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• Reds To Place Rhett Lowder On 15-Day Injured List
The Reds will place right-hander Rhett Lowder on the 15-day injured list prior to Tuesday’s game against the Nationals. Manager Terry Francona told reporters (including the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Pat Brennan) that Lowder was headed to the IL prior to today’s 5-0 victory over the Astros, though the Reds opted against making a transaction to add […]...2026
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• NL Week 7 Strategy-May 3, 2026
In The Field C Sean Murphy (hip) is expected to be activated next week for the series against the Mariners. He is likely to get most of his at-bats initially at DH while he is slowly worked in at catcher. This means that C Jonah Heim's time with the club is likely going to come to an end soon. 2B Jorge Polanco (wrist/Achilles) has started baseball activities, but is still weeks away from returni...2026
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• Reds To Place Eugenio Suárez On Injured List
The Reds will place Eugenio Suárez on the 10-day injured list with a low-grade oblique strain, manager Terry Francona told reporters (including Charlie Goldsmith). He was scratched from tonight’s game with what the team initially called mid-back discomfort. Although oblique strains can linger for hitters, this one doesn’t appear to be particularly serious. Goldsmith writes that […...2026
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• Williamson, Lowder, Burns Make Reds’ Roster
The Reds will open the season with six starters on the major league roster, manager Terry Francona announced (via Mark Sheldon of MLB.com). With Hunter Greene out until midseason, Cincinnati had three rotation locks: Opening Day starter Andrew Abbott, fellow lefty Nick Lodolo and veteran right-hander Brady Singer. Lefty Brandon Williamson and righties Chase Burns […]...2026
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• Reds Slow Chase Burns After Range Of Motion Issue
Reds right-hander Chase Burns tossed just 24 pitches in his spring outing on Friday, a significant step back from the 68 he threw in his previous appearance. The approach was intentional, manager Terry Francona told reporters, including Charlie Goldsmith of Fox 19. Burns’ abbreviated outing came after he experienced a limited range of motion in […]...2026
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• Caleb Ferguson To Begin Season On Injured List
Reds reliever Caleb Ferguson will open the season on the 15-day injured list, manager Terry Francona told reporters (link via Mark Sheldon of MLB.com). The southpaw strained his right oblique and will be shelved for at least a few weeks. The injury will delay Ferguson’s team debut. The Reds signed him to a one-year, $4.5MM free […]...2026
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• Caleb Ferguson To Begin Season On Injured List
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• Hunter Greene To Undergo MRI On Right Elbow
Reds ace Hunter Greene is heading for an MRI after experiencing stiffness in his right elbow, manager Terry Francona tells reporters at Reds camp this morning. Greene himself says the injury dates back to late last season (link via Charlie Goldsmith). He was recommended for an injection and had a normal offseason but tells the […]...2026
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Javier Báez is El Mago again. A Brewers rookie has an impressive debut. A look ahead to the trade deadline and the draft. And other baseball news. Let’s go surfing now. Everybody’s learning how. Come on and safari with me. I’m leading with this one because it’s the one that will bring the most joy to your heart. Jesse Rogers tells of how the Tigers’ Javier ...2025
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• Rhett Lowder Suffers Oblique Strain
The Reds received some difficult news on the pitching front this week. Rookie right-hander Rhett Lowder, who has been out all season with a forearm strain, suffered a new injury during a rehab start at Triple-A Louisville on Thursday. Manager Terry Francona told reporters (including Mark Sheldon of MLB.com) that Lowder sustained a “fairly significant” strain…...2025
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• AJ Smith-Shawver cruises in Braves’ one-hitter win over Reds, 4-0

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images It wasn’t the prettiest pitching line, but Smith-Shawver rolled through eight innings. AJ Smith-Shawver threw eight one-hit innings, no-hitting the Reds through seven, as the Braves used a single scoring inning to topple Brady Singer and the Reds on Monday night. While Smith-Shawver mostly let the defense behind him do the work and wa...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The city of Sacramento is torn over the Athletics. The Braves have a controversy as the team struggles. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Dan Moore has a wonderful essay on the city of Sacramento, the Athletics and the “Faustian” bargain that brought them together. Sacramento is hungry for an MLB team of its own, but the Athletics s...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• 3 MLB teams that could surprise in 2025

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images These young teams could take a significant step forward in 2025. About this time last year, virtually no prognosticators predicted that any more than the requisite one American League Central team would make the postseason. In a division in which seemingly every team was a .500 team, the assumption was the division winner would sneak their way into the po...2025
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• 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL Central

