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A.J. Ewing – LF
Juan Soto – DH
Bo Bichette – 3B
Francisco Lindor – SS
Carson Benge – RF
Luis Robert – CF
Jared Young – 1B
Marcus Semien – 2B
Luis Torrens – C
Zac Thornton – LHP
Jackson Chourio – LF
Brice Turang – 2B
William Contreras – DH
Andrew Vaughn – 1B
Garrett Mitchell – CF
Gary Sanchez – C
Luis Lara – RF
Cooper Pratt – SS
Joey Ortiz – 3B
Brandon Sproat – RHP
First pitch: 7:40 PM EDT
TV: SNY
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM, Audacy App, 92.3 HD2
Here’s the Twins’ lineup:
Here’s the Guardians’ lineup:
Let’s go, Guardians!
Game #101.
With 2 wins in the last 7 playoffs seem a long lost hope. I would like some runs. Note the plural form of the word.
We went through a nice stretch where we scored 39 runs in 6 games, just a few days ago. Could we please do that again?
There has been a little change to the lineup. Lukes is at the top, followed by Vlad and Clement. I’m not a fan of Clement leading off, so this is better for me. I’m happy to see Jonatan Clase getting some playing time.
This could be one of the last starts for Kevin Gausman in a Jays jersey. He would be a prime trade candidate. I’d try to arrange a trade for him, if I were a buyer at the deadline.
Score Jays Score
We’ve had a lot of injuries this season, but I’m almost sure none of our players have had the injury the A’s are posting for Joshua Kuroda-Grauer.
A couple of All-Stars on the mound on Tuesday night in Philadelphia.
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San Diego Padres (49-51) at Atlanta Braves (58-41), July 21, 2026, 4:15 p.m. PST
Watch: Padres.TV
Location: Truist Park – Atlanta, GA
Listen: 97.3 The Fan
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Just a year after the San Diego Padres traded for Mason Miller during the 2025 MLB Trade Deadline, he could be on the move again.
ESPN baseball insider Jeff Passan made an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” and said Miller is “definitely available,” but added that the asking price will be steep.
“Now does that mean A.J. Preller, who is one of the most prolific traders of all executives in baseball, is going to flip him? Just a year after acquiring him for Leo De Vries, who’s one of the best prospects in baseball,” Passan said. “Not necessarily.”
The news that Miller might be on the move comes four days after it was reported the Padres are open to moving him, and also a day after MLB Insider Bob Nightengale suggested the Padres move him as a way to fix their depleted farm system.
Passan went on to say that the Padres’ need for “Major League-ready starting pitching” could be what moves Miller.
The Padres’ starting rotation this season has been plagued by injuries and poor performances by veteran pitchers.
The team was expecting Joe Musgrove to rejoin the starting rotation after missing all of last season due to Tommy John Surgery. During a spring training game this year, he had a setback by hurting his elbow and has yet to throw.
Nick Pivetta has only made four starts this season due to a flexor strain. His injury comes a year after he had career-bests in ERA (2.87) and strikeouts (190) in 31 starts.
Before the year began, San Diego also found out they would be without Yu Darvish, who had Tommy John Surgery in the offseason.
San Diego’s starting rotation has also featured veteran pitchers Walker Buehler, Griffin Canning, and Germán Márquez, who are competing on one-year, prove-it deals. All three of them hold an ERA above 5.00
The future isn’t looking too bright either for San Diego, as their farm system ranks dead last in all of baseball.
“If you’re a team like the Seattle Mariners that has a deep rotation already in Ryan Sloan and Kade Anderson,” Passan said. “Two of the best pitching prospects in baseball on the cusp of being ready for the big leagues, it’s something you have to consider.”
Passan went on to list the Yankees as another potential trade partner, by creating a package that includes David Bednar, Tim Hill, Brent Headrick and relief pitcher Fernando Cruz.
The Padres and Yankees have a history of making trades together in the past, notably in 2023 when San Diego swapped Juan Soto and Trent Grisham for Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Randy Vasquez, Jhony Brito and Kyle Higashioka.
