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• How Did Scott Boras Ruin His Clients' Offseason?

Scott Boras; CC by License 2.0 This MLB offseason was one of the most dragged out in the sport’s recent history. The signings and trades......2024
• Cody Bellinger sticking with agent Scott Boras amid short-term contract with Cubs after comeback season

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• Weekend Rumblings - News for April 13, 2024

Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images Time for a new win streak. Michael Wacha talks to Anne Rogers about his first loss of the year. “I was making some quality pitches, but the [Mets] came out swinging. They were ready to rock. They were able to find holes whenever they put it in play,” Wacha said. “I felt I was close to getting out of those innings. The [RBI] hits all came on two outs. Those...2024
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Playoff hero Jordan Montgomery fired Boras after being one of several big-name free agents to sign late for a much lower contract than expected. For decades now, Scott Boras has been synonymous with the MLB offseason. He changed the landscape of player salaries in such a dramatic way and over such a long period of time that it would not surprise anyone to se...2024
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• Jordan Montgomery has fired Scott Boras. Could more of the ‘Boras Four’ be next?

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images A high-profile client has dumped his high-profile agent. News item: LHP Jordan Montgomery has hired Wasserman’s Joel Wolfe & Nick Chanock as his agents, per sources.Montgomery was one of the Boras Four, who were unsigned late into free agency.I projected he would get 5 yrs, $106M and he eventually signed for 1 yr, $25M w/Arizona on March 26.— Kiley McDanie...2024
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• Scott Boras loses star client after long, disappointing offseason

After helping lead the Texas Rangers to their first World Series title in October, the southpaw had a surprisingly difficult time finding a new home over the winter....2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, March 28, 2024 It’s been a long March. The month is typically reserved for hope and optimism for baseball fans as the air fills the sound of cleats on dirt and the crack of wooden bats as winter thaws into spring in MLB camps around Arizona and Florida. However, this year has been much less satisfying for not...2024
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas

Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images The defending champion Rangers and the relentless Astros dominate the division’s focus, but keep an eye on Seattle. The 2023 American League season came down to a Lone Star State Showdown in the Championship Series. Amazingly, the Houston Astros were back in the LCS for the seventh year in a row, one shy of the record held by the ‘90s Atlanta ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2024

Did you wake up early for the Seoul Series? By the time this post goes up, there will be MLB action that counts well underway in Seoul. What do you think of the pre-season regular season games? If you are in a fantasy league, are you allowed to put Dodgers and Padres in lineups now, or is your league waiting til the rest of MLB gets underway? Reliever Jake Brentz has a left hamstring strain that w...2024
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• Here are all the remaining MLB free agents

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Could any of them interest the Cubs? Opening Day of the 2024 MLB season is two weeks from this Thursday. Most teams have the players they want on their Opening Day rosters already in camp. But injuries happen — as appears to be the case with Cubs righthander Jameson Taillon — and perhaps teams are still looking for backup plans. Also, there are still the Boras Th...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: New York Yankees

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images I hope y’all really enjoyed the Yankees being mediocre in 2023 because it’s probably not going to happen again in 2024. If you’re a Yankee-hater, then you ate pretty good last season. The New York Yankees have only missed the postseason five times since the turn of the century, and last season just so happened to be one of those five. With that being ...2024
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• Cub Tracks gets over the hump

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Cody Bellinger is back, Morelism, and other stories. Enjoy the music. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 5, 2024

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Daniel Lynch IV talks pitching. Jeff Passan writes about the players impressing in spring training, including Cole Ragans. The comparison sounded too ridiculous to be true. One evaluator, smitten by the 26-year-old pitcher, said of Ragans: “He’s left-handed deGrom.” To comp a pitcher who has thrown all of 136 major league innings with Jacob deGrom...2024
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’

Marquee Sports Network The outfielder was re-introduced as a Cub Wednesday afternoon. The Cubs re-introduced newly re-signed outfielder Cody Bellinger Wednesday afternoon to a group of media that was already quite familiar with him from his year with the team in 2023. And Bellinger referenced last year a couple of times, saying that the team had “unfinished business” from 2023 from missing...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Baseball at Sloan Park on Friday! First, I want to remind everyone that these posts exist mainly as an open thread to discuss baseball every day. They’re not exclusively about Cody Bellinger, and this series is going to end Friday when games begin. Perhaps Bellinger will sign with the Cubs by then, perhaps not, obviously if it happens it’ll be covered here. Sec...2024
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• It's No Joke: The New-Look Cubs Are Ready to Win and Win Big in 2015
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"It’s just a matter of waiting out the staring contest between Jed Hoyer and Scott Boras."

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"According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Bellinger and agent Scott Boras…"

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"Bryce Harper is expected to return in the early months of 2023, according to his agent, Scott Boras."

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"Scott Boras, one of baseball's most influential agents, said the Atlanta Braves' World Series title was a direct result of tanking around Major League Baseball."

