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• ‘Sorry I Stunk for You’ — Whit Merrifield Pens Brutally Honest Retirement Letter to Phillies
After nine MLB seasons, Whit Merrifield has retired and he wrote a touching letter to MLB fans, including those who follow the Philadelphia Phillies....2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?

Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images The Rockies and White Sox get all the attention for tanking their seasons... Happy Wednesday, BCB readers! Lots of little goodies for you in today’s news. A three-time All-Star has announced his retirement, the O’s appear to have given up the ghost for the season, plenty of trade deadline chatter, and how Chris Sale’s latest injury might impact the Braves. Ple...2025
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• Braves News: Michael Harris day-to-day, John Brebbia returns, and more

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Tuesday. Atlanta Braves outfielder Michael Harris II left Tuesday night’s contest against the New York Mets in the sixth inning after being hit by a pitch in his elbow. #Braves Michael Harris II leaves the game with an elbow injury after taking a pitch off his elbow. Even while wearing a guard. pic.twitter.com/1cwG1mNaRg— Mike ...2025
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• Three-time MLB All-Star Whit Merrifield retires — and apologizes to Phillies fans

After nine MLB seasons with three All-Star appearances, 36-year-old Whit Merrifield is calling it a career....2025
• Merrifield retires after twice leading MLB in hits
Whit Merrifield is retiring after a nine-season career that included twice leading the MLB in hits and three trips to the All-Star Game. The 36-year-old posted on social media that the birth of his daughter last year played a role in the decision....2025
• Whit Merrifield officially announces his retirement

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The three-time All-Star gritted his way to success. Whit Merrifield officially announced his retirement today, through his agency Warner Sports Management. In his statement, he cited the birth of his child last year as a reason to hang up the cleats, saying “I’d much rather chase around a toddler than chase sliders.” Merrifield also ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?
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• Braves News: Michael Harris day-to-day, John Brebbia returns, and more
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 14, 2025

Thomas Shea-Imagn Images John Schreiber giveth and John Schreiber taketh away. David Lesky looks at the Kansas City Royals’ Monday win and wonders if second baseman Michael Massey has turned a corner. Based on the metrics, it’s pretty much what he “should” be doing. He has an xBA of .283 and an xSLG of .443, so he’s overperforming on the slug just a bit. His hard-hit rate is still just 36....2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Atlanta Braves

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Spoiler alert: The Atlanta Braves blogger believes that the Atlanta Braves are going to be good this season. (Mhm. Just like last year!) Needless to say, 2024 did not go according to plan for the Atlanta Braves. If it had, then we may have been coming into this season with a bunch of gold-tinged merchandise after they had gotten done ...2025
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Infielders

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images A return to form by the team’s starting infield would go a long way toward lifting the Braves back to the playoffs in 2025. Coming into the 2024 season, the Atlanta Braves’ infield looked to be among the best in the National League. Matt Olson was coming off a 54-homer campaign with a 161 wRC+. Austin Riley had produced three consecutive 30+ home run cam...2025
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• The All Oft-Injured Team

Photo by Dave Kaup/Getty Images A major dis from Sir Charles During the 1961-62 baseball season, the great Wilt Chamberlain averaged, AVERAGED, 48.5 minutes per game while playing in a league leading 80 games. Since an NBA game is only 48 minutes long, you must be asking if this is a misprint. No, it is not. Wilt played every minute of every game, plus most of the overtime minutes. In fact...2025
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• After the longest month ever, Braves Spring Training is almost here

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images What do we know, and what we don’t, about the upcoming season as the Braves get ready to head to North Port. January 2025 was the longest month ever. But we made it. February is here and that means pitcher and catchers will be reporting in less that two weeks with full squad workouts starting for the Atlanta Braves a few days after that...2025
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• The Royals need something extra out of their farm system this time around

Jac Caglianone #15 and Tre’ Morgan #26 of the American League Fall Stars run around second and third bases to score in the second inning during the 2024 Fall Stars Game between the American League Fall Stars and the National League Fall Stars at Sloan Park on Saturday, November 9, 2024 in Mesa, Arizona. | Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images The ghosts of the past are knocki...2025
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• Projecting the 2025 Braves Opening Day roster

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Not one, but two, different options for Atlanta’s first 26-man roster of the 2025 season. Atlanta Braves full-squad workouts begin one month from today, but much to the chagrin of Braves fandom, the organization has been stunningly quiet this offseason when to comes to making moves that - on the surface - move the needle on the quality of...2025
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• What if the Braves stand pat heading into the regular season?

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images There’s a non-zero chance that the way the Braves look right now is the way they’re going to look once this thing gets rockin’-and-rollin’ again in late-March. So here we are, folks: It’s January and the biggest move of the offseason for the Atlanta Braves has been the one where they stick their hand up and wave “bye-bye” to to a bunc...2025
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• Who’s the fastest Royal of all time?