Trading Miller could be the best avenue for the Padres to fix their depleted farm system that needs pitching, as he is considered one of the best closers in baseball, having a 0.89 ERA with 75 strikeouts in 39 games this season.
The Red Sox 14-game winning streak didn’t end tonight, but it was put on pause thanks to Mother Nature. Here’s the announcement of split double header tomorrow at 1:35pm and 7:10pm straight from the team:
With this arrangement, the Red Sox could tie and break their all-time franchise winning streak of 15 straight games in the same day. It may also once again alter their starting pitching plans as they could start Ranger Suarez and Jake Bennett in these two games, especially with an off day on Thursday meaning they wouldn’t need to start either of them on short rest the next time their slot in the rotation comes around.
Either way, tomorrow promises to be a very busy day at Fenway. Let’s hope it’s also a historical one!
The Milwaukee Brewers have surged not only to the top of the NL Central standings, but they now sit atop MLB’s standings with the best record in all of baseball. Their four game winning streak post-All Star Break has helped the surge and they will look to make it a five game streak tonight.
The Brewers did offer some injury updates ahead of tonight’s game. David Hamilton is starting a rehab assignment with Triple-A Nashville and will play five innings tonight. Kyle Harrison has a 4-up live BP scheduled for Saturday and will start a rehab assignment on July 31st. DL Hall will move his rehab to Nashville and throw two innings tomorrow. Brandon Lockridge will also soon be on his way to join Triple-A and will travel there tomorrow to start his rehab assignment.
Joel Kuhnel is throwing his first bullpen session today. Sal Frelick, who had been placed on the IL with shoulder soreness underwent an arthrogram today to establish a diagnosis and a timeline to return to play.
For the game tonight, another starting pitcher will be facing his old team. This time it’s Brandon Sproat, who was acquired from the Mets in the Freddy Peralta trade over the offseason. Sproat has a 5.16 ERA on the year, which is right around where Peralta has been this season as well. His mound opponent tonight will be left-hander Zac Thornton, who is making just his fourth career start in the majors. Thornton has a 2.60 ERA.
Because it’s a left-hander, the Brewers are going to have some extra right-handed hitters in the lineup. Christian Yelich gets the night off, which allows William Contreras to slide into the DH spot, batting third. That means of course that Gary Sanchez is behind the plate tonight for Sproat. Jackson Chourio will lead off, followed by Brice Turang. Garrett Mitchell mans centerfield while Luis Lara is in right field, batting seventh. Cooper Pratt and Joey Ortiz hold down the left side of the infield and the bottom of the order.
The Mets will continue to roll out their underperforming, high-priced lineup that includes Juan Soto, Bo Bichette, Francisco Lindor, Luis Robert, and Marcus Semien. Young rookies AJ Ewing and Carson Benge are mixed throughout New York’s lineup as well.
With a win tonight, the Brewers can secure a series victory over the Mets and keep the momentum rolling even further.
Tuesday notes…
Cubs lineup:
Tigers lineup:
David Peterson has made two starts with the Cubs in which he’s thrown at least five innings and allowed no more than two runs.
Oh, yes. There’s that other start he made where he got pounded for 10 runs in 3.2 innings, the worst start of his career.
I’ll just figure that was the aberration and Peterson can continue to put up good outings.
This is Peterson’s first-ever start against the Tigers, and only two current Tigers have ever seen him. Perhaps that will be to his advantage.
There was some controversy over Framber Valdez last year when it was said he intentionally threw at his catcher because he thought the catcher had crossed him up. That delayed his free agent signing a while but eventually he signed a multi-year deal with the Tigers.
The results have been “meh.”
He’s made 19 starts with a 4.10 ERA and his K rate is down from last year, as is his average fastball velocity. His last start against the Cubs was June 29, 2025 in Houston and he threw six shutout innings. Thus most current Cubs have not seen him much, a combined 4-for-32 with 12 strikeouts.
