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FOSTER: NL East race is about the Mets and Braves and avoiding blown saves

The Mets and Braves are separated by a tiny margin in the NL East, but there's been a vast difference between the bottom-line performances of their closers. And there's more to it than which closer has the most saves on his ledger.

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MLB shift rule could help hitters, but 'it'll probably even itself out'

Braves third baseman Austin Riley knows there's a fine line between good strategy and overkill when it comes to defensive positioning, which is why he's fine with plans to restrict shifts starting next season. He's not alone.

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FOSTER: Along with 60 homers, Aaron Judge has a shot at another rare feat

Total bases isn't usually seen as a sexy stat, but it probably should be because it tells us a lot about a player's offensive value. And Aaron Judge certainly has provided a ton of offensive value in an MVP-worthy 2022 season.

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Why the NL East is the most exciting race in baseball

The battle for the NL East has just about everything one could want in a fun baseball story, courtesy of the Mets and Braves. And it seems destined to go the distance.

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Why would a defending World Series champion give an eight-year, $72 million contract to a kid who was riding buses in the low minors just one year ago? A valid question, perhaps, but only if you've never seen Michael Harris II play.

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The Orioles are good again, and their elite defense is a big reason

Entering play Thursday, the Orioles rank second in the American League in defensive runs saved, behind only the Yankees. Who saw that coming?

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Whether you're looking at traditional stats, new-ish metrics or StatCast numbers, the story is the same: Matt Olson's 2022 season has been a mix of good to great and mediocre to bad — all at the same time.

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Apologies to Aaron Judge or whoever else makes a strong case in the American League, but Ohtani is the guy.

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Max Scherzer made his first start since May 18 on Tuesday and looked as dominant as ever — six innings, no runs, 11 strikeouts. Exactly what the Mets needed. But the Mets lost 1-0 to the last-place Reds. We call that "A deGrom."

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It would seem unlikely that an MLB team could reel off 12 straight wins and not even be operating at an optimal level, but the 2022 Braves have shown that it's quite possible.

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Joe Maddon to Phillies in 2023? Maybe, but a familiar story could develop

Sometimes, the future seems clear. Sometimes, the outcome seems obvious. Joe Maddon managing the Phillies in 2023 seems like one of those things.

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We're only five weeks into the 2022 MLB season, but enough has happened to get our hopes up about something we've longed to see for the better part of a decade. That's right: The Angels are pretty good.

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We're five days into the 2022 MLB season and already storylines have emerged. They're not necessarily based in reality, but they've emerged.

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It's Opening Day. Time for lots of wild speculation.

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The Sporting News' baseball experts offer their picks and predictions for the 2022 MLB season.

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Now that a full MLB season is locked in, it's time to get greedy with what we want to see in 2022.

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Despite what you may have seen screamed and bloviated on social media, there were no losers in the Freddie Freeman-to-the-Dodgers drama.

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An expanded MLB postseason is one of the big sticking points in the ongoing contentious CBA negotiations, but it's also an area that could serve as a breakthrough point toward an agreement.

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Let's play out the worst-case scenario. Let's pretend that MLB owners and players fail to reach a new collective bargaining agreement anytime soon and the 2022 season is severely shortened or canceled. Where would baseball go from there?

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A sport can't get healthy if it doesn't exist. And until the owners lift the lockout, until a new CBA agreement happens, until players actually take the field, MLB basically doesn't exist.

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While it might seem like baseball fans can't do much to channel their frustration into effective advocacy to end the MLB lockout, there is one way to send a message that MLB and its owners should understand.

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Though things may seem to be nearing a drop-dead point to ensure a full MLB regular season, history tells us there's probably more negotiation time for the owners and players than one might realize.

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Foster: Lockout could accelerate MLB's path to irrelevance

It's been said that apathy is worse than anger. If that's true, MLB could be in trouble.

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Shohei Ohtani is 2021 Sporting News Athlete of the Year

Choosing an Athlete of the Year is often a daunting task. But not in 2021. Thanks, Shohei Ohtani.

