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Panthers bring back Cole Schwindt, who was part of trade that landed Matthew Tkachuk
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Cole Schwindt was a player the Florida Panthers reluctantly included in the trade that brought them Matthew Tkachuk from Calgary three years ago.
And now, the Panthers brought Schwindt back.
The two-time defending Stanley Cup champions claimed Schwindt off waivers Friday — a move that, somewhat ironically, figures to help them get through playing without Tkachuk for the first few weeks of the season.
“We had him before and we know what he can do,” Florida president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Zito said. “There’s a lot of upside. It’s a great opportunity for him.”
Schwindt — who was in the deal that sent Jonathan Huberdeau, Mackenzie Weegar and draft capital to the Flames for Tkachuk in 2022 — spent last season with Vegas, playing in 42 games and finishing with a goal and seven assists. He played in three games with Florida in 2021-22 and four games with Calgary in 2023-24, never registering a point in either of those stops.
But with Tkachuk out until probably December, and with captain Aleksander Barkov expected to miss most if not the entire season with torn knee ligaments, Florida needed to replenish its depth. Schwindt was placed on waivers Thursday by Vegas and the Panthers won the claim.
Schwindt’s brother, Kai Schwindt, is also part of the Panthers organization. Kai Schwindt was in camp with the team this fall and was assigned earlier this week to Florida’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte.
Phillies selling nine bite-sized hot dogs, nine tiny beers to help fans complete 9-9-9 challenge
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies want to fuel their fans on a postseason run with a bit of gluttony through a small-scale twist on the popular 9-9-9 challenge.
The Phillies are selling nine bite-sized hot dogs paired with nine tiny beers — each not much more than a shot glass’ worth — in a one-stop box complete with a scorecard to keep track of the total.
The 9-9-9 challenge has gone viral as baseball fans try to drink nine regular beers and eat nine standard hot dogs during a game. The Phillies are offering the beer-and-dog combo in one package for $54.99 in section 128, starting with Saturday’s Game 1 of the NL Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park.
“9-9-9 is a regular season, middle of the summer challenge with your crew. October baseball is lock-in time,” retired NFL star JJ Watt wrote on social media.
Watt completed the full-size challenge over 5 1/2 innings earlier this summer at a Milwaukee Brewers game.
The Phillies are also selling stuffed turkey eggrolls and s’mores espresso martinis on their postseason menu.
The team and vendor Aramark were already selling Bader Tots, named for outfielder Harrison Bader. At the baseball home of cheesesteaks and crab fries, the tots come like the heart of the Phillies’ order: loaded. They’re topped with American cheese sauce, crumbled bacon, cheddar Jack cheese, sour cream and scallions.
The Phillies ended their popular $1 hot dog nights ahead of the 2024 season and replaced them with a 2-for-1 promotion on select dates.
Clayton Kershaw to pitch out of bullpen in NL Division Series against Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Los Angeles Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw will pitch out of the bullpen in the NL Division Series against Philadelphia.
A three-time Cy Young Award winner, the 37-year-old left-hander is set to retire at the end of the postseason. He was left off the 26-man roster when the Dodgers swept Cincinnati in the Wild Card Series.
“He’ll be on the roster. He’s going to be out of the pen and used as such,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Friday.
Kershaw went 11-6 with a 3.32 ERA this season and has started 451 of 455 regular season games, all with Los Angeles. He has 32 starts and seven relief appearances in the postseason.
The 11-time All-Star and 2014 NL MVP is tied with Zack Wheat and Bill Russell for the most years with the Dodgers in franchise history. Kershaw won World Series championships in 2020 and 2024.
Though Kershaw missed the start of the year while recovering from offseason surgery, he was healthy the remainder of the 2025 campaign and quite effective.
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Doctor details how Bryce Eldridge's left wrist injury could impact his batting
Doctor details how Bryce Eldridge's left wrist injury could impact his batting originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Bryce Eldridge‘s road to recovery officially is underway after undergoing surgery Thursday on his left wrist to remove a bone spur.
His recovery is estimated to take eight weeks, and the Giants’ No. 1 prospect should be good to go come 2026 spring training.
Stanford Medicine’s Amy Ladd, M.D., spoke to NBC Sports Bay Area’s Tristi Rodriguez more in-depth about Eldridge’s injury and further broke down the different ways in which a bone spur can develop.
