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• Poll: Will The Phillies Exercise Jose Alvarado’s Option?
The Phillies are still fighting for their playoff lives in the NLDS against the Dodgers, but whether L.A. completes the sweep today or Philadelphia mounts a comeback and makes it all the way to the World Series, the offseason is looming. Five days after the World Series concludes, teams will have to make their first…...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: October 8

1919 The White Sox won again in Cincinnati, narrowing their World Series deficit to four games to three, taking Game 7, 4-1. The Pale Hose were in control from the jump, as Shoeless Joe Jackson had RBI singles in the first and third innings, and Happy Felsch knocked in two with a single in the […]...2025
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• Taking An Analytical Look At The Most Valuable Players In Washington Nationals Playoff History

In the 5 playoff trips in the Washington Nationals’ history, they’ve seen some postseason legends be born. From Stephen Strasburg pitching a flu game in the 2017 NLDS and winning the 2019 World Series MVP, to Juan Soto saving the day in the 2019 Wild Card Game and blasting 3 home runs in the World […]...2025
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• He Should’ve Been The Greatest Hitter of All-Time

The Orioles’ organization was never more loaded than it was in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The major league team reached the World Series four times in six years with a roster so brimming with future Hall of Famers and other stars that generations of younger players were stalled in the high minors, unable […]...2025
• The uneasy Edwin Diaz choices facing Mets as closer’s opt-out decision looms

Once again, the Mets are potentially on the clock. Edwin Díaz, like teammate Pete Alonso, has an opt-out that can be triggered the day after the World Series concludes, and team brass will likely have to decide how far they are willing to extend to retain Díaz....2025
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• Today in White Sox History: October 7

1917 The White Sox took a commanding, two-game lead in the World Series, dropping the New York Giants in Game 2, 7-2. The two clubs exchanged pairs of runs in the second inning, and the game remained knotted until the fifth, when the South Siders exploded for five runs. Chick Gandil was the only Sox […]...2025
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• 2025 MLB playoffs: The eight injuries that could have the biggest impact on the World Series chase

No team is fully healthy by the time October rolls around...2025
• Tigers' World Series hopes depend on Tarik Skubal injury

The Detroit Tigers' hopes for a deep run in the postseason may have been dealt a significant blow....2025
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• Seager Surgery
Corey Seager of the Rangers needed his appendix removed: Chris Young, the team’s president of baseball operations, said Seager had surgery in Texas after the team traveled to California for the start of a series against the Athletics on Friday night. Young said it was too early to know how much time the two-time World Series MVP […]...2025
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• Dustin Pedroia knows possible consequences Mets’ Francisco Alvarez faces from ‘doable’ injury plan

The best-case scenario for Alvarez became the best-case scenario for Dustin Pedroia, who learned to live and play with the pain, ripped off an All-Star and Gold Glove season and then helped the Red Sox win a World Series....2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox (44-80) at Braves (56-68)

The second half of the road trip begins tonight in Atlanta. The White Sox will face the Braves, who have had a weird and not-so-great season this year. Plagued with injuries and inconsistent pitching, Atlanta went from World Series contenders to second-from-last in their division in just less than two seasons. Speaking of inconsistent pitching, […]...2025
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• Going Backwards

At 62-56, the Yankees are not looking like the team they were last season, making the World Series. From injuries to the need for starting pitching, they seem to be in a rut and can’t shake it. Sloppy plays in the field have also been a cause for concern, with Anthony Volpe at the top … Continue reading Going Backwards...2025
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• Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki Set to Start Rehab Assignment This Week

The Los Angeles Dodgers have seemingly been dealing with constant pitching injuries since last season. From only having three starting pitchers ready for the World Series last year to the uncomfortably long list of pitchers on the injured list this year, things finally look to be turning around for LA. As long-lost pitchers start to …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Provides Unfortunate Timeline for Tommy Edman Return

