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• Braves conclude Texas Week by hosting the Rangers

Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images Fresh off a 5-1 road trip, the Braves will play three against the reigning postseason champs After a 5-1 road trip, the Atlanta Braves will return to Truist Park to begin a nine-game homestand, which starts with a three-game series against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. The Braves (barely!) took two of three from the Marlin...2024
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• 2024 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule
The 2024 DI baseball championship is set to begin with regionals on Friday, May 31. Here is the full tournament schedule....2024
• The Atlanta Braves rally late to beat the Houston Astros in extra innings for the sweep

Orlando Arcia came through in extras to help the Braves sweep the Astros | Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports In what looked like a day where the Braves could not get anything going, they rallied late in the game to defeat the Astros in extra innings. The Atlanta Braves took on the Houston Astros this afternoon in the series finale The first inning looked like the Braves may get something going...2024
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• Today in Cubs history: George Mitterwald blasts three home runs

Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images The Cubs have scored 18 runs or more in a game just 20 times in the history of Wrigley Field. Here's the story of one of those games. The Cubs had repeatedly contended from 1967-73, as you know they never won anything. After ‘73 GM John Holland traded away many of the stars who’d become popular, and later Cubs legends despite that failure to win. So the 197...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 17

STICK TALK 1906 The world championship season began in Detroit with the White Sox beating the Tigers, 5-3. Frank Owen, who’d win 22 games that season, picked up the victory. Just three days short of six months later, the Sox would close out the Cubs, winning the only all-Chicago World Series, in six games. Frank Hemphill, who played all three outfield positions in the game, drove in two runs for t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 17, 2024

Another Wednesday! The Royals announced a series of events and giveaways to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the 2014 playoff run. Cole Ragans answered questions for Dan Connolly of sportskeeda, including reflecting on his journey through two Tommy Johns after he was awarded this year’s Opening Day start: It’s hard not to reflect. My wife the other day told me that Opening Day was six years to...2024
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• Former Royals manager Whitey Herzog dies at age 92

With his aggressive baserunning strategies, Whitey led the Royals to their first three playoff appearances. Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog, who managed the Royals from 1975 to 1979, has died at the age of 92. Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog grew up just east of St. Louis in Illinois, excelling at baseball enough to be signed by the Yankees as a teenager. After a stint in the Army and a trade to th...2024
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• Braves News: Darius Vines, Bullpen Silence Astros, Revisiting World Series Win in Houston, More

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports A good start to big week of baseball for the Braves. Darius Vines would put in a tough spot on Monday. The Braves pitching staff as a whole had been struggling since Spencer Strider was lost for the season, and now Vines was called up to face a dangerous Houston Astros lineup (despite their early record.) Fortunately, Vines and the rest of the Braves pitching...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Rockies

This one has a mile high stinker. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Orioles, White Sox, Angels, Marlins, and Brewers. Today we look at the history of deals with the Colorado Rockies. Total number of Royals/Rockies trades: 10 The Rockies began play in 1993, but didn’t connect...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The Mets retire Dwight Gooden’s number. Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter surrenders. Some early-season storylines. Jackie Robinson Day and other news from MLB. One of the nice things about being old is that I can now look back at Doc Gooden and say “You know what? He was a really good pitcher” and not hate him with the burning fire of a thousand suns. A...2024
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The Braves will try to extend the Astros’ early-season misery in a 2021 World Series rematch After an improbable, thrilling win to cap off their series in Miami, the Braves will head to Houston to continue their road trip and begin an all-Texas week that will see them head home to host the Rangers over the weekend. This series will mark the first time th...2024
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• Mets series preview: Party like it’s 2015!

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Time flies! It has been nine years since the Royals marched into Citi Field and won Game 5 of the 2015 World Series, securing the second title in club history. Salvador Perez is the only player from that series still on one of these teams, and only three other players from that series are even on a big league roster in 2024 (Michael Conforto, Jacob deGrom,...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 12, 2024

Dang it - Ryan already used the picture I wanted to use | Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Sure, the Royals have a 7 game winning streak. But, more importantly, they’d have a 29 week unbeaten streak on Thursdays if they hadn’t lost Opening Day Yesterday was a day game (and what a game). That jumbles all the news up. Basically, we get a bunch of recaps, but I’m sur...2024
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• Better know a draft prospect: Nick Kurtz

Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images The Wake Forest first baseman is one of the most complete amateur hitters in the country. We are right around the halfway point of the college baseball season, which means the MLB Draft will be here before you know it. Earlier this week, Preston provided a bit of an overview of some of the prospects that will be near the top of the draft this summer. Ov...2024
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• Know Your Enemy Cincinnati: Marge Schott and The Fine Line

Focus on Sport/Getty Images Remembering a polarizing owner Note: this year’s “Know Your Enemy” will take a few different paths. We’re not always going to examine the pitching matchups unless notable. Rather, we’ll look at the scoundrels, oddities, histories, and other elements that make our enemies interesting. Cincinnati is a surprise to the first-time visitor. If you arrive by car, fr...2024
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)

All right, time to inject a little spirit of community into the blog world again. Everyone's gone off into their own directions, even if they didn't ditch their blog 10 years ago. What we need is another Blog Bat-Around.This version was started by Matt of Diamond Jesters. Inspired by his recent pull of a Tony Gwynn bat relic in 2024 Topps, he listed his top five pack-pulled hits.I'm taking u...2024
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• The history of cities that rejected baseball park ballot measures

Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images Teams don’t typically move at the first “no” vote. Last week, Jackson County voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to extend a 3/8 cent sales tax for another 40 years to fund a new downtown ballpark for the Royals and renovations for Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs. The failed vote immediately brought concerns that the Royals could soon relocate, possibl...2024
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• A look back on Harry Simpson

Have Suitcase, will travel I don’t think there’s much debate that baseball players today are better than they were 50 or 100 years ago. For one thing, MLB is now integrated. It’s truly an international sport. The second thing is players at nearly all levels now play and work out year-round. With AAU and traveling teams, pre-teen ballplayers probably play more games in a summer than I played in the...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 5, 2024

Monday is Eclipse Day | Set Number: X161331 TK1 Anne Rogers with a pair of stories about injuries. The first is about Frank Mozzicato’s injury last season: Frank Mozzicato’s 2023 season can be broken into two parts: Before the collision and after the collision... On June 2, a day after Mozzicato struck out 10 in five innings for the Fireflies, he was in shallow center field during battin...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 3

Happy birthday, Jason Kipnis! | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Jason Kipnis! And other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various na...2024
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• MLB should consider starting the regular season later

Getty Images Weather in northern cities is just bad in late March/early April. Monday’s Cubs home opener was played in conditions not really suitable for baseball. It was 43 degrees at game time — bad enough — but then around the sixth inning it started raining, making conditions miserable for fans and players alike. The weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t any better, in fact,...2024
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• The metaphorical White Sox rebuild failed, but the literal rebuild may be exactly what Chicago needs

Wells Street, a vision of The 78’s future. | 78Chicago.com A new stadium may not be a bad thing By now, we’ve all absorbed the news about vilified billionaire White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf’s plans for a new stadium. In these uneasy economic times, it seems absurd that a diamond-encrusted plutocrat would have the nerve to beg for another $1 billion of taxpayers’ money because he’s bored ...2024
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• Radio host gets epic Texas Rangers World Series tattoo

It is not uncommon for fans to get tattoos celebrating their favorite team's championships. One Dallas radio host took his tattoo to another level to celebrate the Rangers' first title in franchise history....2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Angels

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Once rivals, the Royals have gotten the better end of the deals. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Orioles, and White Sox. Today we look at the history of deals with the California/Los Angeles/Anaheim. Total number of Royals/Angels...2024
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"Bellinger’s 2020 season wasn’t as strong and he injured himself during the World Series that year."

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"Cubs seek return to World Series in '18"

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

• Former Cub Ken Holtzman has died

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images The lefthander threw two no-hitters with the Cubs. Ken Holtzman burst onto the Cubs scene at age 19, barely three months after he was selected out of the University of Illinois in the very first amateur draft in 1965. A full-time member of the Cubs rotation by the following year, he tantalized Cubs fans with near no-hitters a couple of times, inc...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Rockies
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• Today in White Sox History: April 14

Superstar and Hall of Fame-worthy center fielder Billy Hoy signed with the White Sox on this day, 124 years ago. An all-time great signs with the South Siders 1900 Deaf and mute player Billy Hoy signed with the White Sox after a 12-year career starring in the American Association, National League and Players’ League. He played just two years with the White Sox, including their pennant-win...2024
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• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1

