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April 4, 1994, was the day Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes etched his name into baseball lore.

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Here’s one player from each team who we were especially looking forward to seeing perform.

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There are no live games, obviously, but there’s still plenty of baseball to watch.

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Players say the intimacy helps grow the sport, so in-game mics are welcome — with limits.

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No comedy blended sports into the show quite like "The Office." Here are some of the best sports-related moments from the mockumentary.

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SN's Ryan Fagan had a thought: "Why not see what favorite sports photos other people have on their phones?" He has been floored by the responses.

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Sporting News breaks down the Day 4, second-round voting of our Missing March Madness bracket.

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Sporting News breaks down the Day 3, second-round voting of our Missing March Madness bracket. This time, the chalk held.

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The actual NCAA Tournament was canceled, but we’re still offering the chance to pick upsets and virtually watch your favorite teams advance, round-by-round to the Final Four.

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The actual NCAA Tournament was canceled, but we’re still offering the chance to pick upsets and virtually watch your favorite teams advance, round-by-round to the Final Four.

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This dream scenario was something that resonated with a LOT of baseball fans.

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Most anything you’re hearing right now about the 2020 MLB season is just speculation. Informed speculation, maybe, but speculation nonetheless.

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In lieu of an actual bracket, Sporting News presents its final Field of 68 for the 2019-20 college basketball season — what might have been revealed on Selection Sunday.

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Delaying the season creates a plethora of questions, though. Let’s take a look at a few of them, while keeping the proper global perspective, and also knowing there are no perfect answers in a situation like this.

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Chances are, things will continue to get worse with the coronavirus before they get better.

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Uncertainty is a pretty good word to describe where baseball stands with this latest tweak heading into the last few weeks of spring training.

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Here are our latest NCAA Tournament bracket projections for March Madness as Selection Sunday nears.

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Don’t let this tiny development be a distraction from the truth that bigger steps are almost certainly coming as the American sports world scrambles to figure out a way to deal with a global health threat.

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Sporting News will update NCAA Tournament projections every day leading up to Selection Sunday. With that: March Madness projections 4.1.

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Justin Verlander leaned on the back of a folding chair in front of his locker. He wasn’t completely crestfallen with the news that an MRI revealed a mild lat strain, but he certainly wasn’t happy about it, either.

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Here are our latest projections for the 2020 NCAA Tournament bracket as Selection Sunday approaches.

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Munoz, who played 196 games for the Cardinals over the past two seasons, will not be suiting up for the Redbirds going forward.

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The St. Louis manager will tie the knot in between Thursday's day-night doubleheader and Saturday's game with the Astros.

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What is spring training for, if not unbridled optimism that this baseball season is going to be amazing?

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Taking a look at this week's most impactful games in regard to NCAA Tournament bubble teams.

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Sporting News' latest 68-team projections for March Madness 2020, version 3.0.

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Sporting News unveils its latest March Madness bracket projections after a week in which several of college basketball's top teams lost.

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This isn’t the type of news baseball wants to be dominating headlines a month before real games start, but here we are.

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With all the crap out there these days, it's nice to be inundated with good stories about people's love for baseball.

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Sporting News breaks out its first NCAA Tournament bracket predictions for the field of 68. Who's slated to make March Madness?

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The ramifications of Houston's illegal sign-stealing go beyond the players or the front office.

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We have some ideas to make the Midsummer Classic even more of an event.

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If players, managers or front-office types see other teams breaking the rules, then the path to stopping that seems pretty clear: Speak out. Talk to the media. Raise a holy ruckus.

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I hate to break it to you, folks, but the baseball postseason hasn’t been sacred for a long time.

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Will the teams listed in Saturday's bracket preview rise, fall or stay based on their current seed? Projecting their seeds will be based on accomplishments and remaining schedules:

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Former big league pitcher Mike Bolsinger is suing the Astros, and he’s representing the idea that actions have consequences.

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Baseball has issues. Some are really important, the type of issues that could grind the sport to a halt if a compromise isn’t reached. Some are petty. Some are personal. Some have frustratingly easy fixes that just won’t be implemented.

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Only four position players in the 2010s produced a bWAR of 9.0 or higher, and two of those players will patrol the outfield for the Dodgers in the 2020 season.

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Mookie Betts has reportedly been traded to the Dodgers, in the biggest trade of the offseason.

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Pitchers and catchers officially report in a matter of days, and spring training games start in a matter weeks. It’s enough to get any baseball fan’s heart beating faster.