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The first half for the D-backs was definitely a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Focusing purely on the first of these, the positive side of performances came from players both expected and surprising. But who was the team’s MVP? That’s what this week’s poll is designed to determine. I’ll leave the exact definition of “MVP” entirely up to you to decide. Factors you may – or may not – decide to include in your assessment include things such as playing time, production, salary, intangible contributions and expectations. Here’s a quick run down of the five candidates…
Despite a late slump at the plate. Carroll still finished the first half with the highest OPS of any Diamondback (min 50 plate-appearances). His 42 extra-base hits also led the team, and he was responsible for almost half of all Arizona’s triples before the break: Carroll = 10, everyone else combined = 11. He set the all-time franchise mark for three-baggers, passing Stephen Drew’s career total of 52, in almost eight hundred fewer PAs. Carroll started 93 games in the first half, most on the team.
What’s impressive about Moreno’s season is no just that he ranks close to the top of the club by both bWAR and fWAR. It’s that he is doing so, despite missing three weeks and sixteen games with a strained left oblique. He has been incandescent at the plate. Over the two months (and almost 200 PA) leading up to the All-Star break, Moreno had a slash of .341/.434/.479 for an OPS of .913. He also had more walks (27) than strikeouts (25) in that time. All that, plus managing the pitching staff and making ABS challenges too.
Expecting Perdomo to live up to his MVP-caliber season of 2025, was probably optimistic. But after a slow start – through his first 20 games he was hitting below the Uecker Line, with an OPS in the five hundreds – Perdomo has got things back on track. His plate-discipline remains as stellar as ever, with his 59 walks leading the team, and compared to only 49 strikeouts. He continues to be well-rated by the defensive metrics: Fangraphs Def currently has Geraldo at +11.3, sixth-best in the majors.
Expectations for Rodriguez were low, despite his high salary. After all, in both 2024 and 2025, his ERA was above five. But this year has been a revelation. His 2.29 ERA for the first half was the lowest by a qualifying Arizona pitcher since 2009, when Dan Haren had a 2.01 ERA. That and Randy Johnson’s 1.80 in 2000 are the only better first halves in franchise history. It led to an unexpected, yet entirely merited, first appearance in the All-Star Game for Rodriguez, now in his eleventh season.
A closer is measured, above everything else, by his ability to close games. And there, Sewald had a first half which was basically unprecedented in team history. Over the 96 games up to the break, he had 22 saves and just one blown save. No other D-backs pitcher has had even fifteen saves through 96 games, without blowing multiple save opportunities. The last with 22 saves? That was Fernando Rodney in 2017 – and he had five blown saves. Regardless of struggles elsewhere, Sewald has got it done.
Poll below, feel free to explain your choice in the comments, or provide a write-in vote for a candidate not listed here!
First Pitch: 5:40 PM CDT
TV: Twins.TV
Radio: TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM, Audacy App, LosTwins.com
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After getting back to .500 for the first time since April, the Twins dropped the last two games to the Cubs and now the first of a four game set against the Guardians. Abandon all hope etc etc. Today’s match is a battle of lefty starters Kendry Rojas and Parker Messick.
Messick features an excellent 4-seam fastball, a sinker he throws mainly against lefties, a changeup, curveball, cutter, and slider. That arsenal has carried him to an 8-5 record with a 2.73 ERA and 1.07 WHIP this season.
For Rojas, it will be his 3rd career start, as he’s mostly been used out of the bullpen. He has shown swing-and-miss stuff, but also a tendency to walk a lot of batters, as he’s struck out 22 and walked 16 in 19.1 IP.
Here are the lineups for game two against the Dodgers. Let’s discuss!
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With it being a day ending in Y, the Mets have made another roster move. The team has called up right-handed pitcher Daniel Duarte from Triple-A Syracuse and optioned fellow right-handed pitcher Xzavion Curry to Syracuse. Both pitchers have been part of the team’s roster churn at the fringe of its major league bullpen this year.
