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• Rays Stun Mets in Friday Night Thriller after Six-Run Sixth: Rays 7, Mets 5

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Down 5-1, Tampa Bay flipped the switch with a furious rally capped by Jansen’s bomb and Aranda’s heroics. It wasn’t always pretty last night, but a win is a win. The Tampa Bay Rays found their Friday night groove scoring six in the sixth for a wild 7-5 comeback win over the New York Mets at Citi Field. Jonathan Aranda homered, Danny Jansen went yard, and the...2025
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• What will the Braves get from Jurickson Profar once he returns?

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Or—”What to expect when expecting a player back from a PED suspension” Jurickson Profar can return from his 80-game drug suspension on Sunday, June 29th. The Atlanta Braves never really replaced his 2024 Padres production in their left field this year. How much of those 2024 numbers were drug-enhanced and what would a “clean” Profar look like going forward?...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Follow along as the struggling Nationals look to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Mets The Washington Nationals offense is really sputtering right now. They got shut out last night, and have only scored 15 runs in June. It is time to get back on track. However, that will be tough with Mets ace Kodai Senga on the mound. With the right handed Senga on the mou...2025
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• Starling Marte showing Juan Soto the secret to Mets life

No one on the Mets had his playing time slashed as much due to the arrival of Juan Soto, but Starling Marte is the teammate the $765 million free agent signing credits the most with helping him acclimate to his new Flushing surroundings. “Marte is a veteran player, and a great teammate, a great dude,”......2025
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• Mets 4, Rockies 2: Lindor spoils Ritter’s debut

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images The Rockies put up a fight, but a late Lindor double sank their hopes of victory The Colorado Rockies battled throughout the game, but a few missed opportunities kept the New York Mets in the contest long enough for Francisco Lindor to come through with a late, game-deciding hit that sent the Coors Field crowd home disappointed. Roli-tela Relay Antonio Senzat...2025
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• What would trading Marcell Ozuna look like?

Bill Streicher-Imagn Images You can trade Marcell Ozuna, but you won’t necessarily get what you want The “Trading Marcell Ozuna” call from some began before the Atlanta Braves got home from the West Coast after Spring Training. It was hyperbolic then, but much less so now. The Braves’ rapid descent into the Draft Lottery is in its third week now. Jeff Passan now says the most likely trade ...2025
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• What will the Braves get from Jurickson Profar once he returns?
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• Every bat the Royals were interested in this off-season has stunk so far

Photo by Ellen Schmidt/Getty Images Upgrading the lineup is hard. The Royals have had some early success, but it has come in spite of, and not because of the offense. Only three teams are averaging fewer than the 3.40 runs-per-game the Royals lineup is producing. As a team they are hitting .242/.300/.359, and their wRC+ of 83 is fourth-worst in baseball. It is a testament to how dominant t...2025
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• Everyone saw the offense’s slump coming, but fixing it is another thing entirely

MJ Melendez #1 of the Kansas City Royals reacts after striking out with the bases load to end the fifth inning of Game Two of the Wild Card Series against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 02, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images We’ve got what we’ve got. One of the refreshing traits that Royals general manager JJ Picollo and owne...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Bullpen

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Atlanta’s bullpen has been a source of strength and stability over the past couple of years, but there’s more uncertainty for their relief corps in 2025. In the past two years combined, Atlanta Braves relievers rank in the top five in ERA (fifth), FIP (second), K% (first), and BB% (third). It’s been undeniably one of the top bullpens in baseball ever...2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Mets have spent a lot and have done just okay in the process, and it remains to be seen whether 2025 will be different. While the Dodgers’ unabashed spending spree this offseason has drawn ire and thinkpieces in equal measure, it behooves us to remember that they’re not alone in their Scrooge McDuck-ness — the Mets are also right there. Steve Cohen’s c...2025
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Which will come first, the end of Kansas City’s winter or Opening Day? David Lesky at Inside the Crown stacks up the Kansas City Royals pitching room ahead of Opening Day. The change started at the end of June that year when the Royals acquired Cole Ragans, but to their credit, they didn’t stop. We know about them adding Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, but th...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 3, 2025
Alejandro Kirk (C-TOR) is in line to see more time behind the dish than ever before since Danny Jansen is no longer in town. The 26 year-old has flashed some upside in the past, most notably registering a .285 average, with 4 homers, 63 RBI, and 59 runs scored across a career-high 541 PA in 2022, with a well above-average 129 wRC+, but he has underwhelmed ever since. In just 386 PA last year, Kirk...2025
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• Pre-preseason Royals roster predictions

