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  • Mackenzie Gore needs to show consistency to reach his ace ceiling
    • Mackenzie Gore needs to show consistency to reach his ace ceiling
    Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Mackenzie Gore has shown a ton of flashes, but he needs to put it together for a full season Like a lot of the Nationals team, Mackenzie Gore has shown flashes, but hasn’t put it all together yet. However, he is further along in his maturation process than a lot of the teams youngsters. In 2024, Gore posted a 3.90 ERA and 3.53 FIP in 166.1 innings. This makes him a...2025
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  • Out of the box trade targets for the Braves
    • Out of the box trade targets for the Braves
    Kelle | Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images It has been a quiet offseason for the Atlanta Braves. Let’s look at some intriguing trade options It has been a surprisingly quiet offseason for the Atlanta Braves up to this point. It seems as though we have seen more news former players signing else ware than players acquired by the Braves. There have been rumors swirling across social media, but non...2025
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  • What each American League team has done this offseason
    • What each American League team has done this offseason
    Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Are the Royals keeping up? It’s a new year, and we should see MLB offseason begin to pick up as spring training nears. The Royals have made a few moves, but still have work to do. They’re not alone as many teams still have unfinished rosters. Let’s take a look around the American League at what each team has done so far this off-season - w...2025
  • • Diamondbacks’ Starters Drawing Trade Interest
    As free agent starters begin to find new homes — Blake Snell, Yusei Kikuchi, Frankie Montas, Matthew Boyd and Kyle Hendricks have all signed in the past two weeks — interest in the Diamondbacks’ collection of rotation arms has “started to pick up,” general manager Mike Hazen tells Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic. The…...2024
  • • Free Agent Faceoff: Luis Severino/Nick Pivetta
    The market for starting pitching this winter has moved a bit more rapidly than the rest of free agency so far, with lefties Blake Snell and Yusei Kikuchi both having already found new homes with the Dodgers and Angels, respectively. This year’s pitching market is characterized by the depth of quality arms available, however, and…...2024
  • The Royals are becoming a perennial juggernaut
    • The Royals are becoming a perennial juggernaut
    Bobby Witt Jr. #7 and Salvador Perez #13 of the Kansas City Royals celebrate after their team defeated the Baltimore Orioles in Game One of the Wild Card Series | Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images It’s still early, but the Royals have already signaled an aggressive posture for their second consecutive offseason. Thanksgiving may be in the past, but I’m thankful the Royals didn’t wait for Bl...2024
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  • • Out of the box trade targets for the Braves
    2025
  • • What each American League team has done this offseason
    2025
  • • The Royals are becoming a perennial juggernaut
    2024
  • Ranking this off-season’s free agents
    • Ranking this off-season’s free agents
    Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Will the Royals spend on any? The World Series begins tomorrow, and immediately after they crown a champion, eligible players become free agents. The Royals were one of the most active teams last off-season, and GM J.J. Picollo has said he expects the same kind of financial flexibility from ownership this season. Which free agents could th...2024
  • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    Even in a relative down season, the Astros might very well extend their ALCS streak. Will any American League team make like the Rangers and topple them? During the decade-plus of MLB play from 2005-16, only two American League teams won at least 100 games. Outside of the 2008 Angels and 2009 Yankees, it was always a scramble of several good teams, but no true slam-dunk standouts (and even the ‘08...2024
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  • The state of the American League race
    • The state of the American League race
    Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Who will battle for the pennant? With a little over two weeks left in the regular season, the Royals seem poised to make their first playoff appearance in nine seasons. They currently sit in the second Wild Card spot, with a magic number of 11 to clinch a playoff spot, and a 92 percent chance of making the post-season, according to Fangraphs. For the post-...2024
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  • Astros series preview: A fading dynasty?
    • Astros series preview: A fading dynasty?
    Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Astros are still very good - but for how much longer? The Astros have had a mini-dynasty lately. They have reached the American League Championship Series in each of the last seven years, winning four pennants and two championships. Notwithstanding their sign-stealing scandal, they have been a franchise to emulate with a record of success any other organiz...2024
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  • Houston Texans News: Mario Edwards Jr. a “Steal of a Deal”
    • Houston Texans News: Mario Edwards Jr. a “Steal of a Deal”
    Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Wednesday, August 14, 2024. Houston Texans News Steal of a deal? Veteran Mario Edwards Jr. has been ‘a revelation’ for Texans (Houston Chronicle) After stunning success, Houston Texans banding together to keep winning ways going in 2024 (NFL.com) CJ Stroud’s secret...2024
  • Blue Jays Series Preview: Hey, remember the 2015 ALCS?
    • Blue Jays Series Preview: Hey, remember the 2015 ALCS?
    Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Toronto has been a contender, but has won just one playoff game since the 2015 ALCS Nine years ago, the Royals bested the Blue Jays in a terrific six-game series to win the 2015 American League pennant. The Blue Jays quickly bottomed out not long after that, rebuilding a new contending team that has made the playoffs in three of the last four years but ha...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

