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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades David Justice and Marquis Grissom to Cleveland

Braves Franchise History 1981 - The Braves trade veteran outfielder Gary Matthews to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for Bob Walk. Matthews will hit .301 with a .398 on-base percentage in 101 games for the Phillies. Walk will spend the next three seasons in Atlanta while posting a 4.85 ERA in 211 ⅓ innings. Atlanta will release him in March of 1984. 1997 - The Braves trade outfielders David...2024
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• This Day in MLB History: February 1st

Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images MLB History 1913 - Olympic hero Jim Thorpe signs with the New York Giants. 1926 - The New York Yankees send first baseman Wally Pipp to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for cash. 1947 - Commissioner Happy Chandler announces the creation of a pension plan for major league players. The plan will pay players who have...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: February 1

On this day 22 years ago, the White Sox signed the criminally-underrated Kenny Lofton. A should-be Hall-of-Famer lands on the South Side 1914 In a story told in great detail in 2014 on site, the White Sox and New York Giants played an exhibition game in Cairo, Egypt. This stop on the 56-game World Tour ended in a 3-3 deadlock after 10 innings. You can’t blame the players for failing to fi...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Braves

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Did the Royals have a Braves pipeline? It is the cold winter, still several weeks from spring training. That gives us some time to reflect on Royals seasons past, so after being inspired by the Yankees blog Pinstripe Alley we’ll begin a series looking back at their trade history with each team in baseball. Today, we’ll start with the Atlanta Braves. Total num...2024
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images The greatest defensive center fielder of all time is in his seventh year on the ballot. There are many players throughout baseball history who began their careers on a Hall of Fame path before injuries or a production dropoff caught up with them. Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones may be a special case in that discussion. Jones is regarded by man...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2024

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images What would keep Bobby Witt Jr. from ending up in Cooperstown? Preston Farr at Farm to Fountains profiles Royals pitching prospect Luinder Avila. To start 2023, Avila was regularly hanging around the 92-93mph range with his four-seamer. In May and June, his focus on improving the heater was evident. He deliberately targeted the upper half of the strikezo...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The Braves
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2003

Getty Images Not much happened, and then one BIG deal went down. The Cubs stood pat trade-wise over the 2002-03 offseason, though they did sign some free agents, including Tom Goodwin and Lenny Harris — the latter, terrible for the Cubs, wound up with a World Series ring after the Cubs let him go and he signed with the Marlins. Trade-wise... here we go. May 9: Traded Alan Benes to the Rang...2023
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
Looking at how the top three stack up, along with the rest of the first round The 2023 MLB Draft is just days away. And the Pittsburgh Pirates have a fascinating decision on their hands. Do they add Paul Skenes, the LSU pitcher who was dominant this season and looks like he could step into an MLB rotation right now? Or do they draft his teammate Dylan Crews, the outfielder who brings five tools to...2023
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 31
Happy birthday, Greg Deichmann! | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A thrice-weekly digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The first rainout, Soto suspended, Greg Deichmann’s birthday, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful pa...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: April 22
“It was a helluva wallop, eh, Bess?” | Set Number: X3618 A lotta hits lead to no runs — and a lotta runs come from no hits 1955 It was the first time the White Sox ever played in Kansas City, and outfielder Jim Rivera would make it a memorable night. Rivera’s home run helped the Sox beat the A’s, 5-3, but it was his comment afterwards to former first lady Bess Truman that made the most ne...2023
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• Today in Cubs history: Corey Patterson drives in 7 runs on Opening Day
Photo credit should read HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images It was the start of a very good season that got interrupted by injury. The Cubs opened the 2003 season with some hope, despite a 95-loss season the previous year. A new manager had been hired: Dusty Baker, who’d just taken the San Francisco Giants to the World Series. The team had traded the unpopular Todd Hundley to the Dodger...2023
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• Where are your former Browns now? RB/FB Leroy Hoard
Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images 25 questions with just one more back in a long line of superb Cleveland running backs Leroy Hoard of the Cleveland Browns was just one more name to add to the list of some of their greatest runners. The franchise has been known for this since the days of Dub Jones and Marion Motley to Jim Brown. Hoard came to the Browns after a sterling career at th...2023
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• The most random Braves Opening Day starters since 1990
Opening Day is full of pomp and circumstance but sometimes the Opening Day line-up has some starters that are unexpected. | Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images As Opening Day draws near, let this serve as a reminder that sometimes even the most random of players have drawn a starting assignment to begin the season. But who is the most random player to draw a starting assignm...2023
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• Vote in the third annual South Side Sox Veterans Committee Hall of Fame election!
There was a haze cast over Rafael Palmeiro’s playing career, but he has a chance for immortality at SSS, headlining our Veterans ballot. | Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Ten players from the loaded 1990s await your decision on their Hall-worthiness Last week I previewed our upcoming Hall of Fame elections, and explained in great detail how we are going to approach Veterans voting in years t...2023
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"Despite those heroics, Jones still wasn’t a full time starter for the Braves in 1997, sharing the outfield with Ryan Klesko, Kenny Lofton and Michael Tucker."

