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• Braves News: Travis d’Arnaud cranks three homers, Luke Williams gets the call, and more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves opened the series on a high note after Friday night’s 8-3 defeat over the Texas Rangers. Travis d’Arnaud was the player of the game, launching three home runs, one of them in grand fashion. Enjoy all 3️⃣ of Travis d'Arnaud's homers from this evening #BravesCountry pic.twit...2024
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• Travis d’Arnaud homers three times as Braves take down Texas 8-3

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Solid pitching and explosive offense helps the Braves to their fifth straight win Travis d’Arnaud homered three times and Chris Sale turned in another solid performance on the mound to help the Atlanta Braves to an 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers Friday night at Truist Park. The Rangers jumped out to an early lead as Marcus Semien homered off of Sale to leadoff...2024
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• Reynaldo López pitches six more shutout innings in 6-2 Braves win over Astros

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images López continued to put the Braves rotation on his back — just like we all predicted back in February, right? Reynaldo López continued to be the most consistent starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves here in the early going of the season. His six shutout innings helped keep the Braves in control as they rode another late wave of offense to a 6-2 series win...2024
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• Braves head to Miami for a three-game series against the Marlins

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images The Braves will look to right the ship this weekend when they take on the Marlins in a three-game series in Miami. After a 4-2 homestand, the Atlanta Braves will head back on the road for a six-game road trip that will begin Friday night with a three-game series against the Miami Marlins. The Braves are 7-4 on the season and currently hold a 1.5 game l...2024
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• Braves struggle in 16-4 loss to Mets

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves fell behind early and went away quietly in a blowout loss Thursday to the Mets The Atlanta Braves fell behind quickly Thursday and things never really got much better in a 16-4 loss to the New York Mets. After a 40 minute delay due to rain, the game finally got underway around 1 p.m. ET. Allan Winans retired Brandon Nimmo to start his afternoo...2024
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• Braves hang on to beat Mets, 6-5

Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Reynaldo López pitched well in his home debut and the Braves scored early and often in a win over the Mets. Reynaldo López pitched well in his home debut while Ronald Acuña Jr. had a big day offensively to help the Atlanta Braves to a 6-5 win over the New York Mets. The Braves offense got off to a fast start in the first inning. Adrian House...2024
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• Braves News: Travis d’Arnaud cranks three homers, Luke Williams gets the call, and more
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• Braves head to Miami for a three-game series against the Marlins
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• Braves place Strider on IL, recall Allan Winans

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Winans will provide relief innings, if needed, given that the bullpen arms have already had cover short outings from both Strider and Fried in this series After a couple of taxing, but highly fruitful, days for the Atlanta Braves relief corps, they are getting some reinforcements today in the form of Allan Winans: The #Braves today recalled RHP Allan W...2024
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• Braves News: Austin Riley goes deep, Charlie Morton cruises to victory and more

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Despite the elements, the Braves offense was on fire on Monday. It was a cold and miserable day in Chicago as the Braves opened their series against the White Sox. Many Braves, especially Ronald Acuna Jr., appeared to not be having their usual level of fun on Monday in the cold, rainy weather. Fortunately, the bats of the Braves did not become cold, as ...2024
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy’s diagnosis, Searching for the sweep, more

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Sean Murphy got some good news regarding his injury status, as the Braves dominated the Phillies without him, despite Max Fried’s struggles. Fried should have escaped the first inning on a pitch that was clearly a strike and would have struck out the third out of the inning, but instead it became arguably the wo...2024
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• Fried falters, Chavez is a mensch, and bats remain indomitable in 12-4 win over Phillies

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Max Fried had his worst outing ever, assisted by an egregiously bad umpiring call, but the Braves cruised to a blowout anyway thanks to the bats, the gloves, and the bullpen In the preview for this game, I noted that Max Fried and Aaron Nola were: (1) pretty similar to one another in many respects; and, more importantly, (2) really good. So, of course, in...2024
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• Braves select contract of Jesse Chavez, place Angel Perdomo on injured list

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The addition of Jesse Chavez sets the Braves’ 26-man roster for Opening Day. The Atlanta Braves finalized their Opening Day roster with a pair of moves Thursday. The team selected the contract of reliever Jesse Chavez adding him to the 40-man roster. The Braves also placed left-handed reliever Angel Perdomo on the 15-day injured list...2024
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• Strider strikes out six, offense struggles as Braves fall to Rays

Albies went yard vs the Rays | Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports Spencer Strider looked sharp, and Ozzie Albies went yard. Other than that, we can be thankful this was just a spring training game. With only four more spring training games left before the regular season begins, Spencer Strider took the mound for the Atlanta Braves against the Tampa Bay Rays featuring a sparkling 0.00 ERA and b...2024
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• Can Chris Sale push the Braves over the top in October?

