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Fantasy baseball pitcher rankings, lineup advice for Thursday’s MLB games
Note: This file will be updated with any overnight pitching changes or weather-related game postponements, along with the addition of the latest MLB game odds as of the indicated time of publication. At long last, Opening Day is here! For fantasy baseball managers, it means stats that actually count — well, at least for most […]
Continue readingDiamondbacks closer Paul Sewald (oblique) starts year on IL
Manager Torey Lovullo said the strain was a Grade 2, meaning the right-hander could miss several weeks. The 33-year-old reliever is in his second season with the Diamondbacks after coming to the franchise in a trade-deadline deal with the Mariners last summer. “He’s going to miss some time,” Lovullo told reporters on Monday. Sewald had […]
Continue readingSpring training 2024: Meet MLB’s oldest, wildest pitching coach
His body might someday tell him it has had enough, but that time hasn’t yet arrived for 75-year-old Brent Strom, and with a freshly signed two-year contract, his entire focus is on getting the D-backs one step further than the team went in November. “I’ve been conditioned to lose the World Series,” Strom said between […]
Continue readingGarcía’s 11th-inning HR caps Rangers’ rally to doom D-backs
More Teams. More Games. Adolis Garcia keeps up his hot postseason as he crushes a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 1 of the World Series. (0:27) ARLINGTON, Texas — Adolis García hit an opposite-field homer in the 11th inning, after Corey Seager‘s tying two-run shot in the ninth, […]
Continue reading2023 World Series preview: Predictions, inside intel, odds
More Teams. More Games. Jeff Passan tells Scott Van Pelt about the “clash of styles” between the Rangers and Diamondbacks ahead of their World Series showdown. (1:27) The 2023 World Series begins tonight in Arlington, Texas. The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks punched their tickets in two thrilling league championship series that went the distance. […]
Continue readingThe case for the D-backs as World Series contenders
More Teams. More Games. Jeff Passan tells Scott Van Pelt about the “clash of styles” between the Rangers and Diamondbacks ahead of their World Series showdown. (1:27) IN THE SEVENTH inning of the game in which the team he built clinched a World Series berth, Mike Hazen repaired to the visiting clubhouse at Citizens Bank […]
Continue readingBiggest celebrity fans of the Rangers and Diamondbacks
Both teams took long, difficult paths to the Fall Classic. The Rangers just barely missed out on winning the AL West, but then swept the Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles on their way to the ALCS. There, they faced off against the Houston Astros, their AL West rivals, and beat them in seven games. […]
Continue readingWorld Series betting tips, picks, MVP predictions: Edge to Rangers
With the matchup set, fantasy analysts Tristan H. Cockcroft, Eric Karabell and Todd Zola and betting analyst Tyler Fulghum offer their picks to win the Fall Classic and take home the World Series MVP, all while considering the odds. Game 1: Friday at Rangers, 8:03 p.m. ET Game 2: Saturday at Rangers, 8:03 p.m. ET […]
Continue readingPhiladelphia Phillies lament lost chances after NLCS defeat
More Teams. More Games. Diamondbacks celebrate reaching their second World Series in franchise history after defeating the Phillies in Game 7, their first appearance since 2001. (0:38) PHILADELPHIA — They wouldn’t use the word “stunned,” but the Philadelphia Phillies certainly looked the part as they sat around their clubhouse contemplating what could have been after […]
Continue readingD-backs top Phillies in Game 7, make 1st World Series since ’01
More Teams. More Games. Diamondbacks celebrate reaching their second World Series in franchise history after defeating the Phillies in Game 7, their first appearance since 2001. (0:38) PHILADELPHIA — Doubted and dismissed when baseball’s postseason began, the Arizona Diamondbacks have spent October embodying the words of their manager, Torey Lovullo. “Anything can happen,” he likes […]
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