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Your Oregon Ducks played host to the Xavier Musketeers on Tuesday afternoon, looking to build off of a series win over the weekend. The Ducks would have to work their way out of a bases loaded jam right off the jump, on a walk, a single and a HBP, but would escape unscathed. Oregon would […]
39-year-old Caleb Thielbar defied Father Time to be effective for the Cubs in 2025 and is returning, hoping for more of the same. At some point he’s bound to run out of gas, but maybe not yet. He was 3-4, 2.64 last year, but hasn’t had that kind of result in the spring so far. […]
Following consecutive losses to Oklahoma and Arkansas in the final week of the regular season, Missouri men’s basketball finds itself back in a familiar place heading into the SEC Tournament. The Tigers spent most of the last two months on the bubble, which we’ll define as the projected first eight teams in and eight teams […]
6) Louisville Cardinals (22-9, 11-7) vs. 11) SMU Mustangs (20-12, 8-10) ACC Tournament Second Round Game Time: (Approximately) 2:30 p.m. Location: Spectrum Center: Charlotte, N.C. Television: ESPN Announcers: Kevin Brown (play-by-play) and Jay Williams (analysis) Favorite: Louisville by 6.5 Series: Louisville leads, 10-3 Last Meeting: SMU won, 95-85, on Feb. 17 in Dallas Series History: Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville SMU Statistics: SMU’s Season […]
The Atlanta Braves announced in late-February that their TV network BravesVision was coming our way. This came long with a future promise to announce what the future of their streaming options would be and as it turns out, it’s a familiar one if you’ve been following baseball in recent years. Via press release, the Braves […]
Morning, all! Josh Sborz has had decent results so far this spring, but his fastball is still down 4 mph from before his injury plagued 2024 and 2025 campaigns. Andrew McCutchen has hit the ground running after spending most of the spring unsigned, collecting two doubles in four at bats over two games. Jacob deGrom […]
It is finally SEC Tournament time, and the Kentucky Wildcats will tip things off in the opening game as they face the LSU Tigers. Game time is set for 12:30 PM ET on SEC Network. Emotions of the BBN are all over the place, as on one hand, it is finally one of the best […]
The Washington Nationals were playing the Marlins in Jupiter yesterday, but that was not where I wanted to be. I learned that the Nats prospects were playing in some backfield games against the Astros prospects. This allowed me to see some players I had never seen before. There were four games going on, two on […]
Since arriving with the Mets, David Stearns has had a fairly predictable pattern when it comes to starting pitching acquisitions. He has largely foregone the bigger available names on the open market, believing that committing significant resources to good but not elite starters to be a bad investment—particularly for a team that had little internal […]
The Colorado Rockies enter the 2026 season searching for consistency across much of its lineup. For the Rockies last season, most positions were a revolving door. Swapping out struggling players, testing out prospects, and dealing with player injuries all contributed to the overall lack of stability. As the organization continues to evaluate young talent and […]
Happy Wednesday A’s fans! While spring training games rarely serve as predictors for how a team will play in the regular season, they can indicate certain things about every team’s roster. Through 18 spring training games, the general consensus around the Athletics is that the team’s offense will once again drive its success, due to […]
Hello my friends, and happy Wednesday! The Mariners finally got themselves into the win column yesterday with a close 4-3 victory over the Royals. However, the big news of the day was that Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena had a supposed 24-hour beef. Allegedly, everything is OK now, but as of this writing we’re still […]
Typically, at this time of year, the headlines are filled with stories from spring training camps as Major League Baseball teams prepare for their upcoming campaign. However, things are a little bit different this season with the World Baseball Classic being played until the middle of this month. The games are being played at four […]
1930 Former White Sox coach and player in their minor league system, Bobby Winkles, was born, in Tuckerman, Ark. Winkles was signed by the White Sox out of Illinois Wesleyan University in 1951, though he would soon miss two seasons due to Korean War service. Winkles ended up playing seven minor league seasons, reaching Triple-A […]
Winning right now might hurt the tank, but Alexis Lafrenière’s breakout stretch and Gabe Perreault’s growing confidence are giving Rangers fans something they haven’t had much of this year: hope.
Jase Bowen crushed a grad slam in the top of the fourth inning that put the San Diego Padres on top of the Los Angeles Angels 7-2 and the Padres never looked back en route to a 10-2 win at Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. on Tuesday. San Diego scored 10 runs on 15 […]
Three years ago, Cubs Hall of Famer Andre Dawson told the Cooperstown institution that he wanted the cap on his plaque changed. From Paul Sullivan in the Tribune: But more than 13 years after his induction, Dawson has had a change of heart. He’s taking one more gamble, asking the Hall to reconsider and change […]
Good morning! The Red Sox are winning the World Baseball Classic… which is actually exactly what happened last time. In the 2023 tournament, Masataka Yoshida roared out of the gate on his way to MVP honors, Yu Chang continually electrified a raucous home soil crowd in Taiwan, and Kiké Hernandez, Jorge Alfaro, and Alex Verdugo […]
Every analyst has their favorite metrics and mine are usually the ones that can be used for pitchers and hitters. Some of the numbers point more to luck and some of them are underlying numbers that can help explain why someone is good or not. When we use those kinds of reciprocal numbers then what […]
It was a limited slate on Tuesday, but it was an eventful one. If you’re only here to read about the Braves, well: Japan 9, Czechia 0. I remember seeing the score here yesterday and morning and wondering how Czechia kept the Samurai scoreless for seven frames. Well, Japan had a nine-run eighth, so there […]
The Royals’ unbeaten run came to an end after a 1-0 defeat at Mansfield Town on Tuesday. Louis Reed scored the only goal of the game to secure the points for the home side. The result leaves Reading in seventh, one point off Huddersfield Town in sixth. Here is what Royals boss Leam Richardson had […]
The Orioles started the day with a 7-9 record in the Grapefruit league. That means the team has won seven games and lost nine. It really doesn’t mean anything else. It’s always fun to watch the Orioles win, but spring performance shouldn’t be used as a measuring stick for future success. Baltimore cant prove in […]
“Expect Everything” is the slogan for this year’s World Baseball Classic. Still, few expected Day 5 of the WBC to deliver the drama and tension that it did. That’ll teach us (and USA), I suppose. Japan 9, Czechia 0 Three years ago, Czechia delivered one of the most memorable moments of the WBC as Czech […]
After losing 26 games in the past two seasons, the Arizona Cardinals had a ton of holes to fill. Some of it would come in April’s NFL draft, while the remainder would become solid in this year’s free agency. And now, here it is: 2026 NFL free agency tampering period. Cardinals GM Monti Ossenfort has […]
Last Monday, we began the 2026 edition of our annual Making the Team Meter by revealing a team that, despite coming into camp with three injuries in the starting rotation and their shortstop recovering from shoulder surgery, had only a handful of bullpen spots and a bench spot truly up for grabs. Fast forward nine […]