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• April 23, 2024 - Still in on Garcia
Maikel Garcia (3B - KC) - Garcia hit his 4th HR of the year on Monday against Yusei Kikuchi and the Jays in a 5-3 defeat. He does have 4 SB to go along with the 4 HR.....and a 178/224/367 slash line. I will say this: if you liked Garcia a month ago, you should very much still like him. The chase and contact rates are both still well above average, the EV remains above average, and despite all of t...2024
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• Singer disappoints in latest outing, and also the Royals lose to the Blue Jays 3 days later

Kansas City Royals pitcher Brady Singer (51) pitches during the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The Tortured Pitchers Department Three days after a singer with Kansas City ties released a series of somewhat depressing and often underwhelming songs in her most recent album, a Singer with Kansas City ties released a series of...2024
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• Blue Jays Series Preview: Hey, remember the 2015 ALCS?

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Toronto has been a contender, but has won just one playoff game since the 2015 ALCS Nine years ago, the Royals bested the Blue Jays in a terrific six-game series to win the 2015 American League pennant. The Blue Jays quickly bottomed out not long after that, rebuilding a new contending team that has made the playoffs in three of the last four years but ha...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 22, 2024

Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Happy Earth Day! Anne Rogers writes about the series loss against the Orioles. “I would evaluate it as competitive but not where we want to be,” first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, who extended his hitting streak to 10 games, said. “These are the series you really want. It’s tough to do that. … It sucks losing this series. We’re not happy wi...2024
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• Games of the Day
The Tigers visit the Rays with Tarik Skubal facing Zack Littell. Skubal sports a deadly combination of a high strikeout rate with a low BABIP of .207. Littell’s BABIP comes in at .361, but most of the hits against him came without runners in scoring position. Yusei Kikuchi and Brady Singer square off in Kansas […]...2024
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• Royals shutout for the first time this year, fall 5-0 to Orioles

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals lose their second series against the Orioles this year. The Royals managed just five hits and were shut out for the first time this year in a 5-0 loss to the Orioles Sunday afternoon. Seth Lugo hadn’t given up more than two runs in a start this year, but he gave up twice that in his fifth start of the year. He worked aroun...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 22, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024

Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports The bats have cooled off. Salvador Perez’s game-winning home run was a bright spot in a tough week for the offense: Just three days after suffering a mild left groin strain Sunday against the Mets, Perez silenced any injury doubts by catching Game 1 and ending up the offensive hero Wednesday afternoon with his fifth homer of the season. “Big-time player doin...2024
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Baby Birds zoomed up to 101 wins and the division crown in 2023, and their nest of prospects only continues to grow. For almost a decade, the daunting AL East was dominated by the high-profile New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, as well as the perennially savvy Tampa Bay Rays. In 2023, however, the division champion was none of those three teams; inst...2024
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• Preseason Prep - March 1, 2024
SP Notes Corbin Burnes, BAL The Orioles will be counting on the newly-acquired Burnes to be the ace of their rotation this season, especially with Kyle Bradish set to open the season on the IL. Burnes was among the elite pitchers in baseball from 2020-2022, posting a 2.62 ERA, 2.66 xFIP, 11.86 K/9, and 2.29 BB/9 across those three seasons. He took a step back last season, recording a still solid...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The rotten apple

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports A look at how the A’s left Oakland in the lurch. The circular firing squad has started in Flushing. More Japanese pitchers are coming. And other news from baseball. Good morning. OK, it’s not such a good morning. Tim Keown has the inside story of how John Fisher and the Athletics walked out on Oakland. If you’re still one of those people who think Oakland did...2023
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• Blue Jays' Yusei Kikuchi leaves start with neck stiffness, blames injury on 'only' getting 11 hours of sleep

Kikuchi says he normally gets 13 or 14 hours of sleep per night...2023
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• Blue Jays series preview: To the great north!

Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports The Blue Jays are a pretty complete team. The Royals will head up north to Toronto for the first time since their infamous trip in 2022 when ten players had to be left behind due to COVID vaccination restrictions. Those restrictions have been lifted, and ironically, Whit Merrifield was one of those players, now plays for the Blue Jays. He received flak for h...2023
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• Braves take trip to Canada to face off with the Blue Jays
Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Braves finish off tour of the AL East in Toronto to face off with high powered Blue Jays After a workmanlike 3-2 home stand against the Orioles and Red Sox, the Braves hit the road again to kick off a six game road trip. They start the trip with a three game set with the Blue Jays to finish off their tour of the AL East. They will then travel to Texas t...2023
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• Braves News: Blue Jays on deck, Nacho Alvarez stays hot, and more
Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Thursday The Atlanta Braves are back on the road for a three-game set against the Toronto Blue Jays. The 21-16 Blue Jays are 4th in the American League East. Despite their low standing, the team’s winning percentage is still over .500. The series kicks off tonight at 7:07 ET with Spencer Strider on the mound for his eighth sta...2023
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• Six Pack of Stats: Blue Jays 8, White Sox 0
The White Sox never even had a chance. | FanGraphs It’s just pathetic at this point FanGraphs It’s just been an ugly, ugly season, and we’re only 25 games into it. The White Sox have not scored a run in 24 innings and its the worst 25-game start since 1986, the one and only year of Ken Harrelson’s GM tenure. At this point, I’m longing for the days of .500 baseball. At...2023
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"They will continue their homestand with a four-game set against the Blue Jays beginning tomorrow evening when Brady Singer faces Yusei Kikuchi."

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"Yusei Kikuchi had nine strikeouts over six strong innings to lead the Blue Jays to a 5-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Toronto on Saturday."

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"The Blue Jays are signing left-handed pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network."

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"Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi has told the team that he is declining his $13MM player option for the 2022 season, according to The Athletic’s Corey Brock (Twitter link)."

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"The documentary "Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams," premiering Monday on ESPN, chronicles the tournament that made stars out of Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi."

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"Japanese pitcher Yusei Kikuchi “has a deal with the Mariners," according to Fancred’s Jon Heyman."

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"It appears the next player to jump from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to the Major Leagues will be Seibu Lions left-hander Yusei Kikuchi."

• April 23, 2024 - Still in on Garcia
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
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• Something showed up

I don't have very much time for cards today, nor tomorrow.But a Very Important Package arrived at my home last night and it's got to be addressed in some sort of fashion here. Yes, this is the start of approximately 158 posts about 2024 Heritage on this blog this year. You're welcome! I went ahead and pre-ordered a box of Heritage over the weekend. I chose Dave & Adam's for one ver...2024
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2145: Opening Daze and the 2024 Team Fun Draft

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Opening Day naps, a Bryce Harper pandering update, Nelson Cruz’s Mariners retirement and the one-day-contract tradition, and Yusei Kikuchi’s latest intriguing revelation, then (21:16) share some highlights and lowlights of Opening Day action, report the results of listener voting on the preseason predictions game, analyze Will Smith’s ext...2024
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• Devil Rays 8, Jays 2: Rays rebound behind strong Civale start and B. Lowe Blast

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Rays flipped the script in game two of their opening series against the Jays. The Tampa Bay Rays rebounded Friday night with an 8-2 victory after dropping the first game of the season on Thursday, by the same score. The Rays, donning their throwback Devil Rays uniforms, flipped the script both at the plate and on the mound thanks to a strong start by Aaron C...2024
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
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• The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023