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"1997 - The Braves trade outfielders David Justice and Marquis Grissom to the Cleveland Indians in exchange for outfielder Kenny Lofton and reliever Alan Embree."

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", Carlos Baerga, Kenny Lofton and Charles Nagy, then did it again in 2014 with Jason Kipnis, Michael Brantley and future Cub Yan Gomes."

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"Kenny Lofton was blazing on the bases?"

2019
"Kenny Lofton: A-Rod shouldn't have a broadcast career after PED use"

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", and text messages were coming in from Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton and Carlos Baerga."

2017
"Happy birthday today to Joe Namath, Jim Craig, Kenny Lofton, Dave Roberts, Matt Harpring, Jake Peavy and Nate Robinson!"

2016
"Indians fan gives up plane ticket so Kenny Lofton could throw World Series first pitch"

2015
"From Kenny Lofton to Dave Winfield, there have been some big-time big leaguers who did some damage on the court."

2014
"(Yes, the Wild Card Game is a playoff game, Kenny Lofton."

• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades David Justice and Marquis Grissom to Cleveland
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• This Day in MLB History: February 1st
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• Today in White Sox History: February 1
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• Royals trade partner history: The Braves
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2003
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• BCB After Dark: Reinforcements

Kenny Lofton | SetNumber: X69419 TK3 The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who was the best mid-season acquisition in Cubs history. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Let’s keep tonight’s good times rolling. Come on in and celebrate with us. Free entry to any Cubs fan. Grab a table before they’re ...2023
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
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• Today in Cubs history: Corey Patterson drives in 7 runs on Opening Day
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• BCB After Dark: Reinforcements
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• NBA season finale: LeBron James, Warriors shine, but lesser-known players steal the day with eye-popping stats