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are betting the 2024 version of Chris Sale can help them clear some October hurdles. After consecutive years of having a 100+ win team unceremoniously knocked out of the playoffs in the divisional round, it felt like the Braves needed...something. Something more, something different. They are undoubtedly one of, if not the most, talented team in b...2024
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• Braves News: Spencer Strider to start Opening Day, left-handed pitching depth, and more

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. With Opening Day just around the corner, the Atlanta Braves are shaping up the roster and preparing to begin the season with a series against the NL East rivals. The club announced Tuesday that right-hander Spencer Strider will start Opening Day on March 28 against the Philadelphia Phillies. Spencer Strider in Phill...2024
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"Tyler Matzek missed 2023 due to injury but should return to action with Atlanta next season."

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"The Braves have activated two of the key figures from last year’s World Series run, outfielder Eddie Rosario and left-hander Tyler Matzek, from the injured list, the team announced today."

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"Atlanta also included southpaw Tyler Matzek on its Opening Day roster, which…"

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", with the fourth overall pick Thursday in the first round of the Draft, making him the first high school pitcher taken with their top pick in the Draft since lefty Tyler Matzek in 2009."

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"1 among pitchers, per FanGraphs, with just two pitchers—Jorge de la Rosa and Tyler Matzek—earning marks higher than 2."

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"Corey Dickerson homered, tripled and drove in four runs, Tyler Matzek pitched into the sixth inning by getting out of several tight spots, and the Colorado Rockies snapped a seven-game skid with a 10-4 win over the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers."

• Braves News: Travis d’Arnaud cranks three homers, Luke Williams gets the call, and more
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• Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves hit three homers, Chris Sale was good, and the bullpen gave no quarter once again After two bonkers comeback wins to take the series on Friday and Saturday, the Braves, perhaps unexpectedly, engaged in a perfectly normal baseball contest in which they also emerged victorious by a 5-2 score. They did normal things like hitting some homers, playi...2024
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• Braves place Strider on IL, recall Allan Winans
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• Get to know the Braves’ 2024 Opening Day Roster

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Everything you need to know about the Braves Opening Day roster. The Atlanta Braves finalized their roster for Opening Day Thursday morning when they selected the contract of veteran reliever Jesse Chavez. Below is our annual preview to you up to speed in case you are just coming back to baseball for the start of the regular season. ...2024
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• Braves select contract of Jesse Chavez, place Angel Perdomo on injured list
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• Can Chris Sale push the Braves over the top in October?
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• Braves Organizational Depth Preview: Left handed pitching

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images As we continue with our off-season, let’s preview one of the Atlanta Braves most type heavy positions in left handed pitching. 40-man roster The Braves depth chart is headlined by arguably the best left handed pitcher in baseball in ace Max Fried. Fried, entering the final year of his deal, is coming off of a season where he appeared in just 14 games. H...2024
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• Braves Roster Projection: Opening Day Roster taking shape

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Some recent roster moves have painted a much clearer picture of what the Atlanta Braves’ roster will look like on Opening Day. The Atlanta Braves made a series of roster moves over the last week that have brought their Opening Day roster into view. Barring an injury, the bullpen appears to be set, while the final spot in the rotation is down to a competition...2024
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• Braves News: Ronald Acuña Jr. removed from lineup, Charlie Morton’s upcoming debut, and more

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday The Atlanta Braves had a quiet day performance wise as they dropped a game 3-1 to the Baltimore Orioles. The big storyline of the day was Ronald Acuña Jr.’s apparent knee injury. The star outfielder was scratched from Friday’s lineup after experiencing soreness in his right knee. The move came out of an abundance of ca...2024
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• Braves Notes: Brian Snitker on Tyler Matzek, Ken Giles

