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The warm glow of MLB’s Hot Stove warming glow — NL WestEverywhere except Houston, it’s time for teams and fans to try and get to where Houston is. Or it will be in January or February instead of November and December, like it used to be. Anyway, we run through what teams might need and what they might do, for most of them these things don’t line up, and...

Tatis returns and Padres-Dodgers give us a look at what could be an epic summerFernando Tatis Jr. returned to the Padres’ lineup on Friday night, 10 days after all of baseball got its stomach tied up in knots seeing the 22-year-old star suffer a partially dislocated left shoulder....

NL West Preview: The Rise of San Diego, the reign of L.A.With Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado, the Padres have the best left side of the infield in baseball and two MVP candidates to lead their lineup....

This Triple Play Confused The Hell Out Of Everyone Involved<em></em>

Triple plays are always cool, but the best instances are the ones that leave everyone—fielders, runners, fans, broadcasters—kind of confused about what exactly just happened. Last night’s Angels-Rangers game gave us one of those....

Jurickson Profar's Been Through the Damn Wringer

God, I feel so bad for Jurickson Profar. Once the consensus top overall prospect in baseball, Profar has spent the last few years sustaining and sort-of-recovering-from a series of increasingly strange injuries. That bad luck has reduced him from a franchise cornerstone to a guy who, at 25, mostly s...

Netherlands Baseball Player, Busy Gloating Over A Single, Gets Thrown Out At First 

In the World Baseball Classic semifinal between Puerto Rico and the Netherlands, Dutchman Jurickson Profar got ahead of himself while celebrating a first-inning single to right field. Puerto Rico’s right fielder threw a rocket to catcher Yadier Molina to hold up the runner at third, and then, as Pro...

Man In Mike Vick Jersey Hauls Ass To Rob Children Of Home Run Ball

Jurickson Profar hit a monstrous home run to the grassy knoll in right-center field during the Rangers game against the Padres this afternoon. Many families were enjoying a little picnic while watching a ballgame on that knoll and thought for a split second, hey, we might get a souvenir! But then Br...