Payton Pritchard had a 30-point triple-double as Kenny Lofton Jr. went for 42 and 14...2023
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• Where are your former Browns now? RB/FB Leroy Hoard
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• The most random Braves Opening Day starters since 1990
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• Scott Rolen inducted into Hall of Fame
Baseball immortality: With 76.5% of votes, Scott Rolen cleared the bar to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. | Eileen Blass, USA TODAY, USATNetwork via Imagn Content Services, LLC Mark Buehrle will remain on the ballot next year Hall of Fame voting has come to a close, and just one player made the cut — barely. The lone player of the 2023 BBWAA Hall of Fame class is none other than third ...2023
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• BCB After Dark: We believe in second chances
Jim Edmonds | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which “snubbed” player is most deserving of induction into Cooperstown. It’s another Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the swingin’ spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It may be quiet and cold out there, but it’s warm and boppin’ in here. Come on in ...2023
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• Third annual South Side Sox Veterans Committee Hall of Fame election: No dice
Kenny Lofton beat the tag here, but couldn’t even cross 60% HOF support from readers. SSS readers are non-plussed in support of any of the 10 players on our loaded 1990s ballot Not much to say here, really, as our curated, loaded, vote-for-all-10-if-you-want Veterans Committee ballot has gone softly into the good night. The results, from 1,089 individual ballots, placed no one in the Hall ...2023
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• Vote in the third annual South Side Sox Veterans Committee Hall of Fame election!
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• Looking Ahead: SSS HOF ballots
Among many huge BBWAA goofs on our upcoming Veterans’ ballot: Kenny Lofton earning just 3.2% HOF support in his only year of consideration. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post our Veterans and Cooperstown ballots South Side Sox had a history of holding Hall of Fame votes in the 2010s, long before the new management came in and sorta blew the voting wide open. Things expanded right a...2023
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• Ja Morant reacts to Grizzlies rookie Kenny Lofton taking Chet Holmgren to school
Tuesday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s future prospects appeared to get a massive jolt in the right direction. Their prized draft pick, Chet Holmgren, had an outstanding performance in his first Summer League game. He dropped 23 points on just nine shots, finishing with six blocks and four treys. He became the first player in […] The post Ja Morant reacts to Grizzlies rookie Kenny ...2022
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• BCB After Dark: Reinforcements
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
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• Where are your former Browns now? RB/FB Leroy Hoard
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• The most random Braves Opening Day starters since 1990
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• How have lineups of young hitters fared in the past?
Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Young lineups seem to pay dividends down the road. After fans demanded to “let the kids play”, it looks like the Royals are going with a lineup full of youngsters in 2023. The Royals could be days the Royals start as many as eight players in their age-26 season or younger - Kyle Isbel (26), Nate Eaton (26), Michael Massey (25), Vinnie Pasquantino (25), MJ...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s up fifth?
Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who will be the fifth starter to start the season Welcome back to another week here at BCB After Dark: the happening hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. We’ve got one good table that we’ve reserved for you. There’s no cover charge. Let us ta...2023
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• BCB After Dark: We believe in second chances
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• The Cubs should sign Nico Hoerner to a long-term deal
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports This could save the team lots of money in the long run. Nico Hoerner, finally healthy, is having the best year of his brief MLB career. In 101 games and 387 plate appearances, he is batting .304/.351/.429 with 18 doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 12 stolen bases. He’s also solidified a claim as the Cubs’ starting shortstop, playing solid defense at th...2022
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• The dream of the '90s is alive with Thome
Jim Thome was trying to be quiet, because his wife was trying to sleep in the next room, but he was having a hard time containing his excitement on Thursday night. Thome was talking on the phone with Sandy Alomar Jr., and text messages were coming in from Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton and Carlos Baerga....2018
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• The Cleveland Indians' Star-Studded '90s MLB Dynasty That Never Was
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• Indians fan gives up plane ticket so Kenny Lofton could throw World Series first pitch
Baseball can be weird, even when it's off the field...2016
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• The Cubs should sign Nico Hoerner to a long-term deal
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• Braves Hall of Fame Profile: Andruw Jones
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Kenny Lofton
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• Where are your former Browns now? RB/FB Leroy Hoard
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• Today in Cubs history: Corey Patterson drives in 7 runs on Opening Day
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2003
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• The best former Cub from every MLB team

Andre Dawson bats at Wrigley Field as a member of the Montreal Expos | Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images A fun little offseason exercise. Credit where credit is due, I borrowed this idea from Adam Sanford of our SB Nation Tampa Bay Rays site DRays Bay. Here’s his article on the best former Ray on every MLB team, by bWAR. So the question asked here is: Which player who at one ...2023
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1532. Kenny Lofton

• This Day in MLB History: February 1st
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• Today in White Sox History: February 1
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• Royals trade partner history: The Braves
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 8, 2024
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• A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 2003
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• The best former Cub from every MLB team
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• BCB After Dark: Reinforcements
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
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• Baseball history unpacked, May 31
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• Today in White Sox History: April 6
Magglio Ordoñez singled and homered in an amazing, single-inning comeback, 20 years ago today. | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A historic comeback against a hapless Tigers team 1993 The divisional championship season begins with a night game in Minnesota, and a big 10-5 win over the Twins. Tim Raines had a three-run home run, and scored two runs. The White Sox would wind up winning the div...2023
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• BCB After Dark: Reinforcements
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• MLB Mock Draft: Where do Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford end up?
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s up fifth?
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• BCB After Dark: We believe in second chances
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• Former MLB star Kenny Lofton facing lawsuit related to explicit photos

A man is suing Lofton and two of his companies for damages. He says he was fired as retaliation for calling attention to Lofton’s alleged sexual misconduct and for complaining about not being paid....2022
• Forming the Perfect Rebuilding Plan for the Atlanta Braves
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