Hello friends! We’ve got some offseason activity to report on as you get your Wednesday started. In Mariners news… Around the league…
From Lookout Landing
| 3 months ago
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Morning everyone and happy Wednesday! The regular season for MLB may be over and for most of us that’s all that matters. Wake us up when pitchers and catcher report, you may say. But there is still baseball being played out there! Young position players and pitchers still hard at work refining their tools and […]
From Athletics Nation
| 3 months ago
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It’s easy to criticize the moves a team makes in the offseason, but it’s a lot harder to come up with a better plan yourself. So here’s your chance to play general manager for the Royals. With a team that enjoyed a winning record, but fell short of being a true contender, there is plenty […]
From Royals Review
| 3 months ago
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Welcome to the 2025 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2025. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]
From Purple Row
| 3 months ago
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Yesterday, Nationals President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni took some questions from local media about his hiring of Blake Butera. This was the first time he shed light on the process and what is next. A lot of interesting stuff came out of the presser, so I wanted to talk about it. It has been […]
From Federal Baseball
| 3 months ago
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You might say: “But the Cubs already have a third baseman!” Yes, they do. Matt Shaw did a credible job at third base, a position that wasn’t his original one. He did well enough with the glove to be a Gold Glove “finalist,” and posted 3.1 bWAR, which is very good for a rookie season […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue
| 3 months ago
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Morning, all! On the one hand, most of the Ranger offense is returning in 2026… on the other hand, that probably isn’t a good thing. And that’s about all I’m seeing out there this morning.
From Lone Star Ball
| 3 months ago
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https://www.gaslampball.com/san-diego-padres-news/51324/yu-darvish-has-surgery-out-for-2026 (Cheri Bell – Gaslamp Ball) https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/yu-darvish-elbow-surgery (AJ Cassavell – Padres.com) https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/padres-pitching-decisions-2025-26-offseason (AJ Cassavell – Padres.com) https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/padres-yu-darvish-undergoes-surgery-will-miss-2026-season/ (Jeff Sanders – U-T) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6777837/2025/11/04/padres-yu...
From Gaslamp Ball
| 3 months ago
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Free agency season is almost upon us, and that means that pending a late-breaking pseudo-extension, Raisel Iglesias and Marcell Ozuna will have free rein to sign with another team and appear in another uniform for the first time in quite a while. Iglesias was last seen in another team’s attire in 2022; for Ozuna, it […]
From Talking Chop
| 3 months ago
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Wowwww. Bulls. A 24-point comeback win, down to the final seconds . This team has some juice.
If you missed Shane Bieber’s stunning option decision and my thoughts on it, see here . I think it’ll take a little while to fully know whether that was just some weird, one-off, super-idiosyncratic decision of Bieber’s, or if it represents some kind of fundamental systemic concern about what this offseason is going to look like. But we’ll get some clues with the Qualifying Offer decisions this...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
| 3 months ago
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Fort Cherry’s (PA) Matt Sieg added another feather to his cap in his Rangers’ eleventh win of the season, breaking the school’s all-time rushing record. As a reminder, he plays quarterback in high school. The four-star had two touchdowns and 154 yards in the affair before heading to the bench. He now also sits second […]
From Black Shoe Diaries
| 3 months ago
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The Rangers outplayed Carolina for half the game but still can’t buy a goal — their sixth straight home loss and fourth home shutout of the year.
From Blueshirt Banter
| 3 months ago
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Trevor Story is opting in to the final two years of his contract with the Red Sox per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. Cotillo went on to add the following: With an infield full of question marks as the front office faces the upcoming winter workload, Story sticking around makes matters much less murky. The Sox’ […]
From Over the Monster
| 3 months ago
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A World Series parade, a former Cy Young winner out for the season, and a whole new offseason of Alex Bregman speculation. This is what the Ber months are all about, with the hot stove warming (free agency opens up on Thursday!), and awards season rolling on over the next two weeks. In today’s news […]
From Bless You Boys
| 3 months ago
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The Dallas Cowboys are using the trade deadline to try and save themselves in a 2025 season that was already on thin ice going into Monday night against a struggling Arizona Cardinals team, and might have slipped away entirely with a 27-17 primetime loss. Can you even fix a defense that painted Dallas into this […]
From Blogging The Boys
| 3 months ago
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For this writer, the lowest point of the 2024 season was hearing the news that Kyle Bradish needed Tommy John surgery and would be out for the rest of the season. It took him 14 months to recover from the elbow surgery, but when he finally toed the rubber again in black and orange, Bradish […]
From Camden Chat
| 3 months ago
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It’s that time again: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Era committee will soon be meeting to consider candidates for Cooperstown. The committee votes get less attention than the main voting, but there’s plenty there to interest the baseball devotee: old favorites finally getting their due, interesting edge cases to bicker and banter over. This […]
From The Good Phight
| 3 months ago
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With Sonny Gray on the mound, the Short Stories could keep the Tall Tales off the scoreboard. With Willians Astudillo at the plate, they could plate run after run of their own. The Stories entered the win column with a 10-3 win keyed by their starting pitcher and catcher. Gray pitched seven shutout innings before […]
From Twinkie Town
| 3 months ago
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Good morning! There’s been a flurry of small activity in the past day or so — Trevor Story has decided to stick around, Jarren Duran and the Sox reached an agreement on a contract number for 2026 (note: this does not really indicate much about a potential trade from the outfield surplus; he still could […]
From Over the Monster
| 3 months ago
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Meet the Mets The Mets declined their $2 million dollar option on Drew Smith, making him a free agent. The Mets then posted a full rundown of today’s moves with regards to 2025 players and free agency. The Mets and Rays made a trade, with the Mets acquiring pitcher Joey Gerber for cash. The Mets […]
From Amazin' Avenue
| 3 months ago
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Former Blue Jays center fielder Lloyd, ‘The Shaker,’ Moseby, turns 66 today. Lloyd was our first-round pick in the 1978 draft, number 2 overall. The Braves picked third baseman Bob Horner as the number 1 pick. The Mets selected Hubie Brooks with the next pick (Expos fans will remember him from the Gary Carter trade). […]
From Bluebird Banter
| 3 months ago
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There is no better time to be a Dodgers fan than right now. The Dodgers as a team have established themselves as not only the first repeat champions in 25 years, but as a bona fide dynasty. With all the celebration ensuing since Saturday’s Game 7 victory over the Blue Jays, reality will settle in […]
From True Blue LA
| 3 months ago
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Your morning round-up of the latest from Blueshirt Banter, Rangers News, and updates from around the NHL
From Blueshirt Banter
| 3 months ago
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The countdown is on for one of the biggest moments of the offseason. Not only are we coming up on all the major awards of the season, which will be given over the next two week, tomorrow free agency officially opens and the hot stove will be hotter than ever. There will be plenty of […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue
| 3 months ago
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It was no surprise when the Orioles began trading off their assets at the trade deadline this year. Out of contention and with a fair number of players approaching free agency, it only made sense. But when news broke that they had traded Ramón Urías to the Astros, it was a little confusing. For one, […]
From Camden Chat
| 3 months ago
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