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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 28, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Will Zack Greinke get in the Hall of Fame? Trevor Powers at Pitcher’s List ranks Royals prospects for dynasty leagues with Blake Mitchell at #2. There were two sides to Mitchell’s first minor league season. On the good side, he showed the ability to tap into his power consistently in game. In just 111 games, he hit 18 home runs and 16 doubles. For such a you...2025
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• Looking For A Match In A Spencer Torkelson Trade
The Tigers rearranged their infield when they signed Gleyber Torres last month. He’ll play second base, a move that pushes Colt Keith to first base. The trickle-down effect is to block the clearest path to at-bats for 2020 first overall pick Spencer Torkelson. As one would expect, Detroit’s baseball operations president Scott Harris pushed back against the idea…...2025
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• Poll: Spencer Torkelson’s Future With The Tigers
When the Tigers took Spencer Torkelson with the first overall pick in 2020, Baseball America described him as “the safest pick at the top of the draft” and a potential “middle-of-the-order force,” à la Pete Alonso. And keep in mind, they weren’t talking about present-day Alonso, who is struggling to find a market in free…...2025
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• MLB Mailbag: Braves, Red Sox, Cubs, Mariners, Torkelson, Alonso, Bregman

Welcome to the first mailbag of 2025! In this one we get into what the Braves, Red Sox, Cubs, and Mariners might do, the future of first basemen Spencer Torkelson and Pete Alonso, outfield options for the Astros, various Alex Bregman destinations, and much more. John asks: Braves fan here wondering if the Braves will…...2025
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• Spencer Torkelson landing spots: Four teams who could trade for former No. 1 pick and give him a second chance

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• Locked On Twins: 2024-2025 Offseason Progress Report — Dec. 27
The Twins aren’t doing anything — but the rest of the division isn’t, either. This changed a bit when the Tigers signed Gleyber Torres on Friday. What does that mean for Spencer Torkelson? And how would he fit on the Twins? Would you be OK with that? In this edition of Locked On Twins, Dave (@answerdavebrown/@answerdave.bsky.social) and Brandon (@Brandon_Warne/@warne.bsky....2024
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend

Kyle Schwarber should lead off for the Phillies for their third straight postseason | Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images There’s a lot of David and Goliath in these matchups They don’t call it the Wild Card for nothing, folks. It’s’ already been a few ridiculous days of baseball. It started with the Mets bonkers comeback against Atlanta in the first game of a doubleheader to make the post...2024
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• Tigers series preview: Two of the hottest AL teams

Photo by Raj Mehta/Getty Images The Royals and Tigers have young teams playing well down the stretch. The Royals and Tigers both battled for the division in 2014, and both began rebuilds around 2017-18. Neither team has had a winning season since then, but that will likely change this year as the Royals have been baseball’s surprise turnaround story, and the Tigers have been one of the bes...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s closing now?

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who should be the Cubs primary closer going forward. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. So glad you stopped in tonight. Everyone is in a good mood right now. We’re closed for a private party, but luckily your name is on the g...2024
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• Rough News for Ronald - May 27, 2024
Ronald Acuna Jr., OF, ATL Acuna was diagnosed with a torn ACL on Sunday and will miss the remainder of the 2024 season. He left the game against the Pirates on Sunday after injuring his knee while baserunning in the first inning, and had clearly suffered a serious injury. This is an extremely frustrating development for Acuna owners who had been waiting all season for Acuna to get going at the p...2024
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• Tigers series preview: A pitcher’s duel

Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images Hey, who scheduled this to go opposite the NFL Draft? The Royals and Tigers both underwent rebuilds at about the same time, and after some fits and starts, they are both off to good starts in 2024 that could signal a new era for each franchise. Both have had success through dominant pitching early on. The Tigers largely developed theirs in-house, while th...2024
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• Looking at the Royals’ AL Central competition

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Four teams still ostensibly have a shot, but are all of them actually contenders? The White Sox are clearly not going to win much of anything this season, but there are reasons to believe that all four of the other teams have a shot at the division. I wanted to take a deeper look at each team and see who I believe will really be in the hunt and...2024
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• Frustrations & Fluctuations - April 21, 2024
Will Benson, OF CIN Despite an absolute flood of red on his StatCast page, easy to count 5 SBs and an enormous physique, Will Benson continues to take the seat vs. LHP. As the Cincinnati Reds struggle to utilize talent, avoid injury or do much of anything right, Benson will continue to enrage fantasy baseball managers due to his salivary gland triggering 15.4% Barrel Rate, 13.3% BB Rate and near-e...2024
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Twins needed only 87 wins to take the division title in 2023. The ceiling probably won’t be much higher. In 2023, the AL Central was easily the worst division in baseball. It wasn’t in danger of going full 1994 AL West or anything, but at the All-Star break, the Cleveland Guardians were in first place at a dead-even 45-45. All four...2024
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• 2024 Division rival preview: Detroit Tigers

