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The New York Giants have fired Brian Daboll. They are the second NFL team this season to move on from their head coach as the Tennessee Titans dismissed Brian Callahan a few weeks back. It is a tough season to be a head coach named Brian… watch out Schotty. New York is going to be […]
From Blogging The Boys | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
How Acquired The Braves signed Didier Fuentes as an international free agent from Colombia in the 2022 class. Fuentes was hardly the headliner in that class, as he received a more modest $75k bonus in the class that was headlined by Diego Benitez. What Were Expectations? Expectations were high for Fuentes in 2025 coming off […]
From Talking Chop | about 1 month ago | 7 reads
Coming off last night’s Fall Stars Game, it’s a great time to check back in with the Cubs Boys of Autumn playing for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League. The home run derby and the Fall Stars Game meant it was a short week for the Solar Sox with only four games […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Update: The Giants make it official The New York Giants are reportedly firing head coach Brian Daboll, and naming OC Mike Kafka as the interim head coach. They are 2-8 this season, and on track for another high draft pick after picking No. 3 pick overall in this year’s draft, taking DE Abdul Carter, then […]
From Hogs Haven | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Less than 24 hours removed from another late-game collapse for the New York Giants, head coach Brian Daboll has been fired by the team. NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport was among the first to break the news this afternoon. The #Giants are firing coach Brian Daboll, sources say. A promising and frustrating season leads NYG to have an opening. pic.twitter.com/0hB84Yb6s8 — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 10, 2025 The Giants Have Fired Head Coach Brian Daboll Daboll and the...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The Twins started out the week with Derek Shelton’s introductory press conference, where the Twins gave some indication that the fire sale over the trade deadline would not be continuing into the offseason. That being said, until Pablo López (or Joe Ryan) steps on the mound for Opening Day, everything is likely fluid for the Twins. […]
From Twinkie Town | about 1 month ago | 1 read
In 2024, the Braves used a journeyman reliever named Jimmy Herget for a grand total of eight appearances and 12 1/3 innings. In 2025, the Braves used a journeyman reliever named Kevin Herget for a grand total of one appearance and one inning. In 2026, maybe they won’t use any Hergets, or maybe they’ll hire […]
From Talking Chop | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
As was the case when it was just an MLB investigation, I will be careful to say at the top that everything public about the Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz betting scandal is an allegation . Nothing has yet been admitted or adjudicated as fact, so there remains that sliver of possibility that this has all been some kind of grand misunderstanding. That said, the allegations in the federal indictment against Clase and Ortiz are robust, and appear to the be the product of a pretty extensive in...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 0 reads
We continue our Season in Review series today with a quick look at a pitcher that we barely got to know. It feels like we barely got to know you, Matt Krook. How was he acquired? A former 4th-round draft pick by the Giants, Krook had spent six years (plus one canceled pandemic season) climbing […]
From Athletics Nation | about 1 month ago | 4 reads
The Royals enter this offseason looking to upgrade an offense that finished with the fifth-fewest runs scored in baseball. The biggest area of weakness was easily the outfield. Royals outfielders combined to hit .225/.285/.348, equaling a 73 wRC+, by far the worst in baseball. The Royals are hoping for some improvement to come from development […]
From Royals Review | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Coming off an excellent 2024 season, and six seasons into his career, with free agency a possibility after the 2025 season, we were all wondering what 2025 would bring. We knew he was going to get a big payday at some point this year. Either from the Blue Jays or from someone else after the […]
From Bluebird Banter | about 1 month ago | 1 read
The Rangers are making major changes up front as Vincent Trocheck returns and Gabe Perreault gets a top-line shot against Nashville.
