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• ‘Worst Meeting I’ve Ever Been in’ – Steve Cohen Reveals Why His Initial Talks With Juan Soto Almost Made Him Give Up
Mets owner Steve Cohen thought one meeting with Juan Soto was the "worst" before he decided to sign with them in free agency....2025
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• Steve Cohen thought Juan Soto was returning to Yankees after brutal Mets meeting: ‘One of the worst’

Steve Cohen believed that Juan Soto was headed back to the Yankees....2025
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• Steve Cohen Admits Juan Soto’s ‘Special’ Situation Forced Him To Go Overboard During His Free Agency
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen explained why he decided to sign Juan Soto to a long-term contract this past MLB offseason....2025
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• ‘Not Trying To Make Money’ – Steve Cohen Opens Up About Mets Ownership
Steve Cohen’s ownership of the New York Mets is about more than money. From Juan Soto to Francisco Lindor, he’s all in on building a championship team....2025
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• Mets owner Steve Cohen tells The Post what’s impressed him about TGL as his NY Golf Club vies for title

Steve Cohen not only owns the New York club, he’s hooked by the product, which he invested in with questions about whether the concept would work....2025
• MLB insider gives bold prediction on New York Mets’ playoff chances after Steve Cohen’s billion-dollar offseason

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen poured nearly $1 billion into contracts this offseason following the team's unexpected NLCS run last year....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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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
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• A view from the basement of the NL East

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Sizing up the top three teams in the NL East as the Nationals look to make up ground on the divisions elite For the Nationals to get back into contention, they are going to overtake some of the titans of the National League in their own division. The NL East is an unforgiving landscape, where teams like the Mets, Phillies and Braves come into most seasons with cham...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The rich get richer

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Dodgers make yet another impact signing and the Yankees, of all teams, complain. Some other minor signings and a look at who is left on the market. Seattle is where bats go to die. Good morning. The rich get richer as the Dodgers have signed reliever Kirby Yates to a one-year, $13 million deal. Bradford Doolittle asks if you split the Dodgers ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 27, 2025

Photo by Jason Hanna/Getty Images GO CHIEFS! Alden Gonzalez and Jesse Rogers at ESPN talk to players like former Royals All-Star Mike Sweeney about Ichiro Suzuki. Sweeney: ”He leads off the game with a line drive to left-center field for a base hit and he gets over to first base, and all I could think about was when I was in Japan playing against the Japanese all-stars, anytime that an Am...2025
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• Here’s why the Braves won’t reset the luxury tax

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Also, a look at how much budget the Braves may have to spend this offseason. Despite GM Alex Anthopoulos stating that payroll will go up in 2025 and clarifying that the luxury tax will not be a deterrent in their ability to spend, some fans have speculated that the Atlanta Braves might opt to stay under the luxury tax anyways after a ...2024
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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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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Juan Soto’s massive new contract with the Mets, in perspective. Sunday night the news the baseball world was waiting for finally broke. Juan Soto had agreed to a market-shattering ten-year deal with the New York Mets, for $765 million. While the top-line number exceeds what the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani for last year (Ohtani’s contract hit t...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market

Photo by J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images But what will it take to sign him? There are plenty of big names out there who have now hit the free agent market, but likely none is bigger than Yankees’ slugger Juan Soto. Soto, agented by Scott Boras, is sure to fetch a tidy sum, and plenty of teams are already making overtures to try and get him on their roster. Al will have m...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves take 3-1 series lead over Astros in World Series

Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2021 - The Braves take a 3-1 lead in the series with a 3-2 win at Truist Park in Game 4. Dylan Lee begins the game as the opener but is quickly replaced by Kyle Wright who escapes a bases loaded jam in the first inning with just one run scored. Atlanta cut Houston’s lead to 2-1 in the sixth and then got back-...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
Danny Rockett A summary of happenings at the first Cubs Con in three years. I am a part of the greatest community in the world: I am a Cubs fan. Cubs fans can be from anywhere and can be anyone. You can be a part of any religion, race, or gender and the bond that ties us all together is a love of the Chicago Cubs. Whether you’re an autograph hound, a fantasy league stats nerd, gear head, o...2023
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"Team owner Steve Cohen and president of baseball operations David Stearns each addressed the situation…"

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"Even the morally misguided New York Mets owner Steve Cohen went on record saying he sees his investment in his team as philanthropy to the city and the fan base."

