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• Cub Tracks’ at midnight, all the agents?

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Change is just around the corner, but I’m looking under the streetlight cuz that’s where the light is. 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 bas...2024
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• Watch: Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton interrupts Aaron Boone’s in-game interview with HR

With the New York Yankees leading the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 in the third inning of Wednesday’s Game 5, Fox's Tom Verducci conducted a live interview with Yankees manager Aaron Boone from the dugout. Verducci was asking Boone about Aaron Judge’s big home run earlier in the game … when they were suddenly interrupted by another monster dinger....2024
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• 2024 World Series Game 5: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Wednesday 10/30, 7:08 CT

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Yankees try to continue their comeback. Here’s all the information you’ll need for tonight’s game at Yankee Stadium. On Tuesday, the Yankees became just the fourth team to win even one game after being down three games to none in the World Series. No team has ever won a second game after being down 3-0. MLB.com Gameday for World Series ...2024
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• 2024 World Series Game 4: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Tuesday 10/29, 7:08 CT

Photo by Mike Lawrence/MLB Photos via Getty Images This could be the last game of the 2024 baseball season. Here’s all the information you’ll need for tonight’s game at Yankee Stadium, where the Dodgers could finish off a World Series win. It would be the franchise’s eighth title. MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game 4. Dodgers lead series 3-0. RHP Ben Casparius vs. RHP Luis Gil. 7:08 p.m...2024
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• 2024 World Series Game 3: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Monday 10/28, 7:08 CT

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Fall Classic scene shifts to New York. Here’s all the information you’ll need for tonight’s game at Yankee Stadium. Shohei Ohtani will play. Whether that’s a good idea or not, we’ll find out tonight. MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game 3. Dodgers lead series 2-0. RHP Walker Buehler vs. RHP Clarke Schmidt. 7:08 p.m. CT. TV: Fox-TV. Ann...2024
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• 2024 World Series Game 2: Yankees vs. Dodgers, Saturday 10/26, 7:08 CT

Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images The Dodgers won in thrilling fashion in Game 1. Here’s all the information you’ll need for tonight’s game at Dodger Stadium. MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game 2. Dodgers lead series 1-0. LHP Carlos Rodón vs. RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 7:08 p.m. CT. TV: Fox-TV. Announcers: Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal an...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend

Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela passes away. A World Series preview and other MLB news. We were all set to celebrate the World Series and the first Yankees/Dodgers Fall Classic since 1981. But first, we have to say goodbye to one of the heroes of that World Series of 43 years ago. The Los Angeles Dodgers mourn the passing of legendary pitcher Fern...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Bad blood reigns in the Dodgers/Padres series. The Tigers shocked the Guardians. And other news from around the playoffs. Good morning. I suppose it’s a good morning if you’re a Mets or Padres fan. I assume you know the scores of those games yesterday, so I’m not linking to any game recaps. I will link to the brouhaha that took place at Dodger Stadium durin...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Dylan Cease throws a no-hitter. The trade deadline is underway and we’ve got two trades and a ton of rumors. The life of an A’s superfan. Just so you know, most of this column could be out of date by the time you read it. Things are starting to move. Here’s one you might not have heard yet. Late last night, the Rays dealt outfielder Randy Arozarena to th...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It’s now or never

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images A look ahead at the trade deadline and the draft. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. As we get to the All-Star Break, some teams started great and then sank like a stone (the Cubs) and others started out poorly and then got hot with the weather. John Denton looks at how the Cardinals turned their season around. Dayn Perry has three reasons the...2024
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• Outside The Confines: I didn’t say nuthin’!

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images The Yankees skipper gets ejected for something he didn’t say. Shohei Ohtani hits the ball really hard. Bernie Williams makes his second debut and other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Chicago MLB teams have a combined record of 17-29. Yankees manager Aaron Boone got ejected in the first inning of Monday’s Yankees game by umpire Hunter Wende...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling

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

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The Dodgers and Padres arrive in Seoul. Teams are dealing with injuries. I believe it is the AP style guide that any story about Korea has to have some kind of Seoul/Soul pun in the headlines. Thomas Harrigan has what you need to know about the Seoul Series. Fabian Ardaya notes that the Dodgers got a rock star-like greeting from the fans when they arrived...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No baseball players won Oscars last night

Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images But it was still a fun show. While most of the buzz this weekend was over the Oscars, that doesn’t mean there was no baseball news to delve into. The Reds have a suspension scandal to deal with. Former Reds player Joey Votto is heading to his Canadian homeland on a minor league deal. The Twins are getting their sleep, Willy Adames is looking ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The A’s Opera House

Oakland Athletics The A’s unveil their plans for a Las Vegas stadium and it looks... similar to something else The A’s moving to Las Vegas has been a limbo-state story for months now. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of certainty about when or if the A’s are moving, because right now they’re still in Oakland and exploring ways to extend their stay, but they have also unveiled stadium renderi...2024
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• The best Royals-related Sports Illustrated covers

One of the best sports publications appears to be dead. This week came the news that publisher The Arena Group was laying off virtually the entire staff of Sports Illustrated. The group had been operating with a branding license from Authentic Brands, and once it missed a quarterly license payment, the license was terminated, leading to the layoffs. The long-venerated magazine has been published s...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports The superstar posted the news to social media. Surprise! Shohei Ohtani has tied the knot, and for someone worth nearly a billion dollars, and a superstar athlete in both his native Japan and his present home of the US, one might expect some high-profile nuptials, but instead Ohtani has kept his wedding relatively quiet. Ohtani has married a woman from Japan ...2024
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• Potential MLB Trade Market Impact Has Caught Up to Free-Agent Class
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• The Cautionary Tale of Ken Caminiti: The Steroid Era's First Truth-Teller
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"I would have this higher, but this wasn’t an official national cover - Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy made the national cover, while Cain was on the cover in selected markets (mostly in the Midwest) “On the Ball” by Tom Verducci “We’re all aggressive in the strike zone,” says Rios, who drove in Kansas City’s third run in Game 6 with a two-strike single."

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"The Angels have decided to take Shohei Ohtani off the trade market, reports Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated."

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"So did the players, as noted by Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci: “When we got in,” first baseman Anthony Rizzo said, “the mood was definitely down."

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"The New York Mets infielder told Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated that although"

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"Hinch sat down with Tom Verducci for MLB Network to answer questions about the scandal and its fallout."

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"In a must-read piece, Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated takes an extended look at the past few months in Miami, centered upon discussions with Jeter and other key members of the organization."

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"It was reported yesterday by SI’s Tom Verducci that Ohtani received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his elbow in October, which was known to teams pursuing the…"

2016
"Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated noted the Astros reported a breach of their systems after a series of leaks that featured behind-the-scenes information, including 2013 trade deadline talks, showed up online across a 10-month period."

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"I would not bet against him,” Sports Illustrated baseball writer Tom Verducci said on its web site."

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"" "Probably the one thing I've heard the most is people try to guess his motivation," says Tom Verducci, the author of the piece."

• Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto is going to get PAID

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images The superstar slugger just proved why he’s worth big bucks. The Dodgers took care of the Mets in Game 6 of the NLCS, so they will face the Yankees are facing in the World Series — the first between those two teams in 43 years. Most of today’s links are focused on — you guessed it — the Championship Series and the upcoming World Series. We’ve got a lot of ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Tropicana Field devastated by Hurricane Milton

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Tampa Bay Rays may need a new stadium sooner than expected. Hurricane Milton, the fifth hurricane this year to make landfall in the US, and following shortly on the heels of Hurricane Helene was always going to be a destructive force in the Tampa Bay area, but in the aftermath of the brutal winds, there was an unexpected victim to the devastation: the ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood
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• Outside The Confines: It’s a tidal wave of trades

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The trade deadline looms, and teams are taking advantage The trade deadline is looming this week and competitive teams aren’t afraid to trade prospects for a chance to win this year. All the big news this weekend has been trade-focused for the most part, so without preamble we’re just going to jump into all the big (and small) trade news that came up over...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin
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• Dodgers Targeting Cy Young Candidate in Potential Blockbuster Trade Deadline Deal: Report

“Everything has a price.” That’s the phrase that one source told Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci in regards to the Detroit Tigers potentially trading ace Tarik Skubal. Skubal, a leading candidate for the American League Cy Young award this season, is not expected to be moved at the deadline. However, Verducci reports the Los Angeles Dodgers …...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It’s now or never
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 29, 2024

