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On Sunday, the last full day of Bill Buckner's life, 16 major leaguers struck out at least three times. Buckner played 22 seasons and never did it once.

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This is how the All-Star Game is supposed to look, @mlb .

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My new favorite artifact in Cooperstown.

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My favorite Albert Pujols stat: he's the only player in MLB history with 3,000 hits, 600 homers and multiple World Series titles.

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Stephen Strasburg, the 2019 WS MVP, with more high heat for the Astros: "Someday I’m gonna hopefully have some grandkids and sit down and talk to them about the experience of the World Series and not really feel ashamed of it at all."

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5 years

A reminder that in baseball, Julian Edelman would not have been eligible to play in this postseason because he served a PED suspension this season.

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6 years

Giancarlo Stanton says that at the 2016 ASG, Jose Fernandez predicted Stanton would hit 60 HR and win NL MVP in 2017. Fernandez also said that if things didn’t work out in Miami, they’d be teammates on the Yankees someday.

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3 years

Only in Iowa.

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3 years

MLB announces that 2021 All-Star Game will not be played in Atlanta:

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4 years

Imagine this as the uniform matchup in the World Series. Glorious. (Photo: @Athletics )

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2 years

So Jordan Montgomery did not, in fact, make a start in the playoffs, and Harrison Bader just homered for the Yankees' first playoff hit. How about that?

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5 years

Um...I’ll take “Things I Never, Ever, Ever Expected” for $1,000

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@TylerKepner of Jeopardy fame.

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4 years

“Cody, do people say you’re high all the time?” Jimmy Kimmel asks. “I am not high during the games!” Cody Bellinger says. “I’m not high, that’s just how my face looks.” He pulled over to a Subway in Blythe to do the interview on his drive home to Arizona. Kershaw seems overjoyed.

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5 years

Boras on no opt-outs in Harper's 13/$330M deal: "He wanted to go to one city, stay there, build a brand and identity and recruit players. He wants to tell players: come play with me. He knows it will help winning more if he's with one team the whole time."

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4 years

“To me there are two things in this world, there’s life and there’s baseball, and one helps you get through the other.” — Jerry Seinfeld, who said this tonight at the @NYBBWAA dinner. I kinda think it’s the most profound thing I’ve ever heard.

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4 years

Diego Castillo, part of the stable of guys who throw 98.

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3 years

Fun fact: the 2021 World Series is the first ever to feature the teams that lost the LCS the previous year.

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4 years

I was fortunate to speak with Chadwick Boseman in 2013 about what he learned by playing Jackie Robinson. Very insightful answer:

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3 years

This was three days ago, with his son Rio. Just breaks your heart.

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3 years

New Dodger Danny Duffy is a huuuuuge Lakers fan. Here he is in spring training 2020 showing his tattoos of Kobe Bryant’s uniform numbers.

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2 months

Here's what I don't get about the MLB uniform fiasco. Why can't Commissioner Manfred respond with a strong statement? "We messed up. It's unacceptable. Our players deserve better, and we'll fix this problem by opening day." Easy enough, I would think.

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2 years

Can we all agree that the Padres’ uniforms are absolutely glorious?

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2 years

This guy has seen World Series rain at Citizens Bank Park before. (Eventually it cleared and he struck out Eric Hinske.)

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3 years

So here we go. Two wild card spots up for grabs in Game 162 on Sunday: Yankees 91-70 (vs. TB) Red Sox 91-70 (at WAS) Blue Jays 90-71 (vs. BAL) Mariners 90-71 (vs. LAA) All games at 3 pm ET. Baseball is the best.

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7 years

The congressional game outdrew the MLB games today in Cleveland, Minnesota, Detroit and Chicago.

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7 years

Paid attendance for the Congressional Baseball Game is 24,959 -- a record for an event that dates to 1909.

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8 years

Someone asked Joe Maddon whose management style influenced him the most. "Michael Scott," he said @KenTremendous @BBBaumgartner @SteveCarell

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3 years

Is this heaven?

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4 years

Charlie Blackmon is now hitting .500 -- 33 for 66.

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2 years

Here’s what folks were saying about Jackson Holliday when he was 3. From a profile I wrote on Matt and his baseball family before the 2007 World Series:

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5 years

Somebody asked Roy Halladay’s widow, Brandy, about time healing all wounds. She gave this poignant answer and then apologized for the tears that came after. “I’m so happy, and we are good, and every day we’re getting better,” she added.

