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  • Beat the Streak Picks
    • Beat the Streak Picks
    The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.313 — Aaron Judge batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.307 — Freddie Freeman batting against Slade Cecconi. 0.307 — Brendan Donovan batting against Cade Povich. 0.295 — Luis Arraez batting against Sandy Alcantara. 0.295 — Jacob Wilson batting against Lance McCullers. 0.291 — Paul [&...2025
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  • • $63,000,000 Arm Notches First Angels Win, Helps Fuel Team’s Longest Streak in a Decade
    Yusei Kikuchi earned his first win for the Angels as the franchise marks the longest winning streak in a decade with the 7-5 victory over the Marlins....2025
  • • Why We Cut Yordan Alvarez
    In league 13, the FanGraphs Staff Ottoneu Head-to-Head league, I co-manage a team with Niv Shah. We just won a few auctions and among the cuts we made to get legal were an underperforming reliever (Joel Payamps), a low-value OF (Andrew Benintendi), a roller coaster of a starting pitcher (Yusei Kikuchi), and one big-time star: […] Source...2025
  • • Beat the Streak Picks
    The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.317 — Aaron Judge batting against David Peterson. 0.301 — Jacob Wilson batting against Justin Verlander. 0.300 — Jonathan Aranda batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.300 — Freddie Freeman batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.289 — Miguel Andujar batting against Justin Verlander. 0.288 —...2025
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  • Padres stunned by Angels, lose after leading in ninth
    • Padres stunned by Angels, lose after leading in ninth
    Robert Suarez hands the ball to Mike Shildt. | Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Robert Suarez walks four, blows first save of season San Diego Padres closer Robert Suarez attempted to get his 16th save of the season against the Los Angeles Angels with his team leading 5-3. However he ran into trouble in the top of the ninth and by the time the inning ended, Suarez was out of the game a...2025
  • • Beat the Streak Picks
    The Log5 Method yields these top projected hit averages against starting pitchers: 0.344 — Aaron Judge batting against Emerson Hancock. 0.311 — Paul Goldschmidt batting against Emerson Hancock. 0.303 — Nico Hoerner batting against Cal Quantrill. 0.296 — Jackson Merrill batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.288 — Luis Arraez batting against Yusei Kikuchi. 0.283 — Bobb...2025

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  • MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
    • 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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  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
    Around the League Mets Starting Rotation Tylor Megill is reportedly ahead of other Mets pitchers. He is scheduled for three innings of live batting practice. The Mets are going with a six-man rotation to start the year. They have competition in camp for the rotation even with recently signed Frankie Montas on the shelf for 6-8 weeks. The final spot will come down to Griffin Canning, Paul Black...2025
  • MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
    • MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
    Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images There is no shortage of intrigue as baseball returns for the 2025 season. The Super Bowl is now more than a week in the rear view mirror and, for Eagles fans like myself, I’m still not done re-watching the highlights of their beatdown of the Chiefs. Not even close. But this week, full squad spring training workouts began around Major League Basebal...2025
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  • • 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

  • 2025
    "In a game that motored along — Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi save for the Slater dinger was nearly as sly as Burke, likewise pitching into the sixth — the only move made for possible controversy was rookie skipper Will Venable yanking Burke at 73 pitches and 14 straight retired, handing the ball to his bullpen to get the final nine outs."

  • 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

  • • Padres stunned by Angels, lose after leading in ninth
    2025
  • • Jays Notes: Kikuchi, Bloss, Turnbull
    The Blue Jays kicked off a series against the Angels this week, providing an opportunity for Toronto reporters to catch up with new Halos starter Yusei Kikuchi. The veteran left-hander tells Hazel Mae and Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet that the Jays did not make him a free agent offer before he signed his three-year contract with…...2025
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  • Sean Burke and a homer brigade turns Opening Day into a laffer, 8-1
    • Sean Burke and a homer brigade turns Opening Day into a laffer, 8-1
    Sean Burke was absolute butter after a rough first frame, going six scoreless to put the White Sox in the win column. | Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images Bombs from Austin Slater, Andrew Benintendi, Lenyn Sosa helps first-place White Sox snap the Halos Unlike in the real world, when encountering a wallet stuffed with cash lost on the ground obligated the finder to report the loss and forgo the b...2025
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  • • MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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  • Outside The Confines: Calling balls and strikes
    • Outside The Confines: Calling balls and strikes
    Photo by Michael Owens/MLB Photos via Getty Images ESPN and MLB decide to part ways, for now. The Robo Umps have a successful debut. Looking ahead to next year’s free agent class. And more news from around MLB. Good morning. Evan Drellich and Andrew Marchand report that MLB and ESPN have “mutually agreed” to terminate their agreement to broadcast MLB games after this year. (The Athletic ...2025
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    2025
  • • Changes, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
    The Angels acquired the following players for their 2025 active roster: Jorge Soler, designated hitter Yoan Moncada, third baseman Tim Anderson, shortstop Travis d’Arnaud, catcher J.D. Davis, first and third base Kevin Newman, infield Yusei Kikuchi, starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks, starting pitcher Kenley Jansen, closer Garrett McDaniels, relief pitcher McDaniels, a rule five draft choi...2025
  • Should the Royals shop Seth Lugo?
    • Should the Royals shop Seth Lugo?
    Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Based on the prices being paid for starting pitching, it might make a lot of sense to swap pitching for outfield Adding Seth Lugo last offseason might be the best decision the Royals made for 2024 if you count the Ragans trade as a 2023 move. Lugo has shown decisively in two years as a starter that he has what it takes to be number two or three starter in...2025
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  • The Angels Should Be Positioned For A Late-Offseason Acquisition
    • The Angels Should Be Positioned For A Late-Offseason Acquisition
    The Angels were aggressive within the opening weeks of the offseason. They acquired Jorge Soler as soon as the trade market reopened. They made the first MLB free agent acquisition of the winter when they added Kyle Hendricks. They signed Travis d'Arnaud and Yusei Kikuchi to multi-year contracts before any other team signed anyone from outside the organization for…...2025