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Foster: For Braves, 'next year' is here, and next year might be better

So many times, Braves teams have left October with nothing but a bruised ego and a hopeful outlook. Not this year.

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Foster: If Braves win Series, Kyle Wright will be big reason why

Kyle Wright's perfect inning of relief in an out-of-reach Game 2 set the tone for the huge effort the Braves got from him in Game 4.

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Foster: Snitker move to pen despite no-hitter the right call

There was an exciting Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night, but you might not know that because baseball is apparently in a crisis.

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Mark Lemke showed 30 years ago how joyously unpredictable October baseball can be

Mark Lemke had no idea what to expect as Game 3 of the 1991 World Series approached, but it had nothing to do with the seeming randomness of the MLB postseason.

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Sporting News 2021 MLB awards: Ohtani voted top player

The 2021 MLB season featured a number of compelling storylines — some expected, some hoped for and some that took us by surprise. And those storylines are reflected in the 2021 Sporting News MLB awards.

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If it's possible for the best parts of a World Series to come after it has ended, 1991 offered a glimpse of what it might look like.

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Let's make some predictions for the 2021 MLB postseason.

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Joe Nuxhall's pitching career with the Reds started at ... 15?

The 1940s were an odd time in major league baseball, so much so that a kid barely out of junior high school once pitched in a game.

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Alomar was fired from two consulting roles and placed on baseball's ineligible list after the completion of an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations stemming from a workplace incident in 2014.

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Want to grow the game, MLB? Mic up players every night.

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It doesn't take long for baseball fans to make definitive statements about a season. Only a handful of games is necessary for some to preemptively judge everything a success, a failure, a lot of fun or a certain 180-ish days of frustration.

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Every one of these things will happen. Mark it down.

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Here's how SN's baseball experts think the 2021 MLB season will play out.

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A humble wish list for the 2021 MLB season.

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There's just something about spring training, and the greater offseason in general, that brings out odd mishaps and injuries in baseball.

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seems to be benefiting from the record frigid weather causing power problems in Texas.

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The Mets continue to make big waves this offseason — but this time it has nothing to do with baseball.

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The last few years of Phil Niekro's career showed that you don't have to believe what people say about you — and it's nice to prove the critics wrong.

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The stadium opened in 1989 as SkyDome.

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Sporting News named its first MLB All-Star team in 1925.

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Voting for the annual honors took place in September.

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Sporting News 2020 MLB awards: Abreu voted top player

The 60-game MLB season in 2020 didn’t provide the usual time or opportunities to evaluate player performance, but it was long enough for some players and to make big impressions on their peers.

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The 2020 MLB postseason is gonna be weird, but it should also be fun.

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Galarraga earned a legitimate place in history. Baseball should let him have it.

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Pittsburgh actually had two big comebacks that day against the Cubs.

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Until today, I had a nice memory of watching Michael Jordan play basketball in person — a memory I've shared with my kids, a story I've told friends and coworkers through the years, and something I've semi-cherished as a sports fan for nearly 28 years.

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For one hour on one weekend afternoon a year, you could watch future Hall of Famers wear generic "American" and "National" softball uniforms and swing aluminum bats for the nation's entertainment.

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The homers keyed a major comeback for the Phillies.

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It's still weird, but also cool, to see baseball's hit king wearing that Montreal uni.

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I've wondered in recent days how the coronavirus pandemic could change us in the long term. Not just how it might affect the economy or sports leagues or government structure, but also what it might mean for the workforce, schools and how we behave and think as people.

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His players weren't pleased: "We're doing the best we can."

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Warning: I'm about to yell at some clouds. We don't have a good handle on the word "classic."

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You might think this classic piece of '80s synth rock helped Rocky defeat Ivan Drago, but you're wrong.

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My baseball experience on April 1, 1996, was doomed pretty much from the beginning.

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Classic games, forgotten gems, blooper videos, team documentaries and more are probably just sitting on a server or in a warehouse somewhere, and that's not good for anyone.

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When one of baseball's most reserved (read: boring) players sounds off like this, it's a really, really big deal.

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With every new and nutty proposal to change Major League Baseball, I find myself reaching the same conclusion: Rob Manfred sure seems to find baseball in its most traditional sense absolutely abhorrent.