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The latest thoroughly enthralling baseball documentary produced by the good folks running the "MLB Network Presents" series focuses on the Whitey Ball era in St. Louis

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Castellanos loves the thrill of a playoff race, and that likely factored in to his decision to sign with Cincinnati.

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Calgary and Edmonton players were civil as they represented the Pacific Division in St. Louis. The truce is over now that All-Star Weekend has concluded.

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The feisty demeanor the left winger and his brother have on the NHL ice now was very evident when they were kiddos tagging along with their father.

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If baseball is ever going to be free of cheating scandals, change has to start with the players.

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Who will be elected as part of the Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2020?

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A conversation and suggestion in 1980 led to one of the defining decisions in the history of the brand.

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The 6-5 lefty was drafted 16th overall by the Rays in the first round of the 2018 MLB Draft.

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Six teams have claimed the No. 1 spot atop the AP Top 25 Poll this season. What that means — or doesn't mean — in the context for the 2019-20 season:

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To make a real impact, punishment for cheating has to be about prevention, not just punishment for the sake of punishment.

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We have listed every single Rated Rookie from 1984 to 1993, along with their card number and career bWAR. It’s not a perfect stat, of course, but it’s a solid indicator of how a player’s career turned out.

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Some rookies were more rated than others, it seems.

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Teams are calling because Arenado would make them better, and the Rockies are listening because they’d be silly not to.

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Many things in life become easier with repetition. Filling out a Hall of Fame ballot is not one of those things, I have discovered.

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An insider's view of the contentious MLB-MiLB dispute

Sporting News caught up with Garrett Broshuis after his meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to get a grip on what's happening with this dispute.

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Adding Lindor would make the Reds a true NL Central contender.

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People are starting to expect exciting things from Reds. And not just the people being paid by the team.

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The discussions were spirited, and they were enjoyable, because the 2010s produced a boatload of incredibly talented players that kept us eternally entertained.

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The offseason is far from over, but these teams probably wish their time in San Diego had gone better.

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Most players who are chosen in the Rule 5 draft don’t wind up making a huge impact in the majors. But some do. Here's a look.

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Rendon makes Angels better, but team's biggest holes still need patching

LA adds a star to its lineup, but team's long-range success will hinge on how it addresses its shortcomings on the mound.

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To say there was some uncertainty among MLB managers about the potential of new rules impacting the 2020 season would be putting it mildly.

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Cole signed a mega-deal Tuesday night and will spend the rest of his prime in New York.

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Neither manager felt comfortable discussing allegations against Houston from 2017. LA lost to the Astros in the World Series that season.

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So which teams fit the profile? We’ll take a look.

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Even after doling out a record deal for their World Series MVP, the Nationals still have a lengthy to-do list this offseason.

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Rotation help isn't St. Louis' biggest offseason need — improving the offense is — but this is MadBum, after all.

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I’ve always kind of wondered what really happened to Jenks, the big mountain of a man throwing gas as the White Sox closer.

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It's a good move for Philadelphia, but what's next?

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On the spectrum of baseball rarities, a signature from Shoeless Joe Jackson — the turn-of-the-century star who never learned to read or write — is high on the list.

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It’s been a while since New York was truly invested in a high-dollar bidding war.

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Ben Cherington has a lot on his table right now. One of the things on Cherington’s to-do list is to figure out what the future holds for Starling Marte.

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Evaluating flurry of deals from Padres, Rangers and Brewers

On the day before Thanksgiving, baseball's annual Hot Stove Season was actually, legitimately kind of hot.

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We’ll take a quick look at why 10 players will be attractive as free agents, a couple of places they might wind up and then a prediction.

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Ranking the free agents: Cole, Rendon and the rest of the best

Sporting News brings a comprehensive breakdown of the 2019-20 free-agent class, which is stocked with starting pitching. Here's what to look out for this winter.

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The BBWAA voting history is littered with players who deserved much more than just one appearance on the ballot.

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The decade-long Hall of Fame ballot logjam has almost fully cleared up, and no player will be helped more than Larry Walker — in his final year of eligibility on the BBWAA ballot.

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All three pitchers would be a big boost to Minnesota’s playoff prospects — getting there and advancing — in 2020.

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The former Yankee captain will be elected easily. But after that, there are no guarantees.

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These teams will be interested in Strasburg, either with their heartstrings or their checkbooks.

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After a couple of years with injury issues, Donaldson was a star again in 2019.

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This is the definitive ranking of the best agony faces in college hoops — the 10 coaches who aren’t afraid to let their disappointment show on the sidelines.