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 and Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals celebrate | Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images Who will start the year on the 26-man roster? By the time you’re reading this, there is less than a fortnight before pitchers and catchers report to Surprise, Arizona to begin the Royals’ Spring Training. The Royals made a couple of really splashy moves at the beginning of the of...2025
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• Remaining opportunities to help the outfield this off-season

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Will the Royals add to this bunch? The Royals had a pretty good offense last year, finishing sixth in the American League in runs scored despite a September swoon. But that performance was largely carried on the strength of an MVP-season by Bobby Witt Jr. and solid hitting from catcher Salvador Perez and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. Meanwhile, the o...2025
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• What will the Braves get from Jurickson Profar once he returns?
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• Braves complete sweep of Mets on Ozzie Albies walkoff, 13-10
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images It was another comeback win for the Braves in the series finale, but this one was markedly different than the first two. In what was rightfully billed to be a pitchers’ duel between Spencer Strider and Justin Verlander, the Braves and Mets combined for eight runs in the first inning and a half of baseball and ultimately 23 runs over 10 innings as Atlanta ...2023
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: As Mets and Nationals Race, 23 May Be Lucky Number
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"Matthew Boyd got himself in trouble by hitting Starling Marte with a pitch with two out in the second inning."

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"Taking nothing for granted he ran hard the whole way and when Starling Marte dropped it he ended up at third."

2023
"The Mets shut down Starling Marte, as their season is a few days from being over."

2022
"(The Marlins got him last year in a trade for Starling Marte."

2021
"The Marlins offered star outfielder Starling Marte a three-year, $30MM contract extension, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today."

2020
"Diamondbacks center fielder Starling Marte announced Monday on social media that his wife, Noelia, has died of a heart attack."

2019
"The Pirates will listen to offers on center fielder Starling Marte, although to this point there’s no traction toward any sort of a trade, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman tweets."

2018
"He threw Starling Marte and David Freese sinkers, but they both cut over the plate before being sent out to right for opposite-field home runs that left Zimmermann shaking his head."

2017
"Pirates outfielder Starling Marte received an 80-game suspension without pay on Tuesday for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program."

2016
"Starling Marte assured that wouldn't be the case in the eighth inning, launching his first career grand slam to left field and sending the Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Reds at Great American Ball Park."

2015
"Left fielder Starling Marte broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the 13th inning with an RBI single up the middle, sending the Pirates to a 1-0 win over the Phillies at PNC Park on Friday night, their first walk-off victory of the season."

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"A Christian Bethancourt throwing error scored the Pirates' first run in the fourth, Travis Snider took Alex Wood deep in the fifth and an RBI double from Starling Marte scored Andrew McCutchen in the sixth to put the Pirates ahead for good."

• What will the Braves get from Jurickson Profar once he returns?
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• Starling Marte showing Juan Soto the secret to Mets life
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• What would trading Marcell Ozuna look like?
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• Every bat the Royals were interested in this off-season has stunk so far
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• Everyone saw the offense’s slump coming, but fixing it is another thing entirely
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• Four solutions for the Royals’ biggest problem

John Rave #96 of the Kansas City Royals dives for a ball | Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images The specter of a failed call-up shouldn’t prevent the Royals from attempting to improve their roster A week and a half into the season is still too early to panic. You know it, I know it, we all know it. But, the thing is, this is more like 53 weeks into the season - at least when it comes to extre...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Bullpen
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• Royals interested in Mets outfielder Starling Marte, per report

Photo by Rich Storry/Getty Images The Royals made an effort to acquire the 36-year-old. The Royals have been searching under every rock to acquire an outfielder this off-season but to no success. The latest report of their efforts is from Joel Sherman of the New York Post, who writes this week that the Royals tried to acquire Mets outfielder Starling Marte, and that their efforts may not b...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 3, 2025
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• Mets 5, Rockies 3: The 10th win remains elusive

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Rockies were out-homered by the Mets, and lost in another close affair New month, same Rockies. The Colorado Rockies lost 5-3 against the New York Mets in Queens this morning. It was a homer-heavy affair on both side, but the Mets came out on top. The result was negative — 50 losses before 10 wins isn’t exactly something to hang your hat on — but ther...2025
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• Max Fried has settled in quickly with the Yankees