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We've reached the point of the MLB offseason when spring training facilities are humming with activity — not with actual spring training, but with middle-age men and women who pay a bunch of money to live like an MLB player for a week.

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MLB's cheating scandal could be headed for Congress.

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The 1993 AL Cy Young winner says the Hall of Fame manager instigated the effort to steal signs illegally.

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Maybe they were contracted, or maybe every player was blipped. That would be so Mets.

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Is is possible that the certainty of a crushing work stoppage is so strong that teams have said, “Screw it. We’re gonna win now because we might not get another chance for a while?”

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re a fan of Virginia or Virginia Tech. It doesn’t even matter whether you watched the game. If you're a sports fan, you can still appreciate what happened and what it meant to thousands of people around the country.

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Rivalry Week is a time for savagery, even among teammates.

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MLB’s investigation into alleged illegal sign-stealing by the Astros will expand to include the team’s conduct during the 2018 and 2019 seasons, commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.

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The Hall of Famer and icon of the '90s will always be an attraction for baseball fans.

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The MLB veteran will presumably take the walk-up song with him across the Pacific.

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A judge denied a $1 million bond for Vasquez, 28, who will remain in custody until his trial.

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We obviously know about the total bases stat, but maybe we don't talk about it enough.

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As Disney productions go, 1983’s “Tiger Town” is not upper-tier entertainment. But its appeal is that it’s one of those pieces of ’80s escapism that lives right at the intersection of reality and ridiculousness. Are you listening, Disney Plus?

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Some baseballs marketed and sold as authentic 2019 postseason and World Series balls did not meet the requirements to qualify as an official, on-field ball, according to a report in The Athletic.

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I don't endorse cheating, but I understand why you think that I do.

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Back in 1987, a Cory Snyder rookie card could fetch a fortune, if you define "fortune" by what 11-year-olds consider a lot of money.

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The Oakland shortstop has become a superstar without the stardom.

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The lefty seems like a good fit in Atlanta — in the right deal.

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says technology to call automated balls and strikes has improved.

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Before 1989, Lonnie Smith had not had anything close to an MVP-level season in seven years.

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File this under Things I Didn't Expect to See Today.

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This Fall Classic between the Nationals and Astros was allegedly a mismatch. Whatever.

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We’ve got our stats and our projections and our matchups and our feelings, and it all makes for fun discussions and heightened expectations, but none of it tells us with certainty what we’re about to see on the field.

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Houston's win in Game 3 wasn’t dominating, it wasn’t flashy and it won’t be all that memorable this time next week. But it got the Astros where they wanted to be.

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Sporting News named its first All-Star team in 1925.

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The Rays have improved significantly in the three years that Neander has steered the ship.

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Donaldson bet on himself before the 2019 season, and he won the bet.

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Snitker becomes the fifth manager in history to win the peer-bestowed honor in consecutive seasons.

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Postseason teams have come surging back from a seemingly insurmountable hole 10 times since 1979.

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If your code is easy to crack, the problem is on you, not the codebreaker.

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The Senior Circuit is now the Nationals' League.

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Like Sid Bream, Mike Hill had a mad dash related to Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS.

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No team has won more playoff rounds than the Cardinals since 2001, and no team has lost more than the Braves.

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The better part of two decades has passed since the Braves last had a chance to clinch a playoff series.

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Nationals' Dave Martinez follows wrong process, gets right result

Nationals manager Dave Martinez sparked another "process over results" debate on Friday night in Game 2 of the NLDS against the Dodgers.

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Both members of Atlanta's excitable duo are five-tool talents, both capable of changing a game in multiple ways, so imagining the peak versions of their talent almost boggles the mind.

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There was a time when the first round of the playoffs was more of a formality for the Braves. But first-round disappointment has defined the team since 2002.

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The baseball season is a grind. For the first time in my life, I totally relate to MLB players everywhere.

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The simplistic design doesn't look fashionable. It just looks bad.

