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Had to check... it's John Jaha's career line.

Also in the exactly-141-homers club: Jackie Robinson, Bo Jackson, Scott Brosius and Chris Iannetta.

Way-Too-Early 2026 Fantasy Baseball Top 300 Rankings Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani at the top? Our early 2026 Top 300 rankings highlight key fantasy storylines heading into the MLB offseason.

My initial Top 300 for 2026.

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Might be in for a long afternoon.

Fantasy Baseball 2025 Catcher Breakdown: Cal Raleigh’s power surge and 2026 rankings Cal Raleigh’s 60 home runs led the way in a big fantasy season for catchers. Our position breakdown reviews 2025’s top performers, identifies breakout candidates, and ranks the top 12 catchers for 202...

We're kicking off a new little offseason series, breaking down each position with some early 2026 rankings. Here's my look at the catcher spot.

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Yeah, that would help offense. It'd also probably lead to more broken hands for hitters with everyone starting their swings nearly every pitch.

Check Swing Challenge system being tested in Arizona Fall League It’s one of the great sports debates – was that a swing? Every baseball fan has participated in the discourse at one point or another. You’re watching a game when a pitcher throws, say, a nasty change...

They're trying to. They experimented with a camera system in the Arizona Fall League last year. www.mlb.com/news/mlb-tes...

I figured the camera well, if you couldn't get away with stationing them at the end of the dugout.

Fine with that Duran call, but I'd like to propose for the 100th time that instead of stationing the fifth and sixth umps down the line during the postseason, the league instead install them as check-swing judges.

Agree. They will giving one each extra inning, if a team is out of challenges.

The assumption that teams next year will still have ball/strike challenges left to use in the ninth inning seems like a bad one to me.

The Tigers were 9-22 (.290) when Jack Flaherty started this season and 78-53 (.595) when he didn't.

I know this reads as hindsight at this point, but taking Lodolo out after 14 pitches was nuts.

Terry Francona enthusiastically approaching the mound, telling Nick Martinez, "You'll get 'em next time, next year, for some other team."

Please ask Shildt about starting Gavin Sheets when he was never likely to face the right-handed opener and then pinch-hitting for him in the fourth before he can face Imanaga for the second time. Seems like a total lack of foresight.

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Statcast had Caballero's shot at 392 feet and 105.3 mph. It was his second farthest hit ball of the season, and his hardest-hit ball that wasn't pulled. It was the equivalent of Judge crushing one 460 feet.

It's kind of funny saying José Caballero just missed it, as if he's ever hit a homer to center in his life.

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Only four teams allowed fewer runs per game than the Pirates this season. Dennis Santana broke through the moment he put on their uniform in 2024. Isaac Mattson went from afterthought to quality reliever. Burrows, Ashcraft put together really nice debuts.

Pay no attention to the .412 xwOBA. Sal Stewart, a righty, is sitting for the Reds against Blake Snell tonight. Not a surprise. He started only two of the Reds' four games against lefties after he was called up. Probably just a fluke that he went 5-for-9 with two homers in those two games.

Yeah, pretty much. Although if he goes back too far, then there are just more questions about why he wasted a few million dollars picking up Melvin's option on July 1.

Pretty wild talking about the disappointing last two months as if he didn't trade the team's right fielder, closer and eighth-inning guy at the deadline.

Salvador Perez doesn't have the lowest run scored total ever for a 30-HR guy, but he played a whole lot more than the guys who beat him out. As best as I can tell, he's just the second player ever with 10 more extra-base hits (65) than runs scored (54), joining Nick Castellanos (54 to 42 in 2015).

Nine players walked 90 times this season. Eight of them struck out at least 137 times. Geraldo Perdomo (94 BB) struck out 83 times.

Nick Kurtz hit his 36th homer in the bottom of the eighth Sunday to finish his rookie campaign with a 1.002 OPS. Kurtz came into the day with a 1.000 OPS that fell to .991 after he opened up 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. However, with the late homer off Sam Long, he became the eighth rookie in AL/NL history to come in at 1.000 of better (min. 400 PA), joining George Watkins (1930), Rudy York (1937), Ted Williams (1939), Bernie Carbo (1970), Albert Pujols (2001), Ryan Braun (2007) and Aaron Judge (2017). Yordan Alvarez would also sneak in if we lowered the threshold some; he finished at 1.067 in 369 PA in 2019.

My favorite stat of the day.

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Angels teammates Jo Adell (37 HR, .778 OPS) and Taylor Ward (36 HR, .792 OPS) are the 21st and 22nd players ever with 35 homers and sub-800 OPSs.

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Sure seems like Torey Lovullo either doesn't like Jordan Lawlar or just doesn't think he can play.

Unfortunately tuned into MLB Network since I can't watch the Rays and Mark DeRosa says he wouldn't want Cal Raleigh "hitting .290 and clogging up the basepaths."

Back to mute.

He was 28 as a rookie. Stop scheduling test drives.