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Passan: Inside a final week like MLB has never seen before

Just like that, the fastest, weirdest, pandemickiest baseball season ever has come and gone. Mathematics holds that a 60-game schedule is shorter than the standard 162, but the 2020 season has whistled by so quickly that in a way it feels more like it should be June than October. And yet here we are, on […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Monday’s games

Good luck as we embark on the last week of the regular season. Long-term planners should keep in mind that the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers will play only 58 games through Sunday. If the games end up having playoff implications, the clubs will meet next Monday. The card has limited options to assign […]

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MLB Power Rankings: The biggest 2020 surprise on all 30 teams

We’re just two weeks from the MLB playoffs, and the 2020 version promises to be full of thrills. Not only do we have an expanded 16-team format that should bring a March Madness feel to the best-of-three first round, we’ve got some exciting teams in the mix that we haven’t seen in October in quite […]

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MLB Power Rankings: Where all 30 teams stand coming out of trade deadline

With the 2020 MLB trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, what you see on big league rosters is what you’ll get as baseball takes its turn into the stretch drive. As Major League Baseball clubs shook up their squads, we saw considerable moves up and down this week’s rankings. The biggest moves up were […]

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MLB trade deadline day preview: What big names could move, who will be buying and selling

It’s MLB trade deadline day, usually a day of anticipation and hopefully much wheeling and dealing before the 4 p.m. ET deadline arrives. After a weekend of interesting but unspectacular trades, did the Padres’ deal for Mike Clevinger set the tone for a blockbuster-filled day? We’ll see. There are some major issues affecting this year’s […]

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Jeff Passan’s MLB trade deadline preview: Will any stars actually move? Which teams are sellers?

Almost a year ago, when Major League Baseball’s postseason expansion plans first leaked, a league official was trying to sell the idea. It would be good for competitiveness, he said, and would generate revenue for both the league and the players. More playoff teams would bring baseball in line with other sports, he said, and […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Monday’s games

For what may be the first time all season, there isn’t a pitcher with a projected game score in the 60s. There are, however, a few arms pitching like aces with Dylan Bundy, Ross Stripling and Zac Gallen scheduled to toe the rubber. Yes friends, Gallen and his streak of a dozen starts without giving […]

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MLB players on how they’ve had to adapt, from no fans in the stands to no couches in the clubhouse

Los Angeles Dodgers hitting coach Brant Brown used to see his daily drive to the ballpark as an opportunity to make phone calls. But this season he has learned, as many of the team’s players and coaches have, that it’s best to stay quiet on his commute to save up enough saliva for the diagnostic/PCR […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Thursday’s games

Here’s a look at the top streaming plays of the day, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues. Pitching Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Everything you need to compete >> Steven Matz (L), rostered in 39% of ESPN leagues, […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Saturday’s games

Here’s a look at the top streaming plays of the day, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues. Pitching Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Everything you need to compete >> Rich Hill (L), rostered in 58% of ESPN leagues, […]

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