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EXPLAINED: 7 | Vintage Vibes

Checking in on the superstar shortstops the Yankees passed on during the offseason

NEW YORK — It was not long ago that the baseball world cast an eye of confused suspicion on the Yankees.

Tribune News Service

Rangers rough up Reid Detmers to defeat Angels 7-1

Reid Detmers might have set the bar impossibly high when he threw a no-hitter in his 11th big league start May 10. The Angels left-hander has found it difficult to produce a worthy encore.

Los Angeles Times

Noah Syndergaard bounces back with dominant performance in Angels’ win over Rangers

Seven weeks into the season, it seems fair to assume that Angels pitcher Noah Syndergaard will not be returning to the days of Thor, the triple-digit fastball he threw for the New York Mets from 2015 to 2019 failing to make the cross-country trip to Anaheim.

Los Angeles Times

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Shohei Ohtani hits 1st grand slam as Angels rout Rays

Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash might have been wise to take a page out of Joe Maddon’s playbook and walk Shohei Ohtani intentionally with the bases loaded in the seventh inning Monday night, just like the Angels manager did with Texas Rangers slugger Corey Seager on April 16.

Los Angeles Times

Dane Dunning’s longest start helps Rangers snap four-game losing streak, beat Braves, 3-1

ARLINGTON, Texas — Baseball, conventionally, isn’t an instant gratification sport. It’s a long season; a grind that’s glorified. It’s 162 games, and after Friday night’s series-opening loss to the Atlanta Braves, the Rangers were only 20 games through it.

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Texas Rangers’ Martin Perez flirted with perfection, but so did Astros’ Justin Verlander

ARLINGTON, Texas — Everything was going so perfectly for the Texas Rangers.

Tribune News Service

Rangers 1st-inning scoring has nosedived since opening day — a trend carrying over from 2021

ARLINGTON, Texas — It was such a promising start. The first batter of the season for the Rangers homered. The next three all reached and scored.

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Unforced errors in every phase shows Rangers must learn how not to lose before starting to win

ARLINGTON, Texas – The Rangers will be beat often enough this year. Despite their offseason investment, they are still short of much of the American League when the game comes down to talent vs. talent. That is known and accepted.

Tribune News Service

Mike Trout Reacts to Bases Loaded Intentional Walk

The Angels all-star outfielder reacted to the decision to issue a bases loaded intentional walk in a viral video on Friday night.

Sports Illustrated

Angels Intentionally Walk Corey Seager With Bases Loaded

It is only the third such occurrence of a bases-loaded intentional walk since 1950 (and the second encouraged by Joe Maddon.)

Sports Illustrated

The Angels intentionally walked Corey Seager with the bases loaded and fans roasted them

Really, Joe Maddon?!

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Yankees Can’t Replace Aaron Judge. That’s Why He’s Going to Free Agency.

He’s a homegrown slugger with a marketable brand all his own. He and New York soon will find out how much that’s worth.

Sports Illustrated

Everything You Need to Know Entering Opening Weekend

Yesterday was an absolute blast, but it was more of an abridged version of Opening Day because there were only seven games. The other 16 teams begin their seasons today, and there are plenty of great matchups to watch. Let’s run through a few of the ones I’m most anticipating,…

Sports Illustrated

‘A team that has to prove something’: Five opening-day questions for the Dodgers

DENVER — For a team with such familiar ambitions, there were plenty of new sights sprinkled into the Los Angeles Dodgers’ finally tune-up games against the Angels this week at Chavez Ravine.

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John Romano: These MLB predictions are guaranteed to be correct — until the games begin

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When spring training began last season, the computer models at Baseball Prospectus put Atlanta’s odds of winning the National League East at 20-to-1. Eight months later, the Braves were World Series champions. That’s not a knock on analytics, it’s a nod to unpredictability.

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Tim Cowlishaw: Even after 50 years, the Texas Rangers still feel like a franchise just getting started

The home opener arrived a bit behind schedule that year — Apr. 21 to be precise — due to the first strike in Major League Baseball history. I was there as a fan on opening night, part of the crowd of just over 20,000 at barely modernized Turnpike Stadium as…

Los Angeles Times

AL West preview: Angels hope improved pitching makes them a contender

TEMPE, Ariz. — Archie Bradley played 5 1/2 seasons in Arizona, the final month of 2020 in Cincinnati and 2021 in Philadelphia, but the reliever has faced the Angels enough and followed them enough from afar to know their recent history all too well.

Los Angeles Times

NL West preview: Can anyone stop the Dodgers from winning the division?

PHOENIX — The question, tinged with incredulity, surfaced in every corner of the Major League Baseball universe last month once the Dodgers reinforced a stacked lineup with Freddie Freeman: How many games will those plucky Dodgers win in 2022?

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Bill Plaschke: Remember the 90s Braves? Dodgers must win World Series to avoid comparison.

LOS ANGELES — This is getting silly. This is getting old.

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers observations: Cody Bellinger ‘in a good spot’ with his swing progress

PHOENIX — If not for the lockout, the Los Angeles Dodgers would have been at Chavez Ravine on Thursday, opening the regular season against the Colorado Rockies.

Tribune News Service

Dodgers manager Roberts guarantees 2022 World Series win

One year after finishing second to the Giants in the NL West and being knocked out of the playoffs by the eventual champion Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers are gunning again for a World Series title.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernandez: Freddie Freeman signing could power Dodgers into baseball's legendary realm

PHOENIX — They have more power than the 1927 New York Yankees. They have the depth of the Big Red Machine, but with a designated hitter in their lineup instead of a pitcher.

Los Angeles Times

Former Dodger Corey Seager will take on a new, unfamiliar role with Rangers

SURPRISE, Ariz. — It's been more than three months since Corey Seager opted to sign with the Texas Rangers and close the door on the Dodgers, the only Major League Baseball organization he had ever known.

Sports Illustrated

Mitch Garver Trade Grades: A Win-Win for Twins and Rangers

Minnesota sent its starting catcher to Texas for shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa and a prospect.

Sports Illustrated

Three Things to Watch for As Baseball Returns

Today is a great day. I’m listening to “Take It Easy” as I begin this newsletter, temperatures in Brooklyn are in the 50s, and all of us get to look forward to some baseball. This paragraph is the last in which I’ll mention the lockout in this introduction section. You…

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