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  • • Padres stunned by Angels, lose after leading in ninth
    2025
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  • • MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
    2025
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  • 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West
    • 2025 Cubs: Know your enemy, AL West
    Kyle looks weird in that red uniform | Photo by Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are a lot of things still up in the air for this division. The Cubs went 9-6 against AL West teams last year, including an unlikely sweep of the Astros at Wrigley Field. Houston went on to win the division, but this year... might be different. Houston Astros Key departures: Kyle Tucker, Alex Br...2025
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  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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  • • MLB Playoffs: American League Preview
    2024
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  • • The state of the American League race
    2024
  • 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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  • MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
    • MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
    Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The dust has settled after a frenzied final few hours of trade activity. How did your team fare? The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone. There will be waiver claims, minor signings, injury returns, and other internal promotions from this point onward, but in general, each team’s roster now features the primary players who wi...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
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  • • MLB storylines to watch as Spring Training gets underway
    2025
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  • 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
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  • • MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
    2024
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  • Toronto's poor start leaves the Blue Jays needing to rebuild or retool
    • Toronto's poor start leaves the Blue Jays needing to rebuild or retool
    Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images The Blue Jays have gotten off to a poor start and can't seem to get any facet of their game going. So what's next for them? With the calendar set to flip in a few days from June to July, that means that the looming specter of MLB’s trade deadline is getting larger and larger on the horizon. With each passing day, we’re starting to get a better idea of who’...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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  • 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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  • 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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Top Yusei Kikuchi news

  • • 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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  • • Sean Burke and a homer brigade turns Opening Day into a laffer, 8-1
    2025
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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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Yusei Kikuchi fantasy rankings and news

  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
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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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  • Series Preview: Rays vs Angels
    • Series Preview: Rays vs Angels
    Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Nine games down, one-hundred fifty-three to go The 2025 regular season is swiftly moving along and the Rays are back home as they’ll take on the Los Angeles Angels in a three game set at George Steinbrenner Stadium. The Angels are hoping for better things in 2025 as they just narrowly avoided losing 100 games last season. Overall, they were 63-99 and fin...2025
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  • • MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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  • Angels vs. White Sox time, odds, starting pitchers, how to watch for 2025 MLB Opening Day
    • Angels vs. White Sox time, odds, starting pitchers, how to watch for 2025 MLB Opening Day
    Yusei Kikuchi and Sean Burke will take the mound for their teams...2025
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  • Royals use 6-run 6th inning to fuel 9-8 comeback win
    • Royals use 6-run 6th inning to fuel 9-8 comeback win
    Hunter Renfroe stole a base today. | Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Runs runs runs. The scoring today got going early and often. The Royals got down bad early, but they used “this thing”, “that thing”, and “the other thing” to score a bunch of runs and come back for the win. Home runs? Sac flies? Double steals? This game had. It. All. As the first batter in the bottom of the second, Luis ...2025
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  • Royals vs Angels Friday March 14 Spring Training Game Thread
    • Royals vs Angels Friday March 14 Spring Training Game Thread
    Maikel Garcia gets the start in center field. | Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Michael Wacha vs Yusei Kikuchi After winning in a thrilling walkoff fashion last night, the 12-8 Royals will take on the 8-9 Angels at 3:10pm US Central today. It generally looks like a day of backups, but Maikel Garcia will get a turn in center field. The Royals continue to look internally for outfield solutio...2025
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Yusei Kikuchi rumors, scandals

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  • • Astros series preview: A fading dynasty?
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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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