Photo by David Cooper/Toronto Star via Getty Images That’s what speed do! Over the years, there is a perception that the Royals are a franchise infatuated by speed. Don’t get me wrong, speed is something you can’t teach, and I enjoy a stolen base, a triple or a terrific outfield play as much as the next guy. And speed most often facilitates those plays. But if a hitter can’t get on base, t...2023
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"Whit Merrifield officially announced his retirement today, through his agency Warner Sports Management."

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"Whit Merrifield and the Phillies have agreed to a one-year, $8 million contract, sources told ESPN on Friday."

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"Whit Merrifield (remember when a lot of Cubs fans wanted them to trade for him?"

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"Alek Manoah pitched seven shutout innings, Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays regained the top AL wild-card spot with a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night."

2021
"Teams have been trying to pry second baseman/outfielder Whit Merrifield away from the Royals for several years, and The Athletic’s Jayson Stark now reports that the Royals are “more open” to trading the two-time All-Star than they have been in the past."

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"Scott Kingery and Whit Merrifield aren’t exactly at the same place in their careers."

2019
"To that end, they’ve “been trying to” swing a deal for Royals second baseman/outfielder Whit Merrifield, according to Mark Feinsand of MLB."

2018
"Meanwhile, the future of the position continues to impress, as Jonathan Schoop, Javy Baez and Whit Merrifield move along their growth curves."

2017
"Whit Merrifield hit a walk-off, sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give Royals a 7-6 win over the White Sox on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium."

2016
"Rookie Whit Merrifield had three hits and drove in four runs, and Kendrys Morales had four hits and five RBIs in the Royals' 16-5 rout of the Tigers on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium."

• Outside The Confines: Is the Orioles season dead in the water?
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• Whit Merrifield officially announces his retirement
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• The Royals Quarter-Century Team

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images 25 years? Wait, what? Recently, esteemed baseball writer Jayson Stark complied his First Quarter Century baseball team for a story which ran in the Athletic. Has it already been 25 years since Y2K? Crazy how time slips away. I didn’t see much to argue about with Stark’s selections. The team is loaded with Hall of Famers and all-time greats as you would expect. St...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 14, 2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Infielders
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• The All Oft-Injured Team
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• After the longest month ever, Braves Spring Training is almost here
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• The Royals need something extra out of their farm system this time around
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• Projecting the 2025 Braves Opening Day roster
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• Whit Merrifield officially announces his retirement
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• Bobby Witt Jr. is on track to do something no Royals player has done in nearly 50 years

Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (7) hits a single during the third inning against the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images So many hits Hitting a baseball is arguably the hardest thing to do in professional sports, which is why a hit itself is perhaps the most iconic part about baseball. There’s just some inherent aesthetic beauty to a line driv...2025
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• The Royals need something extra out of their farm system this time around
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• What did the Royals miss with Brent Rooker?

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The former Royals outfielder has become one of the league’s top sluggers. At the 2022 trade deadline, the Royals were far out of contention. It was another rebuilding season as the team tried to build up a farm system decimated after their championship runs. The team would go on to 97 losses, so there was no point to keep veterans like ...2025
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• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Look, I’m just sayin’ — the Braves out-xBAed the Dodgers by .070 and had the only four barrels in the game, and lost 9-0 The Braves played a baseball game on Monday night, which they lost 9-0, to once again drop them out of a playoff spot (for the time being?). The flow of the game itself is, at this point, largely irrelevant. I’ll be...2024
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• Luke Williams comes in clutch, Chris Sale dominates as Braves sweep Twins

Jorge Soler hit another HR in the finale against the Twins | Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Luke Williams had two doubles and two RBI, and Chris Sale limited the Twins to one run. The Atlanta Braves took on the Twins in the final game of the series looking for a sweep. They were back by Cy Young front runner Chris Sale and an offense that has scored eighteen runs in the past two games....2024
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• The Braves need Matt Olson

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports It's time for Matt Olson to remember he's Matt Olson. Ronald Acuña Jr. isn’t coming back this season. Neither is Austin Riley, at least not in the regular season. Marcell Ozuna has been awesome. If you asked anyone who the Braves four best hitters were coming into the year, you would've gotten those three names and Matt Olson. Acuña is out. Riley is out. Ozuna ...2024
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• Luke Jackson’s ghosts return to saddle Braves with 5-1 loss

They’re not up there, Luke. They’re in the infield. | Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images I missed our little spectral buddies Hey, do y’all remember the halcyon evenings of mid-2019, when Luke Jackson spent much of the season being the only non-disastrous reliever for the Braves, but as a cosmic punishment, he and the Braves had to endure wacky poltergeist-esque hijinks wh...2024
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• What if the Braves stand pat heading into the regular season?
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• Spencer Schwellenbach solid, Marcell Ozuna tallies 100th RBI as Braves right ship against Reds, 7-1