Tommy Edman exited the Los Angeles Dodgers’ series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning after sustaining an ankle injury while running to first base. Edman had been playing through a lingering ankle injury since May, and unfortunately tweaked it again against the Rays. More news: Former Dodgers All-Star, World Series Champion …...2025
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• Game Thread #112: Milwaukee Brewers (67-44) @ Atlanta Braves (47-63)

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Brewers continue NL East trip in Atlanta Fresh off their demolition of the Washington Nationals over the weekend, the Milwaukee Brewers will continue their (almost) East Coast swing tonight in Atlanta with the first of three games against the Braves. After the Brewers’ thorough undoing of the Nationals, they’re really starting to look like what the stats say th...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota

Nick Wosika-Imagn Images The Twins had themselves a fire sale. Winners and losers at the Trade Deadline. The Speedway Classic didn’t go as planned. And other baseball news. Good morning. The Twins traded 40 percent of their roster at the trade deadline. Bob Nightengale looks at the carnage in Minneapolis and the decision to trade Carlos Correa. Plus some assorted thoughts on the trade d...2025
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• SATCHEL & THE BLACK BARONS LEDGER, REMEMBERING TWO REBELS

In this post I cover a couple former Montgomery players, recently passed away, who had very unusual moments in MLB, as well as one of the most interesting books I discovered in my recent studies. Satchel Paige is an iconic figure, one who I encountered on many occasions in my research, this book offered some unique info on the legendary hurler's time with the Birmingham Black Barons, as well...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 1, 2025

They’re teammates now | Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Pencils down. The trade deadline is over! Let’s talk about where the Royals are right now. They’re 54-55, a game under .500 with only 53 to play. Not great. They’re also 9th in the league - they’re closer to the bottom of the league than the top. Again, not good. If you look at the teams ahead of them, barring an insane hot st...2025
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• How to make the most of your gameday experience at Wrigley Field

Photo by @WillByington / www.willbyington.com The Cubs’ iconic ballpark has been extensively renovated for its second century. Wrigley Field is my home away from home all summer and has been for many years. It’s my happy place. I’ve written a guide to Arizona Spring Training every year for the last several (here’s this year’s), and thought it was time for a guide to the Cubs’ home in ...2025
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• Texas Rangers Hosting AEW Night With Paul Wight, New Karrion Kross Shirts, More | Fight Size
Here is your fight size update for Monday, June 30, 2025. - ICYMI: The stars of 'Superman' are set to appear on Wednesday's episode of AEW Dynamite: Before @Superman hits theaters July 11th, catch the cast of the new @JamesGunn film with some of our @AEW Stars on #AEWDynamite this Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/XtafNbLIl1 — AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) June 30, 2025 - Three new Karrion Kross shirts have bee...2025
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• Match the song title: Paradise Theater

One of the interesting elements of returning to listening to current music over the last four or five years is the realization that bands from when I was young are still making music, albums even. When I stopped keeping up on new releases I guess I just assumed all those '70s and '80s bands and singers stopped playing, too. But, yeah, some of them are still going -- like did you k...2025
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• Why Patrick Mahomes loved seeing the greatest dynasty in college softball come to an end

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback rooted hard as his alma mater, Texas Tech, ended Oklahoma’s title defense and punched its ticket to the championship stage of the Women’s College World Series. If you’re wondering what Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was doing on Monday night, it’s not hard to find the answer. Just head to his X account, whe...2025
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• How Freddie Freeman's World Series grand slam changed him -- and Dodgers fans -- forever
There are bobbleheads, T-shirts, tattoos -- and even one fan, according to Freeman, who said he hadn't touched a drink since....2025
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #4: Chicago Cubs

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images At least you’re not a Cubs fan! *Please Note This Is Satire* I usually write serious articles. This is not one of them. Trash talk has been an integral part of baseball since its inception. All the way back in 1912, Ty Cobb ran into the crowd during a game to beat up a fan who was yelling some ... less than savory things at him. To be very clear, I don’t...2025
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #3: St. Louis Cardinals

Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images At least you’re not a Cardinals fan! *Please Note This Is Satire* I usually write serious articles. This is not one of them. Trash talk has been an integral part of baseball since its inception. All the way back in 1912, Ty Cobb ran into the crowd during a game to beat up a fan who was yelling some ... less than savory things at him. To be very cle...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: A Rockies Writer in the Lone Star State

Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, May 19th, 2025 We all need a vacation sometimes. Maybe even—perhaps especially even—people who write about the Colorado Rockies. Unfortunately, I decided to frame my vacation around said Rockies. I headed deep in the heart of Texas to catch our purple-clad heroes play three games against the 2023 World Series champ...2025
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"Dave Parker, a 2-time World Series Champion and 7-time MLB All-Star, has died at the age of 74."

2024
"The Reds legend won two World Series with Cincinnati and another with the Phillies"

2023
"Robinson spent his entire 23-year career in Baltimore, where he won two World Series and was an 18-time All-Star."

2022
"Phillies to include Pete Rose as part of celebration for 1980 World Series championship team"

2021
"World Series: Joc Pederson becomes ninth player to win championship in back-to-back years with different teams"

2020
"Tom Seaver, the Hall of Fame pitcher who led the Mets to a World Series title in 1969 and won three Cy Young Awards, died Monday at age 75."

2019
"The defending World Series champs and the game’s biggest agent have kicked off the Winter Meetings with a bang."

2018
"Cubs seek return to World Series in '18"

2017
"Enrique Hernandez smacked three home runs, including a grand slam in the third inning, and had seven RBIs to back Clayton Kershaw and power the Dodgers to an 11-1 victory in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series presented by Camping World and eliminate the defending World Series champion Cubs."

2016
"The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago."

2015
"A mainstay player on 10 Yankee championship teams who as a manager led the Yankees and Mets to the World Series, Berra may have been better known for his bumbling yet wise way with words."

2014
"Troops will be honored at Game 1 of the 2014 World Series on Tuesday during the seventh-inning stretch, and Big Papi made sure Tom Pittman (Iraq and Afghanistan veteran), Doug Whalen (two tours in Iraq) and Molly Alesch (active servicewoman) would play a part."

• 10 Players Elect Free Agency
Now that the season is over, we’ll start seeing several players choose to become minor league free agents. Major League free agents (i.e. players with six-plus years of big league service time) will hit the open market five days after the end of the World Series, but eligible minor leaguers can already start electing free…...2025
• 14 Players Elect Free Agency
Now that the season is over, we’ll start seeing several players choose to become minor league free agents. Major League free agents (i.e. players with six-plus years of big league service time) will hit the open market five days after the end of the World Series, but eligible minor leaguers can already start electing free…...2025
• 22 Players Elect Free Agency
Now that the season is over, we’ll start seeing several players choose to become minor league free agents. Major League free agents (i.e. players with six-plus years of big league service time) will hit the open market five days after the end of the World Series, but eligible minor leaguers can already start electing free…...2025
• Bruce Bochy out as Rangers manager after three seasons, 2023 World Series title

Texas said Bochy has been offered a front office advisory role...2025
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• Charlie Morton goes out as a Brave in likely final career appearance

The end comes for all big leaguers eventually and Sunday afternoon was the end of the road for Charlie Morton. The 2021 World Series champion made what will likely be his final career appearance as a Major Leaguer and he did so t home with the team that drafted him: The Atlanta Braves. It was […]...2025
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• Dodgers’ Blake Treinen Says There’s ‘No Words’ to Describe Struggles

Blake Treinen was the Los Angeles Dodgers’ most trustworthy reliever last season, coming through in the biggest moments en route to their World Series victory. After re-upping with LA this offseason on a two-year, $22 million deal, Treinen has endured a trying age-37 season. More news: Shohei Ohtani Open to Playing Outfield for Dodgers in […]...2025
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• Phillies trade acquisition could be an unexpected postseason X factor