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Are the Tigers ready to roar? The Tigers began their rebuild a year before the Royals did, and while last year was their seventh consecutive losing season, their 78 wins were more than the Royals have managed in any season since 2017. The Tigers had a fairly young team last year, and will likely add two rookies to the starting lineup this season. But th...2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 22, 2024
Adley Rutschman - The former number one overall pick and mega prospect posted an excellent sophomore season, being the only catcher with 80 runs and 80 RBI, leading all qualified catchers in BB% (13.4) and xwOBA (.373), and having the second lowest K%(14.7). While Rutschman is the runaway leading catcher and made improvements in the contact department, reducing his Whiff rate by 2.3%, the main con...2024
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• Top First Basemen To Get Before ADP And FAAB
Welcome Back! You made it just in time before we embark on a long awaited journey it seems like right? I can't wait for all the starting pitchers on my team to make it 4 2/3 innings before they get pulled for their pitch count and I scream for Kolten Wong to stop fouling off balls off Kyle Hendricks so he can at least be in line for the win. I mean I probably only have 1 share of Hendricks but we ...2022
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"The trickle-down effect is to block the clearest path to at-bats for 2020 first overall pick Spencer Torkelson."

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"The Tigers are set to recall first baseman Spencer Torkelson from Triple-A Toledo today, according to Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press."

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"To be clear, he did pull off a few nice sliders, including both called strike one and swinging strike three to Spencer Torkelson for his lone strikeout, but a bunch were just flying out of the hand like a bird that really hates its current circumstances."

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"The Tigers announced to reporters, including Chris McCosky of the Detroit News, that first baseman Spencer Torkelson has been optioned to Triple-A Toledo."

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"Tigers top prospects 2022: Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson are the big names in Detroit's system"

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"Needing to add power to their system, the Detroit Tigers selected Arizona State's Spencer Torkelson with the first pick in the 2020 MLB draft on Wednesday night."

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"And Arizona State freshman Spencer Torkelson deserves some recognition for what he has done."

• Royals Rumblings - News for January 28, 2025
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• Poll: Spencer Torkelson’s Future With The Tigers
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend
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• Tigers series preview: Two of the hottest AL teams
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s closing now?
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• Tigers struggling former first overall draft pick to make MLB return

The Tigers are set to recall first baseman Spencer Torkelson from Triple-A Toledo on Saturday....2024
• Tigers Designate Buddy Kennedy For Assignment, Release Keston Hiura
The Tigers announced a series of roster moves today, selecting the contract of outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy, which was reported on yesterday. To open a spot on the active roster, they optioned first baseman Spencer Torkelson, a move that was also previously reported. To open a 40-man spot for Malloy, infielder Buddy Kennedy was designated for…...2024
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• Surprise Demotions Abound - June 3rd, 2024
Spencer Torkelson (1B - DET) - I wish I had a giant "sad face" emoji for this one, but the Tigers aren't waiting around for Torkelson any longer, sending him down to bring up Justyn-Henry Malloy. Torkelson hit 4 homers in the two weeks up to and including Memorial Day weekend, but another 0-20 skid has apparently caused them to take drastic measures, and it's not like it isn't warranted. Even at h...2024
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• Rough News for Ronald - May 27, 2024
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• Sell High on Jose Berrios? - May 14, 2024
Jose Berrios (SP-TOR) largely held the Orioles lineup in check on Monday as he allowed 2 runs on 3 hits and a walk while striking out 4 over 7 IP. The 29 year-old righty fired 59 of his 94 offerings for strikes while surrendering a pair of solo shots in the outing. Berrios now owns a 2.82 ERA, 7 K/9, and 2.7 BB/9 through his first 9 starts (54.1 IP) of the season, with a 4.26 xFIP warning fantasy ...2024
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• Tigers 6, White Sox 3: Another day, another L

