that he underwent at the end of…...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Look, but don’t touch

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images A look ahead to the trade deadline. The Blue Jays are in a pickle. How to get out Shohei Ohtani. Touch home plate, not your teammate. And other MLB news Good morning. Who’s going to Milwaukee? And a special thank you to Ashley MacLennan for filling in for me over the past week in this spot. Alden Gonzalez has the story of the controversial new Traj...2024
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• Tampa Bay Rays pay tribute to Orlando with old AA minor league cap
The Tampa Bay Rays are going to great lengths honor and help the victims of the Orlando shooting tonight. The Tampa Bay Rays organized a night to honor the victims of the nightclub massacre that took place in Orlando last weekend. On Friday the Rays sold tickets to a game against the San Francisco Giants for just $5 and committed to donating all of the proceeds to the Pulse Victims Fund. The Rays ...2016

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"The Angels released catcher Francisco Mejia from his minor league deal today, as noted by Sam Blum of The Athletic."

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"Giolito will make his team debut tomorrow against Toronto, tweets Sam Blum of The…"

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"Drew Butera has made the leap from the roster to the coaching staff, as Sam Blum of The Athletic reports that Butera will now act as the bullpen catcher for the Angels."

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"The Angels are moving right-hander Dylan Bundy to the bullpen, manager Joe Maddon told reporters (including Sam Blum of the Athletic)."

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"Via Sam Blum of the Dallas Morning News, Rhule had a meeting with his players in New Orleans (where they’re playing in the Sugar Bowl) and was upfront with [more]"

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"com/HMSjn8ZD1Y — Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) June 17, 2016 The Rays are sticking to their standard home uniform aside from the cap, serving an interesting blend of new and old for the Rays on the field."

• Angels Nearing Deal With Kevin Newman
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 46, Kris Bryant
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: So long, Oakland.

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The A’s said goodbye to their Coliseum home. Thursday afternoon, the Oakland Athletics played their final game in Oakland, and it was the end of an era. The A’s have not always been an Oakland-based team (they started in Philadelphia before heading to Kansas City), but they’ve been in Oakland since 1968. Now, mismanagement and other frustrating motivations w...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The big showdown in Philadelphia
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• Outside The Confines: A happy reunion

Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK The ‘84 Tigers celebrate an anniversary and Chet Lemon makes it there. The ‘62 Mets react to the ‘24 White Sox. Winners and losers from the Trade Deadline. And other news from around MLB. Chet Lemon may not be in the Hall of Fame, but he’s certainly a first-ballot inductee into the Hall of the Very Good. Jeff Seidel writes of former Tigers and White Sox grea...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Dog days of summer

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani’s pup, Decoy, is a scene-stealer. It’s only fitting that on the day Shohei Ohtani gets a bobblehead with his dog, Decoy, that Decoy himself gets to help throw out the first pitch. It’s possibly one of the most wholesome and charming baseball stories to pop up this week, and it warmed my cold heart. Decoy and Shohei with the cutest first pitch...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues
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• Outside The Confines: A win, a loss, and a return

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Lots to get emotional about in today’s OTC. In breaking news, late last night against the Oakland A’s, the Chicago White Sox finally ended their 21-game losing streak by eking out a 5-1 win. A single win won’t solve the White Sox woes, however, and many of today’s links delve into the historic territory the Sox find themselves in. Meanwhile, the ot...2024
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 46, Kris Bryant
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images The much maligned umpire has announced his retirement Usually, when we report news on retirements, it’s about a long-tenured player, or a multi-World Series-winning team manager, but the absolute biggest news of the week was the announcement that umpire Angel Hernandez was planning to retire. Umpires bear a certain amount of negativity from MLB fans, bu...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Braves lost their superstar for the season. The Yankees are soaring and the Dodgers are struggling. And other news from MLB and baseball. Good morning. Reigning National League Most Valuable Player Ronald Acuña Jr. is out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. He tore his right ACL back in 2021 and missed the rest of that season as well. Dan...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Opening Week is here!

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The pre-season ends this week, real baseball is almost here! Well, friends, we have officially made it. This is the last Monday without baseball! (Well, regular season baseball. that is.) It’s so thrilling to realize that this is the week baseball begins in earnest and we can switch from saying “Spring training doesn’t count” to “it’s ...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Making sense of Kris Bryant’s comments

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Does Kris Bryant regret signing with the Colorado Rockies? The baseball world was sent into a tizzy last week when Sam Blum of The Athletic published an article entitled “Kris Bryant left the spotlight behind in Chicago; in Colorado, his burden is different.” In the article, Bryant discusses his ...2024
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• Cub Tracks C’s the future

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. The young Cubs are showing why they’re held in such high regard. These are indeed interesting times. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Snakes alive!