Could a somewhat overlooked deadline trade end up being one that propels the Phillies to the World Series?...2025
• SATCHEL & THE BLACK BARONS LEDGER, REMEMBERING TWO REBELS
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• Nationals Reportedly Planning to Interview Cubs GM Carter Hawkins
The Washington Nationals fired Mike Rizzo, the general manager who led the team to a World Series title in 2019, back in July. This happened just before the draft, in which the Nationals held the first overall pick. Mike DeBartolo, who has worked in the organization for over a decade, took over as the interim … The post Nationals Reportedly Planning to Interview Cubs GM Carter Hawkins appear...2025
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• That was kind of delightful

Among the large cities in Upstate New York, Syracuse is the one that I drive through the most. But it's not a destination city like Buffalo or Albany. It's a place where I brave the traffic on the way to somewhere else. The only two exceptions are to watch minor league baseball or go to a card show. It's the closest large city to me so it does have its perks. But I don't know it v...2025
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• Extra: I've completed another team set

I wrapped up the Dodgers team set for 1961 Nu-Card Baseball Scoops with the arrival last week of the Johnny Podres card. There are 11 Dodgers-themed cards in the set, which is a lot for an 80-card set but not as much as the Yankees, who are featured 16 times. I acquired most of the cards from card shows, oddly enough -- they just don't seem appealing enough for collectors to have them o...2025
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• Game Thread #112: Milwaukee Brewers (67-44) @ Atlanta Braves (47-63)
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• Outside The Confines: Leaving Minnesota
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• Today in White Sox History: July 31

On this day 16 years ago, Jake Peavy arrived on the South Side, snatched right from under the nose of the Cubs. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Jake Peavy comes to the South Side in a surprise blockbuster 1909 “Sleepy” Bill Burns fired a two-hitter in a doubleheader opener, defeating Walter Johnson in Washington, 1-0. The White Sox also knocked off th...2025
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• Ryne Sandberg: Dreams and hard work brought him from the Cubs to the Hall of Fame

David Sameshima A personal remembrance of a generational Cubs hero. There are well-deserved accolades pouring in from every corner of the baseball community about one of the greatest second basemen of a generation. On June 23, 2024 when Ryne Sandberg’s statue was unveiled at Gallagher Way I wrote about that ceremony, and genuinely wasn’t sure I needed to say anything else today. But this m...2025
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• In remembrance of Ryne Sandberg, a great baseball player and better human being

Photo by Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images Ryno’s gone way too soon. Let’s celebrate his Hall of Fame career and life. Ryne Sandberg means so many things to so many people that it’s impossible to wrap that up in one paragraph, or even one article. Nevertheless, I will try here to capture the love that Cubs fans feel for the man affectionately called “Ryno” for not only his play on t...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 29

On this day 48 years ago, Nancy Faust’s take on “Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)” took root, becoming a sports anthem and phenomenon. A year later, she received a gold record for her role in making the Steam song a hit in a second decade. Nancy Faust fuels the summer of South Side Hit Men 1910 Patsy Dougherty was a very good hitter (.284 career), but had one talent in particular: Breaking...2025
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• Jed Hoyer receives multi-year contract extension with the Cubs

Photo by Daniel Bartel/Getty Images It happened. Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer is in the last year of a five-year contract signed to run the Cubs baseball ops department back in 2021. Today, Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts did what appeared inevitable, given the Cubs position in the standings: Jed Hoyer receives a multi year extension with the Cubs, per source. His contract ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 105

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cubs hang on for a 5-4 win over the Sox. Clearly you guys just needed me to get back in the country. The Cubs were on a four-game winning streak when I left. They dropped four of five while I was outside of the States. Then they’ve won two in a row since I got back. As near as I can tell, I will also be traveling the week of the Wo...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 27