Andrew Vaughn is slashing .321/.365/.500 over his last 15 games. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Detroit sweeps Chicago and hands them their 101st defeat I know, shocker. It was another loss and anemic offensive showing by the White Sox. They move to 8-38 against the AL Central and 31-101 overall. To call this season miserable is an understatement. I’ve genuinely run out of words to describe ...2024
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• Surprise Demotions Abound - June 3rd, 2024
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• Rough News for Ronald - May 27, 2024
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• Looking at the Royals’ AL Central competition
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• Frustrations & Fluctuations - April 21, 2024
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• 2024 Division rival preview: Detroit Tigers
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 22, 2024
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• A Cubs fan’s guide to the postseason: Division Series weekend
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• Tigers 6, White Sox 3: Another day, another L
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• Monday Rockpile: A too-early look for the Rockies top choice in the 2024 MLB draft

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, December 18, 2023 The off-season is rolling on and news on the Colorado Rockies’ front is all quiet as we approach the new year. That likely won’t be changing any time soon and the current roster very well could be the product that breaks camp in Arizona come February. So, with little to report on, let’s look a...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: Trading from an area of depth could be the best way to improve Colorado’s pitching pipeline

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, October 16, 2023 I’m a big fan of one-for-one trades in baseball, specifically when they are centered around prospects or pre-arbitration eligible players. Generally these deals are based around teams working with each other to improve areas of their organization together. Like any trade, time tells who may g...2023
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• Tigers series preview: Farewell, Miguel Cabrera

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The future Hall of Famer won’t terrorize the Royals anymore. Miguel Cabrera will play his last week in the big leagues, and Royals pitchers can breathe a sigh of relief. He has terrorized Kansas City in his 21-year big league career that will culminate with induction into Cooperstown someday. No opposing hitter has more hits against the Royals than Cabrera’s ...2023
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• Tigers 3, White Sox 2: Another series loss, but who’s counting?

Jesse Scholtens went five innings of three-run ball, in another solid outing by the new starter. | David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports Well, at least we got that out of the way before football starts The Chicago White Sox (55-88) inched one game closer to a 100-loss season with a series loss against the Detroit Tigers this afternoon, 3-2. It was another uninspiring performance by the offense, ...2023
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• Tigers 3, White Sox 2: More of the same

Michael Kopech’s outings keeps getting shorter and shorter. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Another uninspiring performance leads to a sweep on the South Side Yet another embarrassing home loss for the Chicago White Sox comes this afternoon, as the Detroit Tigers secure a sweep with a 3-2 win. Now 31 games worse than .500, the White Sox sit at 53-84. Will they get to 60 wins, or avoi...2023
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• 2023 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 126

Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs bounce back after a Tigers grand slam for a 6-4 win. I do a lot of different things in this space. It all depends on the vibe I get from the game and often things on social media. For better or for worse, I assume that social media gives some cross-section of where the collective consciousness of Cubs nation and by extent al...2023
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• Tigers take ASU's Torkelson No. 1 in MLB draft
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• Soroka debuts, Arcia homers, Braves beat Tigers 5-3
More like Michael Swoleroka, am I right? | Mike Watters-USA TODAY Sports Michael Soroka’s back, everyone! Michael Soroka made his long-awaited 2023 Spring Training debut on Wednesday afternoon as the Braves socked a 5-3 win over the Tigers in in Lakeland, FL. Orlando Arcia reached base three times and drove in four of the Braves’ five runs, including a three-run homer, just a couple of day...2023
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• Simply put: Braves are the best in June 2023
Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It was literally the best month for the Braves franchise since the start of the 20th century. I don’t think anyone ever goes back to read any of these monthly recaps, but if one were to do so, the very first part of each would give them a refresher about how the month went relative to expectations. I have a feeling that no one i...2023
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• Tigers Option Spencer Torkelson
The Tigers announced to reporters, including Chris McCosky of the Detroit News, that first baseman Spencer Torkelson has been optioned to Triple-A Toledo. The corresponding move will be announced later, as today’s game was postponed due to rain, meaning the Tigers don’t play again until after the All-Star break. The first overall selection of the…...2022
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• Cubs 7, Tigers 6: More drama than we needed, part 2

Lon Horwedel-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs won their third straight... but it was not easy. Hey, Cubs! Maybe soon, you could take a big early lead and, you know, hold it? For the second straight game, the Cubs took that early-inning lead. Also for the second straight game, they had scored four runs and had a multiple-run lead heading into the eighth inning. This time, a bit of a bullpen meltdo...2023
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• Spencer Torkelson Makes Tigers Opening Day Roster
Spencer Torkelson, the former number one overall pick of the amateur draft, has made the Tigers opening day roster, per Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press (via Twitter). The team announced his official promotion via Twitter. Torkelson is the fifth-ranked prospect in the game per Baseball America, and fourth-ranked prospect overall by MLB.com and…...2022
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• Tigers Notes: Torkelson, Greene, Hess
The Tigers announced Spencer Torkelson as a third baseman when they selected him with the first overall pick in the 2020 draft. That was in spite of the fact that Torkelson was primarily a first baseman/corner outfielder at Arizona State University, where fellow prospects Alika Williams, Drew Swift and Gage Workman generally covered the more demanding positions on the…...2022
• Tigers 10, White Sox 0: Bad things happen to bad people