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images The Braves finally flipped the RISP script in support of yet another solid Spencer Schwellenbach start in a Wednesday win. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the Atlanta Braves, desperate for a win, made a rare appearance in their navy road uniforms on Wednesday, and it worked. Whatever the actual cause, the Atlanta offense finally broke its R...2024
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• It’s time to start protecting hitters from headshots

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images With retaliation pitches no longer being a thing, it’s time for baseball to step in to make sure pitchers are held responsible for hitting guys in the head. On Tuesday night, the Atlanta Braves beat the Colorado Rockies 3-0 but in the process of that game, Whit Merrifield had to leave the game following an extremely scary moment. In t...2024
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• Chris Sale dominates, Braves win 3-0

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Chris Sale did Chris Sale things as the Braves get a much needed win. In many ways Chris Sale has been the story for the Atlanta Braves in 2024, at least on the positive side. Him and Marcell Ozuna probably both have strong cases for it. And he was certainly the story tonight as he pitched seven shutout innings and led the Braves to a 3-0 victory over the Rockies T...2024
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• Braves repeat their mistakes, walked off by Phillies 3-2 in 11

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images If the Braves have the capacity for introspection, I’m not sure they’ve exercised it this series If you watched the entirety of the Braves’ 3-2, walkoff loss to the Phillies on Sunday night, I’m sorry. If you didn’t, but you did watch their 5-4 loss to open this series back on Thursday, well, you didn’t miss much. At this point, the Braves are making the...2024
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• Luke Williams comes in clutch, Chris Sale dominates as Braves sweep Twins
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• Spencer Schwellenbach shines, Adam Duvall delivers, as Braves take the series against the Phillies

Duvall had his best game of the year | Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Spencer Schwellenbach sat down nineteen straight Phillies, and Duvall had three hits including the game leading HR. The Atlanta Braves took on the Philadelphia Phillies in the final game of a three game set with a chance to win the series. Spencer Schwellenbach, who has been on fire since July took the mound for the...2024
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• Travis d’Arnaud d’elivers again as Braves beat Giants in extras, 4-3

Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports Back to back nights d’Arnaud has driven in the game-winning run in extras. Another nail-biter in San Francisco went Atlanta’s way for the second night in a row, with the Braves pulling out a 4-3 victory in 10 innings. There was early offense for both sides, a night after neither team scored in regulation. The Braves struck first as Ramon Laureano hit a solo ...2024
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• Royals use 21-hit onslaught to rout Tigers
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• J-Up's HR, 3 RBIs aren't enough against KC
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• KC shares 2nd place with walk-off SF in 10th
Whit Merrifield hit a walk-off, sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give Royals a 7-6 win over the White Sox on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium. The walk-off was the second of Merrifield's career....2017
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• Merrifield's first HR pushes Royals past Indians
Rookie Whit Merrifield tripled and hit his first Major League homer, and Edinson Volquez tossed seven shutout innings as the Royals held on for a 2-1 win over the Indians on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium....2016
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• Homers, bullpen's 8 2/3 help Mets edge Royals
With Bartolo Colon forced to leave after Whit Merrifield led off Tuesday night's game by ripping a liner off the pitcher's right thumb, Hansel Robles jogged to the mound. Robles and the rest of the Mets' bullpen held strong for 8 2/3 innings, holding Kansas City to six hits to help New York capture the series opener, 2-1....2016
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• Homers, bullpen's 8 2/3 help Mets edge Royals
With Bartolo Colon forced to leave after Whit Merrifield led off Tuesday night's game by ripping a liner off the pitcher's right thumb, Hansel Robles jogged to the mound. Robles and the rest of the Mets' bullpen held strong for 8 2/3 innings, holding Kansas City to six hits to help New York capture the series opener, 2-1....2016
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• Bradley homers, but dive proves costly
Royals second baseman Whit Merrifield singled in the lead run in the seventh inning after Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr.'s dive turned a single by Drew Butera into a triple, and the Royals held on for a 4-2 victory on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium....2017
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• Royals roll to keep pace in Wild Card chase
Whit Merrifield drove in three runs and Salvador Perez had two run-scoring doubles as the Royals rolled to an 8-2 win over the White Sox on Saturday night at Guaranteed Rate Field....2017
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• Projecting the 2025 Braves Opening Day roster
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• A look at this year’s outfield free agent class

