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  • Yankees vs. Blue Jays: Yusei Kikuchi stymies New York to spoil Juan Soto's first game in pinstripes
    • Yankees vs. Blue Jays: Yusei Kikuchi stymies New York to spoil Juan Soto's first game in pinstripes
    Soto went 0 for 4 as the Yankees did not have a runner reach third base...2024
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  • • Games of the Day
    The Blue Jays visit the Yankees for their home opener as Yusei Kikuchi* faces Marcus Stroman. Kikuchi pitched well in New York in his career, posting a 1.89 ERA in six starts covering 33 1/3 innings. When Stroman pitched for the Blue Jays, he got lit up at Yankee Stadium to the tune of a […]...2024
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  • Rays 5, Jays 1: Cooler heads prevail as Rays oust Jays
    • Rays 5, Jays 1: Cooler heads prevail as Rays oust Jays
    Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Benches clear behind Genesis Cabrera and Jose Caballero There was a contest played today between two 1-1 ball clubs, with left-hander Yusei Kikuchi taking the mound for the Blue Jays opposite Zach Littell for the Rays. In the bottom of the third, Amed Rosario drives in his first run as a Ray, with Randy Arozarena scoring from second after two back-to-back w...2024
  • • Beat the Streak Picks
    The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.268 — Bo Bichette batting against Zack Littell. 0.268 — Lourdes Gurriel batting against Austin Gomber. 0.264 — Ketel Marte batting against Austin Gomber. 0.263 — Yandy Diaz batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.261 — Gabriel Moreno batting against Austin Gomber. 0.260 — Spencer Steer batting against Patrick Corbin. […]...2024
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  • Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft
    • Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft
    Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Opening Day naps, a Bryce Harper pandering update, Nelson Cruz’s Mariners retirement and the one-day-contract tradition, and Yusei Kikuchi’s latest intriguing revelation, then (21:16) share some highlights and lowlights of Opening Day action, report the results of listener voting on the preseason predictions game, analyze Will Smith’s ext...2024
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  • Devil Rays 8, Jays 2: Rays rebound behind strong Civale start and B. Lowe Blast
    • Devil Rays 8, Jays 2: Rays rebound behind strong Civale start and B. Lowe Blast
    Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Rays flipped the script in game two of their opening series against the Jays. The Tampa Bay Rays rebounded Friday night with an 8-2 victory after dropping the first game of the season on Thursday, by the same score. The Rays, donning their throwback Devil Rays uniforms, flipped the script both at the plate and on the mound thanks to a strong start by Aaron C...2024

