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• Despite Cold Bats, Dodgers’ World Series Defense Already Reaching Surprising Historic Territory
The Los Angeles Dodgers keep making history despite early season struggles as they look to defend their World Series title....2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Houston Astros

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Brewers set to take on former division foe in interleague series to wrap up homestand In a matchup of former NL Central foes, the Milwaukee Brewers are set to wrap up their six-game homestand with a three-game set against the Houston Astros. The Brewers are 17-18 this year after dropping two of three to the Cubs over the weekend, while the Astros sit at 17-16 aft...2025
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• McCullers scoreless in 1st MLB appearance since '22 World Series
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• The Global Game: Former Nats coach and manager McLaren has spread the baseball gospel around the world

Piotr Nowak Former Nationals interim manager John McLaren is now in Poland teaching baseball to the parts of the world where the sport needs to be spread “Hey guys, it is good to see you again’’; said former Nationals coach and manager John McLaren, 73, standing in front of the first-base dugout at a baseball complex in central Poland on a sun-splashed May afternoon. “We have some of you ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Is the Cubs offensive pace sustainable?

Michael Busch hits a grand slam against the Brewers in the second inning | Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The team has 202 runs in 33 games after a 10-0 rout of the Brewers It’s Saturday night at your Cubs indie pop-up where we’re pouring all your favorites as you head into the weekend. If you’re looking for a classic cocktail like an Old Fashioned we can mix up one of the best yo...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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• Today in White Sox History: May 2

The White Sox would make the World Series in 1919, but their home schedule would not begin until this day. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Comiskey Park finally sees a game in 1919 1901 The White Sox were part of the first forfeit in American League history. After the Detroit Tigers took a lead with five runs in the top of the ninth, rain began. White Sox players began stalling, hop...2025
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• Astros' Lance McCullers Jr. scheduled to make first MLB appearance since 2022 World Series

McCullers has been working his way back through various injuries for more than two years...2025
• Royals Rumblings - News for May 1, 2025

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Happy May Day to all. Noah Cameron’s family was on hand for his spectacular MLB debut in last night’s win: Cameron’s dad, Tracy, is from Pattonsburg, Mo., a small town off Interstate 35 northwest of St. Joseph. His mom, Diane, is from St. Joseph. They’ve been Royals fans for “forever,” Diane said, and raised all five of their kids to be, too. Noah is their young...2025
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• Astros' McCullers, out since '22, to return Sun.
Houston's Lance McCullers Jr., who hasn't appeared in an MLB game since the 2022 World Series due to injuries, is scheduled to start vs. the White Sox on Sunday....2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month

Photo by Suzanna Mitchell/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Mahle highlight baseball’s biggest surprises. There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club ...2025
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• Top end projections

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images What could this team be? “You don’t have a right to the cards you think you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding”. - author Cheryl Strayed I just love this quote from Cheryl Strayed, the author of the book Wild. If you’re unfamiliar with Strayed, she’s a woman who pulled her lif...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Tyler Glasnow will join Blake Snell on the IL. Happy Wednesday everyone, we’re halfway through the week, and wrapping up the first full month of baseball play. For the Dodgers, it hasn’t been a great month at all. Despite all their efforts to stockpile the best players in baseball over the offseason, they are struggling to maintain a hold on first in the NL...2025
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• Octavio Dotel killed in nightclub roof collapse

Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Ex-White Sox pitcher perished en route to hospital in the Dominican Republic Longtime major league pitcher and two-season Chicago White Sox reliever Octavio Dotel has died as a result of the roof collapse at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic early Tuesday morning. Dotel was pulled from the rubble alive, but died en route to the hospita...2025
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• Octavio Dotel, World Series champion and 15-year MLB vet, dies at 51 in Dominican Republic nightclub collapse

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• Octavio Dotel passes away

The longtime big league hurler lost his life far too soon in a tragic accident In tragic news involving a former Atlanta Braves player, Octavio Dotel has passed away at the age of 51 as a result of injuries suffered during an awful roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. Dotel was initially reported to have survived the collapse and had been transported to the hospital following t...2025
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• Former World Series winner confirmed dead in nightclub tragedy

He played for 13 different teams in his career, tied for the second-most teams in MLB history....2025
• Former Cardinals’ World Series Champ Missing After ‘Fatal’ Roof Collapse in a Dominican Nightclub
Former pitcher Octavio Dotel went missing in the Dominican Republic after the roof of a nightclub there collapsed....2025
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• Play ball! (2025)

When I was a young, baseball-watching fool, I'd wonder about my dad. He was a fan, but he seemed so casual about it. He'd watch maybe an inning or two and then he'd get up and go out to the garage or do some other chore. Even when he was watching he didn't seem to care. He didn't have as much knowledge about the players or teams as I did because he wasn't interested enough to learn. He ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 24, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images We will have real baseball this week! Vinnie Pasquantino exited Saturday’s game with a hamstring strain. “I feel fine,” Pasquantino said as he got ready to leave with the team for the airport and then fly to Texas. “I don’t want to put any timeframe on it, but I don’t think – my gut tells me it’s not going to affect anything. But my gut is not the medical st...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2025