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"Leave it to Mets owner Steve Cohen to find a way to keep the spotlight on his franchise, even when the biggest game of the NFL season will be unfolding."

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"Robinson Cano decision proves Steve Cohen is Mets’ most valuable weapon"

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"Steve Cohen fumes at ‘unproductive’ Mets as season spirals"

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"An on-again, off-again negotiation between Steve Cohen and the New York Mets finally resulted in the franchise's sale to the billionaire Monday, pending the approval of the Major League Baseball club owners"

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"Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager who owns 4% of the New York Mets, is negotiating an agreement to acquire up to 80% of the team."

• Steve Cohen Admits Juan Soto’s ‘Special’ Situation Forced Him To Go Overboard During His Free Agency
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• MLB insider gives bold prediction on New York Mets’ playoff chances after Steve Cohen’s billion-dollar offseason
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 20, 2025

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images Is MJ about to turn a corner? J.J. Picollo talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the club with Jaylon Thompson. Still, Picollo believes there is room to grow. It’s the sweet spot in having a young core that is learning to win at the big-league level. “I think from an offensive standpoint, I think we produced well last year,” Picollo said. “There is...2025
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The face of the franchise will become the face of free agency this fall. Happy Wednesday BCB friends! We have some interesting stories ahead for you today, chief among them being that one of baseball’s biggest extensions isn’t happening. The Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr failed to come to an agreement on extension terms. As a result, Vlad Jr,...2025
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• Braves News: Chris Sale to start Saturday, shortstop trade options, and more

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. We are days away from the first spring training game, as the Atlanta Braves open up play in the Grapefruit League on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins. Chris Sale is penciled in to start. To get you through until then, we’ve got shortstop trade options, 2025 regression candidates, and more. More Braves N...2025
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• Steve Cohen Discusses Mets’ Long-Term Spending Plans
Mets owner Steve Cohen spoke with reporters on Tuesday morning, discussing the organization’s spending outlook after another huge offseason. Cohen acknowledged that a winter involving a record-setting Juan Soto contract and retaining Sean Manaea and Pete Alonso pushed spending beyond his initial expectations. “It always seems like ballplayers are more expensive than you think,” t...2025
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• How Mets' Steve Cohen believes Pete Alonso will respond to facing another contract year

Mets owner Steve Cohen recently spoke about how Pete Alonso will handle the pressure of facing another "prove it" season....2025
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• Outside The Confines: The rich get richer
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• A view from the basement of the NL East
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• Vinnie Pasquantino has a point about the first baseman market

Vinnie Pasquantino #9 of the Kansas City Royals follows the ball during the ninth inning against the New York Yankees during Game Four of the Division Series at Kauffman Stadium on October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Why hasn’t anyone signed Pete Alonso? Last week, Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino appeared on The Chris Rose Rot...2025
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• What the Dodgers are doing is great for them. It might not be great for baseball’s future.

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images And some thoughts about the Cubs, too. Late Thursday, Jeff Passan posted this 3,000-word epic that’s mostly about the Dodgers’ pursuit of Roki Sasaki. It’s worth reading for that alone, but Passan also touches on whether what the Dodgers are doing is good for the sport, and adds a few things about the Cubs and comments made over t...2025
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• The best hitter at Kauffman Stadium the past five years is a free agent - should the Royals sign him?