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  • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Baby Birds zoomed up to 101 wins and the division crown in 2023, and their nest of prospects only continues to grow. For almost a decade, the daunting AL East was dominated by the high-profile New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, as well as the perennially savvy Tampa Bay Rays. In 2023, however, the division champion was none of those three teams; inst...2024
  • • Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
    SP Notes Corbin Burnes, BAL The Orioles will be counting on the newly-acquired Burnes to be the ace of their rotation this season, especially with Kyle Bradish set to open the season on the IL.  Burnes was among the elite pitchers in baseball from 2020-2022, posting a 2.62 ERA, 2.66 xFIP, 11.86 K/9, and 2.29 BB/9 across those three seasons.  He took a step back last season, recording a still solid...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: The rotten apple
    • Outside The Confines: The rotten apple
    Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports A look at how the A’s left Oakland in the lurch. The circular firing squad has started in Flushing. More Japanese pitchers are coming. And other news from baseball. Good morning. OK, it’s not such a good morning. Tim Keown has the inside story of how John Fisher and the Athletics walked out on Oakland. If you’re still one of those people who think Oakland did...2023
  • Blue Jays' Yusei Kikuchi leaves start with neck stiffness, blames injury on 'only' getting 11 hours of sleep
    • Blue Jays' Yusei Kikuchi leaves start with neck stiffness, blames injury on 'only' getting 11 hours of sleep
    Kikuchi says he normally gets 13 or 14 hours of sleep per night...2023
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  • Blue Jays series preview: To the great north!
    • Blue Jays series preview: To the great north!
    Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports The Blue Jays are a pretty complete team. The Royals will head up north to Toronto for the first time since their infamous trip in 2022 when ten players had to be left behind due to COVID vaccination restrictions. Those restrictions have been lifted, and ironically, Whit Merrifield was one of those players, now plays for the Blue Jays. He received flak for h...2023
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  • • Braves take trip to Canada to face off with the Blue Jays
    Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Braves finish off tour of the AL East in Toronto to face off with high powered Blue Jays After a workmanlike 3-2 home stand against the Orioles and Red Sox, the Braves hit the road again to kick off a six game road trip. They start the trip with a three game set with the Blue Jays to finish off their tour of the AL East. They will then travel to Texas t...2023
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  • • Braves News: Blue Jays on deck, Nacho Alvarez stays hot, and more
    Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday The Atlanta Braves are back on the road for a three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays. The 21-16 Blue Jays are 4th in the American League East. Despite their low standing, the team’s winning percentage is still over .500. The series kicks off tonight at 7:07 ET with Spencer Strider on the mound for his eighth sta...2023
  • • Know Your Enemy: Toronto Blue Jays
    Naw, these guys are fun. The White Sox head to the frozen north to unthaw their season If you had to point to one thing that the White Sox are doing poorly, had to boil down this nightmare start to one key baseball element, it would probably be: Playing baseball in America. Most stat nerds would tell you that successfully playing baseball in America is one of the “hidden elements” to a tea...2023
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  • • The weird lineups are fine, but there’s too much Jackie Bradley Jr. going on
    Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. (41) gestures to the dugout after hitting a single during the fifth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Weird is good! So much Bradley isn’t weird. Former Royals managers Ned Yost and Mike Matheny were not exactly paragons of analytical thinking, and by ...2023
  • • Kikuchi carves Kauffman kids in 4-1 clobbering
    Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The bats never got going The Toronto Blue Jays evened up this four game set with a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals tonight at Kauffman Stadium. Yusei Kikuchi and the Toronto bullpen had the team’s best pitching game of the season thus far. Kris Bubic wasn’t especially efficient in his first inning of work this season, requiring 22 pitches to complete t...2023

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  • • Six Pack of Stats: Blue Jays 8, White Sox 0
    The White Sox never even had a chance. | FanGraphs It’s just pathetic at this point FanGraphs It’s just been an ugly, ugly season, and we’re only 25 games into it. The White Sox have not scored a run in 24 innings and its the worst 25-game start since 1986, the one and only year of Ken Harrelson’s GM tenure. At this point, I’m longing for the days of .500 baseball. At...2023
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "The supporting staff here is at least better than the Yankees sans Cole, as each of José Berríos, Yusei Kikuchi, and Chris Bassitt were commendable in 2023."

  • 2023
    "Yusei Kikuchi had nine strikeouts over six strong innings to lead the Blue Jays to a 5-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Toronto on Saturday."

  • 2022
    "The Blue Jays are signing left-handed pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network."

  • 2021
    "Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi has told the team that he is declining his $13MM player option for the 2022 season, according to The Athletic’s Corey Brock (Twitter link)."

  • 2020
    "The documentary "Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams," premiering Monday on ESPN, chronicles the tournament that made stars out of Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi."

  • 2019
    "Japanese pitcher Yusei Kikuchi “has a deal with the Mariners," according to Fancred’s Jon Heyman."

  • 2018
    "It appears the next player to jump from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to the Major Leagues will be Seibu Lions left-hander Yusei Kikuchi."

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Yusei Kikuchi trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft
    2024
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  • • Devil Rays 8, Jays 2: Rays rebound behind strong Civale start and B. Lowe Blast
    2024
  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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  • • Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
    2024
  • The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
    • The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
    On a mission: Luis Robert Jr. had his fingerprints on many of 2023’s best moments. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Walking through the most noteworthy battles of the season It was a brutal season for the White Sox, but that just makes for a more challenging attempt to find five wins out of 61 to celebrate. Let’s start there: 5. White Sox 3, Astros 2 (March 30) The season opener turne...2023
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  • • Outside The Confines: The rotten apple
    2023
  • • Gamethread: Toronto Blue Jays at White Sox (nightcap)
    Jesse Scholtens makes his second start of the season. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The 29-year-old rookie, Jesse Scholtens, gets the ball The first game of the doubleheader was definitely a big-time bummer. It was a beautifully-pitched contest through the first 10 innings, and then, well, Aaron Bummer came in to blow another game and inflate his ERA to 7.85. Saying this season has been a di...2023
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  • • Braves take trip to Canada to face off with the Blue Jays
    2023
  • • Know Your Enemy: Toronto Blue Jays
    2023
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  • • The weird lineups are fine, but there’s too much Jackie Bradley Jr. going on
    2023
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Yusei Kikuchi stats and results

  • • Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft
    2024
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  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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  • • Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
    2024
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  • • The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
    2023
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  • A reminiscence: Two relevant Braves’ games from May 2023
    • A reminiscence: Two relevant Braves’ games from May 2023
    Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Two memorable games from five months ago may have given us a preview of playoff baseball To fill some of the gap resulting from a lack of Braves baseball this week, I wanted to do a small retrospective on the craziest games from the 2023 season. But, as I started pulling together the data for that exercise, I realized a few things: first, most of the tea...2023
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  • • Braves take trip to Canada to face off with the Blue Jays
    2023
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  • • Braves News: Blue Jays on deck, Nacho Alvarez stays hot, and more
    2023
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  • • Six Pack of Stats: Blue Jays 8, White Sox 0
    2023
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  • • The weird lineups are fine, but there’s too much Jackie Bradley Jr. going on
    2023
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  • • Toronto Blue Jays series preview: Whit returns to the K
    Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images How will Royals fans respond? The Blue Jays have amassed a nice collection of young hitters, and have surrounded young ace Alek Manoah with a veteran rotation, helping them win 90+ games the last two seasons. They’ll have higher expectations this season, hoping to win their first post-season game since 2016. It will be their first full season under skipper...2023

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  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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  • • Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
    2024
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  • • The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
    2023
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  • • Blue Jays series preview: To the great north!
    2023
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  • • Know Your Enemy: Toronto Blue Jays
    2023
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  • • Kikuchi carves Kauffman kids in 4-1 clobbering
    2023
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  • • RetrO’s Relive Home Dinger Barrage At Kikuchiden Yards
    A young boy pulls on his grandfather's sleeve. "Will you please read me a bedtime story, Paw-Paw?" "Sure, Timmy, I'd be happy to. From the same book as always?" Off the child's nod, the old man picks up the storybook, and reads the title, "The Dismantling of a Dream by Peter Angelos." The old man opens the storybook, and begins to read, "In the summer of 2022, millions of people clamored for my Or...2022
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  • • Yusei Kikuchi likely to be posted to MLB teams
    It’s already been reported in Japan that the Seibu Lions intend to post ace left-hander Yusei Kikuchi for Major League teams this offseason, but the pitcher himself said after his team was eliminated from the postseason that he has not yet made a firm decision (link via Jason Coskrey of the Japan Times). “Well, the season just ended,” Kikuchi said. “…Regarding the future, it’s not all up to me. I ...2018
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  • • Kikuchi strikes out 9 as Blue Jays top MLB-best Rays for 2nd straight game
    2023
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  • • Blue Jays To Sign Yusei Kikuchi
    The Blue Jays are signing left-handed pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network. It’s a three-year, $36MM contract. (Twitter links) More to come....2022
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  • • Victorious Blue Jays swat 3 home runs against Pirates in pre-season opener
    Blue Jays starter Yusei Kikuchi threw two scoreless innings as Toronto opened its Grapefruit League schedule with a 9-7 win over the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday afternoon in Bradenton, Fla....2023
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  • • Inside the regimented, raucous culture of Japanese baseball
    2020
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  • • Yusei Kikuchi To Decline Player Option, Test Free Agency
    Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi has told the team that he is declining his $13MM player option for the 2022 season, according to The Athletic’s Corey Brock (Twitter link).  The southpaw will now enter the free agent market after three seasons in Seattle. As per the unusual structure of Kikuchi’s contract, the Mariners had until Friday…...2021
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  • • Toronto Blue Jays series preview: Whit returns to the K
    2023
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  • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Blue Jays series preview
    • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Blue Jays series preview
    Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images The Cubs head to Canada for the second straight year. On a personal note: These will be the first games the Cubs play in Toronto that I will not attend in person. I went there for series in 2003, 2008, 2014 and 2022, but it was a bit much to go there two years in a row, especially after the trip to London. Perhaps again in 2025. For more on the Jays, h...2023
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  • • Yusei Kikuchi’s Breakout Gives Mariners An Interesting Decision
    Yusei Kikuchi’s first two seasons in the Major Leagues didn’t go as either the Mariners or the left-hander himself hoped. After establishing himself as one of the premier pitchers in Japan by pitching to a 2.77 ERA in parts of eight seasons (2.51 in his final three years), he tested international free-agent waters as one…...2021

