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• Dodgers Notes: LA Discussed Blockbuster Trade, Starting Pitcher to Be Called Up, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Wants History

The Los Angeles Dodgers suffered another loss to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, 4-2, as they fell to 11-6 on the season. In other news, the Dodgers have reportedly discussed a major trade with an American League squad to address a hole that exists on the roster. It would potentially be at the expense of …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki Reaches New Career-High in Start vs. Cubs

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki threw a career-high five innings against the Chicago Cubs in his fourth Major League start Saturday night. More news: Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Wants to Win the Cy Young Award This Season Sasaki allowed four hits, one earned run, and two walks. During his 81-pitch outing, the right-hander threw three …...2025
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• Cubs @ Dodgers April 12, 2025: Sasaki looks for redemption in second home start
(Photo: Jon SooHoo) The Dodgers (11-4) shutout the Cubs (9-7) last night, with a fantastic Yoshinobu Yamamoto outing leading the way. Chad recapped the game last night and covered Yamamoto’s excellent outing. It’s a bit early, but if he continues to build upon his great rookie season, it seems Yamamoto has Cy Young upside as …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Wants to Win the Cy Young Award This Season

The Los Angeles Dodgers began the 2025 season with one of the most esteemed rotations in all of baseball, but Yoshinobu Yamamato quickly established himself as the team’s ace this year. More news: Dodgers Lineup vs Cubs: Will Smith Out, Max Muncy Returns as Roki Sasaki Seeks Revenge Against Cubs The right-hander has made four starts …...2025
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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/12/25): Turner at 3B, Kelly Catching, Brown Bump Day

It’s like deja vu all over again as the Cubs face the same pair of Dodgers starters in LA as when these teams met in Tokyo to open the season. Last night went about as well as those matchups in Japan, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto dealing over six scoreless innings, but I’ve got a feeling about … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/12/25): Turner at 3B, Kelly Catching, Brown Bump Day appea...2025
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• MLB Bold Predictions: Austin Riley and Yoshinobu Yamamoto Highlight The Hot Takes
We may only be two weeks into the season, but there are some breadcrumbs being laid about what the future may hold – enjoy our favorite MLB bold predictions!...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ too little traffic

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The ex-Cardinal curse or something struck. Hey, it’s the Dodgers. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
Julio Rodriguez Julio had a down year in 2024, as he slashed only .273/.325/.409 compared to his line of .275/.333/.485 in 2023. He homered 32 times in 2023 and only 20 times in 2024, which is why the slugging percentage was cut by nearly 80 points. Luckily, there are plenty of reasons ot be optimistic about Julio in 2025, and the basis for that is that his underlying markers were barely changed b...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
Fantasy Relevance for the Dodgers deeper rotation options? Baseball fans know that the Dodgers loaded up on starting pitching in the offseason adding 2-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, Phenom Roki Sasaki and re-signing the legendary Clayton Kershaw. With Shohei Ohtani expected to take the mound this year and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow returning it's an electric top 5. That being ...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: Freedie Freeman, Brusdar Graterol Injury Update, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Says LA Will Haze Roki Sasaki

The Los Angeles Dodgers endured an injury-riddled 2024 season, but persevered until the final days of October to emerge as World Series champions. Recently, a pair of players have shared positive injury updates. Freddie Freeman revealed he is “perfectly on track” to play in the season opener when the Dodgers travel to Tokyo. Brusdar Graterol …...2025
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• Cub Tracks is ready for spring

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Real games are coming soon. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brew...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Comparing NL West starting rotations from the last six seasons

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Starting pitching has been a focal point of messaging for the Colorado Rockies for several years. Since reaching the playoffs in back-to-back seasons in 2017 and 2018 on the backs of a young rotation, the team has consistently said things in the realm of, “If our rotation is healthy and g...2025
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• Jack Flaherty Doesn’t Expect to Re-Sign With Dodgers, Looking Forward to Beating LA Next Year