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Max Fried is proving to be one of the most underrated signings of the offseason. Last weekend when the AL East-leading New York Yankees (then 30-19) visited Coors Field to play the historically bad Colorado Rockies (then 8-42), a sweep seemed inevitable. Reality hit on Friday night when RHP Tanner Gordon led the Rockies to a surprising 3-2 win. The n...2025
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• The offense failed to score runs despite a great performance from Adrian Houser

Adrian Houser pitched a gem against the Mets after being released by the team last year. | Al Bello/Getty Images The White Sox fall, 2-1, in the opener Despite a great performance from Adrian Houser, the offense couldn’t muster up enough runs, and late-inning hits from the Mets gave the home club the opener win over the White Sox, 2-1 The hit king, Chase Meidroth, started the game with a w...2025
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• 5 things that stick out over the Royals’ first 10 games of 2025

Hunter Renfroe #16 of the Kansas City Royals takes the field during the game between the Cleveland Guardians and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, March 30, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The bullpen? Nice. The outfield? Not exactly so. There’s a metaphorical magnifying glass hovering above the beginning of each MLB s...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Bullpen
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• The 5 worst Cubs games of 2024

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images You probably don’t want to remember these, but here we are. There have been other years when I’ve posted a number of blowout losses in this annual recap. In some ways, those are easier to take, a team runs up a huge score against the Cubs but it still counts for only one loss. Other times I’ve filled these with soul-crushing defeats. This time, I’m going...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Surprising Mets set for NLCS clash with the Dodgers

The Mets are hoping to ride their momentum into an NLCS clash with the top seeded Dodgers It’s hard to imagine MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred could be any happier with the results of the National League playoffs thus far. Starting Sunday, two of the biggest fan bases from its two biggest markets will renew their postseason rivalry and face off in the National League Championship Series in a best-of-...2024
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• Rays Stun Mets in Friday Night Thriller after Six-Run Sixth: Rays 7, Mets 5
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• Mets 4, Rockies 2: Lindor spoils Ritter’s debut
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• What would trading Marcell Ozuna look like?
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• Max Fried has settled in quickly with the Yankees
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• The offense failed to score runs despite a great performance from Adrian Houser
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets game thread

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals look to take the series against the division leading Mets What a wild game we witnessed yesterday and on our supposed day of rest, no less. My heartbeat definitely didn’t get the memo! This Nationals team has shown incredible growth since the start of the year, and in my mind, they’ve proven they can hang with anyone. Even on a day wh...2025
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025
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• Ranking the five worst Milwaukee Brewers games of 2024

Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The most frustrating and depressing games of the year It’s said that you can’t enjoy the best moments of life without experiencing the other side. That’s true in baseball as well. Well, that’s at least what we want to tell ourselves. Here are the games that went so badly for the Brewers this season that the...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Surprising Mets set for NLCS clash with the Dodgers
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• Marte's grand slam lifts Bucs over Reds
The Pirates loaded the bases in the fifth and seventh innings Friday night and came up empty-handed both times. Starling Marte assured that wouldn't be the case in the eighth inning, launching his first career grand slam to left field and sending the Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Reds at Great American Ball Park....2016
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• Pirates edge Phillies on Marte's single in 13th
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• Marte suspended 80 games for PEDs
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• Gose, McGehee, Moya homer in windy slugfest
Starling Marte hit a three-run homer and right-hander Gerrit Cole made his first start of the spring, allowing solo shots to Anthony Gose and Casey McGehee, before the Pirates went on to beat the Tigers, 9-5, on Sunday afternoon....2016
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• Kinsler's spring tear continues against Pirates
Starling Marte hit a two-run homer in the sixth off lefty Tom Gorzelanny and the Pirates went on to defeat the Tigers, 8-7, in Grapefruit League play on Wednesday, despite a three-hit night from Ian Kinsler....2015
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• Diamondbacks' Marte says wife Noelia has died
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• Starling Marte announces wife Noelia has died of a heart attack
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025
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• Luzardo Fills Twinkies With Jesus Juice
In 2021, Jesus Luzardo (7 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 0.71) was traded for two months of Starling Marte. This is great, by the way: Hmm, is it tough to judge? I don't know, guys. I think that might be one of the easiest trades ever to judge. Especially in 2022. Is Starling Marte still on your Oakland Athletics? Did he help you win a World Series? Is Jesus Luzardo now an ace? Is he no...2023
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• Complete Preview, Predictions for Sunday's 2016 MLB Season Openers
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• Fantasy Baseball 2016: B/R's 1st Top 150 Big Board as Spring Approaches
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• 2015 MLB All-Star Game Voting Initial Update, Biggest Takeaways
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• Josh Harrison, One of MLB's Most Overlooked Stars, Gets Deserved Payday
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• Giancarlo Stanton Has Plenty of Help in MLB's Best Outfield Trio
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• 2015 Fantasy Baseball Outfielder Rankings
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• Playoff-Clinching Pittsburgh Pirates a Dark-Horse Threat in October
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread
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• Mets 4, Rockies 2: Lindor spoils Ritter’s debut
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• Mets 5, Rockies 3: The 10th win remains elusive
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• Mets 6, Cubs 2: The difference between these teams? The bullpens