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This could be great news for baseball fans — and players — who have been frustrated by the glacial pace of the free-agent market of the past few offseasons.

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There's not much San Francisco can do, aside from hope that their 30-somethings play like 20-somethings and help fuel a surprising playoff run.

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Carpenter is entering his Age 34 season with a below-average glove and a below-average bat.

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The most impressive, courageous moment in Mike Fiers' career might have just happened off the field.

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If the Cardinals wanted to find a way to fund Adam Wainwright’s return to the rotation for the 2020 season, they should have charged television reporters $10 every time they asked the veteran right-hander whether he thought he’d just made his final start in the only big league uniform he’s worn.

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Not sure there’s much the Mets can do. He’s 37 years old, and time is undefeated.

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Betts is a free agent after 2020. Lindor is a free agent after 2021. Bryant’s scheduled to hit the market the same year as Lindor, though he has a pending service-time grievance against the league that needs to be sorted out, one way or the other, before he’s moved.

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This reunification makes a lot of sense.

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Tough choices will have to be made in Houston.

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The Bronx Bombers could bring back the lefty-batting outfielder.

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The AL Central is a division that, admittedly, lacks clunky contracts. But there are still some worth mentioning.

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Kendrick, on a one- or two-year deal, feels like a pretty perfect option for the Rays. Not so much for the Marlins.

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Big-money deals that go south aren’t the only types of contract situations that create big problems.

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In with the old: Veteran Nats relish first World Series title

Some of Washington's eldest baseball statesmen finally get to celebrate a championship in the big leagues.

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The road team continued its dominance in Game 6, as the Nationals won 7-2 behind four RBIs from Anthony Rendon and an incredibly impressive performance from Stephen Strasburg.

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The right-hander helped to save Washington's season by pitching into the ninth inning. A pair of pitches in the middle innings helped to get him that deep into the game.

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Nine times in his Cooperstown-bound career, Justin Verlander has started a game that could have ended a playoff series, with Verlander’s team either potentially clinching or with his team facing elimination.

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The World Series of this decade have mostly been dramatic competitions. The 2019 series has disappointed.

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Baseball can't allow "pretty good" to be good enough in the World Series.

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The Nationals finished off their subpar showing at home in the World Series, losing their third game in a row.

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The two players who have made arguably the biggest impacts on Houston’s two wins in Washington weren’t exactly household names heading into the postseason.

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The advantage Washington earned with two wins in Houston is gone.

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On the most important night of October baseball in our nation’s capital in 86 years, the home club often looked more like the sloppy April version of itself than the crisp, opportunistic version we’ve come to expect.

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Baseball, although certainly unintentionally, has helped create a market glitch that benefits morally bereft teams and places these domestic abusers in the brightest spotlight of the entire baseball calendar.

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You can’t win in the postseason unless you make the postseason, and if getting to the postseason isn’t important enough to make big roster moves, what are you doing?

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The comeback award is, by its nature, an odd thing for which to vote. It’s intentionally vague, and that’s reflected in the top vote-getters this year.

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Cash’s Rays won 96 games this season, earning the second AL wild card spot despite an unhealthy amount of injuries.

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Greenville, S.C., still loves its most famous son.

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Here’s everything you need to know about betting on Astros vs. Nationals, including updated odds, trends and our prediction for the 2019 World Series.

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The Astros are overwhelming favorites to win the 2019 World Series. But history tells us that the odds are often wrong.

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To survive at least one more night in the ALCS, the Yankees have to figure out a way to solve Justin Verlander. But we're telling you there's a chance.

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Once again, the Angels have won an important off-the-field competition.

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Washington has gotten over the playoff hump, and magical things have happened.

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The Cardinals don’t look much like a group that belongs among the final four teams remaining in the hunt for the 2019 World Series.

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The Nationals reliever is totally supportive of his bullpen mate.

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When I heard that Nationals pitcher Daniel Hudson was missing Game 1 of the NLCS to be with his wife for the birth of their third child, a big grin spread across my face.

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Anibal Sanchez carved up the Cardinals in Game 1 of the NLCS on Friday night, holding them hitless into the eighth inning in the most important non-clinching contest of the most important series in franchise history.

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The Cardinals won the final two games in the NLDS in the kind of way that gets a fan base believing anything’s possible. Let’s take a look at why St. Louis will win the whole darn thing.

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The Nationals have discovered a closing kick at the most opportune time.

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The Dodgers will not make a third straight trip to the World Series. Let’s take a look at what’s next.

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Clayton Kershaw could have been a hero of Game 5 for the Dodgers, but manager Dave Roberts sent Kershaw back to the mound when he never should have.