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The brouhaha that took over Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium that Sunday afternoon was epic not just for its size and scope, but also for its relentlessness. And there for it all, with a unique and sometimes uncomfortable perspective, were a set of helpful and youthful on-field assistants.

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June 8, 1989: The Pirates blew a 10-0 lead, forcing Jim Rooker to walk 327 miles

Think before you speak, even in baseball.

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The umpire's move was nearly a decade before MLB allowed the practice.

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This is a column about the successes in a 22-year MLB career.

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Sports history is filled with instances of fan-vs.-player stupidity. One of the best (worst?) examples happened on this day in 2000 at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

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Barker's gem was the first MLB perfect game in 13 years.

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Not every cool baseball feat gets the love it deserves. George Brett's torrid six-game stretch in May 1976 is one that needs more attention.

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Long before they were true NL East rivals, the Braves and Phillies played a wild game in 1994 that featured a bit of everything.

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It was the final homer of Buckner's career.

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Baseball needs to decide whether it's serious about letting players show personality, or whether it's OK with a mixed message that includes the potential for a career- or life-altering injury.

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LoCain is fun to watch.

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All this stuff will definitely happen. Mark it down.

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Ichiro's last truly productive season came in 2010. Had he retired then, he still would've been an easy Hall of Famer.

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At Sporting News, where baseball ties run deep, we recognize a kindred spirit when we see one — which is why we’ve re-established a cool partnership with our friends at Topps.

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Manny Machado's record-setting 10-year, $300 million deal with the Padres came as somewhat of a suprise move for the superstar, and it raises a slew of questions. Here are 10.

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Most basketball fans know that Michael Jordan wore No. 23 and, briefly, No. 45. But most have probably forgotten about the time he was forced to wear No. 12 — without a name.

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Baseball fans tend to have a love-hate relationship with spring training, but there's a lot to love — because even some of the bad things are entertaining.

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To pretend the baseball has stayed unchanged in any significant way since your youth is to romanticize things to the point of revisionist history.

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The long, cold, heartless, baseball-less winter is almost over, and the glorious sights and sounds of spring are slowly on their way to your eyes and ears, ready to fill your heart with warmth after the hot stove again failed to register on any thermometer.

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Despite talent, despite promise and despite multiple playoff appearances, Carolina has never finished above .500 in two straight seasons.

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Throwback uniforms are fun. So let's have more fun, MLB.

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Forget the Hail Mary. Forget the half-court buzzer-beater. Forget the hole-in-one. The home run is king, and everyone knows it.

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Jim Leyritz's game-tying homer in Game 4 of the 1996 World Series would go on to define both teams in different ways.

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Vin Scully called so many great baseball moments that it's easy to overlook a few.

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When asked to describe managers Craig Counsell and Brian Snitker, their players often put forth similar enthusiastic plaudits: a players’ manager, cares about his people, a motivator, the right guy for this team.

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In a 2018 season that was full of surprises for the Braves, one thing went just as planned: Ronald Acuña Jr. became a superstar.

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There are a couple of iconic calls associated with Kirk Gibson's famous walk-off homer in the 1988 World Series. But one call that's been unfortunately underrepresented, if not forgotten, belongs to the late Hall of Famer Don Drysdale.

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The Braves told us who they were in the season’s first game, and they rode the themes that emerged in that big comeback win all the way to an improbable NL East pennant.

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While the potential for greatness was there from the time Greg Maddux debuted in the majors in 1986, it took a while for him to hit his stride. That finally happened in 1988.

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The baseball-themed finale of "The Naked Gun" still resonates with guffaws and meme-worthy pop culture content 30 years after the film's release. This is the story of how it came together.

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If you're a baseball fan older than 35, chances are you remember how big a deal it was for the Friendly Confines to get nighttime illumination back in 1988.

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Had the Will Ferrell "that escalated quickly" meme been around in the '80s, it certainly would've been used the night of July 27, 1988.

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Baseball's unwritten rules are dumb, but the one about not "disrespecting" the other team in a blowout is especially stupid.

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The leaked audio of former Mets manager Terry Collins going off on umpires was real and it was raw. It was also entertaining and refreshing — and it's exactly the kind of thing MLB needs.