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images The Cubs and Mets aren’t that far apart. But the Mets have better relievers. The Cubs and Mets played evenly for the first six and a half innings of this game, pretty much while the starters were still throwing. Then the bullpens took over and you can see the difference between the two teams. Mets relievers shut down Cubs hitters. Cubs relievers allowed four...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets game thread
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• Washington Nationals vs New York Mets game thread

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals offense looks to bounce back after being shutout last night After a walk off win on Friday, the Nationals followed that up by being shutout. In what seems to be a pattern, the Nats have been unable to build on strong performances. Today, they will take on the Mets in the third game of a four game set. Davey Martinez is stacking the top ...2025
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• 5 things that stick out over the Royals’ first 10 games of 2025
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• Four solutions for the Royals’ biggest problem
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• Braves bullpen picks an awful time to collapse in 8-7 loss to Mets

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Spencer Schwellenbach dominated the Mets again but his relievers let him down in a major way. Despite Spencer Schwellenbach delivering another great performance for the Atlanta Braves against the New York Mets, Atlanta’s bullpen picked the worst possible time during this regular season to deliver one of their worst performances of the...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 22

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images An Acuña is currently helping an NL East team get into the Postseason. It’s not Ronald and it’s not the Braves, though. For what feels like the umpteenth time in this NL Wild Card race for the Atlanta Braves, it was one step forward but two steps back. Atlanta got the job done against the Marlins but unfortunately, everybody else in the rac...2024
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• Andrew McCutchen is putting the finishing touches on a storied career

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images A spot in Cooperstown may be unlikely, but Andrew McCutchen deserves praise for an outstanding run. If I had to pick my favorite cliche statement in sports media, it’d be that father time is undefeated. Time and time again we see the decline of a once seemingly unstoppable athlete, as the miles start to pile on and they are simply not the same as they once ...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Mets series preview

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The Cubs continue their Eastern swing with a stop at Citi Field. The Mets and Cubs used to be huge rivals when they shared a division, the NL East. But since the teams were moved to different divisions 30 years ago, they meet only twice a year, once in each ballpark. After this week the teams will play a three-game set at Wrigley Field in June, th...2024
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• 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are once again the favorites to win the division but as far as Atlanta is concerned, it’s all about what they do in October. For the past few years, the story of the National League’s Eastern Division has been one that feels very familiar to how it was during the 1990s. While the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East for six straight seasons dating b...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats rally late; blow lead; fail to sweep; win series with New York Mets...
Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series finale with the Mets in Citi Field... FRONT PAGE - TREVOR WILLIAMS COMPETES: “I watched him over the years,” Davey Martinez said after free agent signee Trevor Williams’ fourth start of the new season, a six-inning, two-run outing which left him with a 3.38 ERA, 4.65 FIP, and a .244/.282/.436 line against in his first 21 1⁄3 innings pitched for the Natio...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Feeling Hall of Fame-ish
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The countdown is on to see who will be enshrined We’re less than a week away from the announcements of who will be in the 2023 MLB Hall of Fame class heading for enshrinement in Cooperstown. With only a portion of the ballots being shared publicly it can be exceptionally difficult to predict which players (if any) will make the cut. But every year Ryan Thi...2023
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• Showalter: McNeil In Line To Start For Mets At Second Base
The Mets have signed each of Starling Marte, Eduardo Escobar and Mark Canha to multi-year contracts this offseason. They’re also set to welcome Robinson Canó back from a performance-enhancing drug suspension that cost him his entire 2021 campaign. The influx of players who weren’t available to the Mets last year reshuffled the offensive group and led to plenty of speculation…...2022
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• Multiple Teams Showed Pre-Lockout Interest In J.D. Davis
The Mets were one of the most active teams in the pre-lockout frenzy, adding Max Scherzer, Starling Marte, Eduardo Escobar and Mark Canha. Those signings, along with Robinson Cano’s return from serving a season-long PED suspension, have given them a crowded position player mix. This has led to some speculation that the club could end…...2022
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