All right, welcome to my 2024 Heritage box break. This is the first hobby box I have purchased since 2011 when I bought a box of Allen & Ginter for the third year in a row. After that I went into box-breaking rehab and have done quite well, except for falling off the wagon ... right now.I don't buy hobby boxes these days for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones occurring to me now is I ...2024
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Playoff hero Jordan Montgomery fired Boras after being one of several big-name free agents to sign late for a much lower contract than expected. For decades now, Scott Boras has been synonymous with the MLB offseason. He changed the landscape of player salaries in such a dramatic way and over such a long period of time that it would not surprise anyone to se...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 12, 2024
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• Better know a draft prospect: Nick Kurtz
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• Outside The Confines: The butcher’s bill

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Injuries are everywhere and no one knows what to do about it. The Red Sox lock up a rookie outfielder. And other news from MLB. I hope everyone feels better today. And that no one has an elbow injury. This big story in baseball is injuries, in particular to pitchers. Jeff Passan writes that MLB and the Players Association must work together to do something about...2024
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• Cubs 5, Padres 1: A ‘Slam Diego’ for Christopher Morel

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Cubs evened up their series with the Padres. With one swing of the bat, Christopher Morel let the Padres know that Monday’s game wasn’t going to define this series. Morel’s fifth-inning grand slam gave the Cubs a 5-1 win and each team has one win in the three-game set. The game breezed scoreless for four innings, with Ben Brown and Joe Musgrove matc...2024
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• Braves conclude Texas Week by hosting the Rangers
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• 2024 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule
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• The Atlanta Braves rally late to beat the Houston Astros in extra innings for the sweep
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• Today in Cubs history: George Mitterwald blasts three home runs
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• Braves begin Texas Week by heading down for three in Houston
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• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• Mets series preview: Party like it’s 2015!
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• Blog Bat-Around: 5 best pack-pulled hits (plus a few others)
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• Five things that stick out over the Royals’ first ten games

Apr 3, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro watches action in the first inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. | Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports They’re way better! It takes a long time for just about anything to stabilize in baseball, and just about anything can happen in one game. So while it certainly is fun to react (or ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 17
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• Three in 24 hours? Yeah, I'm old

I had another post planned for today, had the cards pulled and ready to scan, but death had other plans.You know the old superstition that notable deaths come in threes? Well how about finding out three well-known baseball figures of my younger days died within a 24-hour period? That's an unsettling ramp-up.It started yesterday afternoon and it's still going. Ken Holtzman. Gone. Whitey...2024
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• Dodgers Legend, Last ‘Boy of Summer,’ Dies at 97

Carl Erskine, who helped pitch the Dodgers to their first World Series championship in franchise history, has died. His family confirmed the news to the Indianapolis Star on Tuesday. Erskine was 97. Erskine was the last link to the Dodgers’ 1955 championship team, and the last of the living Brooklyn players chronicled in the seminal …...2024
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• Former Cub Ken Holtzman has died
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• Outside The Confines: A Doc in the house
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• Today in White Sox History: April 15

Future Hall of Famer starter Red Faber helped the White Sox to a 2-0 start 109 years ago today. He also improved to 2-0. How? Find out below. The South Siders count the Browns down and out 1915 It was the biggest shutout in team history, as the White Sox pasted St. Louis, 16-0. The Pale Hose put up seven runs before the home Browns even got to bat, and scored in every inning but the third...2024
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• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1
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• Know Your Enemy Cincinnati: Marge Schott and The Fine Line
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 12, 2024
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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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• Baseball is back! Opening Day 2024
Happy Opening Day! Baseball is back! Around the League Kodai Senga (shoulder) was able to start a throwing program on Wednesday which included a light catch. His current timeline is a 6-week ramp-up period so we will get more news along the way on how his shoulder has responded. SS Matt McClain had surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. The Reds have said they hope ...2024
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• Opening Day is Here - March 27th, 2024
Available Opening Day Starters If you have room on your roster and want to get someone on the mound out of the gates tomorrow, here are some Opening Day starters that should be available in free agency. Garrett Crochet, CHW (7.8% ROST) The 24-year-old southpaw is getting the nod tomorrow against the Tigers. Crochet has made 72 relief appearances in his three-year big league career, but this will...2024
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• Preseason Prep - March 22nd, 2024
Snag, Lag, or Red Flag? A classic exercise (that was just made up) where we look at players in different ADP ranges of the draft and decide which of these three categories they fall into: Snag - Get the player. Don't hesitate to draft him in that range. Lag - Pump the breaks. See what else is available and if he falls, maybe. Red Flag - Forget about him. Early Rounds: Yordan Alvarez, OF/DH,...2024
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• Preseason Prep, March 9th, 2024
Minnesota's Outfield Byron Buxton, CF As has been the case since he arrived in Minnesota in 2015, Buxton has the highest potential in the Twins' outfield. Of course, staying healthy is the key for the 30-year-old. Buxton has only played in more than 100 games once in his career, which was back in 2017. He battled a knee injury last season that limited his playing time severely and kept him out of...2024
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• Braves News: Spencer Strider, Jimy Williams, More