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images One week until Opening Day. Daniel Lynch IV’s last Spring Training outing could hint at his role this season: Lynch will get a few appearances out of the bullpen this week as the Cactus League schedule wraps up, with an inning Wednesday and two scheduled on Friday, while Kris Bubic remains in the rotation and is scheduled for his sixth spring game (fifth st...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, March 19

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Jack Quinlan passes, Denny McLain is indicted, and other stories for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Richie Ashburn, David Ross*, and others. Today in baseball history: 1951 - Detroit Tigers player representative Fred Hutchinson asks that players ...2025
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• Snap me perfect: The Darrell Porter story

The catcher’s autobiography reveals the demons that haunted him. Note: This article deals with drug abuse and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, please reach out for help. You’re not alone and it’s never too late. Pick up the phone and call the National Drug Helpline at 844-289-0879 or the 24/7 National Drug Addiction Hotline at 855-970-1593. The Roya...2025
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"Hansen, who interfered with Dodgers star Mookie Betts during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium from attending any games at big league ballparks."

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

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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."

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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 32

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images The Cubs bounce back with an impressive 8-3 win and take the series. Checks notes. Yep. The Cubs are better when Kyle Tucker hits. And hey, any time he and his teammates want to get to four homers, I’m here for it. I’ve talked about it in the past, and in fact just yesterday, four runs is a sweet spot. Teams with four runs win a solid majority of the ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 1, 2025
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• White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder their owner ruined 2 Chicago teams

The White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder of how irrelevant both of Jerry Reinsdorf’s franchises are. All the Chicago White Sox did last year was finish with the modern era MLB record for the most losses in a single season. The South Siders went 41-121 overall in a season where they scored nearly 100 fewer runs than the next worst offense in baseball. The White Sox responded to their...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Is Matt Shaw coming back?

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you think Matt Shaw will return to be the Cubs’ third baseman this season. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. Come on in and sit with us. Your name is on the guest list. We still have a few good ...2025
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• Braves sign Eddie Rosario and option Jarred Kelenic to Triple-A

Jim Cowsert-Imagn Images Also, Ian Anderson is officially on the active roster after the Braves reported him to Atlanta. The perpetual reunion tour continues on for the Atlanta Braves. Not only has Ian Anderson returned to the fold and reported to Atlanta, the Braves have once again gone back to the well with a familiar face from the 2021 World Series-winning squad. In the process of ann...2025
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• Legends for less

It's almost nothing to own cards of retired players, so-called "legends cards," these days. Thanks to the MLB-Topps agreement, legends are included in virtually every current set. They're ubiquitous in inserts and in sets like Archives and Allen & Ginter. You can find cards of them for a quarter, which just doesn't seem right. Maybe that's because I knew a different time. As a youngste...2025
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• Braves still have a top-10 front office in all of baseball

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta’s slow start in 2025 hasn’t harmed the front office’s reputation across baseball — at least, not too much. Today’s an off-day for the Atlanta Braves and it’s also one of those rare days where nothing seems to be going on. No moves have been made, nobody’s gotten injured (or suspended) and nobody’s said or done anything that ma...2025
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• The Short Porch is looking behind to look ahead

The Cubs celebrate their 10-0 victory in Milwaukee with a sea of W flags behind them | Photo by Kylie Bridenhagen/MLB Photos via Getty Images Can the Cubs sustain their hot start? There is a wave of optimism on the North Side of Chicago as the Cubs continued to set the pace for offense in MLB with a 10-0 drubbing of the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley North yesterday. And there should be! As ...2025
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• Red-hot bats and more Luis Robert Jr. magic help the White Sox get back-to-back wins

This was the last thing Jose Altuve saw before losing to the White Sox. | Chicago White Sox The South Siders handed Houston a huge loss in the series opener Don’t look now, but the White Sox have won TWO games in a row! In the series opener, the Astros couldn’t keep up and lost in a big way, even with one of their best pitchers on the mound. Maybe these silly Bulls jerseys are giving the S...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 32
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• The Bastards Are Grinding Me Down

Chris Getz, the architect of this mess. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images I hate to admit it, but I must Nothing tickles me more than a good turn of phrase, as a former literature major and chronic over-writer. Metaphors and aphorisms abound in my brain, and I have trouble resisting all but the worst puns a conversation might generate. One of my favorite such turns of phrase goes Illegitimi N...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The Dodgers’ injury woes continue
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• Today in White Sox History: April 30

This home run by Tim Anderson, three years ago today, established a franchise record. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images TA streaks, again 1922 White Sox pitcher Charlie Robertson fired a perfect game, beating the Tigers, 2-0, in Detroit. Robertson’s perfect game only took one hour and 55 minutes to complete. The 26-year-old rookie struck out six, in just the fourth start of his career. In the se...2025
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• The Global Game: Former Nats coach and manager McLaren has spread the baseball gospel around the world
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• Paul Skenes’ Girlfriend Olivia Dunne Slays All-Black Look While Cheering on Pirates Ace at Dodger Stadium
Olivia Dunne made the trip to Los Angeles to see her boyfriend, Paul Skenes, absolutely dominate the reigning World Series Champions...2025
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• Starter Spotlight: Yoshi Yama-Oh No!