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images This is a division of haves and have-nots. Last year, three AL Central teams made the postseason and four finished over .500. This was largely because they all fattened up against the awful White Sox. The Twins, Tigers, Guardians and Royals went 42-10 against the White Sox. Wow. The Cubs, meanwhile, were 10-6 against the AL Central last year. So that...2025
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• 'I texted him right away and said, "Are you crazy?"': Why Terry Francona and Bruce Bochy ditched retirement to manage again
Rounds of golf and relaxing vacations weren't enough to keep two skippers in their 60s away from the game for long....2025
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• COVID Notes: 3/7/21
The latest on coronavirus-related situations around baseball… Jose Ramirez and Franmil Reyes are both being held out of Indians training camp for breaking health and safety protocols, manager Terry Francona told reporters (including MLB.com’s Mandy Bell and the Akron Beacon Journal’s Ryan Lewis). The players self-reported their violations, which included dining together at a res...2021
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: As Mets and Nationals Race, 23 May Be Lucky Number
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• Big Man, Big Personality: The Oral History of David Ortiz's MLB Adventure
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• Inside the Chicago Cubs' Hiring of Joe Maddon, One of MLB's Best Managers
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"With Eugenio Suarez now signed, Terry Francona is going to have a lot of options available, but what's the best lineup for the Cincinnati Reds?"

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"Terry Francona then went to a pinch-hitter to face Zerpa, summoning Austin Wynns."

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"Reds to hire Terry Francona as manager (source)"

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"When Terry Francona retires, his legacy will be less about his almost 2,000 wins and more about his ability to connect."

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"Terry Francona will return to manage Cleveland Guardians in 2023"

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"Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona is stepping down for the remainder of this season to address some lingering health issues."

2020
"Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona will miss his team's three-game series with the Pirates to undergo a "scheduled procedure" to address a gastrointestinal issue."

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"Two World Series rings belonging to Terry Francona have been recovered after they were stolen from the former Boston Red Sox manager last month, according to the Pima County (Ariz."

2018
"John Patsy "Tito" Francona, the father of Indians manager Terry Francona and a veteran of 15 Major League seasons, died Tuesday night at his home in New Brighton, Pa."

2017
"That is how Indians manager Terry Francona described the situation on Friday, when asked if the left fielder would be on the team's Opening Day roster."

2016
"Terry Francona, Red Sox manager, 2004-11: I remember talking to him."

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""We're trying to be pretty respectful to Mike and his family stuff," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said."

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"Terry Francona got the job."

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• Outside The Confines: It’s All-Star Week

Brett Davis-Imagn Images It’s time for baseball’s biggest stars to shine. It’s officially the All-Star break, and while we won’t have standard game play again until Friday, there’s still a lot of excitement to happen this week. We’ve got the Home Run Derby tonight and the big show, the All-Star Game, tomorrow. Lots of fun to be had, and also lots of news to catch up on from the world of b...2025
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• Let’s check in on the Cubs and their NL Central rivals

The Cubs celebrate a walkoff and a series win against the Pirates | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs are in the middle of a seven-game stretch against division rivals. The Cubs maintained a 5½ game lead in the division over the weekend taking three of four from the Pirates, but now the real fun starts. The second place Brewers are heading to Wrigley Field for a three-game set, there...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl
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• Outside The Confines: Craig Kimbrel has a new home

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images He’ll bring his unusual stance to Texas. Happy Wednesday, everyone. We have loads of fun little tidbits, from one of the greatest catches you’ll ever see, to a new media partnership for MLB, to a new home for Craig Kimbrel, and two highly-anticipated prospects making their MLB debut. We’re also in countdown mode to both the trade deadline and MLB...2025
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• AJ Smith-Shawver cruises in Braves’ one-hitter win over Reds, 4-0
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• The Braves hope to rebound against the Reds - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta and Cincinnati renew their old NL West rivalry. The Atlanta Braves wrap-up their home stand this week with a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. After a disappointing series loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta will try their luck against another former NL West foe. The Reds have been an early-season surprise in the NL Central...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta
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• Outside The Confines: The sights of Opening Day

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images We missed you, baseball, welcome back! After a long, cold winter, an opening series on the other side of the world, and a ton of very intriguing free agency signings and trades, the 2025 baseball season is officially underway. There was plenty of action to keep an eye on for Opening Day, but as is usual with the start of the season, there was also a lot of ...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• AJ Smith-Shawver cruises in Braves’ one-hitter win over Reds, 4-0
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• Elly De La Cruz used the torpedo bat and had a MONSTER night