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"Scott Boras honors one of Kobe Bryant's final wishes by hiring Alexis Altobelli for internship"

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"Castellanos is one of the many Scott Boras-repped players populating the upper reaches of the open market."

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"The Padres and agent Scott Boras have “engaged in regular dialogue” regarding Eric Hosmer over the past few days, reports Dennis Lin of The Athletic."

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"With two of his Miami Marlin clients possibly on the trading block, agent Scott Boras says of the team, "we've seen one of our major-league jewelry stores become a pawn shop."

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"It’s a one-year deal (pending physical) for the Scott Boras client, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports adds on Twitter."

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"1 innings in 2015, has seen his agent, Scott Boras, advocating for a limit of 180."

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"As Max Scherzer assumes center stage on the MLB free-agent pitching market, agent Scott Boras is skipping the Jon Lester comparisons and likening him to a certain NFL Hall of Famer-in-waiting."

• Cody Bellinger sticking with agent Scott Boras amid short-term contract with Cubs after comeback season
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• Jordan Montgomery has fired Scott Boras. Could more of the ‘Boras Four’ be next?
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• A few thoughts about the Athletics and their move to Sacramento

The skyline of Sacramento in 2017 | Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images This will be the franchise’s last year in Oakland. Probably. The Oakland Athletics are on the move. Not to Las Vegas — not yet, anyway. Last week the team announced a temporary move 85 miles up the road from Oakland, to Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. From team owner John Fisher: “We explored several locations for a te...2024
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• Why Yankees slugger Juan Soto could reportedly reset the market as a free agent

Scott Boras was unable to secure hoped-for contracts for several big-name free agents this offseason. That's probably not going to be the case with superstar Yankees slugger Juan Soto next winter....2024
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• New report on Juan Soto offers worrisome news about future contract talks with Yankees, hope for Mets and other teams interested

A new report reveals the massive influence Scott Boras has on Juan Soto and why that is bad news for the Yankees but good for the Mets....2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports An uneven start to the season. I didn’t set out to be a baseball writer. I just kind of fell into it. I was sitting in the same spot that you, the reader, occupied back in 2017 and even before. I loved this space from its creation and was a commenter on a regular basis. When its previous writer rode off into the sunset after the 2016 championship, I was just ...2024
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• BCB roundtable: 2024 Cubs season preview

Getty Images A discussion of the season to come from the BCB staff. BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to kick off the 2024 season. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Duane and I had a lively online conversation Wednesday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley was unable t...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta trades Joe Torre to Cardinals

Braves Franchise History 1969 - The Atlanta Braves trade Joe Torre to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Orlando Cepeda. The trade was the result of a salary dispute between Torre and Braves GM Paul Richards who was angry at Torre for his role as a union official. MLB History 1911 - Plumbers at work on the drain pipes at Washington’s Griffith Stadium inadvertently start a fire that burns dow...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: March 14

Scabs like John Davis, a replacement pitcher in 1995 during labor strife, forced the MLBPA to draw a line in the sand on this day, 29 years ago. | Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Scab alert! 1994 Sports Illustrated took issue with former NBA superstar Michael Jordan and his attempt to play Major League Baseball. Jordan was on the cover of the magazine again — but in a far different light. T...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: New York Yankees
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• Cub Tracks gets over the hump
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• SB Nation Reacts: The hows and whys of the 2023-24 offseason

Why isn’t everyone already signed — and who’s to blame? Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago White Sox fans and fans across the country. This week, we weren’t able to survey you on specific White Sox topics, but there were some interesting polling done across MLB, with the results slotted in below. (Believe i...2024
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• SB Nation Reacts: Fans blame Scott Boras for the free-agent signing delay

Cody Bellinger and his agent, Scott Boras | Paul Sullivan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The results of the first 2024 survey are in! Our first SB Nation Reacts survey for the year addressed the question of free agency, why it was delayed so much, and what to do about it. Here are the results: Fans like to blame Scott Bora...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• Cub Tracks gets over the hump
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• Cody Bellinger: ‘I fully believe in myself as a baseball player’
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• BCB After Dark: Who is the best acquisition?

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks who has been the best pickup this winter—so far at least. It’s another Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest happening for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad you decided to stop by. Come on in and grab a seat. There’s no cover charge. The show will s...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Elly De La Cruz demonstrates the dangers of spring training

Photo by George Kubas/Diamond Images via Getty Images Or, more specifically, parking in the wrong place. This week, wunderkind Elly De La Cruz managed to demonstrate why no one should drive a nice car to spring training games, when the chances of a wayward home run or foul ball might have a greater chance of destroying your windows. That very thing happened on Tuesday when a De La Cruz fou...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 3 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener
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• BCB After Dark: Minor moves with major impact?