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Should the Royals pursue Joey Gallo? When I started exploring potential free agents the Kansas City Royals might target with less than a month until pitchers and catchers report, the usual suspects came to mind. Outfielder Anthony Santander seemed like a great fit, especially with reports suggesting he might settle for a short-term deal this offseason. Thir...2025
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• MLB Winter Meetings: Juan Soto, Draft Lottery and more

Photo by Taylor Baucom/MLB Photos via Getty Images From the Soto Sweepstakes to the MLB Draft Lottery and some new Hall of Famers, Dallas will feature a busy winter week for baseball. For over a century, the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings have been circled on the league’s calendar as the highlight of the long dry spell before spring training. Just over a month after the end of the W...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Mets series preview: Party like it’s 2015!

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Time flies! It has been nine years since the Royals marched into Citi Field and won Game 5 of the 2015 World Series, securing the second title in club history. Salvador Perez is the only player from that series still on one of these teams, and only three other players from that series are even on a big league roster in 2024 (Michael Conforto, Jacob deGrom,...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No deal for Vlad Jr. and the Jays
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• MLB’s 7 most desperate teams to win 2025 World Series

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images For these seven teams, the stakes are higher than high. Every team wants to win the World Series. Yes, even the bad teams, the ones that don’t appear to be trying, want to win it all. They’d love nothing more than to luck into a Cinderella season and host a parade, but for some teams, hoisting the World Series trophy is more than an idle desire. It’s an obs...2024
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• Juan Soto’s contract surpasses LeBron and Tom Brady’s combined career earnings, and 6 other wild facts
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• Outside The Confines: Play Ball!

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Jordan Montgomery is a Snake at last. Decisions are made concerning who makes the Opening Day rosters. Looking ahead to the 2024 season and other news from MLB. I’m not going to have any Shohei Ohtani links today. I think we’ve covered that story well enough in other pieces on this site. If you have read something that you really think th...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ son of abridged too far

Getty Images Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, cooked just the way you like them. How is it all going to come down? Speculation is all we have to cling to, and it’s a slippery rock to hold. There’s no scrying in baseball. 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 ba...2023
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• Cubs ownership and management is pretty good — consider these 6 other cautionary tales

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports You can criticize Cubs leadership at times... but it could be a whole lot worse. It’s a parlor game, really, or what used to be called that: Complaining about the ownership and/or front-office management of your favorite baseball team. Cubs fans are no different than any other in this regard; rightly or wrongly, Tom Ricketts and Jed Hoyer get their share ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Flushing full of money
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Mets go on a huge spending spree, but how much better are they? A look at the crazy spending this winter. The stars come out for the WBC this time. A free agent got married. If Steve Cohen offers me a $10 million deal to write about the Mets, I’m outta here. Like you wouldn’t do it. We’re starting with all the Mets signings and I apologize is some of ...2022
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• Mets’ Francisco Lindor reveals he and fiancée Katia are married

It seems Steve Cohen wasn't the only member of the Mets making life-changing moves this weekend....2021
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• Cohen reaches an agreement to purchase Mets
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• Wilpons in talks to sell controlling stake in Mets
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• Investor looks to increase Mets' ownership stake
Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager who owns four percent of the New York Mets, is negotiating an agreement to acquire up to 80 percent of the team....2019
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• Steve Cohen Reportedly Ending Negotiations To Buy Mets
New York billionaire Steve Cohen “has decided to walk away” from his bid to buy an 80 percent share of the Mets from the Wilpon family, Thornton McEnery of the New York Post reports. Rumors of the deal falling through surfaced earlier today on Barstool Radio (Twitter link), and McEnery now reports that Cohen is…...2020
• Robinson Cano decision proves Steve Cohen is Mets’ most valuable weapon