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3 years

Pete Alonso is so great at the HR Derby, he might be the new Bobby Bonilla: he'll get a $1M check every July.

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4 years

All 30 MLB teams have agreed to donate $1 million each to assist ballpark employees impacted by the delayed start of the season.

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4 years

“These are a great group of guys who did not receive proper guidance from their leaders,” Astros owner Jim Crane says. Reminder that officially MLB called this a player-driven scheme.

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7 months

Just spoke with Kim Ng, who stepped down as Marlins GM this morning. She said: “Last week, Bruce (Sherman) and I discussed his plan to reshape the Baseball Operations department. In our discussions, it became apparent that we were not completely aligned… 1/3

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4 years

Scott Boras update: he says that some owners are sparrows, while others are owls or hawks. You don’t want to be an ostrich, he added, “and lay the biggest egg.” The Mets, meanwhile, are “birds of a different feather.” So there you have it.

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5 years

Craig Counsell congratulating Dave Martinez outside the Nats clubhouse. Classy gesture by a classy guy.

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4 years

I mean, here’s what Snell had done to the next three hitters he was due to face:

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6 years

Albert Pujols is the only player in major league history with 3,000 hits, 600 home runs and multiple World Series championships.

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9 months

It’s official, my friends: I’m joining @TheAthletic next month as a Senior Writer covering MLB!

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7 years

Astros owner Jim Crane got this text during the game from Reggie Jackson: "Altuve, the best player in the game. Says who? Says Mr. October".

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2 months

The new uniforms look like a video game from 20 years ago, when it didn’t look quite realistic but you figured the graphics were as good as they could get.

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2 months

this is a travesty

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5 years

Show me a better Sports Illustrated cover.

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8 years

Jeffrey Loria: no one will wear #16 for the Marlins again.

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3 years

Say goodbye to the really cool, fun tradition of players wearing their actual team uniforms during the All-Star Game. I love the look of all the different colors and styles in an actual game. Plus... these are just dreadful.

SportsLogos.Net

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3 years

Major League Baseball unveils its 2021 All-Star Game uniform. Navy blue #NewEra caps with purple mountains, white and navy blue #Nike jerseys... and yes, they will be worn DURING THE GAME. #MLB #Rockies Story and a bunch of pics right here:

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4 years

Happens every century: the Red Sox win a bunch of World Series ending in the year ‘18, then they give away their best player.

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4 years

And to cap quite a day for the Red Sox, Mookie Betts blasts his third home run for the Dodgers. His OPS is only 1.062.

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3 years

I asked the man himself, Kevin Costner. Here’s what he said. (I’m still saying “have a catch”.)

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6 years

With the Rays trading Evan Longoria to the Giants today, both Florida teams have traded the greatest player in franchise history this month.

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2 years

St. Louis is such a baseball town that they base beer prices on Albert Pujols’ home run totals and mount the Rally Squirrel on the wall of the bar.

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4 years

In their 1963 World Series sweep, the Dodgers used four pitchers to face 136 Yankees batters. Tonight, the Dodgers used five pitchers to face the first 22 Rays batters.

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5 years

The Nats trailed by 2 in the 8th against Josh Hader in the wild card game. They trailed by 2 in the 8th against Clayton Kershaw in Game 5 of the NLDS. They trailed by 2 against Zack Greinke in the 7th inning of Game 7 of the WS. They stayed in the fight.

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5 years

Go hug a Mariners fan tonight. The M’s are now the only franchise that has never reached the World Series.

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2 years

More than 76,000 people bought tickets to attend the Mets/Phillies games in Philadelphia today. By the end of the weekend it'll be 150,000+ for four games. Yet another example of why it's so silly when people talk about baseball's supposed lack of popularity.

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Bob Uecker has spent the last inning on the Brewers’ radio broadcast reviewing “The Binky Bandit,” a children’s book by @bruter24 (Brent Suter) Yes, it is just as hilarious as it sounds. Uecker is a national treasure.

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Yu Darvish was quite encouraged by his sharp performance vs the White Sox today: “I’m the best right now in my career,” he said. Why? “Because I’m throwing 97, my slider was really good and my split was good, too. That’s the best stuff in my life.”

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3 years

Bucky Dent in the house

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7 years

I've been told MLB will interview Gurriel about the dugout gesture toward Darvish and consider discipline.