From Blueshirt Banter | about 1 month ago | 4 reads
Blake Butera has made his first big staffing hire as Washington Nationals manager. One of the biggest calls the 33 year old had to make was hiring a bench coach. With Butera being the youngest manager in over 50 years, he needed to put experience around him. He has done that by hiring Michael Johns […]
From Federal Baseball | about 1 month ago | 1 read
Happy Monday one and all. The Arizona Cardinals are now sitting at 3-6 after one of the more embarrassing losses in recent franchise memory. Down 35-0 at one point, the Cardinals offense, defense and special teams all looked overmatched and underprepared against the Seattle Seahawks. That, along with the continued health issues, has lead tot […]
From Revenge of the Birds | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Where have we heard this before? An elite hitting outfielder is traded to a new team a year before he is expected to get a giant payday, and then hits the open market the following fall. Like Juan Soto in November 2024, Kyle Tucker is reaching the open market after spending his contract year in […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Just a crazy, ALLEGED follow-up to that already-wild story from earlier this year about Commissioner Rob Manfred meeting with Phillies players about labor issues and Bryce Harper getting up in his face. Remember that whole thing , with Harper reportedly saying “get the f— out of our clubhouse” if Manfred wanted to talk about the salary cap? OK, so apparently, there was more. From Newsweek : ‘Those details from ESPN were the only details on the altercation until a new report from sp...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Mookie Betts successfully navigated his first full season at a new, more challenging defensive position, while also having the worst offensive season of his Hall of Fame career. And he was candid about going through the many challenges of his season. In retrospect, getting sent home early from the season-opening trip to Tokyo and not […]
From True Blue LA | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
It’s officially the off-season, meaning it’s time for T-Mobile Park to take a well-deserved nap before another year of hosting millions of eager footsteps, thousands of chair creaks, and innumerable elbows leaning on every stable surface. This is also the time when the Mariners can do some annual housekeeping, preparing the park and the park’s […]
From Lookout Landing | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Free agent projections are out, and so it is that time again — time for the annual “should the Rangers sign This Player” polls. Today, we are looking at starting pitcher Merrill Kelly. Kelly is a righthander who turned 37 last month, and has had a strange professional journey, getting drafted in the 10th round […]
From Lone Star Ball | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Munetaka Murakami was born in Kumamoto City, the capital of the Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, on February 2, 2000. Along with his older brother, he took to the game of baseball quickly. His dedication and actual skill led his parents to enrolling him in private baseball academies headed by former professional ballplayers, among others. As a […]
From Amazin' Avenue | about 1 month ago | 1 read
In 2022, everyone watched Yordan Alvarez hit a middle-middle José Alvarado sinker over the batter’s eye in game six of the World Series. In 2023, everyone watched Alek Thomas take a 93.8 miles per hour Craig Kimbrel four-seam fastball to right field in game four of the National League Championship Series. In 2024, despite having […]
From The Good Phight | about 1 month ago | 1 read
From penalties to poor play, the 2025 Chicago Bears have found ways to win despite certain players or entire units playing well below expectations. Sunday against the New York Giants was no different, but in the end, Caleb Williams and Co. clawed back and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and the Bears improve […]
From Windy City Gridiron | about 1 month ago | 5 reads
Major League Baseball’s annual GM Meetings kick off today and run through Thursday in Las Vegas. Note that this is not the same thing as the winter meetings, which don’t happen until December. There tends to be a lot less player movement at the November GM meetings (because we’re still so early in the offseason, […]
From Over the Monster | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The Seattle Seahawks obliterated the Arizona Cardinals in Week 10, improving to a 7-2 record and first place in the NFC West. Speaking of records, it’s shaping up to be a historic year for the Seahawks on a number of fronts. How many records could Seattle set in one season? Receiving yards, individual Let’s start […]
From Field Gulls | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Happy Victory Monday, Bears fans! Let’s go play in the snow (after reading BN Bears Bullets, of course!) It wasn’t pretty, but the Chicago Bears did what they needed to do on Sunday against the New York Giants. They keep winning games they feel destined to lose. It is a 180-degree turnaround from what I am used to as a fan. I’ve never been more thankful that style points don’t matter in the NFL. This team still has work to do in all phases. But so long as it keeps on pulling out dubs at...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 1 read