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Chicago Cubs
fromCubsinsider
18 hours ago

Alex Bregman Signing Marks New Era of Cubs Baseball -

Alex Bregman signed with the Chicago Cubs on a $175 million deal, signaling significant Cubs spending and commitment to building their core.
fromLos Angeles Times
4 weeks ago

Commentary: What the Dodgers are doing isn't normal in pro sports. Be sure to appreciate it

Step into the Dodgers' team store, turn to the right, and you'll be staring at Shohei Ohtani. Not in person, of course. But amid all the jerseys and caps and T-shirts, there is a commercial playing on a loop, with Ohtani waving his fingers through his hair and winking as he displays the product he is endorsing: the top-selling skin serum in Japan.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
fromDefector
2 months ago

The Dodgers Never Had It Made | Defector

A dramatic World Series exposed baseball's contrasts: wealthy, spend-driven teams versus scrappy, low-cost rosters embodying competing visions of the game's future.
fromOver the Monster
2 months ago

OTM Open Thread 10/30: The Blue Jays are a game away from capturing their first World Series title since 1993

About four weeks ago, shortly after the Red Sox were eliminated, I wrote that I was rooting for the Blue Jays to win the World Series in one our Over The Monster group posts. There are several reasons for this, but one of which is I want another big spending team in the division not named the Yankees to have success while the Red Sox are on the sidelines. They haven't won yet, but for those purposes, I think we can say mission accomplished.
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