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5 years

Jayson Stark, Hall of Fame human, is now officially Jayson Stark, Hall of Fame writer. I’ve known this since I was old enough to read, and I wouldn’t be doing this w/o his inspiration and friendship. Congrats, my friend, and thank you. @jaysonst @baseballhall

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Confirming again that baseball is the best: 22 years to the day after Fernando Tatis Sr. hit two grand slams in one inning at Dodger Stadium, Fernando Tatis Jr. has hit two HR at Dodger Stadium tonight.

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4 years

Last WS game when a team had a walk-off hit while trailing? How about the Joe Carter game to end the 1993 World Series? Amazing.

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5 years

It took 23 years, but the Cardinals are finally getting their revenge for Game 7 of the 1996 NLCS...

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CBS Sports

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3 years

What's the coolest an athlete has ever looked in a photo/screenshot?

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7 years

PED statement I'd love to see: "It helped me play better. I thought I could get away with it, turns out I couldn't. See you in 80 games."

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6 years

The last time the Yankees played the Red Sox in the postseason, Gleyber Torres was 7 years old.

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3 years

Now holds the major leagues' all-time single-season record for batting average -- .441 in 1943.

Graig Kreindler

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3 years

Here’s a color study of the great Josh Gibson with the Homestead Grays in 1931.

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6 years

Bottom of the seventh, 17 strikeouts, four solo homers, nine total hits. If you haven't watched much baseball this season, now you're caught up.

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4 years

Seen this clip a billion times. Watched it happen in person in 2001 (Mets were in town). Never noticed Redmond framing the pitch until now. Tremendous.

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4 years

Funniest part about AJ Burnett smashing this truck’s window? Mike Redmond trying to frame the pitch 😂😂

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Babe Ruth never did it. Lou Gehrig never did it. Willie Mays Aikens, Albert Pujols, Chase Utley -- nobody had ever had back-to-back multi-homer games in the postseason until Nick Castellanos just did it.

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5 years

Brian Cashman said he’s still not focusing on Bryce Harper. “But at the same time, we’re a fully operational Death Star,” he said.

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My favorite quote from today’s story on the MLB/Nike uniform fiasco, with @stephenjnesbitt at @TheAthletic , comes from the Tigers’ Andrew Chafin. Amen.

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If you’re bummed about the All-Stars not wearing their actual uniforms again, I asked Rob Manfred about it today. He praised Nike and added: “I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us.”

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6 years

Thinking about the fact that Jake Arrieta has a Cy Young, a WS ring and two no-hitters made me wonder who has at least two of each. Looks like it's a group of only two: Sandy Koufax and Tim Lincecum. Pretty cool.

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Cleveland’s hat looks so much sharper now. The post-Chief Wahoo Indians design always looked kinda flat and unfinished to me. The Guardians’ “C” is a big upgrade.

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Advertising on uniforms is a disgrace. It's sad to me that @MLB continues to cheapen its visual presentation instead of maintaining some kind of boundaries. How'd that FTX ad patch on the umpires' uniforms go?

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#RedSox announce a 10-year deal with MassMutual for, among other things, an advertising patch on the sleeve of their jerseys.

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3 years

Larry Walker’s shirt is here.

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6 years

Spoke at length with Roy Halladay this spring. His words on the essence of competition should never be forgotten.

Mourning Roy Halladay, a Master Who Craved the Big Moments (Published 2017)

Halladay badly wanted to see how he would perform in the playoffs, and when given a chance he threw the second no-hitter in postseason history.

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3 years

Best Super Bowl storyline: Expos draftee Tom Brady vs son-of-Expos-minor-leaguer Patrick Mahomes 😉

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4 years

More Mike Rizzo: "One of the problems I have with it is that (spring training) opening day 2020, there’s 50 media people here and 47 were at the Houston Astros, who cheated to win a WS, and there were 3 of them here w/the current, reigning world champions. And that's not right."

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Fun fact: Two years in a row, the MVP is the guy who fielded a grounder for the final out of the World Series. Kris Bryant in 2016, Jose Altuve in 2017. Love stuff like that.

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7 years

How fitting that Brian McCann, who caught Charlie Morton's MLB debut with ATL in 2008, was there to jump into his arms after last out of WS.

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3 years

Rob Manfred tells the BBWAA: “I don’t think 7-inning doubleheaders are going to be part of our future going forward.”

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6 years

Joe Kelly, naturally, said the pitch got away from him. Personally I love this explanation: "I walk a batter per inning, so it’s not like I have Greg Maddux command."