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Brian Snitker discussed the spring debuts of a pair of veteran relievers Thursday in North Port. Tyler Matzek made his much-anticipated return to the mound for the Atlanta Braves this past Monday. That was the first time he had been on a mound in a game since October 5, 2022. Matzek underwent Tommy John surgery not long after that fi...2024
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• Braves head to Miami for a three-game series against the Marlins
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• Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy’s diagnosis, Searching for the sweep, more
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• Fried falters, Chavez is a mensch, and bats remain indomitable in 12-4 win over Phillies
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• Chris Sale sharp, Marcell Ozuna and Austin Riley homer in Braves’ win over Twins

Chris Sale had himself an outing | Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Sale had six strikeouts and both Ozuna and Riley took Ober deep The Atlanta Braves took on the Twins today at CoolToday Park. Chris Sale made his fifth start of spring training and looked to keep up his high strikeout rate. Before this start, Sale had seventeen strikeouts in only 11.2 innings pitched with a 1.20 WHIP. Of cou...2024
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• Strider strikes out six, offense struggles as Braves fall to Rays
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• Braves Organizational Depth Preview: Left handed pitching
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• Braves Roster Projection: Opening Day Roster taking shape
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• Braves Roster Projection: Bench spots still up for grabs

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Forrest Wall is off to a torrid start during the spring, but will it be enough to earn a spot on the Braves’ Opening Day roster. The Atlanta Braves have 11 games under their belts in Grapefruit League action and are enjoying their first off day of the spring Wednesday. The team has also made a series of roster cuts over the last few ...2024
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• Braves struggle in 16-4 loss to Mets
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• Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
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• The Braves are still very good and it's totally fine to get excited about it

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Do I remember how the past two seasons ended? Yep! Is that stopping me from getting hyped? Nope! Folks, we’re here once again. It’s Opening Day (for real, this time) and I’m glad to report that on a personal level, both time and wisdom have yet to jade me when it comes to the optimism of baseball season getting underway. I felt the sa...2024
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• Strider strikes out six, offense struggles as Braves fall to Rays
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• Braves News: Orlando Arcia, Spencer Strider, More

Photo by Christopher Pasatieri/Getty Images A busy Sunday on the diamond The Braves enjoy split-squad action on Sunday against the Orioles and the Red Sox. The major news of the day was a scare moment involving Orlando Arcia getting hit by a pitch, but it seems as if the initial news is positive: Orlando Arcia was hit in the hand by a pitch. X-rays were negative. Braves will see how he...2024
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• Daily Hammer Podcast: Early Notes from Spring Camp

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The first full week of Spring Camp is here. The great thing for the Atlanta Braves is that nearly all of the most important players on the roster have been in Spring camp for multiple days. And as the first full week gets going and Spring Training games start later this week, confidence and excitement seemed to be shared sentiment...2024
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• Three overlooked roster concerns for the Braves heading into Spring Training
Austin Riley and Matt Olson will anchor the middle of the order and serve as franchise pillars on each corner of the infield, but there’s not depth behind them if either were to miss an extended period of time this season. | Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Braves are projected to be one of the best teams in baseball in 2023. Beyond questions marks at shortstop and...2023
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• Rockies take Pint with fourth pick
The Rockies selected right-hander Riley Pint from Overland Park, Kan., with the fourth overall pick Thursday in the first round of the Draft, making him the first high school pitcher taken with their top pick in the Draft since lefty Tyler Matzek in 2009....2016
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• Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
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• Chris Sale sharp, Marcell Ozuna and Austin Riley homer in Braves’ win over Twins
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• 2023 Braves Season in Review: Tyler Matzek