“So, a bone spur is an extra piece of bone, and it can either come from a bone because you were born with it –sometimes you can have little ‘pebbles’ as you might call them, which are extra bones adjacent to a normal bone you’d expect, and sometimes they exist because of traction,” Dr. Ladd said. “Traction is pulling, so if there’s a tendon or a ligament that’s been pulling on it from a chronic tendinitis, for example, or there’s been an injury where there’s kind of a pull-off of a bit of a bone and it creates in its wake a little spur, a little extra bone.”
Dr. Ladd also explained the stages Eldridge will go through after the surgery that will lead up to him eventually being cleared to return to the field.
“Probably what will happen is the bone spur will be removed, and he will be immobilized,” Dr. Ladd said. “He’ll be in some sort of a splint for a few weeks with progressive range of motion, but not strengthening, not resistance training. And that [strength training] usually happens in month two, so somewhere between four and eight weeks is strengthening and return to play.
“And that latter part is reproducing motion, throwing, catching, fielding, etc. would be in that rehab leading up to the eighth week.”
Eldridge missed the first month of the 2025 season in the minors with a left wrist injury that occurred during spring training. But he was lights out upon his return, playing 34 games at Double-A before being promoted to Triple-A, where he finished with 18 home runs in 66 games.
After much anticipation, the former No. 16 overall draft pick finally joined the big-league roster in mid-September in an effort to help San Francisco make a late postseason push. But the 6-foot-7 first baseman struggled with his bat during his short-lived majors debut campaign as he finished the season with a .107 average in just 10 games played.
Dr. Ladd also discussed the possibility of Eldridge, who bats left and throws right-handed, potentially reinjuring or reaggravating his left wrist.
“So, it may be somehow that the batting is the most aggravating,” Dr. Ladd said. “I don’t know the details, but any time you put a wrist or a finger or something in an extreme position, then you’re more likely to, what we call ‘impingement,’ to impinge, to kind of catch. So, if there were a crowding from a bone spur, that’s where you’d probably see it.
“So, batting may be more of an issue. So, he bats left-handed, which would mean he puts extreme wrist motion on the left hand. And he throws right-handed, so he catches with his left hand. So, same kind of impact in catching.”
The Giants will hold their breath during Eldridge’s recovery, and keep their fingers crossed for two months.
Texas Rangers hire Skip Schumaker as manager, signing former Marlins skipper to four-year deal
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers hired Skip Schumaker as their manager Friday night, agreeing on a four-year contract with the former NL Manager of the Year, who had been in their organization for the past year.
Schumaker’s deal was announced after Chris Young, the president of baseball operations, acknowledged earlier in the day that the Rangers were focused on an internal candidate in their search to replace Bruce Bochy. Schumaker had been in a senior advisory role with the team since last November.
The 45-year-old Schumaker was the 2023 NL Manager of the Year when Miami went 84-78 and made the fourth postseason appearance in club history. That was the same year Texas, with Bochy in his debut there, won its only World Series championship.
“While I attained a good understanding of the organization through my front office role this past season, the conversations with Chris Young, (general manager) Ross Fenstermaker, and others this week have only intensified my interest in this opportunity,” Schumaker said in a statement. “I can’t wait to begin the work for 2026.”
The Rangers and the 70-year-old Bochy, a four-time World Series champion who was baseball’s winningest active manager, agreed Monday to end his managerial stint. That was the day after Texas finished 81-81 for its second non-winning record since its championship. Bochy was at the end of his three-year contract.
The Marlins slipped to 62-100 in 2024 after changes in the front office and with a roster decimated by trades and injuries. Schumaker and the team agreed that he wouldn’t return for this season.
Texas then hired Schumaker for the advisory position, a move viewed by many as making him the heir apparent to Bochy.
“We are thrilled to announce this promotion and have Skip leading this club in the dugout,” Young said in a statement. “Over his past year as a senior advisor to our baseball operations group, Skip has proven to be driven, passionate and thorough in everything he does. He has a winning spirit and energy, and we are fortunate that someone so highly regarded in the industry has agreed to become our manager.”
The Rangers became the first of eight major league teams to fill a managerial vacancy. Young wouldn’t say earlier in the day if any other teams had requested permission to speak with Shumaker.
Before going to Miami, Schumaker was on San Diego’s staff from 2018-21 and then was the bench coach for St. Louis, where he played for the Cardinals during their 2011 World Series win over Texas. He played 11 big league seasons with St. Louis (2005-12), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2013) and Cincinnati (2014-15).
Schumaker will take over a Rangers team that for the first time in franchise history this year led the majors in ERA (3.47), and will bring back starting pitchers Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi and Jack Leiter. Texas also set a single-season MLB record with its .99112 fielding percentage, bettering the 2013 Baltimore Orioles’ mark of .99104.