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3 years

Hank Aaron is the all-time leader in extra-base hits. Yet if you took them all away, he'd still have more hits (singles only) than HOFers DiMaggio, Schmidt, McCovey, Stargell, Berra, Santo, Snider, Piazza, Walker, Edgar Martinez and more.

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Here's Pete Alonso on his approach to the Home Run Derby: "Basically it doesn’t matter how much jelly you have in the jar, it’s about how well you spread it on your English muffin." Words to live by ... maybe?

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A relief pitcher named Daniel Camarena just hit a grand slam off Max Scherzer in San Diego. The Padres trailed 8-0 at one point, and now it’s 8-6. It’s taken 52 years, but San Diego is now Baseball City, USA.

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10 years

No better atmosphere in baseball http://t.co/NHjIwqisFY

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The Mets say they’re all about positivity — but if you doubt them or point out a flaw, you’re a hater. On the world’s most sensitive team, and players who believe they’re entitled to your praise:

In Queens, the Mets Give Their Fans a Bronx Cheer (Published 2021)

Showing off their sensitivity, Francisco Lindor, Javier Baez and Kevin Pillar celebrated a win by making thumbs-down gestures at the fans who had booed them.

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5 years

Baseball. Forever the best game in the world.

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My pal @jmenkowitz found this grid from 30 years ago in the baseball magazine I published as a teenager. Apparently I forgot to copyright the idea. Also didn’t have technology for rarity scores. (And yes this is proof of decades of baseball nerddom!) Enjoy!

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There’s an argument that this is the nastiest pitch ever: a 94-mph slider from sunlight to shadows against a HOFer from the tallest pitcher in baseball history to that point. And to think he made just one more start in his career. RIP, JR.

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JR Richard, 94 mph Slider.

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This photo is from 2017, when Jim Bouton, who was struggling with his health, still wanted to play catch in his backyard in the Berkshires. Nobody ever captured the humor and humanity of ballplayers the way Bouton did in Ball Four. Rest easy, Bulldog.

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Marty Noble, who died today in Port St. Lucie, was a writer who absolutely loved the game. In January, for the final edition of his beloved “Scorebook” for the BBWAA awards dinner, he devoted several pages simply to things he loved about baseball. Here are three. Rest In Peace.

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You’re really gonna want to see this Dave Martinez fight with the umps during the commercial break. He’s been ejected.

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50 years ago, an aspiring architect from Dayton became the greatest draft pick in the history of baseball. A story on the rise of Mike Schmidt, the 30th overall selection in 1971, and the dogged scout who believed in him.

The Greatest Draft Pick Ever (Published 2021)

Fifty years later, Mike Schmidt stands alone as the baseball player who did the most for the team that drafted him. To one scout, Schmidt’s potential was obvious.

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Sang the national anthem at the World Series in four decades: 1976, 1980, 1991, 2010, including the first Phillies clinching game and the first SF Giants clinching game. Former minor league/Negro League ball player and part-owner of the Rangers. RIP.

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Charley Pride (1934-2020), who died today from Covid-19 complications:

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Every decade or so, the Yankees trade for a lefty who threw a no-hitter for the Mariners and also had a memorable encounter with a bird.

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The 🦅 has landed.

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How a new home — and an enduring loss — have brought out the best in the Brewers’ Christian Yelich

Christian Yelich Has the Brewers Soaring and Makes a Case for M.V.P. (Published 2018)

Robin Yount, Ryan Braun, and maybe soon another Brewers Most Valuable Player

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

As always, Hideki Matsui is all class.

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Shohei Ohtani broke Hideki Matsui’s record for homers in a season by a Japanese-born player with 32 and Matsui released a statement:

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The last perfect game in MLB was eight years ago today, by Felix Hernandez in Seattle. This is the longest stretch in MLB without a perfect game since Catfish Hunter in 1968 to Len Barker in 1981.

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It is truly sad that there are some owners who don't want a season at all. Manfred won't/can't admit that, but it's true. If you're an owner and you don't want a baseball season, put up a "For Sale" sign, take your $1B+ and get out of the sport.

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@MarlyRiveraESPN He’s a good lawyer. He didn’t say “100 percent of the owners.”

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The postseason should be about rewarding greatness. Given baseball’s natural randomness, 10 teams in the playoffs is plenty. Fourteen is yet another example of MLB not understanding the things that make it special.

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There’s a reason baseball plays 162 games. It’s not to put nearly half of the 30 teams in the playoffs. Goodness.

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