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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 8h

This was Shohei Ohtani’s first home run since Aug. 18. Never seen this sort of emotion from him after a homer.

Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 17h

Really enjoyed this breakdown from Alex Bregman and Joey Votto on Shohei Ohtani's struggles and the difficulties of playing hurt in the postseason. It's constant grind mode, it's band-aiding, it's buying yourself another day only to run into the reality that days are dwindling.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 17h

The league-wide batting average this postseason is .212. The average fastball is 96.2 mph. Hitting is hard. In the postseason, it's Sisyphean. To better understand why, we spoke with Joey Votto and Alex Bregman, two of the purest hitters of this generation, for their insight.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The NLCS starts tonight. Anyone who loves great baseball should do themselves a favor and watch. Column free at ESPN: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/5015107…

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

José Ramírez is one of the best players of his generation. Not a lot of guys who can take a 100-mph top-rail fastball out of the yard. Guardians are ahead in a must-win game, 3-2.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best hitter so far this postseason does it again. As ugly as the first 12 innings of this series were for the Yankees, they’ve tied Game 2 and have Cam Schlittler on the mound at 53 pitches through three.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Max Fried said this about the Rays before their series against the Yankees began -- and it seems particularly pertinent with New York committing two errors in the first inning of Game 2.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The dream scenario of every kid. Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Bases loaded. Facing the toughest pitcher in the world to hit. Jackson Chourio made magic.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As Mune goes, so go the White Sox. And Mune went.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ben Rice is 4 for 5 with two home runs and six RBIs. He has as many hits tonight as he did the entire 2025 postseason.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Red Sox pulled Payton Tolle to give Ben Rice a different look. The look Erik Miller gave him was a middle-middle fastball.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The American League MVP finishing with a flourish. Yordan Alvarez has been the best hitter in baseball this year and it’s not close.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's been 10 years since Dee Strange-Gordon hit one of the most incredible home runs in baseball history. It came the day after one of his best friends, José Fernández, died, and he's convinced it was divine intervention.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Within the span of five days, Junior Caminero has hit two walk-off homers, including one to clinch a playoff berth. He leads the AL with 41 homers and has done his best to mount a late run at stealing the AL MVP award away from the favored Yordan Alvarez.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last week, I asked every MLB team to speak with its owner on camera. They’re less than three months from shutting down the sport via a lockout, and I wanted to hear their explanation for why they think a salary cap is worth the fallout that's bound to come. None agreed to talk.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Scott Van Pelt, Jeremy Schaap and the ESPN family remember Barry Melrose.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The city with the most compelling case for MLB expansion right now: Salt Lake City. It's got an owner. It's got a public-private partnership to fund a stadium. And it's got a site that's already being developed. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox talked with us about how far ahead SLC is.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

John Paciorek debuted as an 18-year-old for the Houston Colt .45s in 1963. He went 3 for 3 with four runs, three RBIs and two walks. He never played in MLB again. It was the greatest one-game career in MLB history, and it happened in September, a month that breeds great stories.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Joey Votto's explanation of how difficult it is to pull the ball in the air is exceptional. Fly balls and line drives to the pull side have a .584 batting average and 1.313 OPS this year, so more and more players are being encouraged and taught to do it. But it's not easy.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🚨Coming tomorrow🚨 We thought we'd heard the last new words from Ted Williams, that we'd never have more to learn from the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived. We were wrong.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Joshua Báez has rare power and took the first big league pitch he saw nearly 450 feet to dead center. He’s going to be a a real problem. With JJ Wetherholt, Jordan Walker, Alec Burleson and Iván Herrera already, Cardinals have the makings of something good

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Seattle Mariners were a chic World Series pick this year. Three-quarters of the way through the season, they are arguably the most disappointing team in baseball. What happened?

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

From the latest episode of Sources Tell Jeff Passan: Where things stand with the Tigers and Tarik Skubal.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is what it looks like when a guy throws 66 fastballs and every single one of them is in triple digits. The average: 102.8 mph.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

CJ Abrams is the hottest hitter on the planet. Post-All-Star break, Abrams leads MLB in OPS (1.632), HR (7) and RBIs (15). He has more homers by himself in the second half than the Blue Jays, Orioles, Mariners, Twins, White Sox, Cardinals and Angels.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

AL All-Star leading vote-getter Ernie Clement is part of the Bills Mafia and went through a table at his tailgate, alongside a gnarled old Bills-themed RV called Precious. He also answered the vital question: When it's 8 a.m., should you drink a wedge or Labatt Blue Light?

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We did an All-Star episode and Paul Skenes had some thoughts on great Americans.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

On July 2, the Boston Red Sox were in last in the AL East, had the fourth-worst record in the league and were 6.5 games back of the final wild card spot with six teams to leap. Today, the Red Sox are a half-game behind Minnesota and Seattle for that final wild card spot.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Junior Caminero told a catcher not to call a fastball again or he'd hit a home run. The catcher called a fastball. Caminero hit a home run. And then he flipped his bat more than 40 feet in the air. The full story behind the "I can't believe it" home run.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Junior Caminero is a superstar -- and we have a whole episode about it.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Be careful what you consume on Fourth of July weekend and do not be like Rickey Henderson.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Madonna wanted to know what Jose Canseco looked like outside of a uniform. So after batting practice one day, Canseco went for an impromptu photo shoot with Michael Zagaris and put together what would be known as his Beefcake Book -- an album of glamour shots to send to her.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Every photo of an athlete, rock star and president in this video taken by one man. He has given us a unique view of the world — and especially the sports world — for six decades. With @Buck providing the soundtrack, the wild life of Michael Zagaris.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Jo Adell robbed three home runs in a game earlier this season, and after ending up in the stands on the last one, surrounded by fans patting him on the back and taking incredible photos of the scene, he said it felt like an out-of-body experience.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The goal of our latest episode was to do our small part in demystifying labor. It's inherently byzantine, but, as Hall of Famer Tom Glavine says, it's too important to let the complexities make it all sound like Charlie Brown's teacher. An informed fan base is a good fan base.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

An all-time pitching performance by Jacob Misiorowski. He threw a one-hit Maddux and punched 15. The most in a >99-pitch shutout before was Tarik Skubal's 13. This is Miz finding out in real time what he can be. The velocity is mind-bending. All of it is.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pennies = outs. Or: How Turk Wendell, the king of baseball superstition, tried to bribe the baseball gods.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Chicago White Sox are fun as hell.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Beware Turk Wendell's dreaded Vaseline ball.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Don't step on the foul line. Don't ever talk about a no-hitter. Eat chicken every day. Break up a slump with a golden thong. Wear a rally cap. Brush your teeth between innings. Sports is full of superstitions -- and none more so than baseball. So we talked with the king of 'em.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Keith Hernandez was the king of New York in the 1980s. No one could resist him, whether it was bouncers at the China Club, Elaine Benes or the New York Mets fans that revered him as the captain of the 1986 World Series champions.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’ve been watching a lot of the Juco World Series this week on ESPN+, and it’s the purest form of baseball I’ve seen in ages. No K zone. No radar gun. Dodgy field. Just guys chasing dreams and a ring. I couldn't love it more. Especially considering this is who’s pitching tonight.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

He is also the only one with a Pokémon bathroom.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Jacob Misiorowski is one of the best pitchers in the world. He also has a binder of Pokémon cards that is nearly as large as him -- and he is 6-foot-7.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

David Ortiz waited for almost two decades to exact revenge on Joe West for calling him ugly.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Joe West wanted to eject me from my own show.

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