But the Rangers ranked 26th in the majors with a .234 batting average and 22nd with 684 runs scored.
“It was a little bit bittersweet. It was painful to really see some of the things that we did so well, and then also there was optimism to know that we did so many things so well and came up short,” Young said earlier Friday. “But there’s a lot to look forward to moving forward, and I think there’s a lot of optimism I have that this is going to get corrected quickly. I mean, we’re not talking about a 20-game jump here to make the playoffs.”
Fenstermaker said while Schumaker lives on the West Coast, he had been very involved with the team in his advisory role.
“He’d spend time with us and many different folks in the front office, add his perspective, his wisdom. He was around and available a lot,” Fenstermaker said. “We probably talked to him every few days, if not daily, throughout the course of the year and bounce ideas off him and get his perspective.”
Bochy has been offered an advisory role in the Rangers’ front office. He also could be in line for such a position with the San Francisco Giants, though he isn’t a candidate for the managerial opening of the team he led to World Series titles in 2010, ’12 and ’14.
With 2,252 wins, Bochy is sixth among major league managers, with the five ahead of him all in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was 249-237 with the Rangers.
Minnesota Wild Release Defenseman Jack Johnson From His Professional Tryout
ST. PAUL, Minn - The Minnesota Wild made a few roster moves on Friday. The Wild first claimed defenseman Daemon Hunt off of waivers from the Columbus Blue Jackets and recalled defenseman Matt Kiersted from the Iowa Wild.
In addition to these moves, the Wild released defenseman Jack Johnson from his professional tryout (PTO).
Johnson, 38, has played in 1,228 NHL games in his career across 19 seasons. He was set to play in his 20th NHL season if the Wild would have signed him but they just released him from his PTO which makes him a free agent now.
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Yankees at Blue Jays – ALDS Game 1 prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, trends, and stats
Saturday afternoon, the New York Yankees (94-68) and the Toronto Blue Jays (94-68) take the field at Rogers Centre for Game 1 of their Divisional Round playoff series. The Jays won the American League East and secured the top seed in the American League playoffs thanks to an 8-5 record in 13 games against the Yankees.
The Yankees defeated the Red Sox in the Wild Card round, two games to one. Rookie Cam Schlittler was outstanding for New York allowing just five singles over eight shutout innings while striking out 12. Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe each hit .364 in the series to pace the attack.
The Blue Jays calling card has been their offense this season. They led baseball with a .265 average scoring an average of 4.9 runs per game (fourth best in baseball). Toronto strikes out just 6.8 times per game (second best in baseball). Vlad Guerrero Jr. paced the Jays’ attack. The slugger hit .292 with 23 home runs and 84 RBIs. Bo Bichette has been another key part of Toronto’s success. He has been hampered by an issue with his knee. If he is unable to play, that is a massive blow to the Jays’ chances in this series.
Luis Gil is slated to take the mound for New York against Kevin Gausman for Toronto in the series opener.
Lets dive into the matchup and find a sweat or two.
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Game details & how to watch Yankees at Blue Jays
- Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
- Time: 4:08PM EST
- Site: Rogers Centre
- City: Toronto, ON
- Network/Streaming: FOX
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Odds for the Yankees at the Blue Jays
The latest odds as of Saturday courtesy of DraftKings:
- Moneyline: Yankees (+105), Blue Jays (-125)
- Spread: Blue Jays -1.5 (+167)
- Total: 8.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Yankees at Blue Jays
- Pitching matchup for October 4, 2025: Luis Gil vs. Kevin Gausman
- Yankees: Luis Gil (4-1, 3.32 ERA)
- Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman (10-11, 3.59 ERA)
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Top betting trends & insights to know ahead of Yankees at Blue Jays
- Aaron Judge is 17-48 (.354) with 12 HRs against Kevin Gausman in his career
- Paul Goldschmidt is 10-22 (.455) in his career against Kevin Gausman
- Toronto won 8 of 13 games against the Yankees during the regular season
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Dennis Hildeby Set to Start For Maple Leafs in Final Pre-Season Game Against Red Wings, Where To Watch
The Toronto Maple Leafs will take another look at Dennis Hildeby in their final pre-season game on Saturday against the Detroit Red Wings.
In a 1-on-1 interview conducted by TSN’s Darren Dreger, Coach Berube revealed that the plan for the game at Little Caesars Arena will see Hildeby start with James Reimer slated to back him up.
“Hildeby has made a lot of good steps this year, for me, coming into camp from last year. I love the size, the passion he has for the game. He’s a good character kid,” Berube said on Friday.