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Today could be another fun day for the Braves. Plenty of good content came from the 2024 Braves Fest, as much like Max Fried, Spencer Strider is also fully focused on making the most of 2024. The big thing for Strider is that his first two seasons have not ended how we all know he knows they should have, with a title. As a result, Strider is more motiva...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 23, 2024

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Royals bullpen will look different in 2024. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals’ bullpen situation. This offseason, the Royals have sought to address their bullpen woes with experienced veterans. KC signed World Series-champion relievers Will Smith and Chris Stratton. They also acquired reliever Nick Anderson, along with star...2024
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• Braves conclude Texas Week by hosting the Rangers
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• 2024 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule
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• Today in Cubs history: George Mitterwald blasts three home runs
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 17, 2024
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• Former Royals manager Whitey Herzog dies at age 92
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• Braves News: Darius Vines, Bullpen Silence Astros, Revisiting World Series Win in Houston, More
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Monday 4/15, 8:40 CT

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images The Cubs open a series in the desert. Today’s roster move: Here Monday notes... A BRIEF HISTORY OF NOT WALKING: Nico Hoerner’s walk with one out in the seventh inning Friday night at Seattle was the Cubs’ 60th of the season, in 492 plate appearances, a walk rate of 12.2 percent — nearly one of every eight. Since then, 76 consecutive Cubs have failed to d...2024
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• BreakingT unveils new “Hey Hey Hey Hey” shirt for Royals fans

You’re hearing a lot more of that after games these days! The Royals are off to a pretty good start for a change, with a core of exciting young hitters and perhaps their best group of starting pitchers since the team was in the World Series in 2015. More Royals wins means more playing of the Beatles song “Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey” after victories, as is the custom at Kauffman Stadium. BreakingT...2024
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• Former Cub Ken Holtzman has died
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• 50 years after 715, Henry Aaron’s courage lives on

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images 50 years ago today, The Hammer mashed his way into history with home run 715. It’s always worth it to take a look at what it took for Hank to get there. If you really think about it, 1974 was a doozy of a year as far as America was concerned. If all you want is a cursory glance at what was going on in this country 50 years ago, then that’s easy: Wikiped...2024
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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Has Hilarious Response to PitchCom Issue on Sunday Night Baseball

Following the Houston Astros’ World Series trash-can-banging scandal against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017, Major League Baseball has been trying to clean up the prevalence of sign stealing. The league legalized PitchCom devices for the 2022 season. PitchCom is a wireless communication system that lets a pitcher call and receive pitch signals without using …...2024
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• Thurman Munson… Hall Of Fame

On August 2, 1979, I remember the news that afternoon at 6 saying that a plane crash happened in Canton Ohio and Thurman Munson was dead. It was shocking because he was only 32 years old and a catcher for the Yankees. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/munsoth01.shtml While I was watching the 77 and 78 World Series there was … Continue reading "Thurman Munson… Hall Of Fa...2024
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: Texas Rangers games 5-7

Rays fall under .500 at 3-4 after three games against Rangers “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the second series of the season, where the Tampa Bay...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 3
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• Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images News from Opening Day weekend and MLB. It’s the home opener! (Weather permitting.) It’s also April Fools Day. In honor of that, all the links will take you to Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” (No, they won’t.) The City of Oakland have delivered their list of demands to allow the Athletics to play for the next three years at the Coliseu...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ Brown harvest

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Part of the future is coming to a park near you. Plus game notes and other amusements for the discerning reader. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground ...2024
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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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• MLB is starting to realize the consequences of embracing sports gambling

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Baseball isn’t the only sport that has a mess on its hands but it is once again the sport with the highest-profile athlete in the midst of it. When it comes to gambling and professional sports in North America, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle. The NFL, NHL and WNBA all have teams located in Las Vegas and MLB is trying their hardest to ...2024
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