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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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  • 2025
    "Houston Astros 2024 Opening Day payroll: $236,524,482 2025 Projected payroll: $217,808,333 Added: Isaac Paredes, Christian Walker Lost: Alex Bregman, Caleb Ferguson, Jason Heyward, Yusei Kikuchi, Hector Neris, Kyle Tucker, Justin Verlander Needs: The Astros traded away star Kyle Tucker with one year left before free agency, and with Bregman a free agent, that leaves two major holes in their lineup."

  • 2024
    "The Angels have been the most aggressive team in baseball during the first month of the offseason, and they continued that pattern this morning by reaching an agreement with free agent left-hander Yusei Kikuchi on a three-year deal worth $63MM, per a report from Jon Heyman of the New York Post."

  • 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

  • • Out of the box trade targets for the Braves
    2025
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  • • What each American League team has done this offseason
    2025
  • • Diamondbacks’ Starters Drawing Trade Interest
    2024
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  • • The Royals are becoming a perennial juggernaut
    2024
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  • • Free Agent Prediction Contest Leaderboard Now Available
    Our free agent prediction contest leaderboard is now available!  Three of MLBTR’s top 50 free agents have signed: Nick Martinez, Yusei Kikuchi, and Blake Snell.  Over 4,300 people entered the contest, and six have jumped out to an early lead by guessing all three pitchers’ destinations correctly. If you’re looking for the leaderboard later, it…...2024
  • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images The hot stove means we know big changes are coming to some teams. Hot stove season means we know that a lot of changes will be coming to teams around baseball, either by offloading talent to save money and stock up the farm system, or attempting to bolster their rosters and make a run for the 2025 offseason. Blake Snell signed a deal late...2024
  • Angels Can’t Help Falling In Love With Yusei Kikuchi
    • Angels Can’t Help Falling In Love With Yusei Kikuchi
    The Angels were the first team to sign one of the free agents on our Top 50, inking the veteran left-hander to a three-year, $63 million deal....2024
  • Braves News: Ken Rosenthal On Braves Offseason, Season Reviews, More
    • Braves News: Ken Rosenthal On Braves Offseason, Season Reviews, More
    Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Braves could have multiple reasons for wanting to free up money. Both in the Athletic and on his show, Fair Territory, Ken Rosenthal discussed the Braves offseason on Monday. His main focus was on why the Braves were cutting costs in expected and unexpected ways so far, a stark contrast from last offseason. One reason for this that Rosenthal mentioned is ...2024
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  • How Yusei Kikuchi changed his game after 2024 trade: Can Angels expect upgrades to continue on new contract?
    • How Yusei Kikuchi changed his game after 2024 trade: Can Angels expect upgrades to continue on new contract?
    The veteran southpaw switched up his program and saw massive improvements with the Astros last season...2024
  • • Sources: Kikuchi, Angels agree to 3-year deal
    Left-handed starter Yusei Kikuchi is in agreement with the Los Angeles Angels on a three-year, $63 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday....2024

