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Caleb Williams Speaks: No Slouch Games, Ready for the Road Ahead

Sunday’s matchup with the New York Giants seems like a winnable game for the Chicago Bears at home in front of the Soldier Field crowd. The Giants are 2-5 on the season, 0-5 on the road, and the Bears are four and a half point favorites. Still, quarterback Caleb Williams says Chicago won’t be looking past the Giants on Sunday, speaking at his weekly press conference, that there’s no “slouch game” in this league. “When you go out there and you play vs. those guys, you know, those guys...

From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

Braves decline Tyler Kinley’s option, per report

The Braves didn’t do much at the 2025 Trade Deadline, for good reason: their season had already gone off the rails by late July. One they did do, with an eye for 2026: trade for Rockies reliever Tyler Kinley, whose services came with a $5.5 million option for the following season. Well, it turns out […]

From Talking Chop | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Tampa Bay Rays pick up Brandon Lowe’s option for 2026

An obvious decision has been as the Tampa Bay Rays have picked up Brandon Lowe’s $11.5M option for the 2026 season. Lowe, 31, has proven that when healthy, he is among the top offensive second basemen in all of baseball and he supported that assertion in 2025 as he hit .256/.307/.477 with 31 HR over […]

From DRaysBay | about 1 month ago | 0 reads

2025 Arizona Diamondback Player Review #64: J. P. Feyereisen

To start off. I spelled Feyereisen’s name on the first attempt from memory. Please clap. A very quick Google search for “Feyereisen meaning” gives you an entry from familysearch.org, a genealogy website of unknown quality or trustworthiness. They say that the name is from Luxembourg and Germany. It’s a combination of the words meaning fire […]

From AZ Snake Pit | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Yankees 2025 Roster Report Cards: Oswaldo Cabrera

To be honest, there’s probably not going to be a ton to say about Oswaldo Cabrera’s 2025 season with the Yankees. While he did appear in over 30 games, not a ton notable happened to him, until something very unfortunately notable happened. It’s always been very easy to root for Oswaldo with his affable demeanor, […]

From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 3 reads

Week 10 game preview: Bears vs. Giants

The Chicago Bears are looking to keep their winning ways going by taking on a New York Giants squad trying to find their way. In some ways, this Giants squad is reminiscent of recent Bears teams. They’ve been stuck in the mud with a coach that it seems like the fanbase is turning on, but […]

From Windy City Gridiron | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

Ranking the top MLB free agents and where they’ll go

With an all-time classic World Series in the books, the offseason has begun. The free-agent market will officially begin today at 4 p.m. CT, giving teams a chance to try to knock the Dodgers off their pedestal. Here’s a look at the top 30 free agents available this winter, and my predictions for who will […]

From Royals Review | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

Roansy Contreras didn’t provide much late-season support

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 | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

2025 Atlanta Braves Player Review: Reynaldo López

Following a successful 2024 season, Reynaldo López entered the 2026 season looking to answer some questions with regards to his future as a starting pitcher. Would he be able to put it all together and deliver a repeat performance? Unfortunately, we never really got the answer to that question. Let’s get into it. How acquired […]

From Talking Chop | about 1 month ago | 0 reads

Mattingly Leaving The Blue Jays

Jon Heyman, in the New York Post, tells us that Don Mattingly is leaving the Blue Jays. The story says that he is not retiring, but ‘looking for new opportunities’. Mattingly isn’t loved around here, getting, likely, too much blame for their terrible 2024 season (and no credit for the excellent 2025 season). I was […]

From Bluebird Banter | about 1 month ago | 3 reads

The Season That Was: Chris Bassitt

Coming into 2025, Chris Bassitt had played two of the three years on his big $63 million free agent contract. Chris was a late bloomer, he didn’t make the majors until he was 25 and had pitched in only 40 MLB games before his 30th birthday. Guys that don’t pitch a lot of innings in […]

From Bluebird Banter | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Arsenal FC Starting Lineup Prediction at Sunderland

Tuesday night saw Arsenal notch their eighth straight clean sheet across all competitions. In blanking Slavia Praha on the Gunners matched 1889 Preston and 1920 Liverpool as the only English clubs to make a run of no goals conceded in eight consecutive matches. A record that is over a century old has now been matched. […] The post Arsenal FC Starting Lineup Prediction at Sunderland appeared first on The Sports Bank .

From The Bank | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Tampa Bay Rays pick up Taylor Walls 2026 option, add option for 2027

The Tampa Bay Rays are picking up Taylor Walls’ option for the 2026 season and adding an option for 2027 according to a report from Marc Topkin. Walls, 29, just finished off his 5th season on the Rays active roster. The superb defender doesn’t do much at the plate as he has produced a 70 […]

From DRaysBay | about 1 month ago | 4 reads

What’s the deal with Jarren Duran’s new contract?

In yesterday’s news and links piece here at Over The Monster, Dan Secatore pondered the following regarding Jarren Duran’s new $7.7 million contract where they essential paid him $7.875 million: If it seems weird that the Sox would do this merely to save $125,000 — which is the difference between the $8 million option and […]

From Over the Monster | about 1 month ago | 1 read

2025 Dodgers season review: Freddie Freeman

Freddie Freeman remains one of the most consistent hitters throughout the past 10 seasons, and he continued that trend in 2025 with another All-Star season despite a power slump through the middle of the year. Freeman was coming off a remarkable run in the 2024 World Series, grinding through a right ankle sprain, a fractured […]

From True Blue LA | about 1 month ago | 3 reads

Game Preview: Wild versus Hurricanes

After a two-game road trip to the northeast, the Carolina Hurricanes are back at the Lenovo Center for home games versus Minnesota and Buffalo. On Tuesday night, the Canes earned a great win over a struggling Rangers team. Nikolaj Ehlers netted his first goal as a Hurricane, and did so on the power play. Carolina […]

From Canes Country | about 1 month ago | 1 read

2025 Season in Review: Jacob Webb

With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025. Today we are looking at relief pitcher Jacob Webb. Jacob Webb was non-tendered by the Baltimore […]

From Lone Star Ball | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

2025 Player Review: Orion Kerkering

Let’s get the hard part out of the way: Kerkering made a terrible error in game four of the NLDS that ended the Phillies’ 2025 season. It was an atrocious way to go out, and still stings to think about. It’s been discussed more times than necessary, so we don’t need to go over it […]

From The Good Phight | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Colson Montgomery cracks MLB’s Top 10 most impactful rookies

Colson Montgomery did more than surprise White Sox fans with his strong rookie season — he caught the attention of several MLB analysts. Each year, MLB ranks the Top 10 rookies based on their long-term value to their organizations, and this year Montgomery was No. 7 on the list. Ironically, this year is the first […]

From South Side Sox | about 1 month ago | 2 reads

Cubs, Colin Rea agree to one-year deal for 2026

The Cubs had a one-year, $6 million option for Colin Rea for 2026. They’re going to keep him for next year, but on a different deal: So that’s a slight increase in his 2026 salary from the previous option year, and if Rea does well enough in 2026, the team can keep him for 2027 […]

From Bleed Cubbie Blue | about 1 month ago | 1 read

Cubs Buy Out Justin Turner, Who Becomes a Free Agent

It’s news in the sense that it is a transaction that today occurred, but this is one of those transactions that was always going to occur. Justin Turner is a free agent: As expected, Justin Turner has become a free-agent. That means the Cubs declined his $10M team option for '26, in favor of the $2M buyout. — Jordan Bastian (@bastianmlb.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T15:04:13.790Z When the Cubs signed Turner to join their bench last year, the contract’s structure may have inc...

From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | about 1 month ago | 1 read