Back in December of 2022, the Chicago Cubs signed free agent shortstop Dansby Swanson to a seven-year, $177 million contract. If you recall back to that winter, Swanson was the fourth of the four big free agent shortstops (Carlos Correa, Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts) to sign his deal and got the smallest guarantee of the bunch. And although the Cubs have made the playoffs just one time since signing Swanson to that near-franchise-record deal, it does generally feel like it’s been a success. Bu...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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On Sunday, Green Bay Packers defensive end Micah Parsons set a career-high with three sacks in the Packers’ 27-23 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Unsurprisingly, that dominant performance has earned attention from the NFL as a whole; on Wednesday, the league announced that Parsons has been named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for week […]
From Acme Packing Company
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Phillies fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. It’s starting to look as though a lot of the offseason is going to be what […]
From The Good Phight
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This morning, Major League Baseball announced the finalists for the 2025 Silver Slugger Award, given to the 10 best hitters in each league by position (one player at each infield position, three outfielders, one DH, and one utility player). For the second year in a row, San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman, who posted […]
From McCovey Chronicles
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Before looking for a featured image for this writeup, I hadn’t realized Cotton Nash was also a professional basketball player. He only played two seasons, but perhaps that height advantage gives him an edge in Out of the Park as well. (…nah.) Regardless of what it was, Nash’s home run and Scott Stahoviak’s 3-4 game […]
From Twinkie Town
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By pretty much any metric you’d choose, the Chicago Cubs had a top five-ish offense this year in Major League Baseball, even as they suffered through significant dips at times throughout the season.
It’s unsurprising, then, that the Cubs are pretty well represented on the list of National League Silver Slugger finalists this year. From MLB.com :
First base: Pete Alonso, New York Mets; Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers; Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves
Second base: Nico Hoerner, C...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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2025 In a Discarded-On-The-Dugout -Floor Nutshell Facing injury, rehab, and a crowded roster, Masataka Yoshida had to wait as long as possible every step of the way in 2025. The Good In 20 games during September, Masa came to life, hitting .333/.351/.486. The batting average might be a bit fluky but his OBP was .338 […]
From Over the Monster
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After Jacob Young was nominated for a Gold Glove a week and a half ago, another Nationals player is being nominated for some hardware. It was announced that James Wood is being nominated for an NL Silver Slugger in the outfield. He is one of six NL outfielders nominated. The three winners will be announced […]
From Federal Baseball
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LOS ANGELES — Tanner Scott says he’s healthy after missing the last two weeks with an abscess excision. But whether he is added back to the Dodgers roster for the World Series remains to be seen. Scott was removed from the roster with the injury after three games in the Division Series against the Phillies, […]
From True Blue LA
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After a breakout season in which he established himself as not only a big leaguer, but also a potential franchise catcher and an All-Star, one more honor lies in store for Hunter Goodman. Goodman was named a finalist for the National League Silver Slugger Award among catchers for the 2025 season. The other finalists are […]
From Purple Row
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After a dramatic walk-off win in Game 1, the Yankees doubled their advantage in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series. However, the road there was a bit of a roller coaster. The first inning featured arguably the most memorable moment of the series for anyone who’s not a Yankee fan. The Bombers mostly dominated […]
From Pinstripe Alley
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Jeremy Hefner was announced as the Mets’ new pitching coach on November 26, 2019 — back when the organization was owned by the Wilpons, the roster was constructed by Brodie Van Wagenen, and the coaching staff was set to be led by highly-anticipated rookie manager Carlos Beltrán. Since that date, the Mets have been sold […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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There are positives from the Detroit Tigers’ 2025 season that might be fleeting. Others look more foundational. One development in particular solidified the roster at the key position on the field for years to come. Dillon Dingler stepped up in a big way in his first full major league season, and the catcher position now […]
From Bless You Boys
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Depending on what study or statistic you’re looking at, the average tenure for a player who makes it to Major League Baseball is in the realm of three to six years. That makes every year an important year for pretty much anybody who plays professional baseball. Still, some years are more important than others. It […]
From Royals Review
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“Guys, you’re still trying to replace Giambi. I told you, we can’t do it. We can’t do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him; recreate him in the aggregate.”
If you don’t immediately recognize those words from Moneyball , you’ve got some homework to do this weekend. But regardless of whether or not you’ve read the book/seen the movie, that may have sounded oddly familiar to you. And that’s because Jed Hoyer did his best Brad Pit t Billy Beane impression at his end-of-season...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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I was seven years old when I had my heart broken for the first time. Funnily enough, it wasn’t by the Mariners. The year was 2001. The Mariners had lost in the ALCS the year before, but I was too young to understand what that meant. My brain must have undergone some maturation that winter […]
From Lookout Landing
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As David Benavidez prepares for his next outing against Anthony Yarde, he answers some questions from Fight Hype during a training session on what he makes of his opponent’s training philosophy, who he rates as the top pound for pound fighter in the world at the moment, and more. Check out some of what he […]
From Bad Left Hook
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Morning, all! The 2025 season was a disappointing one for the Rangers as a whole but the defense, at least, was great, setting a single season MLB record for fielding percentage and topping the next best team by 10 Defensive Runs Saved. Dylan Dreiling, the Rangers’ 15th ranked prospect per MLB Pipeline, has been showcasing […]
From Lone Star Ball
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Cardinals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Arizona Cardinals were once 2-0. Since then they have been tied or in the lead […]
From Revenge of the Birds
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Cam Collier’s 2025 season could not have begun in more frustrating fashion. In just the first week of March, he tore the UCL in his left thumb while tagging out a baserunner in Cactus League play in Arizona during spring training, an injury that required surgery and over a month of rehab. MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon […]
From Red Reporter
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Missouri and Vanderbilt will meet as Top 15 ranked opponents for an opportunity to crash the Playoff and become one of the wildest stories in the 2025 college football zeitgeist. Mizzou has been in this spotlight before but, even though Vanderbilt hasn’t, don’t rely on that aspect for anything. Clark Lea and Diego Pavia have […]
From Rock M Nation
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Toward end of the 2024 season, the Phillies called outfielder Cal Stevenson to the majors to serve as outfield depth. His stay with the major league club was largely nondescript, with most of his appearances coming as a defensive replacement. But he had one memorable game against the New York Mets in which he had […]
From The Good Phight
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Earlier this week, a report suggested that the Yomiuri Giants could surprise folks and not post star corner infielder Kazuma Okamoto this offseason for MLB teams to sign. It would be a bummer if it played out that way, given the impacts Okamoto could have on the market, so I held out hope that the report was maybe an error or gamesmanship or something like that.
Well, it must have been something like that, because the Giants have announced that they WILL be posting Kazuma Okamoto:
Th...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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The Packers’ win over the Cardinals has spawned no end of takes. It was a very Rorschach test of a game — people see what they want to see. Without weighing in on the overall quality of the game or the win, here’s my perspective: this was a game where the Packers’ best players made […]
From Acme Packing Company
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It’s the Wednesday Crawfish Boil! Houston Astros News Injuries and roster moves Astros sign pitcher Nate Pearson AFL update vol. 1 Astros linked to Keller (SN) Astros roster analysis (HC) 2022 Astros named the 3rd best WS team of the 21st century (FS) AL West News Angels hire Kurt Suzuki as new manager (ESPN) Trout […]
From The Crawfish Boxes
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