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will the Royals seek another bat in the outfield? The Royals will focus largely on upgrading the pitching staff this off-season, but their offense could use some upgrades as well. They scored the eighth-fewest runs in baseball with the fifth-fewest home runs and the third-lowest on-base percentage. At the end of the season, J.J. Picollo ins...2023
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• Money’s Growin’ Like Grass With The Massey Appeal
From Trade Deadline insanity with Juan Soto to a new Royals' middle infielder. Is that a sad trombone playing Narco by Blasterjaxx, the come-out music for Edwin Diaz? Not cool! By the way, if you don't know Narco, you should. It's trumpetilicious. So, with Whit Merrifield shipped off, uh, shipped towards Toronto, not sure if he can get in there, Michael Massey (2-for-3) was called up, and could se...2022
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• Karabell's bold predictions for every AL team

Eloy Jimenez hits how many home runs? Whit Merrifield gets traded where? Eric Karabell makes bold fantasy-relevant predictions for each of the 15 American League teams....2022
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• Top 25 Fantasy Second Basemen for 2021 – Week 15
With the All-Star break upon us, now is a good time to see who has been a fantasy star in the first half of the season and who has been a disappointment. Owners of Marcus Semien, Jose Altuve, Whit Merrifield and Eduardo Escobar have to be ecstatic with the overall performance of those four players. Semien has been the top-ranked second baseman for most of the season, while Altuve and Merrifield h...2021
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• Avoiding the Blurbstomp – Clap Back (sorry, sorry)
On Sunday, Nathan Eovaldi had a start against the Kansas City Royals. The Royals have been screwing over my fantasy pitching for years, friends. I forgot to bench him, and he gave up seven hits in four innings, including a homer to Whit Merrifield and some doubles to Adalberto Mondesi. I had a feeling that my curse would be continued though, and I checked replays. There they were: Run scoring bloo...2021
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• JDM’s X’s Beat The Baltimore O’s In Tic-Tac-Tater
"Just Dong Just Dong Just Dong Just Dong Just Dong...oh, and Just Dong. Then, when you get tired, and wanna go home, Just Dong some more." That was the guy who hired Quasimodo to ring the bell at Notre Dame. It was also the Red Sox yesterday. Leading the Red Sox yesterday in the Just Dong parade of Just Dongers was none other than, you guessed it, Just Dong Martinez (4-for-6, 4 runs, 4 RBIs), who ...2021
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• Fantasy baseball: Karabell's bold predictions for every AL team

Whit Merrifield gets traded where? Franmil Reyes hits how many home runs? Eric Karabell makes bold fantasy-relevant predictions for each of the 15 American League teams....2021
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• Fantasy Baseball Rankings 2018: Advanced MLB trade chart fading Paul Goldschmidt, moving up Whit Merrifield
Scott White is a senior fantasy writer for CBS Sports and released his latest trade chart...2018
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• Fantasy Baseball Rankings 2018: Advanced MLB trade chart loving Whit Merrifield, fading Paul Goldschmidt
Scott White is a senior fantasy writer for CBS Sports and released his latest trade chart...2018
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• The Royals Quarter-Century Team
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 14, 2025
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• 2025 NL East Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves positional season preview: Infielders
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• The All Oft-Injured Team
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• After the longest month ever, Braves Spring Training is almost here
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• The Royals need something extra out of their farm system this time around
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 15, 2025

Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The wait for Arizona action continues. MLB’s Anne Rogers details the catching hierarchy for the Kansas City Royals heading into spring training. But as we’ll see below, catching is a real strength of the organization. It’s also fair to wonder how many games Perez will catch. He logged 765 innings behind the plate last year but also...2025
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• The Royals Quarter-Century Team
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• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers
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• Michael Harris II homers and puts the winning ball in play as Braves walk off Nationals, 3-2

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images You're not going to want to watch this one again but nobody around here is going to complain about another Braves win. A win's a win! The Atlanta Braves didn't exactly look like worldbeaters for long stretches of this game but they were able to keep the train on the tracks long enough for the Washington Nationals to eventually throw the ...2024
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• Takeaways from the Braves-Phillies series

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta's pitching staff carried the load in this series and helped push the Braves to a crucial series win over the Phillies. The first part of this homestand for the Atlanta Braves has gotten off to a very good start, as the Braves managed to outduel the Phillies over the course of this three game series in order to gain some ground on ...2024
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• Whit Merrifield trade: Blue Jays add longtime Royals in trade deadline buzzer-beater, per report
Merrifield was ineligible to play in Toronto earlier in the season, however...2022
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• Best Fits For A Whit Merrifield Trade
For the past few seasons, there’s been loose deadline speculation around the possibility of the Royals dealing Whit Merrifield. To this point, Kansas City has resisted that possibility. A career-long member of an organization that is generally among the game’s most loyal, Merrifield was a late-bloomer who signed an affordable early-career extension. That allowed the Royals…...2022
• MLB trade rumors: Trevor Story getting interest from handful of teams; Royals open to moving Whit Merrifield
Here's a roundup of what's buzzing around MLB for Thursday as the trade deadline nears...2021

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