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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Doesn’t Expect Tommy Edman To Miss Much Time on Injured List

The Los Angeles Dodgers recently placed Tommy Edman on the injured list, but manager Dave Roberts doesn’t expect his utility star to miss much time. More news: Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Feels Like He’s Close to Pitching Like He Did in Japan “Tommy ran [Friday] and just still didn’t feel great, still some soreness in his …...2025
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• Can Atlanta roll over the Reds?

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images Cincinnati is bringing a formidable rotation to Atlanta, and the Braves will have no choice but to try to figure them out over the next four days. The current homestand for the Atlanta Braves rolls on, as they’re going straight from a three-game series against the Dodgers into a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. While the quality of competiti...2025
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• Former Dodgers Longtime Pitcher Announces Retirement From MLB

Former Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Ross Stripling announced his retirement from Major League Baseball Monday. Stripling took to social media to share the news. More news: Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Feels Like He’s Close to Pitching Like He Did in Japan “After 13 seasons and full of tremendous pride and gratitude, it’s time to hang up …...2025
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Feels Like He’s Close to Pitching Like He Did in Japan

Last offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to the richest contract a pitcher had ever seen in MLB. The baseball world wasn’t just baffled by the $325 million price tag, but the fact that the right-hander had never professionally thrown a pitch in North America was further reason for calamity among doubters. The …...2025
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves are done with the Dodgers and considering how this season’s series went, not a moment sooner! The Atlanta Braves were riding high heading into this series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were on a run of having won four straight series and had just returned home from a productive road trip out West against the Diamondbac...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: Hyeseong Kim Role Revealed, Max Muncy Makes Big Change, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Schedule Altered

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost, 4-3, to the Atlanta Braves on Sunday despite three unanswered runs and a threatening rally. They fell to 23-11 and snapped a six-game winning streak. Ahead of the contest, a plan was revealed for Hyeseong Kim. The offseason acquisition from Korea Baseball Organization has spent the beginning of the season …...2025
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• Braves News: Pitchers’ duel at Truist, Spencer Strider’s status, and more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves fell 2-1 in Friday night’s contest with the Los Angeles Dodgers after a pitchers’ duel between Grant Holmes and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Holmes lasted six innings and surrendered both of the Dodgers’ runs. He allowed just four hits and recorded nine strikeouts. Grant Holmes pu...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• Dodgers Could Change Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki Schedules Amid Injury Issues

The Los Angeles Dodgers have already lost two starters in Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow. The injury woes seem to have carried over from last season for the defending champions as the pitching staff in particular has been mostly affected by the latest plague of ailments. More news: Dodgers Make Trade, Acquire Reliever From Cardinals …...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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• Outside The Confines: One month down

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images A look at the successes and failures over the first month of the season. The Pirates are an utter failure starting at the top. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Alex Kirschner writes about the toxic rot from the ownership of the Pittsburgh Pirates and how it has poisoned the relationship between the fans and the team. Also, the team is wasting a gener...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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• 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."

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• Kiké Hernández Drops 3-Word Verdict on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s No-Hitter Outing Amid Dodgers’ IL-Riddled Rotation
Kiké Hernández offered his reaction on social media as Yoshinobu Yamamoto carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning on Friday night....2025
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• 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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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers
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• Should I go for three?

So I grabbed a blaster of 2025 Heritage when I was at Dave and Adam's last week. I know they're not called "blasters" anymore but it's still the word I use when I want people to know what I am talking about. Buying Heritage is instinct at this point. We're at the designs during my first years of collecting. While I could pick-and-choose whether I was going to collect Heritage 10-15 year...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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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates as Braves drop 2-1 pitchers’ duel

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Grant Holmes was great but Yoshinobu Yamamoto was even better. Grant Holmes had one of the best nights of his career as a starter so far. Unfortunately, this coincided with Yoshinobu Yamamoto continuing to dominate on the mound and as such, the Atlanta Braves ended up dropping this one in a tight, low-scoring and rain-delayed 2-1 defeat. Grant Holmes made...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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• 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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• 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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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Pitching Like ‘Best Pitcher in the World’ Says All-Star Teammate

Yoshinobu Yamamoto picked up the first National League Pitcher of the Month honor of the season and the first of his career on Friday. Voted as the NL’s best pitcher through March and April, the starting right-hander boasts an NL-leading 0.90 ERA and ranks third in the league with four wins. Yamamoto also has held …...2025
• Dodgers @ Braves – May 3, 2025: Hyeseong Kim called up, Roki Sasaki starts under threat of rain
(Via @Dodgers) Hello and welcome to the second game of the series against the Braves, the first of which the Dodgers won in thanks to a Yoshinobu Yamamoto gem. Now it’ll be Roki Sasaki‘s turn looking to secure them the series … whenever it starts. Today’s #Dodgers lineup at Braves: pic.twitter.com/myLTKvBHKp— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) …...2025
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• Braves look to ride strong home form to victory over Dodgers

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Atlanta’s not going to be favored in this one but they’ve played well at home and the Dodgers have struggled a bit on the road. Could they start this series with a win? The Atlanta Braves are returning home after a successful trip out West to face off with the top dog out west: The Los Angeles Dodgers. After the Dodgers swept the Braves out of LA and dump...2025
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• Pirates 3, Dodgers 0: As May approaches, the wait for the Dodgers to play better continues
After a losing road trip, a homestand looked like an ideal time for the Dodgers to get right. Paul Skenes is a tough matchup for anybody, but Yoshinobu Yamamoto was on the mound for them at least. Well, it was Yamamoto who didn’t look sharp as the Dodger bats continued to get silenced in a …...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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