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Shohei Ohtani reportedly needs Tommy John surgery and might not play again until 2020. That's not just bad for him and the Angels, but bad for baseball fans everywhere who have enjoyed and marveled at the historic nature of Ohtani's rookie season.

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Baseball in the '80s was wild, y'all.

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Jose Canseco is known for a few things, but arguably his most memorable baseball moment was the time he really kept his head in the game.

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The breakout Braves second baseman can pop homers and leg out doubles, but his on-base percentage is surprisingly low.

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The Mariners' Robinson Cano is the latest MLB player to test positive for a banned substance and then claim at least partial ignorance. Such claims are not just getting harder to believe, but they border on an insult to our intelligence.

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Randy Johnson's 20-strikeout game isn't exactly forgotten, but it's often overlooked.

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The finer details of Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game on May 6, 1998, make for some pretty cool trivia on their own, so here's a list of 20 other facts about this game that you might not remember or even know.

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Let's talk about the Reds, a team that was once great but now seems stuck in the Bad Place.

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Coming into the season, we were promised a two-way superstar. We were promised that the "Babe Ruth of Japan" had the tools to dominate MLB in a way not seen in 100 years. Well, it appears that the promise happened to be true.

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Happy birthday, Sir DH. You look good at 45.

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It's not just that the Braves have opened the season with two series wins. It's the way they earned those wins, doing the things that scrappy, good-but-not-great teams have to do to sneak into the playoffs.

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The first week of the MLB season gave us plenty of storylines to discuss.

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Some baseball anniversaries are fun, some are important, and some are just silly. And then there are some that qualify for more than one of those labels.

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As notable MLB dates go, one would be hard-pressed to find a red-letter date in March. But there is one place on the March calendar that qualifies as an important date.

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No matter how much you think you know about baseball, no matter how things look in the stats or even through your own eyes, baseball has a habit of telling you to screw off.

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Well, folks, we've finally arrvied at Opening Day. Take a good whiff. The air is good today.

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Every new season brings new questions and new storylines. Some things will go as we expect, and some things won't. Other things will come out of nowhere to grab our attention and leave us wondering why we never saw them coming.

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In-game player interviews are usually boring and full of cliches. But finally — finally! — something interesting happened during one Tuesday.

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This week's Ask Jason questions are all worthy of the last week of spring training. Take that however you want.

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Jim Thome will enter the Hall of Fame as an Indian, but the hat on his plaque will not feature the Chief Wahoo logo.

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The old baseball adage of not trusting what you see in March or September will be put to the test yet again.

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We've reached the point of spring training when the regular season can't get here soon enough. But hopefully this third entry of Ask Jason will take your mind off any impatience that's dogging you.

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After a rookie campaign that produced 39 home runs, helped send the Dodgers to the World Series and earned NL Rookie of the Year honors, it would seem there's little room for improvement for Cody Bellinger. But Belligner's second season will be an important one for him and his teammates.

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I assumed Jose Altuve's relative lack of happy expressions at the White House celebration this week meant something. I was wrong, and I’m sorry I jumped to that conclusion.

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Forget rule changes and forget pace of play. The Orioles have come up with the best idea yet to attract young fans: Let them in for free.

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The AL MVP looked like he'd rather be anywhere else.

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Last week's inaugural Ask Jason column was a lot of fun. Or, at least, enough fun for me to want to do it again this week. But, hey, I got more questions this week than last, so maybe this thing will catch on after all.

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The obvious allure of an entrance song for a closer is to make his entrance that much more grand. Throw in a bullpen cart and, well, that allure loses some luster.

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I asked people on Twitter to send me questions on baseball or any other topic. Let's see how this goes.

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Back when CBS held broadcast rights for the Winter Games, it was a largely unknown composer for television commercials who provided the Olympic soundtrack that filled living rooms and became a nightly earworm.

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In a sports landscape that tends to define excellence solely on championships, the 14 straight division titles the Braves won from 1991 to 2005 might seem more like a half-accomplishment. But MLB Network's latest documentary hopes baseball fans will judge those Braves teams on the journey rather than the destination.

