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• SEC softball player tosses fastest pitch ever in NCAA Super Regional

Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Tennessee’s Karlyn Pickens is the flamethrower of college softball. This college softball season has been full of players posting eye-popping stats. Arkansas first baseman Bri Ellis is putting up hitting numbers that can only be correlated to MVP seasons from Barry Bonds, while do-it-all Nebraska star Jordy Bahl is drawing comparisons t...2025
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• MLB Week 8 Hot or Not: Nats and Halos on the rise, Rox remain in the basement

CJ Abrams hits a home run against the Orioles in the second inning of play at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 18. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Several teams are defying expectations, for better and worse We’re back in business with the last full week of May in this week’s Hot or Not recap, covering May 18-24. AL West Hot: The Angels kick it up a notch It’s time to pull out the brooms...2025
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• At what stage of teams’ competitiveness is the sweet spot for Cleveland fans?

Brian Bradshaw Sevald-Imagn Images Expectations are low for the Browns but the Cavs and Guardians are on a different level Expectations are a heck of a thing. Go to a movie you think will be great, and you are more likely to be disappointed. If you didn’t know much about that movie or weren’t expecting much, you were more likely to enjoy it. As a sports fan first and a writer second, I’ve ...2025
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• Serious business at less-than-serious prices

I am focusing on several card pursuits at once, per usual, and I hate how I drop one after a single purchase or two because my head turns for some hot "young" card thing (it's usually not "young," it's usually vintage). This is why I go so long between completing card sets. So, I tried to focus on the 1969 Topps chase for a little while and did well enough to get through about three purchases...2025
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• This college softball player is drawing comparisons to Shohei Ohtani in the NCAA Tournament

Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Jordy Bahl looks like the best two-way player in college softball and might be the frontrunner for Player of the Year. All season long, Nebraska’s Jordy Bahl has been punishing opponents from the plate and the circle. And Friday night in the Huskers’ Super Regional matchup against Tennessee in Knoxville was no different. ...2025
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• ‘Angels and Dodgers in the World Series’ — Fans Erupt as Ron Washington’s Bold Verdict Resurfaces Amid Win Streak
Los Angeles Angels manager Ron Washington's strong statement about his team resurfaced after they won seven games in a row....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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• BCB After Dark: Pick your rookie

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which rookie excites you the most. It’s Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the coolest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and groove out with us for a while. There’s no cover charge. Let us know if we can do anything. There are still a couple tables av...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 21

Marlon Byrd | Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Marlon Byrd* has a bad day and other stories. Billy Nash is in the news again. Many happy birthdays. 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 v...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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• Phillies move on without suspended Alvarado
The Phillies entered this season with World Series aspirations, and José Alvarado was one of the reasons for that optimism....2025
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• Game Thread: Mariners at White Sox

Your American League Player of the Week, Miguel Vargas! | Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images Seattle comes to town for three Happy Monday! It’s a new week and a new series, this time against the Mariners. While it pains me to revisit last week, well, mostly the weekend, there is something to celebrate from it. The White Sox got some good news on Monday: Miguel Vargas was named Ame...2025
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• Giants series preview: Baseball by the Bay

Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Madison Bumgarner is not walking through that door The Giants defeated the Royals in a thrilling Game 7 of the World Series in 2014, but have managed to make the playoffs just twice since then. They won a franchise record 107 games in 2021, but have not enjoyed a winning record since then. They finished 80-82 last year, which got club pr...2025
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• Digging deeper on Royals opponent quality

Cavan Biggio #18 of the Kansas City Royals talks with his father Hall of Famer Craig Biggio | Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images The standard opponent quality numbers can be a bit misleading for KC. Much ado was made last season of the Royals’ record against winning opponents. Namely, that they lost more than they won against opponents over .500. None of that prevented the Royals from sweep...2025
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• Jose Alvarado suspended 80 games — and playoffs — for PEDs in major Phillies blow

The win-now Phillies were just dealt a significant blow to their World Series hopes....2025
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• Gamethread XLVII - Cardinals at Royals

Noah Cameron #65 of the Kansas City Royals smiles prior to making his MLB debut | Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Noah Cameron makes his return to the rotation as the Royals put two Cy Young finalists on the IL. Well, things are looking pretty dire. The Royals got a truckload of bad news yesterday and today . First, it was announced that Seth Lugo would miss his next start (originally ...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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• 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

Dotel pitched for 13 franchises throughout his major-league career...2025
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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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"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"

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."

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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."

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."

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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."

• At what stage of teams’ competitiveness is the sweet spot for Cleveland fans?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 21, 2025

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images Royals fans’ sleep schedules rejoice at the end of another West Coast road trip. David Lesky talks about just how great the San Francisco Giants’ starter Robbie Ray was against the Kansas City Royals on Monday. Last night was another intense and competitive game for the Royals in one of the best pitchers’ duels we’ve seen this season. Coming in, it looked like i...2025
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• San Diego Padres need a left field upgrade—but no panic move

San Diego Padres Brandon Lockridge and Jason Hayward | Photo by Scott Marshall/Getty Images Brandon Lockridge and Jason Heyward failing to produce at the plate “The Padres need to make a trade or sign someone.” The Friar Faithful expressed their frustration, as it was a rough weekend for the San Diego Padres. They were swept at home for the second time in less than a month, and the team is...2025
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• The Orioles are combusting, and the Royals can learn from it

Gunnar Henderson #2 of the Baltimore Orioles reacts after striking out in the fifth inning against the Washington Nationals at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 16, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. | Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images So many similarities Ryan O’Hearn went to Baltimore and, like a werewolf in the full moonlight, turned into a monster. The onetime Royals first baseman had a fant...2025
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• 3 Trade Targets for Dodgers to Fix Biggest Weaknesses Ahead of Deadline