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The idea of two teams with so many wins — and the two best records in baseball — going home in the first round got us thinking about baseball history. Has this ever happened before?

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If they’re being honest, fans of both teams have to be wondering how their favorite squad is still alive in October.

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You will not find a Hall of Fame argument for any active player that’s more contentious than the one about Yadier Molina’s Cooperstown resume.

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The former No. 1 draft pick helped put the Braves in control of their NLDS against the Cardinals.

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It's hard to imagine Carlos Martinez pitching another important inning for the Cardinals in the NLDS.

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A late-September home run by the Arizona rookie set in motion a series of events that have brought St. Louis to an ideal place in their playoff series vs. the Braves.

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Here are seven names you’re sure to see bandied about as the next manager in Flushing.

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The rookie's call-up to St. Louis was a turning point for the Cards.

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The Cup was in town one more time, and there was one last skate with the trophy. Then it was time to shift the focus to repeating.

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Here's everything you need to know about betting on American League wild-card game between the Rays and Athletics, including updated odds, trends and our expert's prediction.

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In October, it's all about survival — and the Nationals are still alive.

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Here's everything you need to know about betting on National League wild-card game between the Brewers and Nationals, including updated odds, trends and our expert's prediction.

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Joe Maddon will have his choice of managerial openings this offseason.

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Chicago will miss the playoffs for the first time in Maddon's five-year tenure in the dugout. He might not get the chance to lead the club back to them in 2020.

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How has Milwaukee done this? Let's explore.

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If Joe Davis had stayed healthy and become a productive college quarterback, chances are the Dodgers would have someone completely different calling their baseball games.

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Let’s take a look at three potential accomplishments this season — two good, one not so positive.

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The best part, arguably, of any baseball season is watching the unexpected happen.

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The Brewers won Wednesday night without any help from Christian Yelich, their best player and 2019 NL MVP candidate. If their season is going to continue past 162 games, that needs to become the new normal.

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The St. Louis right-hander is doing things that can’t easily be ignored.

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The manager's track record is exemplary, by any measure. And yet, as the Cubs roll toward the end of the 2019 season, his future is very much in doubt.

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The best baseball announcers make you feel like you’re part of the game, like you’re sitting there in the broadcast booth with them. Don Orsillo is one of the best of the best.

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When healthy, Rendon has been a remarkably consistent force in the Nationals’ lineup.

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Dan McLaughlin on calling on games for his hometown team

For a kid raised in St. Louis, coming to Busch Stadium every day during the baseball season would be a dream job, pretty much regardless of the job description.

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When the Rockies' right-hander was a highly touted prospect back in 2008, nobody could've expected it would take him 11 years to find success.

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This weekend at Camden Yards, the batter’s box won’t be the only place a Mancini will be a star.

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SN spoke with "ChangeUp" host Lauren Gardner about her collaboration with NHL Network host Jackie Redmond and other female baseball reporters.

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Washington is a team with the necessary pieces for October success, but that's not helped them much in the past.

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Sure, Babe Ruth’s long-time single-season home run record has been surpassed by four players (seven times) at this point, but there’s still something special about that number.

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The Pittsburgh standout, despite strong numbers, almost certainly isn’t going to win the NL Rookie of the Year award and he’s probably not going to finish second or third, either.

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Here’s a look at players who could reach some nice benchmarks in the month-and-a-half left of the 2019 season.

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We’re looking at what the pitchers did in their careers, not what they did solely in their rookie seasons.

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By this point, you’ve heard over and over about this year’s group of outstanding rookie hitters. And that’s a good thing, because it’s impossible to say too many good things about these kids.

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The season opens March 26, which is early, yes, and the final day of the regular season is set for Sept. 27, which means the wild card game will happen before October.

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We are watching a special season from the youngsters.

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The budding initiative provides videos, pictures and highlights to players after games, and also offers custom content at a player’s request.

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From creative quips to the debut of emojis, Sporting News assembled a list of the best nicknames new to MLB Players' Weekend in 2019.

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If a major-league team wants to punch its ticket to October, it starts with beating the bad teams. SN's Ryan Fagan takes a look at how American League contenders have played against poor teams.

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Let’s look for World Series winners who won it all despite not doing much at the trade deadlines.

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Even when expecting the unexpected, we were surprised by several moves.

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Several high-profile MLB teams mostly stood pat at the trade deadline when team needs seemed to dictate major moves.

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The Tigers have an opportunity here to add a nice influx of talent to the rebuild process.

