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Szymborski’s 2025 Booms and Busts: Pitchers
11h · Dan SzymborskiSzym picks his favorite boost and burst candidates for the 2025 season.
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To Boldly Stay: Alejandro Kirk Signs Five-Year Extension With Blue Jays
13h · Leo MorgensternGet your height jokes ready, because the Blue Jays are extending Alejandro Kirk.
In Canha and Margot, a Pair of Brewers NRIs Find New Homes Elsewhere
15h · Jay JaffeTwo righty-swinging outfielders suitable for plugging roster gaps land with AL Central contenders.
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2025 Positional Power Rankings: Starting Rotation (No. 1-15)
15h · Ben ClemensWe close the 2025 positional power rankings with a look at the game's best rotations.
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Get Your Relief Pitcher Transactions in Before It’s Too Late
17h · Michael BaumannThe Ian Anderson-for-José Suarez trade is the baseball equivalent of going to lunch at a diner and trading your pickle for your friend’s coleslaw.
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2025 Positional Power Rankings: Starting Rotation (No. 16-30)
17h · Paul SporerWe kick off the rotation rankings with the clubs in the bottom half.
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Guardians Shop Local, Extend Tanner Bibee
Mar 24 · Ben ClemensThe latest excellent Cleveland starter is here to stay - contractually speaking.
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The Orioles and Kyle Gibson Settle for Each Other
Mar 24 · Dan SzymborskiBaltimore gets back together with the veteran innings-eater to its injury rotation.
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2025 Positional Power Rankings: Bullpen (No. 1-15)
Mar 24 · Eric LongenhagenHere are the bullpens we project to be this season's best.
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Rockies Send Nolan Jones Back to the Guardians
Mar 24 · Jay JaffeAfter injuries marred his follow-up to an impressive rookie season, the outfielder returns to the team that drafted and developed him.
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Weekend MLB Draft Notes: 3/24/2025
Mar 24 · David GerthLet's take a closer look at a trio of draft eligible sophomores and a couple of small school juniors.
2025 Positional Power Rankings: Bullpen (No. 16-30)
Mar 24 · Michael RosenWe kick off our look at the league's pitchers with the bullpens in the bottom half of the reliever rankings.
Sunday Notes: Bassitt, Blank, Kirby, and the Impact of the Inevitable ABS
Mar 23 · David LaurilaPlus Brewers, D-Backs, Giants, and Padres key players, Bud Black on the Rockies' lab, Rick Rizzs's foul ball incident, Cupid Childs, facts and stats galore, and more.
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Effectively Wild Episode 2299: The Email Anatomy
Mar 22 · Ben LindberghBen Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s positional power rankings progress and discuss why MLB is “evaluating” its Diversity Pipeline Program, then for the first time in a while answer listener emails (15:35) about how baseball would be different if swinging hard caused more serious injuries, a high-elevation league/division, inter-game penalties for frivolous end-of-game […].