It’s no secret Andrew Friedman will do anything and everything in his power to make the Los Angeles Dodgers a World Series contender on an annual basis. There have been numerous examples in which he’s aimed to improve the ballclub prior to the trade deadline. Some instances have involved working on the fringes with minor …...2025
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• This college softball player is drawing comparisons to Shohei Ohtani in the NCAA Tournament
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• 2025 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule
Everything to know leading up to the 2025 Men's College World Series, including the tournament bracket, schedules, championship history and more....2025
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• The Orioles are combusting, and the Royals can learn from it
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• Historic upset of No. 1 seed highlights wild NCAA Softball Tournament opening weekend

Photo by John Korduner/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Liberty defeated Texas A&M in College Station, marking the first time ever a No. 1 seed will not advance to the Super Regionals. LSU and Duke were also eliminated. Just 16 teams remain in the NCAA Softball Tournament after a wild opening weekend of regional play. There were a handful of upsets, but none more not...2025
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• Cubs 6, White Sox 2: Not the sweep we wanted

Miguel Vargas clubbed a solo shot in today’s loss, his third of the series — and was beaned by Brad Keller later in the game for it. | David Banks-Imagn Images South Siders are silenced again The Chicago Cubs have won their World Series, taking the third game of this series against the Chicago White Sox, 6-2. What started out as a competitive game early on quickly unraveled, and a team th...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 46

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Cubs take care of business in a 7-3 win. I know there are some who are looking for this team to just obliterate some of these lesser opponents. This week has not been a work of art. I see all of the things that you all do. And yet, the Cubs have won four of five. They remain one ahead of the surprising Cardinals. As an aside, I’m neve...2025
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• Let's count the parallels!

It's pretty apparent to me that the number of parallels in every card product have vaulted into another level of ridiculousness in the last year or two. Counting parallels has been ridiculous for at least the last 10 years but somewhere around when Panini started Chronicles and then now with what Topps is doing in its main sets, it's almost impossible to keep tabs on all of them, and I ...2025
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• Ruthless Dodgers cut Chris Taylor — another veteran who helped win two World Series

Even winning two World Series titles — and delivering in some clutch moments along the way — doesn’t guarantee a roster spot with the Dodgers anymore....2025
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• When the firsts were mostly fun

One of the most frustrating things to me is that no matter how much you prepare, research, take advice, it feels like there's no moving forward for very long. It's one step ahead and two steps back. Maybe this is the point I'm at, actually moving out of middle age, or maybe it's just a period of time that will go away, but I'm dealing with more than a couple firsts in my life that aren'...2025
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• Gamethread XLVII - Cardinals at Royals
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 17, 2025

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images The Royals rotation is banged up. Cole Ragans experienced more groin issues on Friday, writes Jaylon Thompson. “It tightened up there on him in the fifth inning,” Quatraro said. “So, just trying to do the right thing. Get him out of there before something happened.” Ragans surrendered three earned runs prior to the inning. His last two fastballs thrown re...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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• 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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• MLB Week 8 Hot or Not: Nats and Halos on the rise, Rox remain in the basement
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• This college softball player is drawing comparisons to Shohei Ohtani in the NCAA Tournament
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• Game Fifty-One: Kansas City Royals at San Francisco Giants

Photo by Kavin Mistry/MLB Photos via Getty Images Bay area afternoon baseball. The Kansas City Royals will take on the San Francisco Giants this afternoon in the finale of a rematch of the 2014 World Series. Offense has been difficult to come by in this series as the teams split the first two matchups while combining to score nine total runs. Daniel Lynch IV will “start” for Kansas City. ...2025
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• Chris Sale returns to the Fenway mound as Braves face Red Sox

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Last season, Chris Sale simply made the trip to Boston. This time, he’s taking the mound in a premier pitching matchup. 2024 NL Cy Young Award winner Chris Sale will be returning to Fenway Park as a member of the Atlanta Braves in order to face off against the team that he won the 2018 World Series with: The Boston Red Sox. This should be a good one if o...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Cubs

Shane Smith and his 2.08 season ERA looks to shut down the North Siders Friday afternoon. | Abigail Dean/Getty Images Chicago kicks off the Crosstown Classic with Shane Smith on the mound looking to snap the South Side losing streak MLB has launched its very first “Rivalry Weekend,” where typical City rivals will face off all on the same weekend, and when you’re done rolling your eyes what...2025
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• Juan Soto is bringing juice back to the Subway Series

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The best young hitter in baseball took the Yankees to their first World Series in 15 years before moving across town in free agency. Now, he returns to the Bronx as two division leaders clash. On December 7, 2023, the New York Yankees swung a blockbuster trade with the San Diego Padres. It cost a pretty penny, with future Cy Young contender Michael King le...2025
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #2: Pittsburgh Pirates

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images At least you’re not a Pirates 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 do...2025
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• Forgotten Royals: Pat Putnam

Wait, he played here? In this edition of, Wait, that guy played for the Royals? We look at the career of Pat Putnam. Putnam was a native of that baseball hotbed Bethel, Vermont, a picturesque village of 1,900 people. Amazingly, Putnam was the third major leaguer to come out of Bethel, following Harry Burrell (who was an extended member of Putnam’s mother’s family) and Heinie Stafford. If a small ...2025
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• MLB ban on Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson to be lifted

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The hit king and baseball pariah could be eligible for Hall of Fame induction. On Tuesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated deceased players Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson from he permanently ineligible list, paving the way for them to be possibly inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manfred’s reasoning was that the bans were meant to b...2025
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