The Los Angeles Dodgers have added two starting pitchers this offseason, and are expecting to get a handful more back from injury. Free agent additions Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki are joining Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a rotation that’s also expecting to get back Tyler Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani, and Tony Gonsolin, with other options like Dustin …...2025
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• The best organization in baseball just won another World Series title

The Dodgers have been the cream of the crop in baseball for a long while, now. There’s no sign of that changing anytime soon, either. For the second time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. For the first time since 1988, they’ll actually get to have the full treatment that comes with being World Series — meaning, the team and their fans will actually get to enjoy t...2024
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"The Dodgers have added Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki to a rotation already expected to return Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow."

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"In the aftermath of the offseason’s top free agent pitcher, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signing with the Dodgers late last month, the market for #2 pitching free agent Blake Snell has begun to pick up."

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"Star Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to join the Dodgers on a 12-year, $325 million contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Thursday."

• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Twenty-five years after the Cubs faced the Mets for two in the Tokyo Dome, they’ll play a pair against the Dodgers in the same Japanese venue. Usually, series previews here at BCB post a few hours before the series opens. But this series will be played halfway across the world at the Tokyo Dome, with the first pitch of both games scheduled...2025
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• A brief history of all MLB regular season games played outside the USA and Canada

Al Yellon The Cubs are preparing to play the Dodgers in Japan. The Cubs and Dodgers will meet at the Tokyo Dome Tuesday and Wednesday to begin the 2025 regular season. This will be the fifth time MLB teams have met in Tokyo, and the second time for the Cubs, who played the Mets there 25 years ago in the first MLB series in Japan. Going forward, international MLB games are being branded as ...2025
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• First Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki Dodgers Bobblehead Hits Market in Limited Release

The entire baseball world finally got to witness Shohei Ohtani play postseason baseball for the first time in his MLB career and the result was a World Series title with the Los Angeles Dodgers.In the process, Ohtani also got to team up with his former teammate, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and both landed contracts that combined for …...2025
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• Spring Training Game Thread #5/6: Milwaukee Brewers (2-2) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (1-5)/@ Arizona Diamondbacks (1-4)

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Brewers have two different opportunities to build on yesterday’s win against Cleveland Today is an exciting day to be a Brewers fan. Milwaukee has two games today for the first time this spring, giving the Brewers’ coaching staff a chance to get some extra looks at players on the roster bubble. The first game pits recent free agent signing Tyler Alexande...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Shōta Imanaga should have pitched longer last night. It’s Tuesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Or it’s Wednesday afternoon if you’re in Tokyo. Either way, you’re welcome here. Come on in. There’s no cover charge. We sti...2025
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• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images You cannot win games walking that many opposing hitters. TOKYO — I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but walks will just kill a baseball team. Yes, the Cubs didn’t provide much offense and that’s another story, but the five walks Shōta Imanaga and Ben Brown issued in the first five innings of this game resulted in most of the Dodgers runs, and the de...2025
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• A brief history of all MLB regular season games played outside the USA and Canada
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• First Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki Dodgers Bobblehead Hits Market in Limited Release
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• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Compares Latin, Japanese Baseball Fans Following Tokyo Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers returned to the city after making their season debut overseas. The Dodgers’ trip to Japan was full of memorable moments, including the team’s historic Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs. More news: Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Believes Yoshinobu Yamamoto Could Win Cy Young This Year Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki …...2025
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• Brewers’ split squads fall to Diamondbacks, Dodgers

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Milwaukee falls to 2-4 this spring The Brewers were unable to capitalize on any positive momentum from yesterday’s game against Cleveland, losing 9-3 to the Dodgers and 7-1 to the Diamondbacks. For those of you who couldn’t catch the games, here’s a quick recap of each. LAD vs. MIL (Box Score) Milwaukee looked really good to start. The Brewers quickly wen...2025
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• Brewers split squads fall to Diamondbacks, Dodgers