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  • • Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
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  • • Hope Rain Doesn’t Make Teoscar Grouchy
    La La Land! Wait, that's wrong. Damn it, Faye Dunaway, give me that envelope! ...and the Teoscar Hernandez goes to Seattle for Erik Swanson and minor-league LHP Adam Macko! That's worse than La La Land. Macko better grow ten inches and become the next Randy Johnson for this trade to make sense. Okay, first my thoughts on middle relievers, such as Erik Swanson, then back to the trade. They are fail...2022
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  • • RetrO’s Relive Home Dinger Barrage At Kikuchiden Yards
    2022
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  • • Yusei SEA You Later
    Yusei... I only hear what I want to. *sob-snorting* I thought what I felt was simple! *mumbling words I don't know* Turn the MLB dot com on! Yusei is on. *mumbling more words I don't know* I think that Yusei's throwing, but I'm thrown. Is Yusei...oh...kay? *mumbling more words I don't know* You try to give away a keeper, or keep me cause you know you're just so scared to lose, and Yusei...Stay....2022
  • • Yusei Kikuchi — Deal or No Deal?
    Monday comes around, and what do you want to read about on your favorite fantasy sports blog? Of course! It's a pitcher who finished in the 140s on the Razzball Player Rater last year. This player won a solid 2 games in 9 starts while sporting a 5.17 ERA and is projected for a 2021 season FIP around 4.30 by every major system. Whew! Is it just me that's getting sweaty in here, or is it the side-ef...2021
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  • • Rays 5, Jays 1: Cooler heads prevail as Rays oust Jays
    2024
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  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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  • • The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
    2023
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  • The 10 longest home runs from the Braves’ 2023 season
    • The 10 longest home runs from the Braves’ 2023 season
    Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Get out your tape measures! Saying that the home run was a big part of the Atlanta Braves’ 2023 season would be an understatement. The Braves bashed 307 homers during the regular season, tying the 2019 Minnesota Twins for the most ever in a single season. The next closest team was the Dodgers who finished with 249. The Twins and the R...2023
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  • • A reminiscence: Two relevant Braves’ games from May 2023
    2023
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  • • Effectively Wild Episode 2063: Yusei Are Getting Very Sleepy
    Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yusei Kikuchi’s (and other players’) sleep habits and the possibility of a three-way AL West tie with no tiebreaker game, then (28:28) answer listener emails about surprising team assignments in Baseball-Reference headshots, a player who replicates the talent of the player who started in the same lineup spot […]...2023
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  • • Outside The Confines: The rotten apple
    2023
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  • • On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Blue Jays series preview
    2023
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  • • Gamethread: Toronto Blue Jays at White Sox (nightcap)
    2023
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Yusei Kikuchi rumors, scandals

  • • Astros Notes: Kikuchi, Abreu, Goldschmidt
    Here’s the latest from Houston… It doesn’t appear as if the Astros will make a push for Japanese left-hander Yusei Kikuchi, The Athletic’s Jake Kaplan reports (subscription required).  Such teams as the Phillies, Yankees, Giants, Dodgers, Rangers, Mariners, and Padres have been linked to Kikuchi’s services, though there has been speculation that the teams on…...2018
  • • New Giants exec jokes about accuracy of Madison Bumgarner trade rumors
    Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi dropped some thoughts on a pair of left-handed pitchers in an interview today on KNBR. MLB.com’s Jon Morosi recently kicked off a round of speculation on MadBum with a report suggesting the Giants were open to discussing him and had held talks with the Brewers and Phillies. Zaidi cast quite some doubt on that characterization, as Alex Pavlovic o...2018
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