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Bobby Witt Jr. is Player of the Week! Bobby Witt Jr. was named American League Player of the Week, writes Jaylon Thompson. He’s also the latest AL Player of the Week, MLB announced on Tuesday. It’s the first such honor for Witt, who became the first Royals player to win the award in nearly two years. Vinnie Pasquantino was last selected from KC on Aug. 8...2024
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• Outside The Confines: I didn’t say nuthin’!
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• 2024 NLCS, Game 2: Mets vs. Dodgers and ALCS Game 1, Guardians vs. Yankees

John Jones-Imagn Images The ALCS begins and the NLCS continues. Here’s all the info you will need for today’s two LCS games. MLB.com Gameday for NLCS Game 2. Dodgers lead series 1-0. LHP Sean Manaea vs. TBD. 3:08 p.m. CT. TV: Fox. Announcers: Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci. MLB.com Gameday for ALCS Game 1. RHP Alex Cobb vs. LHP Carlos Rodón. 6:38 p.m. CT. TV: TBS. ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood
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• Outside The Confines: The postseason has begun!

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images The annual postseason tournament got under way, and other MLB news and notes. It’s October! And that means that postseason ball is here, and it’s already proving to be as interesting as one could hope, with the Tigers and Royals both winning the first game in their series, which means if things continue on this course, we might have an ALDS that is three-qu...2024
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• Outside The Confines: In a club of one

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani is constantly making history. Happy Monday, friends (and happy birthday to me!). Hope your weekends were lovely and you’re ready to jump into some news updates. Over the weekend, Shohei Ohtani joined the unique tier of players as the only person to join the 46-46 club (and seems poised to potentially hit the 50-50 club). In other news, some big...2024
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• Outside The Confines: It’s a tidal wave of trades
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• Aaron Judge has once again become the most dangerous hitter on the planet

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images 2022 was no glitch in the system for this guy. Aaron Judge is leaving a massive fingerprint on the game with what he’s been doing here in 2024. Back in 2022, Aaron Judge brought the baseball world back to an era that hadn’t been seen since the late 90s and the early 00s. Those were the days when other shows on ESPN would get cut into whenever a proli...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 29, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Heading to the Hall

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images As a Todd Helton and Joe Mauer apologist, I’m thrilled. Well friends the moment has arrived, the official votes have been tallied, and your new class of Hall of Fame inductees has been selected. The 2024 inductee class is a pretty good one this year as one long-lingering hopeful and two first-ballot contenders will be headed to Cooperstown....2024
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• Elias Díaz named 2023 All-Star MVP
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The Rockies catcher hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning Colorado Rockies catcher Elias Díaz etched his name in the history books on Tuesday night as not just the first Rockies catcher to play in the All-Star Game but also the first Rockie to be named All-Star MVP thanks to a game-deciding home run. Trailing 2-1 in the top of the eighth i...2023
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• Kansas City’s pitching development is changing - is it enough?
Jun 4, 2023; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Brady Singer (51) on the mound during the first inning against the Colorado Rockies at Kauffman Stadium. | William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports Reclaiming the currency of baseball. “Some of it’s a little bit different. Some of it’s the same.” That was Zack Greinke’s response—delivered in his trademark laconic, unhur...2023
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto is going to get PAID
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• Outside The Confines: Tropicana Field devastated by Hurricane Milton
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• Outside The Confines: The postseason has begun!
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• Outside The Confines: In a club of one
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• Outside The Confines: Let the shopping begin
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• Aaron Judge has once again become the most dangerous hitter on the planet
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• Outside The Confines: Snell yeah!