A double-digit loss to the third-place Tigers does not feel like a fresh start. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Detroit rookie shuts down South Side offense Nothing about this season has made sense, and I don’t expect it to any time soon. That is why when a rookie with an ERA of more than five held the White Sox offense to exactly zero runs, I was not surprised. Even less surprising was th...2023
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• Sell High on Jose Berrios? - May 14, 2024
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• Frustrations & Fluctuations - April 21, 2024
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 22, 2024
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• Tigers Bring In A Carpenter To Fix Broken Bats
Guess what, y'all?! A new Spencer Torkelson dropped! No, he's nothing like that old Spencer Torkelson! For one, he's not young! He's more like a new older Spencer Torkelson! For two, the Tigers are calling up Kerry Carpenter because they have no conceivable reason to keep him down anymore, because of the stats he was putting up in the minors -- .316/.384/.653 with 30 home runs and 75 RBIs in 96 ga...2022
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• Top 25 First Basemen for 2022 Fantasy Baseball
Closer and Closer we can see the light beaming ever so strongly as we make our way to the start of our baseball journey. April Day baseball will be upon us soon, DFS lineups to pour over, lineup decisions hmmm do I start Jace Peterson or Josh Harrison this week can't wait right? Man I've never been so interested in the Chicago weather when I wake up than I do from April-Sept. Well we all ...2022
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• Riley Greene, 2022 Fantasy Outlook
Here's what A.J. Hinch said regarding Riley Greene and his teammate, who I just covered in my Spencer Torkelson fantasy, "It's gonna be big drama, and you guys are gonna ask a lot, and I love that. I love the pressure on these guys. And then we'll see where it takes us. I hope they put all kinds of pressure on us for Opening Day." Trying not to lose my shizz that every prospect, who is ready, shou...2021
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• Spencer Torkelson, 2022 Fantasy Outlook
Up front, out of the way, Prospect Itch's thoughts, "Spencer Torkelson is unique as a first overall pick in that it’s really just the bat Detroit drafted. They announced him as a third baseman on draft night, and Torkelson might be a good enough athlete to make that work, but it doesn’t matter all that much to his prospect stock if he has to slide back over to first base. The carrying tools are hi...2021
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• Cubs 10, Tigers 2: Miguel Amaya’s grand slam leads the way

Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs offense exploded, and Justin Steele had an excellent outing. Well, THAT was fun! The weather in Chicago this week has been about as good as it’s been all summer, and on a glorious, warm summer afternoon the Cubs exploded offensively for a 10-2 thrashing of the Tigers, led by Miguel Amaya’s second-inning grand slam. It was the most runs the Cubs had ...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Brian Kalmer’s walk-off HR leads South Bend over Whitecaps, 4-2

Brian Kalmer | Allan Henry-USA TODAY Sports Lots of home runs in the system only the Pelicans ended up on the wrong side of the scoreboard. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs broiled the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 4-2. Thomas Pannone started and collected the win after he allowed two runs on six hits over six innings. One of the runs was a first-inning home run by Spencer Torkelson. Pannone struck out...2024
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• Surprise Demotions Abound - June 3rd, 2024
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• Sell High on Jose Berrios? - May 14, 2024
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• Spencer for Hire? - May 13, 2024
Spencer Torkelson (1B - DET) - In a meaningless 9-1 game and on his 147th AB of the season, Torkelson finally hit HR #1 to extend his hitting streak to 7 games. It was (not surprisingly) his hardest-hit ball of the year, and it gives him 4 2B and a HR in this recent hot streak. Just FYI: Torkelson's HR by month in 2023: 2,2,7,4,9,7. That in and of itself means very little, and his EV being down ov...2024
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• Big inning turns pitcher’s duel into 8-0 Royals laugher

The Royals put up a crooked number in the ninth inning. The Royals and Tigers were engaged in a tense pitcher’s duel for eight innings before Kansas City broke the game wide open in the ninth inning leading to an 8-0 win in the series opener on Friday afternoon. The Royals got seven shutout innings from Seth Lugo, who lowered his season ERA to 1.66, allowing just three hits and recording a season-...2024
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