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Mercedes' 431-foot HR gave Rodón a cushion

CHICAGO -- For the first time during the 2021 season, Yermín Mercedes was not the story of the night during an 8-0 White Sox victory over Cleveland on Wednesday at Guaranteed Rate Field. That honor belonged to starting pitcher Carlos Rodón, who retired the first 25 hitters he faced and...

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Acuña shakes up debate on comps with Soto

Imagine Ronald Acuña Jr. with Juan Soto's plate discipline. Wait … you don't have to imagine. None of us are surprised by Acuña's red-hot start to the 2021 season -- the .429 batting average, .881 slugging percentage, 1.371 OPS and 18 hits through his first 11 games. He's a superstar....

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How Burnes is even more dominant in 2021

In 2019, Corbin Burnes had the worst pitching year in Milwaukee Brewers history. One of the worst years by anyone in any team’s history, really. The kind of year that gets you a new home or a new profession. In 2020, he finished sixth in the NL Cy Young balloting....

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Another 'pretty spectacular' game for Ohtani

A night after becoming just the fifth player to record an exit velocity of 119 mph or higher with an absolutely crushed two-run double, Shohei Ohtani showed off both his speed and his power in a 3-2 loss to the Royals on Tuesday evening at Kauffman Stadium....

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Ohtani scalds 119 mph 2B: 'Did you see that?'

Two-way star Shohei Ohtani has continued to prove he can do just about anything on a baseball field now that he’s healthy, and he wowed yet again in Monday night’s 10-3 win over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, smacking a critical two-run double in the seventh inning that had an...

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Not too early to say these big bats are back

Usually, less than two weeks of baseball action wouldn’t be enough of a sample size to make any definitive judgments. But after last year’s shortened season, the positive signs we’re seeing early on from a number of accomplished players who struggled at the plate in 2020 might mean a whole...

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4 veteran relief aces showing off new tricks

Go back to 2017-18, and check out the best relief pitchers in baseball across those two years as ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Some of those names are still considered top relievers. Others are hurt, or struggling, or out of baseball entirely. But what's most interesting about the top dozen...

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10 eye-popping stats from Opening Week

We're only a week into the 2021 season, but it's never too soon to look at the Statcast data and try to pick out the players who are poised for big years. So, let's do it. Here are the Statcast standouts from the season's early goings. These could be players...

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Yermín Mercedes. 485 feet. Just watch this

CHICAGO -- When a player hits a home run an extreme distance like Yermín Mercedes did in the first inning of Chicago's 6-0 victory over Kansas City on Thursday, he deserves to celebrate a little bit. And that’s exactly what Mercedes did after personally reintroducing himself to White Sox fans...

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Longest home runs for every MLB team

Ever since Babe Ruth launched Major League Baseball into the Live Ball Era with his awe-inspiring home runs, wowed fans have been asking: "How far did that ball go?" Statcast has given us a whole new tool to answer that question, thanks to the tracking technology at every MLB ballpark....

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