Milwaukee is now 2-4 this spring The Brewers were unable to capitalize on any positive momentum from yesterday’s game against Cleveland, losing 9-3 to the Dodgers and 7-1 to the Diamondbacks. For those of you who couldn’t catch the games, here’s a quick recap of each game. LAD vs. MIL Milwaukee looked really good to start. The Brewers quickly went up 3-0 on Yoshinobu Yamamoto behind the strength o...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2025
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• Like trying to replace an old love

Today was the first chance I had to look for some 2025 Topps. The weather has been ridiculous the past seven days between a big fat snowstorm, ungodly wind for days and now sub-zero temperatures. Even the times I could get away from work, all I wanted to do was stay inside somewhere. So, a week later, I've got 2025 Topps to show. I'm not even going to say I'm late. Running out in mid-F...2025
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• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game

Al Yellon The Commissioner met with reporters on the annual Cactus League Media Day. PHOENIX, Arizona — It’s a rite of spring just as much as pitcher/catcher report day or the first Spring Training game. That’s the annual appearance of Commissioner Rob Manfred at a conference room at the Arizona Biltmore hotel to meet with the media. I’m glad to have been able to attend this presser so I c...2025
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• Sorting things out

I'm finally getting around to the latest big box from Johnny's Trading Spot, which arrived two weeks ago. Boxes that size are a lot to deal with amid a busy life. I had to approach it in shifts. The first thing to deal with is why Johnny sent a big box, which contained a few smaller empty boxes, plus the boxes with cards. I'm sure there was a reason but I was baffled. The other mo...2025
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• Perhaps I was too hasty

I had viewed enough 2024 Archives pack openings to know I needed to open some myself.Not that I liked the cards -- Archives and I have never seen eye-to-eye -- but I wanted to see the content for myself so I could comment on it on my own blog instead leaving irked comments all over everyone else's pack breaks.Also, there was one aspect of 2024 Archives that folks kept bringing up, but actual...2025
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• Sources: Yamamoto joins Dodgers on $325M deal

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• Rangers Interested In Reunion With Jordan Montgomery
Left-hander Jordan Montgomery figures to be among the most sought-after free agents on the starting pitching market this offseason. With righty Aaron Nola having already returned to the Phillies on a seven-year deal earlier this week, only recently-posted right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto and reigning NL Cy Young award winner Blake Snell compare rank ahead of Montgomery…...2023
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto to sign with Dodgers for $325M over 12 years: 25-year-old NPB ace joins Shohei Ohtani in LA

Yamamoto was posted to MLB after seven brilliant years in NPB...2023
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• Blue Jays Have Reportedly “Taken The Lead” In Yariel Rodriguez Sweepstakes
After missing out on top free agents Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto earlier this month, the Blue Jays have ramped up activity at the lower levels of the market of late by re-signing center fielder Kevin Kiermaier to a one-year pact and landing utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a two-year deal in recent days. It…...2023
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• Report: Giants Out Of Bidding For Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Giants have been informed they’re out of the running for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, reports Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area (X link). While there’s no indication that Yamamoto has made his final decision, Pavlovic adds that the Giants expect he’ll sign with the Dodgers or one of the New York clubs. Andy Martino of SNY…...2023
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• Angels, Giants Among Teams Pursuing Blake Snell
The Angels have lost Shohei Ohtani to the Dodgers and never appeared to be a finalist for NPB star Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but they’re pursuing the biggest fish remaining on the free agent market, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, who reports that the Halos have made reigning NL Cy Young winner Blake Snell…...2023
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• Phillies Have Made Offer To Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Phillies have put forth a formal contract offer to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, writes Matt Gelb of the Athletic. While terms are unreported, Alex Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote earlier in the week the club was planning to be aggressive in its pursuit of the NPB star. It’s notable, if unsurprising, that the Phillies have put…...2023
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• Braves reportedly willing to pay for free agent starter