Duarte has thrown five innings for the Mets at the major league level, and he has a 0.00 ERA and a 2.50 FIP in that extraordinarily small sample. He’ll presumably get sent back to Syracuse before long, and in 30.1 innings at that level this year, he has a 4.75 ERA and a 4.96 FIP.
As for Curry, he’s thrown six innings over the course of four appearances for the Mets, and he has a 3.00 ERA and a 4.94 FIP. He’s thrown 49.1 innings for Syracuse this year, working almost exclusively as a starter, and he has a 4.74 ERA and a 5.67 FIP there.
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Welcome back to another edition of our Brewers Reacts Survey! In this week’s survey, we’re asking fans which Brewer prospect they’d be LEAST willing to part with at the trade deadline.
It seems like top prospect Jesús Made is all but untouchable, and fellow prospects Cooper Pratt and Luis Lara are both in the majors and locked into long-term deals. That left me curious: among the other top prospects in the Brewer organization, who would you least like to see moved?
Luis Peña, 19, is currently at High-A Wisconsin and ranks as Milwaukee’s No. 2 prospect (MLB No. 18). Signed in the January 2024 international class out of the Dominican Republic, he’s hitting .314/.415/.430 with a homer, seven doubles, two triples, 17 RBIs, 30 runs, and 21 steals across 35 games this year. He was also one of two prospects named to the NL Futures squad for last week’s All-Star festivities (alongside Made).
Jett Williams, 22, was drafted in the first round of the 2022 draft by the Mets and was sent to Milwaukee in the Freddy Peralta trade. Ranked as the team’s No. 5 prospect (MLB No. 78), he’s had a bit of an up-and-down season, hitting .234/.341/.385 with nine homers, nine doubles, five triples, 41 RBIs, 60 runs, and 21 steals across 80 games with Triple-A Nashville.
Josh Adamczweski, 20, is one of the quickest risers in Milwaukee’s system. A 15th-round pick in 2023, he’s with Double-A Biloxi and ranks as Milwaukee’s No. 6 prospect (MLB No. 90). He’s hit over .320 in all three of his minor league seasons (not counting the three games he played in in 2023), and he’s slashing .327/.444/.553 with 12 homers, 18 doubles, two triples, 56 RBIs, 55 runs, and 13 steals over 74 games between High-A and Double-A this year.
Lastly, Andrew Fischer, 21, is the only one of these players not ranked in MLB’s top 100 prospects, but he’s ranked as Milwaukee’s No. 7 prospect. The third baseman was the Brewers’ first-round pick in 2025, and he’s hitting .286/.432/.674 with an incredible 29 homers, 14 doubles, three triples, 67 RBIs, 75 runs, and nine steals in just 79 games between High-A and Double-A. The main reason he isn’t ranked higher is his strikeout rate, as he’s struck out 118 times in 276 at-bats.
Which of these prospects would you least like to see dealt at the deadline? Weigh in below and stay tuned for results later this week!
The stage is set as the Atlanta Braves look for a second win in this four-game series against the San Diego Padres.
Mike Yastrzemski has been added to the lineup after being reactivated coming off a forearm injury.
Against San Diego’s Walker Buehler, Yastrzemski averages a .646 OPS and .240 batting average. But, if he takes advantage of Buehler’s constant struggles at landing his pitches in the zone, Yastrzemski, along with the rest of the Braves’ offense, have the tools to come out with a win.
Matt Olson, Michael Harris II and Austin Riley have previously put up some good numbers against Buehler, all averaging over an .800 OPS, but will need to be consistent in striking while the iron’s hot. The silent bats won’t cut it, if they want to put the game away early with a qualified offensive production.
As for the Padres’ offense, they might not be as dominant as the Braves, but they sure have a variety of players on the roster who love hitting against Reynaldo López.
López’s last start against the St. Louis Cardinals wasn’t a great showing, but he does have a knack for consistency. If he can get ahead early with run-support to back him up, he’ll manage just fine.
Tune in at 7:15 p.m ET for first pitch.