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The first two games of the World Series have been completed and the signs are pointing to a classic battle in the Fall Classic. And speaking of signs . . . Plus other news from the Word Series and MLB. Good morning. We’ve got a tied World Series and a really classic Game 1. Game 3 goes tonight. Are the Snakes still alive? Or will the Rangers continue t...2023
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• Outside The Confines: A baseball namesake

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images How some well-times baseball heroics forced a fan to name his newborn daughter after Mookie Betts. Happy Friday! There’s plenty of goodies in today’s links roundup, so let’s not muddle around. We’ve got a historically bad day at the park, a historically great team offense, a potentially irreversible Yankees slump, a female baseball wunderkind, and a ra...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: So long, Oakland.
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• The White Sox can’t even win at losing, and fans are incensed

We know who’s to blame. The South Siders defeat the Angels, narrowly avoiding a record-breaking loss, and SELL THE TEAM becomes a movement Tonight was supposed to be the night, White Sox fans. This evening, all of your suffering, your woes, and your torment over the 2024 season was supposed to crystallize into a historic, record-breaking accomplishment. The 2024 White Sox just narrowly avo...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A happy reunion
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues
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• Outside The Confines: A win, a loss, and a return
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin
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• Drew Butera Retires
Drew Butera has made the leap from the roster to the coaching staff, as Sam Blum of The Athletic reports that Butera will now act as the bullpen catcher for the Angels. Butera was selected by the Mets in the fifth round of the 2005 draft but was traded before making it to the big…...2022
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• Angels Nearing Deal With Archie Bradley
The Angels are close to finalizing an agreement with free-agent reliever Archie Bradley, tweets Sam Blum of The Athletic. The right-hander is headed to Arizona (where the Halos have their Spring Training facility) at the moment, Blum adds. Bradley is a client of BBI Sports Group. More to come....2022
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• Angels Designate Jared Walsh For Assignment
The Angels announced Thursday that they’ve designated first baseman/outfielder Jared Walsh for assignment and transferred righty Ben Joyce to the 60-day injured list. That pair of transactions opens space on the roster for newly acquired right-handers Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez. Giolito will make his team debut tomorrow against Toronto, tweets Sam Blum of The…...2023
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• Angels To Interview Ron Washington
The Angels are interviewing Braves third base coach Ron Washington tonight as they continue their managerial search, reports Sam Blum of the Athletic (X link). Jon Heyman of the New York Post indicated yesterday that Washington was on the Halos’ radar. Washington continues to search for his first lead job since he resigned from the…...2023
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• Ron Washington Meeting with Angels Tonight About Managerial Position, Per Report

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images The long-time MLB coach could potentially get his next and long awaited shot at managing. With the MLB offseason officially underway, many around baseball will be focused on which players may go to new teams over the next several weeks and months. However, there are also plenty of managerial vacancies that remain open, and the Angels could ...2023
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• Angels Reinstate Anthony Rendon, Designate Mike Ford
The Angels have reinstated third baseman Anthony Rendon from the 60-day injured list, reports Sam Blum of The Athletic. First baseman Mike Ford was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. More to come....2022
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• Astros, Ty Buttrey Agree To Minor League Deal
The Astros have agreed to a minor league contract with reliever Ty Buttrey, as first reported by Sam Blum of the Athletic (Twitter link). He’ll get a non-roster look in big league camp this spring. Buttrey has pitched in parts of three MLB seasons, all of which came as a member of the Angels. His best…...2023
• Angels Release Austin Romine
The Angels have released catcher Austin Romine, according to his transactions log at MLB.com. Sam Blum of the Athletic tweets that the veteran backstop triggered an opt-out clause in his minor league deal. That left the Angels to decide whether to select him onto the 40-man roster or grant him his release. Romine is one of…...2022
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• Outside The Confines: Liar, liar, pants on fire...

Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports MLB’s latest snafu invloves see-through pants. In 2022 we saw tensions between MLB and MLBPA lead to a delayed start to the season. Now, while there isn’t a lockout looming, there are new issues brewing between MLB and its players, as there are mounting complaints about something unexpected... pants. While MLB is adamant there have been no major changes made t...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No Rays of sunshine

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Things are going wrong fast for the Rays. Also the Angels, who bet big on one last year with Shohei Ohtani. And other news from around MLB Just a few months ago, the Tampa Bay Rays were the biggest story in the game for the best start to a season since the 1984 Tigers. Now, they’re the biggest story in the game for not-as-pleasant reasons. The Tampa Bay Ray...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Is Taylor Swift taking over baseball next?
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 46, Kris Bryant
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• Royals Rumblings - News for October 4, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: A long, long streak ends
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• Outside The Confines: The big showdown in Philadelphia
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• Outside The Confines: A happy reunion
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge
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• Outside The Confines: South Side blues
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• Outside The Confines: A win, a loss, and a return
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• The White Sox can’t even win at losing, and fans are incensed
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• Outside The Confines: The Rickwood Field game brings history to the spotlight

Photo by Russell Kilgore Jr./MLB Photos via Getty Images Baseball remembers Willie Mays and other Negro League legends. The two big stories of the latter half of the week go hand in hand, with the Rickwood Field game happening on Thursday, just after the passing of the iconic Willie Mays late Tuesday. The memory of Mays and also remembering Negro Leagues legends of the past is a huge part ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Don’t bet on it

Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports MLB announces suspensions in a major gambling scandal. A look ahead to the trade deadline. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. If you’re going to get caught doing something stupid that’s going to get you into a lot of trouble, don’t do it for some spare change. Al has already written on this story, but Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was per...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks
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• Outside The Confines: Early success stories

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images MLB admits the uniforms are a problem. A look back at the first month of baseball. And other news from around the MLB. Good morning. According to a memo sent from the union to the players, MLB has reportedly finally admitted there was a problem with the uniforms. The uniforms will be changed, mostly back to what they were, by the start of next year at the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The iconic radio voice of the team announced his sudden departure this week. On Monday, with no preamble, the Yankees announced that their long-time radio play-by-play announcer John Sterling was calling it a career, and his last game in the booth was behind him. The 85-year-old called 5,420 regular season games over his long career. Sterling cited the s...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Opening Week is here!
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• Cub Tracks sell low, Shohei

#Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. We’re just waiting for the meetings to start. 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 then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. *means autoplay on, or annoying ads, or both (direc...2023
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