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports No Braves player currently makes more than $22 million annually, but the team is reportedly willing to go above that for the right free agent starter. MLB Free Agency is off to a slow start, but that shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Unlike the NBA and the NFL, Major League Baseball’s offseason is a more deliberate affair and the free agent market won’t like...2023
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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/12/25): Turner at 3B, Kelly Catching, Brown Bump Day
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers preview, Friday 4/11, 9:10 CT

Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images The Cubs open a series at Dodger Stadium. Friday notes: FIRST THINGS FIRST: The Cubs are 158-205, a .435 winning percentage, in all games at Los Angeles vs. the Dodgers. But they are 52-61, .460, in games right after they have arrived directly from Chicago. In first games of all series at L.A., the Cubs are 54-65, .454. In first games after arriving from Chica...2025
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers series preview

Photo by Kenta Harada/Getty Images Hello, old friend from Tokyo. Since these teams met in Tokyo, the Cubs are 9-4 and the Dodgers are ... 8-4. So which team is better? And the Cubs have, theoretically at least, faced better opponents (D-backs, Padres, Rangers) while the Dodgers have feasted on a Braves team in a tailspin. Fun fact: Shohei Ohtani still isn’t close to returning to pitching d...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Diamondbacks Owner Calls Out Dodgers for High Spending

Ever since acquiring All-Star outfielder Mookie Betts in a trade with the Boston Red Sox in 2020, the Dodgers have continued to add superstars to their roster. First baseman Freddie Freeman, starting pitchers Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and two-way player Shohei Ohtani have all joined the Dodgers within the last …...2025
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• Will Smith Not in Dodgers Lineup for Friday’s Game vs Tigers on His Birthday

The Los Angeles Dodgers have revealed their lineup for Friday’s game against the Detroit Tigers, and in a bit of a surprise, All-Star catcher Will Smith is not in there. Smith is celebrating his 30th birthday on Friday, but won’t be catching Yoshinobu Yamamoto behind the plate. More news: Michael Kopech Has Suffered Multiple Setbacks …...2025
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• Dodgers, Yankees Blockbuster Trade Idea Involving All-Star Pitcher, Outfielder Ahead of Opening Day

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a surplus of pitching talent entering the 2025 season. After a postseason in which they had just three healthy starting pitchers in Jack Flaherty, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Walker Buehler, the Dodgers spared no expenses putting together a group that has the potential to be one of the best rotations in …...2025
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• SB Nation Reacts: Who’s going to sign Roki Sasaki?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images A fair number of respondents to the survey chose the Cubs. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Now that the MLB non-tender deadline has passed, thoughts ...2024
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• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers

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

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images If the Braves are going to get back on the Postseason track, they’ll have to do it Shohei Ohtani and the rest of this star-studded squad. The Atlanta Braves are coming off of a stretch of games where they faced the Rockies, Blue Jays, the Reds for one game and the Nationals for two games. They went 5-4 in that span and are currently back on the outside...2024
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Rejoice, baseball fans, we now have an idea of when the Manfred era will end. If we’re being honest, the role of MLB Commissioner is not an enviable one. The job, by its very nature, is inclined to create ire among fans, as the person in charge is trying to appease fans, players, but mostly owners, and the goals of those three groups rarely...2024
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• Latest On Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Market
There’s been ample speculation about the eventual price tag of a Yoshinobu Yamamoto contract, but until early this week, the right-hander hadn’t discussed specific years and dollars with clubs, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Teams eyeing the NPB ace’s services were asked to submit a “preliminary” bid early in the process to gauge the seriousness of…...2023
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• Mets Interested In Jung Hoo Lee
Most of the offseason buzz surrounding the Mets has focused on their pursuits of pitching, but USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports that the Amazins also have “strong interest” in outfielder Jung Hoo Lee. Between New York’s known interest in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, and now Lee, it is clear that the Mets are taking a…...2023
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