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When the Tampa Bay Rays opted to cut some salary down the stretch in 2025, the Atlanta Braves leveraged their waiver wire position to infuse some offense at shortstop and attempt to improve their position for 2026 by taking on a few million in salary. How acquired The Braves claimed infielder — and with Atlanta, […]
From Talking Chop | 3 months ago | 2 reads
The Carolina Hurricanes will look to bounce back from a sluggish effort in a loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday as they return home to take on the New York Rangers in a Metropolitan Division showdown. With the flu bug going through the locker room and captain Jordan Staal sidelined, the Hurricanes put forth […]
From Canes Country | 3 months ago | 4 reads
The White Sox need to approach this year’s MLB Winter Meetings with one primary goal: diversifying their talent. Last year, Chicago focused on acquiring high-ceiling prospects and veterans who had strung together a couple of average seasons. While that was enough to get them through their first full rebuild year, the Sox now face a […]
From South Side Sox | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Mike Coppinger has an update on Subriel Matias’ failed drug test for ostarine. Per the New York State Athletic Commission, Matias’ (23-2, 22 KO) “adverse finding” revealed a concentration of 0.085 ng/ml. While the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) treats any amount of ostarine as a violation, this was administered by VADA, which has a threshold […]
From Bad Left Hook | 3 months ago | 2 reads
With the Arizona Cardinals on another extended losing streak, the question now is how much they can go up the 2026 NFL Draft order. As we enter week 13 of the 2025 NFL season, the Arizona Cardinals currently sit with the ninth pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, and with how bad teams are, it […]
From Revenge of the Birds | 3 months ago | 2 reads
To fill airtime during fallow sports times of the year, ESPN does this Ocho thing. “Sports” you’ve never heard of, or even conceptualized. How far up on a roof you can throw a beanbag, and some such. Stuff you made up in your backyard after school when you and your best pal were nine years […]
From Card Chronicle | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Diamondbacks News Phillies, Blue Jays Reportedly Show Interest in Ketel MarteI expect there to be a whole host of these sorts of articles until such time as Mike Hazen starts making moves that will erode any traction these sorts of articles have since the “other pieces” or “team needs” will have dramatically shifted. What the […]
From AZ Snake Pit | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Alex Call began the season with the Washington Nationals before being acquired by the Dodgers at the trade deadline. He served as quality platoon bat against left-handed pitching and hit well over a small sample size in the postseason. Call was coming off a 2024 season where he appeared in just 30 games for Washington, […]
From True Blue LA | 3 months ago | 6 reads
Sometimes over the course of a long baseball season, opportunities arise and something unexpected happens. The Phillies experienced something along those lines in August when they learned that Zack Wheeler had a blood clot that ultimately required thoracic outlet surgery and kept him out for the rest of the season. It was a blow to […]
From The Good Phight | 3 months ago | 5 reads
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Today we look at a slugger who has already thrived in Boston. Who is he and where does he […]
From Over the Monster | 3 months ago | 1 read
The pitching for the Washington Nationals was mostly disastrous in 2025, but Brad Lord was a bright spot. There is a pitcher in the Nats system with a lot of similarities to Lord and could make the same kind of impact in 2026. That guy is Riley Cornelio, who had a breakout year in the […]
From Federal Baseball | 3 months ago | 4 reads
OK. Day before Thanksgiving. This is important. I must summon all of my willpower to eat VERY LIGHT today, thereby justifying the monstrous damage I plan to do tomorrow. The problem with putting me in charge of Thanksgiving Day food is that I will choose anything and everything that I personally want to eat. Which means there are like 15 different things I want to eat tomorrow, and I will do so. The Athletic’s Andy McCullough put together a list of mostly-serious, semi-cheeky Black Frid...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 3 months ago | 3 reads
Morning, all! The Rangers started the offseason with a pretty lengthy to-do list , but they’ve made significant progress in addressing the bullet points. The Rangers have signed infielder Jonah Bride to a minor league deal. Bride had a breakout year with the Marlins in 2025. Marcus Semien was surprised to hear he was going […]
From Lone Star Ball | 3 months ago | 4 reads
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 | 1 read
The Mets managed to make a pre-Thanksgiving splash, trading Brandon Nimmo – their longest tenured player – to the Texas Rangers for Marcus Semien. The Rangers also received $5M as part of the deal. Though Nimmo himself was reportedly surprised by the move, rumors had been out there; Jeff Passan reported a week ago that […]
From Amazin' Avenue | 3 months ago | 4 reads
Good day everyone, and happy Wednesday! Safe travels to all of you who are en route to somewhere for the holiday, and may these links guide and entertain you on your journey. In Mariners news… Around the league…
From Lookout Landing | 3 months ago | 2 reads
In the last collective-bargaining agreement, MLB owners agreed to create a bonus pool of money to be paid to certain players not eligible for arbitration. Each team contributes $1,666,667 to the pool, making a total of $50 million to be distributed among eligible pre-arb players. Pre-arb players eligible for this pool receive $2.5 million for […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 3 months ago | 3 reads
I love baseball’s offseason. Not only do we have teams making moves, trying to either get better in the now or for the future, but there’s a ton of other stuff going on that we can discuss. Awards are being handed out, there’s the upcoming draft lottery, and then there’s perhaps the biggest thing of […]
From Royals Review | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Now that the Arizona Fall League has reached its conclusion, the only MLB prospects currently playing baseball are Winter Ball participants in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Australia. The Yankees currently have five players participating in Winter Ball, including a few who spent time with the big-league club in 2025 and at […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 3 months ago | 3 reads
The New England Patriots will make their return to prime time this week, hosting the New York Giants at Gillette Stadium in what will be the their first Monday Night Football game since the 2022 season. The team of head coach Mike Vrabel is entering the contest off an NFL-best nine straight wins, trying to […]
From Pats Pulpit | 3 months ago | 5 reads
This past weekend saw very little fireworks from LSU Tigers at both the collegiate and pro level. Nevertheless, hope is on the horizon. Let’s break down the quiet week that was. Bills 19 at Texans 23 Josh Allen was sacked a whopping eight times, and Danielle Hunter was in on two of them as part […]
From And The Valley Shook | 3 months ago | 1 read
Fans of the San Diego Padres have been waiting for Luis Campusano to live up to the potential that saw him rise to the No. 3 prospect in the San Diego system. He went 0-for-21 at the plate during 2025 at the major league level, but tore up Triple-A with he El Paso Chihuahuas. Cheri […]
From Gaslamp Ball | 3 months ago | 1 read
Think about all of the quarterback conversions that the NFL had to go through this year. The Cleveland Browns selected a Top-5 assumed athlete in the fifth round with Shedeur Sanders. Aaron Rodgers became a nomad and finally settled in Pittsburgh. Russell Wilson signed with the New York Football Giants only to be supplanted by […]
From Revenge of the Birds | 3 months ago | 7 reads
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From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 3 months ago | 1 read
We are inching toward Monday’s Missouri sports betting launch. You will need to know about what apps will be available and your best options. Best Missouri Sports Betting Apps The best Missouri sports betting apps are expected to go live on Monday, December 1. This includes Fanatics, BetMGM, FanDuel, and more. These apps already have MO sports betting promos for users who are pre-registering. Take a look below. Fanatics Missouri Fanatics Missouri brings a strong platfo...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 3 months ago | 1 read