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Detroit Tigers, reliever Andrew Chafin agree to two-year, $13M deal
Chafin, 31, gets a $1 million signing bonus, $5.5 million this season and $6.5 million in 2023. He had a 1.83 ERA with a career-high five saves and 64 strikeouts in 71 games in 2021, splitting the season with the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics. His ERA ranked No. 5 in the majors among relievers […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Wednesday
The nominations for the 2021 ESPYS are full of NFL players. Cast your votes today. Best Athlete, Men’s Sports • Tom Brady makes the cut Best NFL Player • Brady, Rodgers, Donald or Henry? Best Team • Can Tampa Bay take the title? Best Play • Murray and Metcalf magic Best Breakthrough Athlete • Herbert […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings Week 6: Who passed the Los Angeles Dodgers for our No. 1 spot?
For the first time during the 2021 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers are not atop our MLB Power Rankings. The defending world champions fell from No. 1 after a prolonged slump in which L.A. has gone just 7-15 and dropped five consecutive series since starting the season with an MLB-best 13-2 mark. Now the big […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings Week 4: Which early surprise teams climbed into our top five?
Believe it or not, we are already just about a month into the 2021 MLB season with the calendar set to flip to May this weekend. What does that mean for this week’s edition of our MLB Power Rankings? Well, yes, it is still early — but it also isn’t too early anymore. How much […]
Continue readingOakland Athletics’ unlikely 11th win in a row shows just how hot they are
In 1983, the Chicago White Sox would win the AL West title and make the postseason for the first time since 1959. At one point during the season, Texas Rangers manager Doug Rader, unimpressed with the White Sox’s style of play, referred to it as “winning ugly.” It became the team’s slogan. On Wednesday, the […]
Continue readingFired Los Angeles Angels clubhouse attendant names pitchers in ball-doctoring case
The message — dated Jan. 17, 2019 — was filed in Orange County (California) Superior Court on Thursday as opposition to a request to dismiss the original lawsuit submitted by Harkins’ attorneys in August. “Hey Bubba, it’s Gerrit Cole,” the text reads. “I was wondering if you could help me out with this sticky situation […]
Continue readingPredicting offseason moves for all 30 MLB teams
This is not the offseason to make predictions. As Buster Olney and Jeff Passan have already outlined, due to the financial conditions in the sport due to the shortened season with no fans in the stands — and the uncertainty of what will happen in 2021 — there will be big rollbacks in payrolls. Former […]
Continue readingWorld Series 2020: What Tampa Bay Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers need to do from here
If the Los Angeles Dodgers go on to win this World Series, remember that 1 inch — the 1 inch that Manuel Margot needed to complete the first steal of home in the World Series since 2002. Instead, he was the third out of the bottom of the fourth inning as Clayton Kershaw escaped a […]
Continue readingInside the A’s first-half dominance and how they plan to make it last all season
By then, Forst had disappeared. He walked out of the Kansas City Royals’ home ballpark and made his way to neighboring Arrowhead Stadium, where the NFL’s Chiefs play, far enough to no longer hear the crowd. Forst kept up with the rest of that game — the Royals’ game-tying sac fly in the ninth, Oakland’s […]
Continue readingDaily Notes for Friday and how stats from resumed Nationals-Orioles game will be scored
For those in ESPN leagues, all stats generated from the resumption of the contest will count toward last week’s scoring period, assuming involved players were active last Sunday. Please be aware the statistics from the resumed game will not populate Live Scoring, but they will be reflected in Saturday morning’s official standings. Neither starting pitcher […]
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