On a mission: Luis Robert Jr. had his fingerprints on many of 2023’s best moments. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Walking through the most noteworthy battles of the season It was a brutal season for the White Sox, but that just makes for a more challenging attempt to find five wins out of 61 to celebrate. Let’s start there: 5. White Sox 3, Astros 2 (March 30) The season opener turne...2023
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• Outside The Confines: The rotten apple
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• Gamethread: Toronto Blue Jays at White Sox (nightcap)
Jesse Scholtens makes his second start of the season. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The 29-year-old rookie, Jesse Scholtens, gets the ball The first game of the doubleheader was definitely a big-time bummer. It was a beautifully-pitched contest through the first 10 innings, and then, well, Aaron Bummer came in to blow another game and inflate his ERA to 7.85. Saying this season has been a di...2023
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• April 23, 2024 - Still in on Garcia
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• Singer disappoints in latest outing, and also the Royals lose to the Blue Jays 3 days later
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 22, 2024
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
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• The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
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• A reminiscence: Two relevant Braves’ games from May 2023

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Two memorable games from five months ago may have given us a preview of playoff baseball To fill some of the gap resulting from a lack of Braves baseball this week, I wanted to do a small retrospective on the craziest games from the 2023 season. But, as I started pulling together the data for that exercise, I realized a few things: first, most of the tea...2023
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• Braves News: Blue Jays on deck, Nacho Alvarez stays hot, and more
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat
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• The top and bottom five Chicago White Sox games of 2023
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• Blue Jays series preview: To the great north!
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• Know Your Enemy: Toronto Blue Jays
Naw, these guys are fun. The White Sox head to the frozen north to unthaw their season If you had to point to one thing that the White Sox are doing poorly, had to boil down this nightmare start to one key baseball element, it would probably be: Playing baseball in America. Most stat nerds would tell you that successfully playing baseball in America is one of the “hidden elements” to a tea...2023
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• Kikuchi carves Kauffman kids in 4-1 clobbering
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The bats never got going The Toronto Blue Jays evened up this four game set with a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals tonight at Kauffman Stadium. Yusei Kikuchi and the Toronto bullpen had the team’s best pitching game of the season thus far. Kris Bubic wasn’t especially efficient in his first inning of work this season, requiring 22 pitches to complete t...2023
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• RetrO’s Relive Home Dinger Barrage At Kikuchiden Yards
A young boy pulls on his grandfather's sleeve. "Will you please read me a bedtime story, Paw-Paw?" "Sure, Timmy, I'd be happy to. From the same book as always?" Off the child's nod, the old man picks up the storybook, and reads the title, "The Dismantling of a Dream by Peter Angelos." The old man opens the storybook, and begins to read, "In the summer of 2022, millions of people clamored for my Or...2022
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• Yusei Kikuchi likely to be posted to MLB teams
It’s already been reported in Japan that the Seibu Lions intend to post ace left-hander Yusei Kikuchi for Major League teams this offseason, but the pitcher himself said after his team was eliminated from the postseason that he has not yet made a firm decision (link via Jason Coskrey of the Japan Times). “Well, the season just ended,” Kikuchi said. “…Regarding the future, it’s not all up to me. I ...2018
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• Kikuchi strikes out 9 as Blue Jays top MLB-best Rays for 2nd straight game
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• Blue Jays To Sign Yusei Kikuchi
The Blue Jays are signing left-handed pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network. It’s a three-year, $36MM contract. (Twitter links) More to come....2022
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• Victorious Blue Jays swat 3 home runs against Pirates in pre-season opener
Blue Jays starter Yusei Kikuchi threw two scoreless innings as Toronto opened its Grapefruit League schedule with a 9-7 win over the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday afternoon in Bradenton, Fla....2023
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• Inside the regimented, raucous culture of Japanese baseball
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• Yusei Kikuchi To Decline Player Option, Test Free Agency
Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi has told the team that he is declining his $13MM player option for the 2022 season, according to The Athletic’s Corey Brock (Twitter link). The southpaw will now enter the free agent market after three seasons in Seattle. As per the unusual structure of Kikuchi’s contract, the Mariners had until Friday…...2021
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• Toronto Blue Jays series preview: Whit returns to the K
Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images How will Royals fans respond? The Blue Jays have amassed a nice collection of young hitters, and have surrounded young ace Alek Manoah with a veteran rotation, helping them win 90+ games the last two seasons. They’ll have higher expectations this season, hoping to win their first post-season game since 2016. It will be their first full season under skipper...2023
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Blue Jays series preview

Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images The Cubs head to Canada for the second straight year. On a personal note: These will be the first games the Cubs play in Toronto that I will not attend in person. I went there for series in 2003, 2008, 2014 and 2022, but it was a bit much to go there two years in a row, especially after the trip to London. Perhaps again in 2025. For more on the Jays, h...2023
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• Yusei Kikuchi’s Breakout Gives Mariners An Interesting Decision
Yusei Kikuchi’s first two seasons in the Major Leagues didn’t go as either the Mariners or the left-hander himself hoped. After establishing himself as one of the premier pitchers in Japan by pitching to a 2.77 ERA in parts of eight seasons (2.51 in his final three years), he tested international free-agent waters as one…...2021

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• Hope Rain Doesn’t Make Teoscar Grouchy
La La Land! Wait, that's wrong. Damn it, Faye Dunaway, give me that envelope! ...and the Teoscar Hernandez goes to Seattle for Erik Swanson and minor-league LHP Adam Macko! That's worse than La La Land. Macko better grow ten inches and become the next Randy Johnson for this trade to make sense. Okay, first my thoughts on middle relievers, such as Erik Swanson, then back to the trade. They are fail...2022
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• RetrO’s Relive Home Dinger Barrage At Kikuchiden Yards
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• Yusei SEA You Later
Yusei... I only hear what I want to. *sob-snorting* I thought what I felt was simple! *mumbling words I don't know* Turn the MLB dot com on! Yusei is on. *mumbling more words I don't know* I think that Yusei's throwing, but I'm thrown. Is Yusei...oh...kay? *mumbling more words I don't know* You try to give away a keeper, or keep me cause you know you're just so scared to lose, and Yusei...Stay....2022
• Yusei Kikuchi — Deal or No Deal?
Monday comes around, and what do you want to read about on your favorite fantasy sports blog? Of course! It's a pitcher who finished in the 140s on the Razzball Player Rater last year. This player won a solid 2 games in 9 starts while sporting a 5.17 ERA and is projected for a 2021 season FIP around 4.30 by every major system. Whew! Is it just me that's getting sweaty in here, or is it the side-ef...2021
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• April 23, 2024 - Still in on Garcia
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• Rays 5, Jays 1: Cooler heads prevail as Rays oust Jays

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Benches clear behind Genesis Cabrera and Jose Caballero There was a contest played today between two 1-1 ball clubs, with left-hander Yusei Kikuchi taking the mound for the Blue Jays opposite Zach Littell for the Rays. In the bottom of the third, Amed Rosario drives in his first run as a Ray, with Randy Arozarena scoring from second after two back-to-back w...2024
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• The 10 longest home runs from the Braves’ 2023 season

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Get out your tape measures! Saying that the home run was a big part of the Atlanta Braves’ 2023 season would be an understatement. The Braves bashed 307 homers during the regular season, tying the 2019 Minnesota Twins for the most ever in a single season. The next closest team was the Dodgers who finished with 249. The Twins and the R...2023
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• Astros Notes: Kikuchi, Abreu, Goldschmidt
Here’s the latest from Houston… It doesn’t appear as if the Astros will make a push for Japanese left-hander Yusei Kikuchi, The Athletic’s Jake Kaplan reports (subscription required). Such teams as the Phillies, Yankees, Giants, Dodgers, Rangers, Mariners, and Padres have been linked to Kikuchi’s services, though there has been speculation that the teams on…...2018
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• New Giants exec jokes about accuracy of Madison Bumgarner trade rumors
Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi dropped some thoughts on a pair of left-handed pitchers in an interview today on KNBR. MLB.com’s Jon Morosi recently kicked off a round of speculation on MadBum with a report suggesting the Giants were open to discussing him and had held talks with the Brewers and Phillies. Zaidi cast quite some doubt on that characterization, as Alex Pavlovic o...2018
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