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Good morning everyone! The Mariners dropped another one-run contest yesterday, falling to the Braves by a 3-2 final. Andrés Muñoz took another tough loss last night, and it’s been an uncharacteristically rocky start for the closer. What is your level of concern for him right now? In Mariners news… Around the league…
In case you’ve been living under a rock, it was announced on Monday that Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal has been diagnosed with loose bodies in his elbow and will require surgery, sidelining him for a minimum of two months. Unless there is underlying damage in the elbow discovered during the procedure, this injury has […]
The good times kept rolling for the Yankees on Tuesday night, as they came from behind to beat Jacob deGrom on behalf of since-demoted rookie Elmer Rodríguez. They’ve won 15 of their last 17 games and would almost be running away with the AL East already if the Rays weren’t off to a scalding-hot start […]
The Nats at catcher are currently the worst in baseball. In the previous two seasons they were 24th and 24th in wins above position, which tracks with what we all know. They are bad. They haven't been the worst , thanks mainly to catcher being such a hard position that other teams were complete failures, but now they are the complete failure. Their issues at catcher might be the worst at any position in baseball* Their main catcher Keibert Ruiz is hitting .182 / .203 / .303. Tradit...
Morning, all! Rule 5 pick Carter Baumler hasn’t pitched in a week during his rehab assignment in Round Rock, and he may be on ice for much longer after being diagnosed with a strained rotator cuff. Josh Smith is headed to the IL with a glute strain, and had been replaced on the active roster […]
The San Diego Padres found themselves trailing the San Francisco Giants 4-1 after two innings and it was not looking for the Padres, who had Walker Buehler on the mound. However the new-look San Diego lineup generated consistent offense, which resulted in a 10-5 win over the Giants. Multiple Padres had multi-hit games, including Sung-Mun […]
Good morning! The Red Sox lineup absolutely rolled one of the best pitchers in the game last night, roughing up Framber Valdez so thoroughly that he got himself intentionally thrown out of the game. But was Valdez mad at his sub-par performance, or was he mad at something else? Last week, ESPN’s Buster Olney speculated […]
Early in the week we were given a wave of stories linking Liverpool and Brazil goalkeeping star Alisson Becker with Juventus, with multiple outlets including Sky claiming the Serie A club had made the 33-year-old their top goalkeeping target and would commit “significant resources” to signing him. That always seemed more likely to revolve around […]
Vancouver, then New York, then Long Island—none of it stuck. Soucy's Rangers tenure may live longest in Puckdoku grids.
Honestly, I am running out of superlatives to describe what the Chicago Cubs have done over the last three weeks. For quite some time, Tuesday’s game against the Reds at Wrigley Field looked like one of those “tip the cap to the other guy” games. Andrew Abbott was dealing and the Cubs couldn’t really do […]
The NFL draft just concluded. A string of undrafted rookie signings followed. A month earlier, it was the free agency period. In March, reserve/futures contracts were executed. Before that, unrestricted free agents were sorted through with a few re-signed and the remainder allowed to seek employment elsewhere. All of this is roster building. And when […]
Well, friends, we certainly don’t need to talk about last night’s game against the Red Sox, but we also don’t have much good news to share in today’s news brief either. The Tigers reported on Monday that Tarik Skubal would be headed to the IL and would undergo surgery to remove loose bodies in his […]
Our 11th installment of the continuing Legends Series features a conversation with baseball lifer, Jim Pankovits. During his career with the Astros, he played 316 games at a variety of positions. Q: You were a 28-year-old rookie when you finally got the call in May of 1984 to join the club. What do you remember […]
The Braves are doing something with their bevy of long relievers and pseudo-starters, but what that something is, is unclear to me. Is it clear to you? Grant Holmes was today’s scheduled starter. Martin Perez was “in the bullpen” but hasn’t made an appearance since his start eight days ago. Perez has a 54/111/108 line […]
6 innings pitched, 5 hits allowed, 5 strikeouts, no runs, earned or otherwise. That was Aaron Nola’s line in Monday night’s win against the Marlins. And it was exactly what we want to see from him. It was Nola’s best start of the year by far. One game, however, is not much of a sample […]
When Kennard Davis Jr. committed last Friday, it ended a two-week lull in Missouri’s offseason overhaul. And while the Tigers still have two scholarships to fill, Davis’ addition offers a natural checkpoint to assess coach Dennis Gates’ work so far. If you go by 247Sports’ rankings, MU assembled the nation’s No. 11 transfer class and, […]
Despite a gutsy win last night, the Orioles are playing like a bad baseball team right now. There’s no point in sugar coating things after that long weekend in New York. They haven’t been eliminated from playoff contention, and last night’s result helped, but things still look bleak in Birdland. Maybe we’ll look back on […]
Aneudis Mejia went 3.1 innings for Hickory, allowing four runs, walking three and striking out three. Marcos Torres homered. Paulino Santana had two walks and a stolen base. Yolfran Castillo had a pair of hits and a stolen base. Hector Osorio had a pair of hits. Hickory box score Hub City starter Aidan Curry allowed […]
With DJ Reader agreeing to terms with the New York Giants this week, the Detroit Lions’ have now seen 11 of their own free agents sign elsewhere. You can see the full list of the Lions’ free agency losses and gains here with our 2026 Detroit Lions offseason tracker. For a team that really values […]
When the Yankees announced that Anthony Volpe would not be added to the active roster when he was activated from the injured list, but instead optioned to Triple-A Scranton, manager Aaron Boone indicated that the team had not considered playing him anywhere but at shortstop. Speaking to the media less than 24 hours later, Boone […]
Meet the Mets Carl Edwards Jr. has elected free agency following his designation for assignment by the Mets. ESPN handed out grades to every team to start the season, and the Mets did about as poorly as one would expect. Last night’s game was postponed to tomorrow, and today’s game has been moved back to […]
Yankees 7, Rangers 4
The Nationals have admitted defeat on yet another first round draft pick from the 2010’s. While the Nats were having a magical turnaround in the summer of 2019, Mike Rizzo drafted Jackson Rutledge with the 17th overall pick. He did not work out, and the Nats new regime officially admitted that last night when they […]
We are now over a month into the first season of what Shohei Ohtani can do on both sides of the field throughout the whole year as a Dodger. Ohtani is seemingly back to his pre-injury, Cy Young award contending form on the mound, as he’s coming off a dominant month of April where he […]
The Atlanta Braves reinstated right-hander Raisel Iglesias from the injured list on Tuesday, ahead of the late-night matchup with the Seattle Mariners. The club also designated fellow righty Carlos Carrasco for assignment, and lastly, provided updates on the rehabilitation of Dylan Dodd and Ha-Seong Kim. Iglesias has been lights-out for the Braves so far this […]