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Suddenly, New York's pitching staff can’t stop teams from scoring.

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Some guys need years of struggles in the bigs and maybe a change of scenery or two before they figure out how to thrive.

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Who provided the biggest boost to a recent World Series champion?

Here’s a look at the past five World Series champs and the trade acquisition that made the biggest impact on their push to the postseason and, finally, to a championship.

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Remember when the Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series since Babe Ruth wore their uniform? Or when the Cubs’ World Series drought hit triple digits? Or when the Royals hadn’t even made the playoffs in nearly 30 years? That’s the kind of urgency we’re talking about.

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The lack of player recognition continues to be an issue for baseball.

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The celebration in Cooperstown shouldn’t have to compete with eight games in a season that stretches six months.

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This year’s ceremony will have a feeling of sadness as we remember Halladay's greatness.

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Brian Kenny is living his dream.

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Francisco Lindor is only in his fifth big league season, but he’s already an All-Star fixture and a regular in AL MVP voting, and now he has his own baseball card set.

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Cubs fans will forever remember the recently traded Mike Montgomery for getting the final out of the team's 2016 World Series championship. That got us wondering about the other pitchers who closed out World Series clinchers in the past decade, and how their time with that team ended.

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If you’ve even had a passing moment of interaction with the baseball Twitter community, you certainly know about the Cespedes Family BBQ guys. You might not know their names, but you’ve probably laughed along with them.

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All five teams in the division have stars (well, guys who had been stars) who need to play better. We picked one guy from each team who needs to step it up.

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The second half of the National League schedule starts Friday afternoon, and two-third of the teams in the Senior Circuit are in a similar boat. The boat isn’t exactly an old dinghy, but it ain’t a luxury yacht, either.

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If we’re being honest, the actual baseball played during the 2019 All-Star Game on Tuesday night wasn’t the most entertaining or exciting part of the multiple-day All-Star extravaganza near the shore of Lake Erie. And that’s OK.

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The sound of the baseball smacking off the Progressive Field scoreboard reminded fans of a ball Mark McGwire hit off the Budweiser sign in 1997.

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SN, with the help of an expert on minor league prospects, has put together a short list of soon-to-be superstars.

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Few people have had a larger role in shaping baseball over the past half-century than Bud Selig, and the former MLB commissioner talks about his life in the sport in his new autobiography.

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These guys reside — for the first half of 2019, at least — at the intersection of lofty expectations and disappointing production.

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Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that a hitter who led the NL with a .348 batting average in 2016 is leading the AL with a .345 batting average in 2019, but here we are.

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It took two of baseball's best free agents until June to sign with teams. Doesn't MLB want its teams to show they care?

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I realize that I’m probably in the minority here, but I love that Jack Armstrong started the 1990 All-Star Game for the National League.

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A large part of the Dodgers' success can be attributed to folks who joined the franchise under the cover of near anonymity.

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Cardinals fans will cheer loudly when Albert Pujols returns to St. Louis on Friday. As they should.

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There are many reasons why the Rays-in-two-cities plan would never work. Here are two of the biggest.

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AL award races: Mike Trout leads MVP chase once again

It's Mike Trout and then the field for AL MVP, but the Cy Young race is much closer.

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Gary Cohen talks his broadcasting journey

Gary Cohen has been synonymous with Mets broadcasting since the '80s, and on Tuesday night is set to call his 2,000th game for New York.

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NL award races: Early look at MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year

In the National League, Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich are going toe-to-toe for the NL MVP. Other races are intriguing, as well.

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It was quite a week for Sporting News' Ryan Fagan, who got married and got to witness a historic win for the Blues.

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Jessica Mendoza is in her fourth year as an analyst on ESPN’s "Sunday Night Baseball." She talked with SN about her love of fishing and her remarkable, ground-breaking career as a baseball broadcaster.

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These are things that would have seemed pretty damn impossible to believe just a couple of months ago. Four of them are very good surprises, but one is decidedly bad.

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'Screwball' director explains bizarre Biogenesis scandal

The documentary attempts to paint a clear picture of the hard-to-believe saga.

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Here's a look at two legends who are enshrined in Cooperstown, but whose cruel injuries still kept them from reaching their highest potential.

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I’m still stunned that baseball hasn’t mandated thorough rules to protect its patrons.

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Baseball Voices: Victor Rojas, Angels TV man

The Angels' play-by-play man did a little bit of everything before landing a job that allows him to watch Mike Trout play every night.

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These Cubs pitchers still bring about strong emotions among the Chicago faithful — partially because they suffered similar frustrating fates.

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