Yusei Kikuchi stats and results

  • • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    2024
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  • • The state of the American League race
    2024
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  • Astros’ starter outduels Royals starter for second night in a row, Royals lose 5-2
    • Astros’ starter outduels Royals starter for second night in a row, Royals lose 5-2
    Cole Ragans #55 of the Kansas City Royals pitches in the first inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park on August 31, 2024 in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Kevin M. Cox/Getty Images Ragans was amazing until he wasn’t. Here’s a rule change the Royals could get behind if it were applied to tonight: let the Royals choose one inning to eliminate from the final results. If you did th...2024
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  • Outside The Confines: London Calling
    • Outside The Confines: London Calling
    Photo by Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images The Phillies and Mets played in London. Gambling is causing a safety problem for the players. And other news from around baseball. So they’re playing cricket on Long Island and baseball in London. What a world we live in. Before we get to the London Series, Bob Nightengale has a story about how MLB players are getting angry and threatening ...2024
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  • Gamethread: White Sox at Blue Jays
    • Gamethread: White Sox at Blue Jays
    Killer Crochet to take the mound against a lefty-killer lineup of Jays | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Garrett Crochet attempts to resuscitate an ailing South Side team Happy Tuesday, White Sox friends, and happy Garrett Crochet day. The White Sox kick off game two of a three-game series in beautiful Toronto tonight, and it’s safe to say that the modicum of optimism Chicago fans felt last w...2024
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  • In defense of the contact play
    • In defense of the contact play
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It confounds fans. But there’s math behind it. Last night, the Royals had been unable to get much offense going against Blue Jays lefty Yusei Kikuchi. When Adam Frazier doubled off reliever Erik Swanson in the seventh, they had an opportunity to cut into the 5-2 deficit. Frazier advanced to third on a fly ball hit by Kyle Isbel, and with one out, he had a ter...2024
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  • Singer disappoints in latest outing, and also the Royals lose to the Blue Jays 3 days later
    • Singer disappoints in latest outing, and also the Royals lose to the Blue Jays 3 days later
    Kansas City Royals pitcher Brady Singer (51) pitches during the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The Tortured Pitchers Department Three days after a singer with Kansas City ties released a series of somewhat depressing and often underwhelming songs in her most recent album, a Singer with Kansas City ties released a series of...2024
  • 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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  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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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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  • • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    2024
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  • • Outside The Confines: London Calling
    2024
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  • • 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
    2024
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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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  • • 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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  • • 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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  • • 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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  • • Angels To Sign Yusei Kikuchi
    The Angels have been the most aggressive team in baseball during the first month of the offseason, and they continued that pattern this morning by reaching an agreement with free agent left-hander Yusei Kikuchi on a three-year deal worth $63MM, per a report from Jon Heyman of the New York Post. Kikuchi, 33, spent nine…...2024
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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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  • 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 fantasy rankings and news

  • • 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
  • • 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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Yusei Kikuchi schedule, game

  • • Mackenzie Gore needs to show consistency to reach his ace ceiling
    2025
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  • • Out of the box trade targets for the Braves
    2025
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  • • What each American League team has done this offseason
    2025
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  • • Free Agent Faceoff: Luis Severino/Nick Pivetta
    2024
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  • • The Royals are becoming a perennial juggernaut
    2024
    Read about Bobby Witt
  • • Outside The Confines: Blake Snell is the first to go
    2024
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  • Lugo, Ragans finish top four in Cy Young voting
    • Lugo, Ragans finish top four in Cy Young voting
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Detroit’s Tarik Skubal wins unanimously. The Royals had some of the best starting pitching in baseball in 2024, and Cy Young Award voting reflected that. Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans each finished in the top four ,the first time two Royals pitchers have finished in the top four in voting since 1985 when Bret Saberhagen won and Dan Quisenberry tied for third (Ch...2024
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  • • Ranking this off-season’s free agents
    2024
    Continue with Mary DeCicco
  • • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    2024
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  • • The state of the American League race
    2024

Yusei Kikuchi rumors, scandals

  • • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    2024
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  • • Astros series preview: A fading dynasty?
    2024
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  • • 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
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  • • 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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