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Former Cy Young winner Blake Snell has finally found a home. After being rumored to go to multiple different clubs over the past months, one of the biggest remaining names on the free agent market has finally found a home, just in time for the regular season to get underway. Former Cy Young winner Blake Snell who has spent time with the Tampa Bay Rays a...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani’s surprise wedding
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• Re-live Game 7 of the 2016 World Series with Joe Maddon and Terry Francona

Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant lead the mound celebration after the Cubs won the World Series in Cleveland | Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images You will probably want to record this one Have you spent way too much time wondering why Joe Maddon pulled Kyle Hendricks from Game 7 of the World Series in 2016 when he was dealing in the fifth inning? Or maybe, yo...2024
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• Mike Trout's MVP Road Should Be Easier Than Expected in 2015
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• The Cautionary Tale of Ken Caminiti: The Steroid Era's First Truth-Teller
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• Hisashi Iwakuma's No-No Is Latest Chapter in Modern MLB's Golden Age of Pitching
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• In appreciation of Jason Heyward
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports His career in Chicago is over. It’s had its ups and downs, to be sure. In the end, though, I’m glad he was here. Monday evening, before the Cubs game against the Nationals, President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer told reporters that Jason Heyward wouldn’t play again this year and that he’d be released at the end of the season, as Josh posted here. The C...2022
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• Shohei Ohtani Has Sprained UCL In Throwing Elbow
Newly-signed Angels right-hander Shohei Ohtani has a first-degree sprain in his right ulnar collateral ligament, according to medical reports from late November viewed by Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Passan. It was reported yesterday by SI’s Tom Verducci that Ohtani received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his elbow in October, which was known to teams pursuing the…...2017
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• Chris Correa, Ex-Cardinals Scouting Director, Reportedly Indicted
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• St. Louis Cardinals Boast 1 of History's Best Pitching Staffs
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• Vin Scully Declines Offer to Take Part in Broadcasting 2016 MLB All-Star Game
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• The 2020 effect on building your fantasy baseball pitching staff

Years ago, baseball analyst Tom Verducci opined that starting pitchers who threw more than 60 innings above their total innings pitched the season prior were more susceptible to injury. Case studies were done and after witnessing the “Verducci Effect” in action, many teams and their training staffs adhered to similar guidelines to prevent ruining young......2021
• Will Miguel Cabrera's 40-Home Run Power Return in 2016?
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• Cub Tracks’ at midnight, all the agents?
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• 2024 World Series Game 5: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Wednesday 10/30, 7:08 CT
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• 2024 World Series Game 4: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Tuesday 10/29, 7:08 CT
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• 2024 World Series Game 3: Dodgers vs. Yankees, Monday 10/28, 7:08 CT
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• 2024 World Series Game 2: Yankees vs. Dodgers, Saturday 10/26, 7:08 CT
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• 2024 World Series Game 1: Yankees vs. Dodgers, Friday 10/25, 7:08 CT

Jose Quintero / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images It’s a World Series matchup that hasn’t happened since 1981. Here we go, the Fall Classic starting on a Friday evening. That’s pretty unusual. Here’s all the information you’ll need for tonight’s game at Dodger Stadium. MLB.com Gameday for World Series Game 1. RHP Gerrit Cole vs. RHP Jack Flaherty. 7:08 p.m. CT. TV: Fox-TV. Announcers: Joe...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Goodbye to a legend
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• Outside The Confines: Juan Soto is going to get PAID
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood
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• Outside The Confines: The postseason has begun!
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• Outside The Confines: Bad blood
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• Aaron Judge has once again become the most dangerous hitter on the planet
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• Outside The Confines: It’s now or never
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• Outside The Confines: The Yankees bid farewell to John Sterling
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• Outside The Confines: No baseball players won Oscars last night
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• Outside the Confines: The Twins and Mariners make a trade

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Orioles are being sold. Justin Turner heads north of the border. More trouble in Las Vegas. And other news from around baseball. The College Baseball season starts in 16 days. The Mariners and Twins made a reasonably major trade as Minnesota shipped second baseman Jorge Polanco to Seattle for right-handed reliever Justin Topa, right-handed starter Anth...2024
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• The Best Tampa Bay Rays Sports Illustrated Covers

Remembering the best cover photos from the iconic magazine. In shocking news today, the current license holders for publishing Sports Illustrated announced intentions to shut down the publication after recent attempts to renegotiate fees had failed. Sports Illustrated is an institution in the American sports landscape, known for iconic covers across all major leagues, and has a strong union that ...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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• Outside The Confines: Get ready for wild times
Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images The trade deadline is next week and we’re already seeing old team reunions and getting a sense of which teams think they can contend. We’re entering the last week before the trade deadline, and while I’m certain folks are getting sick of hearing about it, it’s also an endless source of excitement (or betrayal) and speculation. With everyone most obvio...2023
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