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2025 MLB Playoff picture, bracket updated with four games to go

2025 MLB Playoff picture, bracket updated with four games to go

We are down to the wire in the MLB season and teams are shifting into playoff mode and setting their sights on the road to the World Series. Check out the favorites to win the World Series. Here’s a breakdown of how the playoffs would look if the season ended the morning of September 25, 2025. 2025 MLB Playoff Picture …

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MLB playoff watch: There’s a new sheriff in the AL West; bracket, clinching scenarios

MLB playoff watch: There’s a new sheriff in the AL West; bracket, clinching scenarios

Entering play Thursday, here’s where every contending team stands with four days remaining in the regular season. Who’s in? Tickets already punched: Brewers, Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers, Blue Jays, Padres, Yankees, Mariners One night after popping bottles to celebrate clinching a postseason berth, the Seattle Mariners showered each other with champagne once again. This time, to celebrate winning the AL West …

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When MLB adopts ABS challenge system next season, who benefits and who loses?

When MLB adopts ABS challenge system next season, who benefits and who loses?

SAN FRANCISCO — No major-league catcher is better at framing pitches and coaxing borderline strike calls than Patrick Bailey. The Giants’ switch-hitting catcher leads his cohort by such a wide margin in framing metrics that he is all but assured his second consecutive National League Gold Glove Award. Bailey is so deft at presenting pitches to umpires and pulling them …

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MLB playoff watch: Yankees, Mariners punch tickets; bracket, clinching scenarios

MLB playoff watch: Yankees, Mariners punch tickets; bracket, clinching scenarios

Entering play Wednesday, here’s where every contending team stands with five days remaining in the regular season. Who’s in? Tickets already punched: Brewers, Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers, Blue Jays, Padres, Yankees, Mariners It was a buy-one-get-one-free Champagne celebration on Tuesday, as the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners punched their tickets to October. Coincidentally, the wins came in comeback fashion, with …

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MLB Competition Committee Approves Automated Ball-Strike System For 2026 Season

MLB Competition Committee Approves Automated Ball-Strike System For 2026 Season

7:33pm: Major League Baseball’s Joint Competition Committee voted 9-2 to approve the ABS challenge system, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. All six owners, three of the four players, and the lone umpire on the committee voted in favor of the change. 12:52pm: As expected, the ABS challenge system has been approved, per an MLB announcement. 11:50am: Major League Baseball’s …

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MLB will use robot umpires beginning next season

MLB will use robot umpires beginning next season

Major League Baseball will use so-called robot umpires at home plate beginning in 2026, the league announced today. The system has been tested in minor league games (as explained in this video, included below), spring training, and events like the 2025 All-Star Game. The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is seen as a fairer, more accurate way to call when a …

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10 worst collapses in MLB history: Will Tigers or Mets join list?

10 worst collapses in MLB history: Will Tigers or Mets join list?

As observers of Major League Baseball final scores, standings, and generalized fan anxiety are probably aware — acutely aware, in some cases — the Detroit Tigers and New York Mets are presently enduring collapses of varying degrees.  The “greatest” of these is of course the Tigers. As recently as July 9, they held a 14-game lead in the American League …

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