Jim Rivera was out on this play, but his RBI single helped lead the White Sox to a win in their biggest single-game attendance ever, on this day 71 years ago. A record South Side crowd enjoys a whitewash of the Yankees 1951 Among many injustices betraying a pro-Yankees slant in Major League Baseball over the years, this was egregious as they come. It was the start of a four-game series at ...2025
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• Dodgers’ Max Muncy Reveals Why 2025 NL West Title Feels ‘Sweeter’

For a Los Angeles Dodgers team that was coming off a dominant World Series title, the 2025 season had no shortage of moments where LA has felt like the underdog. Especially with all the offseason moves made heading into the title-defense season, the Dodgers looked even stronger than the team that was previously crowned champions […]...2025
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• Extra: I've completed another team set
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• Dodgers’ Blake Treinen Says There’s ‘No Words’ to Describe Struggles
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• That nostalgic rush (is ending)

The main reason I have collected cards as an adult for the last 20 years is for that nostalgic rush. That's what I've been chasing all these years -- that feeling of collecting cards when I was a kid, pulling pictures of the players from that time and storing them in my collection. Collecting modern cards of modern players is fine, but if that's all I was doing, I would've given u...2025
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• SATCHEL & THE BLACK BARONS LEDGER, REMEMBERING TWO REBELS
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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (9/6/25): Busch Leads Off, Castro in RF, Boyd Bump Day
Before we get to the game at hand, I’d like to offer my condolences to the family and friends of Davey Johnson, who passed away yesterday at the age of 82. Perhaps best known for guiding the Mets to the 1986 World Series title in 1986, Johnson managed four other teams and found great success … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (9/6/25): Busch Leads Off, Castro in RF, Boyd Bump Day appeared ...2025
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• ESPN and MLB combined on a broadcast that was stunning — for all the wrong reasons

While boasting at the Little League World Series that MLB remains committed to doing right by kids, Rob Manfred was unable to provide specifics....2025
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• Roger Clemens on famous Mike Piazza World Series broken bat drama: ‘If I wanted to hit him with it, I could have’

Two and a half decades later, Roger Clemens’ broken bat throw at Mike Piazza is still a defining moment of the Subway Series rivalry....2025
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• Game Thread #112: Milwaukee Brewers (67-44) @ Atlanta Braves (47-63)
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• Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90
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• Seaver, Hall of Famer and Mets legend, dies at 75
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• Arrieta, Cubs ace Wild Card test vs. Bucs
The Cubs' first step toward their ultimate goal of ending a 107-year World Series championship drought was contentious, yet also decisive. Jake Arrieta weaved his routine spell, and rookie Kyle Schwarber drove in the first three runs -- two on a majestic 450-foot homer out of PNC Park -- and Chicago blanked Pittsburgh, 4-0, in Wednesday night's National League Wild Card Game presented by Budweiser...2015
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• Resolution: Dodgers should be awarded WS titles
A resolution urging Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of recent World Series titles and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers has been unanimously approved by the L.A. City Council....2020
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• Astros' Luhnow, Hinch suspended for 2020 season
Astros GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch have been suspended for one season after an MLB investigation found the team used technology to cheat during its World Series-winning 2017 season, it was announced Monday....2020
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• Dodgers' Series dream ends with loss to Cubs
The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, to wrap up the 11th NL pennant in franchise history....2016
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• Yankees to retire Nos. of Bernie, Jorge, Pettitte
The Yankees will honor some of the most influential figures of the 1990s World Series dynasty when they retire the numbers of Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte. The club will also add a plaque for Willie Randolph to Monument Park this season....2015
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• Blazing Cain: Dash from first sends KC to WS
The Royals advanced to their second straight World Series for the first time in franchise history with a pulsating 4-3 win over the Blue Jays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium....2015
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• The remarkable life of Jerry Coleman

Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Former KC Blue Have you ever read about the life of a person and wonder how they did it? How did they manage to squeeze all that adventure into one lifetime? I don’t think we see as many lives like that today. Think about some of the baseball players who served in World War II and what their lives were like. Bob Feller rose out of the cornfield...2025
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• BCB After Dark: What about Eugenio Suárez

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs should trade for Cubs killer Eugenio Suárez. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and cool off with us. It’s hot out there, but the music is cool in here. There’s no cover charge. The dress code ...2025
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• Brooks Boyer and MJ: Do the Sox still Get Us?

