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The Atlanta Braves Jorge Soler hit three home runs in the World Series, including a three-run blast in Game 6, and was the clear-cut winner of MVP honors.

Jorge Soler, Adam Duvall, Eddie Rosario and Joc Pederson—all outfielders acquired by Atlanta in July—were all over the Braves World Series-opening win.

Apr 19, 2021 Not even three weeks through the season, and we’re already in a bit of a predicament as far as power rankings go. Teams are barely through 10% of their schedule and we know it’s too soon for concrete conclusions to be drawn. But it feels like we’ve already come to a fork in the road where we must decide how to weigh how good we think teams are against what we’ve actually seen on the field to this point. There are teams we expected to be bad that have, well, been bad (apolo...

Originally posted on MLB Trade Rumors  |  By Tim Dierkes  |  Last updated 2/16/21 Less than three months after their first-round playoff defeat to the Marlins, the Cubs traded second place NL Cy Young finisher Yu Darvish to the Padres. This occurred after the Cubs won their division with a .567 winning percentage, which would have extrapolated to about 92 wins in a full season. I looked back through the last 20 years, and this has never been done: winning t...

After a winter of uncertainity, MLB prepares for a complicated spring training Chelsea Janes, The Washington Post Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Nationals hold spring training in West Palm Beach, Fla. Pitchers and catchers report soon.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton. A dozen or so baseball reporters were navigating the usual frustrations of a Zoom news conference recently when the subject of the days proceedings - the just re-signed slugger Marcell Ozuna - piped up with a ques...

Lukewarm Stove: Mets Next Addition (or Extension)? Are Braves Actually in on Realmuto? Reds and Simmons, More Another day, another bunch of Mets stuff I have to tell you. Sigh. I’m sorry. At least it’s not the Dodgers or Yankees or Cardinals, right? We gotta get into the connective tissue … Next Mets Addition (or Extension)? According to Andy Martino, the Mets are not done spending yet this offseason, and that includes both external additions (hold that thought) *and* internal extensions....