Tyler Matzek missed 2023 due to injury but should return to action with Atlanta next season. | Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images An icon of the 2021 World Series team, reliever Tyler Matzek missed 2023 due to injury. The left hander should return to action with Atlanta next season. Veteran left-handed reliever Tyler Matzek missed the 2023 season recovering from Tommy John...2023
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• Braves Activate Eddie Rosario, Tyler Matzek
The Braves have activated two of the key figures from last year’s World Series run, outfielder Eddie Rosario and left-hander Tyler Matzek, from the injured list, the team announced today. To make room on the active roster, the club optioned infielder Mike Ford to Triple-A Gwinnett and designated right-hander Silvino Bracho for assignment. While the Braves…...2022
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• Here are five buy-low candidates the Atlanta Braves should add
Teams are always looking for diamonds in the rough. Guys off the waiver wire and free agents who are coming off poor seasons who could become the next Tyler Matzek or Eric O’Flaherty. Alex Anthopoulos has already quickly moved on potential buy-low candidates in Sam Hilliard and Nick Anderson. But they certainly won’t be the last. […] Here are five buy-low candidates the Atla...2022
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• Ronald Acuña Jr. drives in four runs in zany 10-9 Braves spring win over Blue Jays

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports From start to finish, this was a truly wacky game to watch. In what was quite easily the weirdest game of spring training so far, the Atlanta Braves outslugged the Toronto Blue Jays 10-9 with four of those 10 runs being driven in by none other than the reigning National League MVP, himself: Ronald Acuña Jr. The first inning was an extremely inauspicious...2024
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• Braves select contract of Jesse Chavez, place Angel Perdomo on injured list
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• Braves News: Travis d’Arnaud cranks three homers, Luke Williams gets the call, and more
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• Reynaldo López pitches six more shutout innings in 6-2 Braves win over Astros
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• Braves head to Miami for a three-game series against the Marlins
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• Braves secure sweep via very normal baseball victory, 5-2
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• Charlie Morton, Braves blank White Sox, 9-0

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Charlie Morton tossed 5 2⁄3 scoreless innings to help the Braves beat the White Sox on a rainy afternoon in Chicago Charlie Morton turned in a good performance in his season debut and the Atlanta Braves’ offense continued to roll in a 9-0 rain-shortened win over the Chicago White Sox. Morton struggled to find the feel of his curveball in the first i...2024
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• Fried falters, Chavez is a mensch, and bats remain indomitable in 12-4 win over Phillies
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• The Braves are still very good and it's totally fine to get excited about it
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• Chris Sale sharp, Marcell Ozuna and Austin Riley homer in Braves’ win over Twins
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• Strider strikes out six, offense struggles as Braves fall to Rays
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• Braves Mailbag: Rotation strength, what to expect from Ian Anderson and more

Photo by Bryan Cereijo/Getty Images Part 1 of our mailbag focuses on the Braves rotation. Is it really a strength and will Ian Anderson be a factor in 2024? Thanks again to everyone who took the time to send in questions this week. We got so many good ones that I am going to split this into two parts, the second of which will run Saturday. Let’s get to it! The Braves rotation for 2024 has ...2024
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• A.J. Minter heads to salary arbitration

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images On the heels of an arbitration hearing to decide his 2024 salary, could this be A.J. Minter’s final season in Atlanta? This Friday, teams and arbitration-eligible players without a signed contract for the 2024 season will exchange salary arbitration figures. The Atlanta Braves have whittled their long list of arbitration-eligible players without a locked...2024
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• Brian Snitker on Braves’ offseason, coaching staff and more

Kyle Schwab-USA TODAY Sports Brian Snitker discussed the Braves offseason and the departures from his coaching staff Tuesday at the Winter Meetings. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker met with the media Tuesday at the Winter Meetings in Nashville and discussed the team’s offseason and the outlook heading into the spring. The Braves began the Winter Meetings by acquiring outfielder Jarre...2023
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• A way too early look at the Braves 2024 Opening Day roster: Pitching Staff

Spencer Strider has led a Braves rotation that has seen 16 different pitchers start a game for Atlanta in 2023. | Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Injuries ravaged Atlanta’s pitching staff in 2023, but with the amount of talent in the organization there are plenty of questions about which players are most likely to appear on the Opening Day roster next year. No one yet ...2023
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• Braves Mailbag: Rotation questions, AJ Smith-Shawver and more
Photo credit: Mills Fitzner Mailbag time!! A huge thank you to everyone that submitted questions for this week’s mailbag. If I didn’t get to your question, we will do it again soon. Let’s get right to it! How concerned should we be about A.J. Minter? How much do you think his struggles are related to the pitch clock? Glad you asked because we had a really good article looking at Minter’s ...2023
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