Did not actually play in an official game for the Sox, 31 years ago. | Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images Selling the White Sox by ignoring the White Sox In 1997, the White Sox marketing team put up a billboard in Wrigleyville, reading “Major League Baseball: 8.1 Miles South.” This was a slight exaggeration of the discrepancy between the teams: The Sox might have finished second tha...2025
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• AL Week 6 Strategy-May 3, 2025
In The Field 1B Triston Casas was removed from Friday's game with a knee injury. After the game, manager Alex Cora described the injury as significant. Testing revealed a ruptured patellar tendon, which means his season is likely over. The Red Sox are likely to give 1B Romy Gonzalez most of the at-bats at 1B while Casas is out. The Red Sox are going to have a lot of important roster decisions c...2025
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• Vets on the move - March 24th, 2025
Willy Adames landed in San Fransisco, signing a seven-year deal this offseason. The 29-year-old bounced back in 2024 after a career-worst 2023 campaign. He hit .217 with a 94 wRC+ and 24 homers in '23. Last season, he hit .251 with a 119 wRC+ and tallied 32 homers and 110 RBIs (both career highs). Adames has been scorching with his new team in spring training, slashing a ridiculous .364/.429/.614 ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images (It’s a very clever joke because he bought a bowling league franchise.) It’s not mystery that baseball players, being athletes, are often fond of more than one sport. Plenty of baseball players were on multiple teams in high school and college, lots of guys play golf (some, like Justin Verlander were actually semi-pro, at least according to his old T...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 12, 2025
Roki Sasaki SP LAD Sasaki will make his MLB debut March 19 against the Cubs in the second game of the Tokyo Series, Kirsten Watson of Spectrum SportsNet LA reports. His splitter has caught the eye of hitters, though not their bats. Turns out he's got just 518 rpm on the splitter; the lowest rpm on a splitter of 2024 was 577 rpm. Slow is good when it comes to RPM on a splitter, but his 96.3 mph on ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings—News for March 5, 2025

Photo by Jeremy Chen/Getty Images Which will come first, the end of Kansas City’s winter or Opening Day? David Lesky at Inside the Crown stacks up the Kansas City Royals pitching room ahead of Opening Day. The change started at the end of June that year when the Royals acquired Cole Ragans, but to their credit, they didn’t stop. We know about them adding Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, but th...2025
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• Rosters In Flux- Preseason Draft Prep March 2, 2025
As Spring Training rolls on, every day seems to bring up stories of injuries and prospects causing teams to examine who they are going to be putting on their rosters and in their starting lineups in a few weeks when the games start to count. Giancarlo Stanton- DH- NYY- The injury news about Stanton continues to be negative. He will definitely start the 2025 season on the IL. He has received PRP i...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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• Poll: Will The Phillies Exercise Jose Alvarado’s Option?
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• Taking An Analytical Look At The Most Valuable Players In Washington Nationals Playoff History
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• Can Dodgers repeat as World Series champions? History suggests the odds are against them

No MLB team has won consecutive Fall Classics since the Yankees finished their three-peat in 2000...2025
• Never-before-seen history? A battle of villains?! The best World Series matchup for every type of fan
We're down to eight teams. Here's what Fall Classic matchup you should be pulling for if your squad isn't playing in October....2025
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• Random posting for the real start of the postseason (2025)