The response came after Dreger asked about Toronto’s goaltending situation.
'I Haven't Had That Much Fun In A Long Time': James Reimer Reflects On First Maple Leafs Practice in 9 Years And When He May PlayJames Reimer stepped onto the ice in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey for the first time in over nine years on Saturday and the veteran NHL goaltender couldn't stop smiling from ear-to-ear.
With Joseph Woll sidelined, the long-term goaltending picture beyond Stolarz remains unclear. Woll departed the in training camp to tend to a personal matter with no timeline for a return. Given that Anthony Stolarz’s career high in games played is 34, it’s understandable that Berube didn’t sound 100 percent confident of the current situation.
“We’re going to have to see on that but this is what we’ve got,” Berube said.
Stolarz has been reliable in his pre-season performance, most recently making 40 saves in a 3-1 loss to the Red Wings on Thursday. The goaltender signed a four-year, $15 million contract earlier this week.
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The Leafs brought veteran Reimer in on a professional tryout, but the team's plan for the 37-year-old veteran is becoming increasingly opaque as they give Hildeby the chance to prove he’s ready for regular reps as a backup at the NHL level. Berube said Reimer will back up, suggesting Reimer may not see any pucks against one of the teams he’s played for in his career.
Hildeby, who was slotted as Toronto’s third goaltender, signed a new three-year deal worth $2.525 million. Through 99:29 of work in the pre-season, he has posted a 1-0-0 record with a .944 save percentage and 1.21 goals-against average. Making his NHL debut in 2024-25, Hildeby posted a 3-3-0 record with a 0.878 save percentage and 3.16 goals-against average. Toronto drafted the 6-foot-7 Swedish netminder in the fourth round (122nd overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft.
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Rest of the lineup?
The Leafs are expected to reveal their game lineup when they take part in a morning skate at Ford Performance Centre on Saturday before traveling to Detroit.
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Maple Leafs fans will be able to stream the game on TSN4 in Canada.
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Flyers Won't Guarantee Rodrigo Abols an NHL Roster Spot
Despite some strong individual moments in the preseason, the Philadelphia Flyers aren't handing an NHL roster spot to forward Rodrigo Abols just yet.
The Flyers are still deliberating on whether to keep 14 forwards and seven defensemen, or 13 forwards and eight defensemen.
If the Flyers opt for the former, Abols can count himself in. If it's the latter, it's down to the Latvian or 2024 first-round pick Jett Luchanko, but not both.
Theoretically, the Flyers wouldn't keep Luchanko, 19, around if he wasn't going to play. Luchanko made it through four NHL games with the Flyers last year, but ultimately didn't get a full nine-game audition and sat out for some contests, too.
The two pressing issues working against each other are the Flyers' aversion to sending Luchanko back to the lowly OHL Guelph Storm, and head coach Rick Tocchet preferring to have an eight-defenseman roster.
NHL Waiver Wire: Flyers Should Take a Chance on Recently Cut 11th Overall PickWith perpetuated struggles on defense, the Philadelphia Flyers must keep an open mind towards their options, internally and externally, at the position.
The latter is particularly prudent, too, because the battle for a roster spot on defense has been markedly poor, and even the incumbent Egor Zamula has already been challenged for his poor play.
Until someone stands out and takes the reins, the Flyers might be better off carrying eight defenders. That tips the scales in Abols's favor.
However, Tocchet himself still wants to see more from the 29-year-old.
"He's got to pay the mortgage, right? He wants to be an NHL player. It's my job to to give feedback to him on how to be an NHL player. For him, he's 6-foot-4, pretty good skater, got a hell of a shot, and there's some things there, but there's more for him to be an NHL player," Tocchet said Wednesday.
"There is something there, and now he's got to find it, right? When you're on the bubble, you've got to do something consistently every day. That's the rules of the NHL. You've got to see it from him every day."
Tocchet went as far as to say Abols was "trending" towards becoming an NHL player, but wouldn't make that declaration yet.
Abols did not play against the New York Islanders on Thursday night, whereas Luchanko took warmups and also did not play.
The fate of the two players could be decided Saturday when the Flyers host the New Jersey Devils at Xfinity Mobile Arena at 12:30 p.m., though it's unclear if either player will play at the time of this writing.
What is clear is that Abols has at least forced the Flyers to make a hard decision heading into the final days of the preseason and training camp, and that's progress from this time last year.
Time will tell if the former seventh-round pick has enough juice to finish the job and get himself over the line.