The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which of today’s minor league signings was the better move. It’s another Monday night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We are so glad that you stopped by. New faces or old friends, everyone is welcome here. Please come on in and grab a table. There’s no cover charge. Bring y...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 4 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Cody Bellinger plays for the Cubs in a 2023 Spring Training game in Mesa. Will we see him in this uniform at Sloan Park this year? | Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Cubs players will take the field in a spring game this Friday. As I have previously in this series, I present to you this list, which is still accurate today though it was posted Saturday: Today is February 17th. The follo...2024
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• Matt Harvey Won't Be on Strict Innings Limit, Will Pitch in Playoffs
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• Matt Harvey Appears Ready to Turn His Back on Mets When They Need Him Most
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• Lefty Chen may be best remaining free-agent value
Wei-Yin Chen never gets a lot of press, and Scott Boras' attempt to paint him as a $100 million pitcher seemed surprising. Then again, Chen is the best lefty remaining, and his production compares very favorably with pitchers who just scored huge contracts....2015
• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Kershaw Can Bring 300 Strikeout Feat Back from Dead
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• Market for Scherzer is an unconventional course
The Max Scherzer free-agent market has defied what we think of as normal procedure. The righty's market may currently be in the range between enigma and mystery, but there remains a widespread belief that Scherzer and his agent, Scott Boras, will end up with a contract very much like the one that they want....2015
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• Harvey: Andrews gave me 180-innings limit
Mets ace Matt Harvey spoke about his innings-limit topic prior to Saturday's game at Marlins Park for the first time since his agent, Scott Boras, told CBS Sports on Friday that he shouldn't exceed 180 innings to protect his health....2015
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• Harvey: Andrews gave me 180-innings limit
Mets ace Matt Harvey spoke about his innings-limit topic prior to Saturday's game at Marlins Park for the first time since his agent, Scott Boras, told CBS Sports on Friday that he shouldn't exceed 180 innings to protect his health....2015
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• Scott Boras honors one of Kobe Bryant's final wishes by hiring Alexis Altobelli for internship
Kobe reached out to Rob Pelinka to help a family friend...2020
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 23, 2024

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Royals bullpen will look different in 2024. Jaylon Thompson writes about the Royals’ bullpen situation. This offseason, the Royals have sought to address their bullpen woes with experienced veterans. KC signed World Series-champion relievers Will Smith and Chris Stratton. They also acquired reliever Nick Anderson, along with star...2024
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• The clock may be ticking on Scott Boras’ MLB reign
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• A few thoughts about the Athletics and their move to Sacramento
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• Former Dodgers’ Julio Urias Looking to Pitch in 2024: Report

According to his agent Scott Boras, former Dodgers left-handed starting pitcher Julio Urías is reportedly looking to pitch in 2024. Urías has been away from the game after being placed on administrative leave last season. “We certainly have teams inquiring about him a lot,” Boras said. Per Scott Boras via The LA Times According to …...2024
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• Soxy Chicks Episode 1 — The Reboot

Billy O’Keefe They’re back! Bayleigh and Chrystal have brought their show Soxy Chicks to South Side Sox! Bayleigh, a Red Sox fan formerly at Pesky Report, and Chrystal, a White Sox fan and pillar of this site, bring their love of baseball and knowledge to a bi-weekly podcast. They’ll talk about everything happening in Major League Baseball, and a little of their thoughts about their resp...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 1
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• BCB roundtable: 2024 Cubs season preview
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• Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training
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• 2024 AL West preview: The tussle in Texas
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• The Daily Belli watch: 16 days to the Cubs Spring Training opener

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Today I will share a rumor, and tell you why it’s probably nothing. Since we last met here, a day ago, there has been much kerfuffle made about what appears to be a throwaway comment buried way at the bottom of a long Sunday notes column by USA Today’s Bob Nightengale: Several executives think the Philadelphia Phillies could be a sleeper for one of the r...2024
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• Outside the Confines: The Twins and Mariners make a trade

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports The Orioles are being sold. Justin Turner heads north of the border. More trouble in Las Vegas. And other news from around baseball. The College Baseball season starts in 16 days. The Mariners and Twins made a reasonably major trade as Minnesota shipped second baseman Jorge Polanco to Seattle for right-handed reliever Justin Topa, right-handed starter Anth...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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• BCB After Dark: Pick your southpaw

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you’d rather have Jordan Montgomery or Shōta Imanaga play for the Cubs next year. It’s a new year here at BCB After Dark: the grooviest get-together for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We hope your new year is off to a great start. Ours is since you arrived. It’s cold out...2024
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• The Rays are willing to trade anyone, even Randy Arozarena

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images As all Rays fans should be accustomed to at this point, every single player on the roster is available for trade, and that includes your favorite player. With the Winter Meetings coming up, that means you’re sure to see rumors — verifiable or otherwise — that the Rays are shopping this player or that. Guess what, those tweets will be accur...2023
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