You know I forgot all about how I hated the current wild-card set up last year. I complained last year that division winners shouldn't be involved in such chaos. I guess I still agree with that, but I didn't think of it once during this past week and that's even with my team involved in it. I'm never going to get to Grandpa Simpson status at this rate. But I like my postseason atti...2025
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• Ranking all 16 potential World Series matchups: Yankees vs. Cubs would be historic, but it's not No. 1

There are no bad potential World Series matchups in this field, but we're ranking all 16...2025
• MLB Power Rankings: Why World Series race is wide open with eight contenders left standing

How do the eight teams left stack up? Let's take a look before the LDS round gets going...2025
• MLB World Series odds shift ahead of divisional matchups

There's a new World Series favorite heading into the divisional round. But it's also a familiar one....2025
• Wild card matchups, in one tidy card

The postseason has already begun -- the Tigers and Guardians are on my TV as I write this. I do miss day time postseason baseball. Even though I'm a fan of night games and night cards, there's too much artificial light in the playoffs and I remember fondly the days of coming home from school to a game already in progress. So there's one good reason for wedging 12 teams in the play...2025
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• 2025 MLB playoffs: Our predictions from the wild cards to the World Series
Which will be the last team standing in October? Our experts predict which teams will win each series of the postseason....2025

• GM Dana Brown: Astros To Take “Full Assessment” Of Organization After Playoff Miss
For the first time since 2016, the Astros won’t be part of baseball’s postseason. Houston was officially eliminated from wild card contention yesterday, ending an eight-year run for the club that included two World Series titles, four AL pennants, and seven AL West crowns (plus, since it can’t be overlooked, the infamous sign-stealing scandal). The…...2025
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• Arctos Partners Disputes Sports Team Valuation Bubble Claims

Private equity firm Arctos Partners released research challenging claims that sports team valuations represent a financial bubble, arguing that price increases reflect fundamental business improvements rather than speculation. Arctos owns stakes in multiple NBA teams such as the Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers, The firm's white paper, authored by managing director Zach Baran and execu...2025
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• Walker Buehler Released By Red Sox in Shocking Move, Could Dodgers Bring Him Back?

Former Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star and World Series champion Walker Buehler has been released by the Boston Red Sox, the team announced. Buehler is now free to join any team in a shocking turn of events. If Buehler joins a team before Sept. 1, he will be eligible for the postseason. More news: Dodgers Infielder …...2025
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• Nationals shockingly designate former World Series champ for assignment

The Nationals announced Thursday that they’ve designated first baseman Nathaniel Lowe for assignment....2025
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• Outside The Confines: Trade deadline roundup

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images What a feeding frenzy. Weeks and weeks of speculation, rumor-mongering, and hug watching, the trade deadline has come and gone. Many moves were made, though none felt like earth-shattering blockbusters. Teams solidified themselves as wanting to contend (we see you Padres) while others seemed to be admitting defeat (sorry about your season, Twins). It’s certa...2025
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• Astros trade for Carlos Correa in shocking deal: Star shortstop headed to Houston, where he won World Series

In a shocking turn of events, the former Astros shortstop is returning to the team that drafted him...2025
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• Astros trade for Carlos Correa: Star shortstop reportedly headed back to Houston, where he won World Series

In a shocking turn of events, the former Astros shortstop is returning to the team that drafted him...2025
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• Ryne Sandberg: Dreams and hard work brought him from the Cubs to the Hall of Fame
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• Sean Murphy is an enticing trade candidate who shouldn’t get traded

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves currently have two very good catchers. If they still think they can win in the near future, that number needs to stay at two. Dating back for as long as I can remember, one thing that has remained remarkably consistent about the Atlanta Braves throughout all this time that’s passed between the divisional dynasty of the 90s ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: What would it take to trade Owen Caissie?

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks what the Cubs would have to get back for you to trade outfield prospect Owen Caissie. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the heat and cool off with us. There’s no cover charge. Let us know if we ...2025
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