4-25-2025 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X Heading into the Dodgers series with slightly less momentum but still feeling good following a series victory in Anaheim, the Pirates will face off against one of the hottest pitchers in MLB, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Coming off a World Series-winning rookie season where Yamamoto went 7-2 with a 3.00Continue reading "Starter Spotlight: Y...2025
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• Play the FCG Cabo Championship

Welcome players and parents to the 4th Annual FCG Cabo World Series Championship at Palmilla Golf Club! This is a WAGR Ranked Event. – 9-Hole Age Divisions will play the Ocean 9 – 18-Hole Age Divisions will play Arroyo and Ocean – All players will ride in carts so 14 and Under Division players must… »Play the FCG Cabo Championship The post Play the FCG Cabo Champ...2025
• Remembering my father through baseball

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images The changing soundtrack of summer Going into the game on Sunday, September 16, 2018, the Royals were 52-96 and on their way to finishing an abysmal 58-104, the first of the franchise’s consecutive 100-loss seasons since the team did it three times in a row from 2004 through 2006. The lean years were back, baby! Of course, the horrible finish ended with the Royals ...2025
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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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• 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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• Game Thread: Astros at White Sox

Jonathan Cannon hopes to build on his terrific, 7 2⁄3 -inning effort last time out in his start tonight for the Sox. | Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images Hide the trash cans, Houston comes to town! The Astros (16-14) are in town to face the red-hot (OK, for one game) White Sox. Hopefully, some of the 20th anniversary of the World Series win will be in the air as they see the Astros for the fi...2025
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• Three errors, two unearned runs, and one familiar loss as Sox fall 6-4 to Brewers

Jon Garland again graces the mound he once rode to a World Series championship. | Chicago White Sox/X Jon Garland’s blast from the past can’t cover up our present pain Despite a nostalgic start to the evening with White Sox legend and 2005 World Series champion Jon Garland throwing out the first pitch, the South Siders fell to the Milwaukee Brewers by a score of 6-4, dropping their season...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 29

After 21 losses, Frank Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles finally got a 1988 win — at the expense of the White Sox. Baltimore breaks a shameful streak, in Chicago 1901 Shortstop Frank Shugart hit the first home run in White Sox history. It came in the eighth inning of a 3-2 loss to Detroit, off of future South Side starter Frank Owen. Ironically, the 1901 season was the only one Shugart w...2025
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• MVP debates

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images How’d that guy win? One of the beauties of today’s advanced baseball stats is it gives nerds like me a chance to go back in time and argue about how badly baseball writers mangled MVP and Cy Young votes in years past. I’ve always been in favor of making ballots public, if for no other reason than to shame homerism for undeserving candidates. Whether tha...2025
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• Spoiler alert: Here’s how the 2025 Braves season will play out

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Past results may not be indicative of future performance, but don’t doubt the Battery Power Almanac. There’s that meme. You know the one. “What a week, huh?” “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.” The 2025 Atlanta Braves regular season isn’t even a month old and it’s already been a long season. The lack of free agent signings to bolster the pit...2025
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• Hey, Tom Ricketts! You need to get Kyle Tucker signed now — and not just for baseball reasons

David Banks-Imagn Images There’s something else that this signing would do for the Cubs. With Kyle Tucker off to a great start with the Cubs, the chorus of voices urging Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts to open up the team wallet and sign Tucker to an extension before he hits free agency has gotten louder. While there’s no question about Tucker’s abilities on the field — he’s hitting the way he ...2025
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• Was the infamous 2016 Braves prospect ranking actually that bad?

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It raised the ire of Braves fans across then internet, but did FanGraphs actually get it wrong back in 2015? Back in 2015, when all Atlanta Braves fans had was the hope and wishes on prospects as the Braves were in the midst of their first full-fledged rebuild since the late 1980’s, FanGraphs released a prospect ranking of the top ...2025
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• Luis Robert Jr trade rumors persist despite slow season start

Luis Robert Jr. needs to remember he has to play well enough now, in order to be traded soon. | Matt Dirksen/Getty Images Hypothetical deals continue to be thrown around, even though the centerpiece isn’t hitting well enough to be traded Well, it was fun while it lasted. Spring Training Luis Robert Jr. is officially gone, and mid-season, struggling Robert is back on the team. The differen...2025
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