The Mets’ most lethal weapon is not one of their two Hall-of-Fame arms, or the lumber carried to the plate by any of their hitters....2022
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• Mets swiftly signing Justin Verlander shows they’re in different league than Yankees
The Winter Meetings haven’t even been going on for 24 hours. The New York Mets already made the biggest splash of the offseason thus far. Justin Verlander will now be atop the rotation in Queens alongside Max Scherzer after signing a two-year, $86 million contract. Steve Cohen has officially established himself and the Mets, for […] Mets swiftly signing Justin Verlander shows they̵...2022
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• New York Mets have so much money they’re running a Super Bowl commercial
The New York Mets are pulling the ultimate sports crossover during Super Bowl LVII, running an ad for the upcoming baseball season. Leave it to Mets owner Steve Cohen to find a way to keep the spotlight on his franchise, even when the biggest game of the NFL season will be unfolding. After an offseason […] New York Mets have so much money they’re running a Super Bowl commercial - FanSi...2023
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• Steve Cohen fumes at ‘unproductive’ Mets as season spirals

The billionaire owner slammed the Mets "unproductive" lineup as the team's losing streak hit five with a 3-2 loss to the Giants on Tuesday night....2021

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• A Game of Groans
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• An unconventional Cubs Convention: Fans, friendship and love for a baseball team
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• MLB insider gives bold prediction on New York Mets’ playoff chances after Steve Cohen’s billion-dollar offseason
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: New York Mets
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• MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 20, 2025
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• Braves News: Chris Sale to start Saturday, shortstop trade options, and more
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• A view from the basement of the NL East
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• Outside The Confines: The rich get richer
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• Vinnie Pasquantino has a point about the first baseman market
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• Outside The Confines: Are the Mets done fighting for Pete Alonso?

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images With negotiations turning “exhausting” it seems likely Pete won’t be a Met this season Happy Monday, BCB friends, and welcome to the last week of January. While it seems impossible that the first month of the year is already done, it is delightful to know that we are mere weeks away from seeing real live baseball in 2025, which is a delightful prospect. Thi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 27, 2025
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• Pete Alonso reportedly makes major Scott Boras decision amid Mets, Blue Jays whispers

It was reported Tuesday night that Mets owner Steve Cohen "was back in conversation with" representatives for Alonso regarding a potential reunion....2025
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• LIV Golf to replace Greg Norman with former 76ers, Devils chief executive

Greg Norman looks on during the LIV Golf Andalucia event in July 2024. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images Multiple reports have confirmed that Greg Norman will no longer serve as CEO of LIV Golf. After a months-long search, LIV Golf has settled upon its new chief executive officer. Multiple reports indicate that Scott O’Neil, who held the same title for the Philadelphia 76ers and the New...2024
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• Report: Owner Woody Johnson’s son has been “de facto GM” of the New York Jets

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Typically, the below is not a tweet that I would bother writing an article on. However, the New York Jets are not in typical times, as the organization seems to be in a complete free-fall into madness in recent weeks. In light of that, anything seems possible, so who knows and maybe this is at least somewhat accurate? Given the size of the claim, it’s pr...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto tops the free agent market
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• This Day in Braves History: Braves take 3-1 series lead over Astros in World Series
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• 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Things can’t get worse after a disastrous 2023 season... right? Everything went wrong for the Mets in 2023. Really, it’s been a downward spiral since the club lost a 10.5 game divisional lead to the Braves in the summer months of 2022 and then quickly bowed out in the Wild Card round against the Padres. A real shame. Objectively speaking, there was no reason ...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Homers by Jorge Soler and Dansby Swanson lead Atlanta to 3-1 lead over Houston

Photo by Michael Zarrilli/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2021 - The Braves take a 3-1 lead in the series with a 3-2 win at Truist Park in Game 4. Dylan Lee begins the game as the opener but is quickly replaced by Kyle Wright who escapes a bases loaded jam in the first inning with just one run scored. Atlanta cut Houston’s lead to 2-1 in the sixth and then got back-to-back home runs ...2023
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• 2022: The Year That Broke White Sox Fans
Surrounded by all his fans ... | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The anger is different now — we all see things for what they really are I’ve been a Sox fan for nearly 40 years. I have vague memories of people being happy in 1983. I remember the 1990 season feeling important after five years of absolute garbage baseball, baseball that I loved nevertheless. I cried at the last game in the old ...2022
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