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John Williams has been the go-to composer for inspiring Olympic music for more than three decades.

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With pitchers and catchers about to report in the first official act of the 2018 season, here are 18 things I want to see between now and November.

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Let me say this up front, dear fellow white people: We don’t get to decide what’s offensive to another race.

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It's hard to find just one moment to epitomize a Hall of Fame career, but I'm going to give it a shot.

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Take heart, dear fans, because the 2018 baseball season will start eventually. I'm 96 percent sure of it.

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Big, if true.

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It wouldn't be the first time a great player was denied proper Hall of Fame consideration, but it will be a special kind of horrible if Andruw Jones falls off the writers' ballot after one year.

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Where will Giancarlo Stanton play in 2018? We've got a roundup of the latest news and trade rumors.

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Something I didn't expect to see today: Barry Bonds hitting baseballs thrown by a Japanese pitcher bouncing on a trampoline. Yet, here we are.

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An appeals court in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed two companies were responsible for the accidental death of former MLB pitcher Mark Fidrych, The Associated Press reports.

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It would be unwise to downplay the combined effect that three straight 90-plus loss seasons, a former general manager getting banned for life, and no playoff series wins since 2001 can have on a fan base.

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Chris Antonetti's Indians won an American League-best 102 games in 2017, building off the success the team enjoyed in 2016, when it came within one win of Cleveland's first World Series title since 1948.

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The games are over, but the MLB offseason will be plenty busy.

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No matter the outcome in Games 6 or 7, it will likely be Game 5 that becomes a standalone moniker associated with euphoria or heartache in Houston and Los Angeles. For now, though, we just don’t know which city will wear which emotion.

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All the ingredients for all-time greatness are there. It’s up to the Astros and Dodgers to complete the recipe.

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The 1991 World Series between the Braves and Twins was awash in human moments. Game 7, especially, produced a few such moments that fans don't normally see in modern baseball. In fact, we may never see them again.

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The teams were selected by a panel of 43 MLB executives.

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Indians manager Terry Francona and Brewers skipper Craig Counsell have been named Sporting News' 2017 managers of the year, as selected by a panel of 19 MLB managers.

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Anyone who says they saw Cody Bellinger's 2017 season coming is probably not being truthful. Because it's hard to imagine that anyone had that kind of prescience.

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The Astros and Dodgers were in the same league for five decades, and in the same division for more than 40 years. So, yeah, they've already got some history.

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The Yankees and Astros will play one more time to see who goes to the World Series.

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The Yankees got a huge come-from-behind win against the Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.

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The Yankees got back in to the ALCS with a convincing win in Game 3.

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Jack Clark's subdued troll job in Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS was something to appreciate.

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The biggest hit of Chris Chambliss' career also produced the biggest celebratory freakout in baseball history.

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By the time Sid Bream beat Barry Bonds’ throw to the plate to send the Braves to the World Series, the Pirates and Braves had played a dramatic 8 2/3 innings that included other big moments and themes that were soon overshadowed.

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Dusty Baker's teams consistently put themselves in a position to advance in the postseason, and then they don't. Why does it keep happening?

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The Cubs are headed back to the NLCS. Get all the details and highlights here.

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With one more win in the NLDS against the Cubs, the Nationals will set up a rematch of the 1981 NLCS. Sort of.

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Another loss to the Cubs will add one more entry to the list of Nationals teams that went into the playoffs with high expectations but fell flat and were forced into the winter early to ponder what went wrong.

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The Astros are a win away from advancing to the ALCS, and they could clinch their spot on the anniversary of one of the team's greatest moments.

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The Washington Nationals have been consistently good and often inexplicably come up small on the sport’s biggest stage. Bryce Harper changed the narrative Saturday night.

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The Diamondbacks outlasted the Rockies on Wednesday in a NL wild-card game that was, well, quite wild.

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The Yankees will face the Indians in the ALDS after they beat the Twins in the AL wild-card game Tuesday.

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Go big or go home seems a fitting assessment of Bryce Harper's overall playing style. This isn't just anecdotal or "eye-test" analysis — it's backed up by technology.

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