The torpedo is taking over. This is the torpedo bat’s world, and we’re just living in it. The innovative new bat design made waves over the weekend when the New York Yankees smashed nine home runs in a game against the Brewers, leading to players all over baseball making calls and trying to land a torpedo of their own. On Monday night Reds’ star Elly De La Cruz used the torpedo for the first time...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Spencer Steer To Begin Season On Reds’ Injured List
Spencer Steer hit during a minor league Spring Training game on Thursday, marking his first game action of any type since February 27. Despite this step forward, the bothersome right shoulder that has sidelined Steer for much of camp will result in a season-opening placement on the injured list, Reds manager Terry Francona told MLB.com’s…...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: The Cubs are going to have a very good year

Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images So say the voters in the recent survey. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This edition of SB Nation Reacts is sponsored by FanDuel. There’s been a lot of angst surroundi...2025
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• The annual preseason PECOTA ranking says the Cubs will win 90 games

Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com And yes, I’m saying there’s a chance. Baseball Prospectus’ annual PECOTA standings ranking has appeared for the first time on their site for 2025. And not only do they have the Cubs winning 90 games, they’ve got them comfortably winning the NL Central. Here, have a look: Now, I’m generally an optimist and yes, I believe this y...2025
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1961

“The other” Frank Thomas bats for the Cubs in 1960 | Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images A companion series to last year’s. Last year’s offseason series here was a look at Cubs trades from 1962-2023. You can read all those articles here. So, this year I’m going to do the rest of the trades in Cubs history in the Modern Era, since 1901. Unlike last year, when I began in 1962 and ended in the pr...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies keep signing on for non-competitive future

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, October 11, 2024 According to the Cambridge Dictionary, one of the definitions for the word competitive is “eager to do better than others in an activity, esp. trying to win in a sports activity.” It’s not a word that usually needs defining, especially in the sports world. But it seems like the Rockies might nee...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: American League Preview

Even in a relative down season, the Astros might very well extend their ALCS streak. Will any American League team make like the Rangers and topple them? During the decade-plus of MLB play from 2005-16, only two American League teams won at least 100 games. Outside of the 2008 Angels and 2009 Yankees, it was always a scramble of several good teams, but no true slam-dunk standouts (and even the ‘08...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It’s All-Star Week
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl
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• Outside The Confines: Craig Kimbrel has a new home
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• Bryse Wilson shellacked, bats hijacked, White Sox fall to Reds, 7-1

This great Luis Robert Jr. catch was one of the only bright moments this afternoon. | Dylan Buell/Getty Images But they did manage a hit by the fifth inning It looked for just a second, perhaps two seconds, as if the White Sox were going to have enough good fortune to have a crack at sweeping the Reds. Miguel Vargas led off with a dribbler to third off of Nick Martinez and was initially ca...2025
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• What the *$&#@*, White Sox, Clevinger again? Really?

New White Sox logo? | GEORGES GOBET/AFP via Getty Images Yet another Jerry Reinsdorf middle finger to the fans For this, the third time is definitely not the charm. It is just a pile of &$%# that the White Sox are shoving down the throats of their fans, one more chance for Jerry Reinsdorf to show how much he hates Sox fans for not adoring him sufficiently. Presumably, the choice to offer M...2025
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• Outside The Confines: College baseball begins

Jace LaViolette | Dylan Widger-Imagn Images The college baseball season started this weekend. Storylines from Spring Training. Who might yet be traded? Plus other baseball news. Good morning. We had real baseball over the weekend, albeit the kind with aluminum bats. Jacob Rudner has 12 takeaways from NCAA baseball’s opening weekend. Rudner also has 18 college pitchers who stood out this...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Alex Bregman sweepstakes are over

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images And the Red Sox are the winners. The biggest lingering question of the offseason free agent market has finally been answered, and that’s: Who will sign Alex Bregman? The three biggest contenders were our own Cubs, the Detroit Tigers, and the Boston Red Sox. Despite a reportedly large offer from the Tigers, it was the Red Sox who won out and signed the forme...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 13

About 16 months after throwing out the first pitch at ALDS Game 1 in 2016, longtime veteran Tito Francona passed away. | Jason Miller/Getty Images Farewell, Tito 1968 The White Sox traded shortstop Ron Hansen and pitchers Dennis Higgins and Steve Jones to Washington for infielder Tim Cullen and pitchers Bob Priddy and Buster Narum. (On August 2, the Senators would flip Hansen back to the W...2025
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees

The Yankees’ championship drought is a feast compared to the Guardians’. Who will get a chance to snap it? The Championship Series is upon us and only four teams remain from the 30 who began the MLB season back in March. October winnowed the field to 12 playoff teams, the Wild Card round cut out four more, and now, the New York Yankees, Cleveland Guardians, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodgers a...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies keep signing on for non-competitive future
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• Indians Won't Trade Mike Aviles out of Respect for Daughter, Who Has Leukemia
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• Terry Francona Says He Once Ate 17 Popsicles, Nearly Barfed All over His House
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• Reds to hire Terry Francona as manager (source)
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• Brantley likely to play Opening Day for Tribe
The paperwork is not done, but the work has been completed by Michael Brantley. That is how Indians manager Terry Francona described the situation on Friday, when asked if the left fielder would be on the team's Opening Day roster....2017
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• Big Man, Big Personality: The Oral History of David Ortiz's MLB Adventure
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• Inside the Chicago Cubs' Hiring of Joe Maddon, One of MLB's Best Managers
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• Activation looming, Brantley set to join Indians
Left fielder Michael Brantley will join the Indians on Monday in Minnesota. That was all that manager Terry Francona was willing to reveal on Sunday morning while discussing Brantley's pending activation from the disabled list....2016
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• Theo Epstein Erases Losing Traditions as Baseball's Miracle Worker
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• 1st-Place Indians Make AL Central Statement with Sweep of Defending Champ Royals
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Yankees Try Building Without Opening Their Checkbook
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• Corey Kluber Gets Back on Track with an 18-K Start for the Ages
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• Indians' Carlos Carrasco Shows Why He Is Primed to Be Sleeper AL Cy Young Pick
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• Team Offense, Cincinnati Reds
Claude.AI writes (light edits): The Cincinnati Reds averaged 4.42 runs per game in 2025, fourteenth in the majors and eighth in the National League. Under manager Terry Francona, the Reds offense is built around the electric Elly De La Cruz, whose combination of a .338 projected on-base average and .454 slugging gives the lineup its […]...2026
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• What’s the ideal lineup for the Reds with Eugenio Suarez signed?
With Eugenio Suarez now signed, Terry Francona is going to have a lot of options available, but what's the best lineup for the Cincinnati Reds? The post What’s the ideal lineup for the Reds with Eugenio Suarez signed? appeared first on Redleg Nation....2026
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• Outside The Confines: It’s All-Star Week
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• Let’s check in on the Cubs and their NL Central rivals
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• Outside The Confines: A Tiger on the prowl
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• Crimson competitors cannot clobber Cameron’s curves, Royals roll Reds 3-2

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Noah Cameron worked into the seventh inning for the fourth time in four starts. Noah Cameron was sharp once against and the offense did just enough as the Kansas City Royals took down the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium this evening. Little of note happened in the early innings. Kansas City made Hunter Greene work and had baserunners in each of the firs...2025
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• The Braves hope to rebound against the Reds - and here’s how you can watch
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• Outside The Confines: Things are getting hot in Atlanta
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• Outside The Confines: The sights of Opening Day
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• Let’s check in on the Cubs and their NL Central rivals
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• This day in Braves History: Braves coach Don Baylor gets hired as Cubs manager

Baylor spent one year on Atlanta’s coaching staff before joining the Cubs as the skipper. Braves Franchise History 1979: In separate deals, the New York Yankees acquire OF Ruppert Jones from the Seattle Mariners and C Rick Cerone and P Tom Underwood from the Toronto Blue Jays, giving up seven players, including popular 1B Chris Chambliss, SS Damaso Garcia, OF Juan Beniquez, and Ps Jim Beattie and...2024
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• MLB Playoffs: Underdog Guardians look to knock out big, bad Yankees
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• Analyst has shocking update on former three-time MLB Manager of the Year

Longtime ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian supplied a significant on Thursday morning regarding the future of former manager Terry Francona....2024
• Cedric Tallis belongs in the Royals Hall of Fame

Time to right a wrong Last year I made a vow to write an annual story about why the Royals’ first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, should be in the Royals Hall of Fame. Like it or not, it’s that time of year. Many of us have speculated as to why Tallis has been snubbed. His credentials are far too impressive for just a plain oversight, so there must be another underlying reason. The most common the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Royals looking for a new throne

Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images Will KC be the next team hunting for new digs? Also, big news from the Chicago White Sox. The Kansas City Royals unveiled their plans for their future stadium, and the future of Royals baseball in Kansas City. We’re excited to share the future vision of Royals baseball. For more images and to learn about the economic impact of a bal...2023
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• Anderson suspended six games amid day of chaos for White Sox organization

Tim Anderson, restrained by teammates during Saturday’s brawl. | Ron Schwane/Getty Images The shortstop’s suspension ranked only as a minor item in a flat-out embarrassing Monday for the White Sox Tim Anderson has been suspended for six games for his role in Saturday’s bench-clearing brawl, MLB announced on Monday. José Ramírez, who instigated the exchange that led Anderson to make the un...2023
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