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MLB power rankings: Los Angeles Dodgers take scenic route to No. 1 spot before playoffs

This 2024 Major League Baseball season was a circuitous, bumpy, non-linear journey to the end of September, certainly for the very best teams and most certainly the Dodgers. Yet as October looms, the Dodgers find themselves atop USA TODAY Sports' final power rankings of the season.

Associated Press · 3d

Dodgers leave Freddie Freeman in Los Angeles to rest a sore right ankle ahead of the playoffs

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman didn’t make the trip to Colorado for a three-game series against the Rockies to close out the regular season so he could rest a sore ankle.

CBS Sports on MSN · 7h

MLB Power Rankings: Which playoff team is built best for a deep postseason run, World Series championship?

Here it comes: the best month of the year. I'm ecstatic for the 2024 MLB playoffs. We've had a fun season and one of the most difficult parts was trying to figure out how to rank the playoff teams. They've all been inconsistent and have flaws that might prove fatal.

Sports Illustrated on MSN · 14h

MLB Playoff Power Rankings: How Yankees, Dodgers, Other Contenders Stack Up

With the wild-card round scheduled to get underway Tuesday, here’s which teams have the best chance at winning a championship this season.

Hits leader, banned baseball player Pete Rose dies

NBC Los Angeles · 9h

Pete Rose, MLB's hit king who was banned from baseball, dies at 83

Baseball legend Pete Rose, who racked up the most hits in MLB history before being permanently banned from the sport over a gambling scandal, has died at 83.

PBS · 9h

Pete Rose, baseball phenom who was banned for gambling, dies at 83

Rose was baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied.

Penn Live · 9h

The life and career of Pete Rose, baseball hits leader and fallen idol

Rose, who died Monday at age 83, was a Cincinnati native from a working-class neighborhood whose father, like the father of Mickey Mantle, taught his son to be a switch hitter.

Buster Posey new president of baseball operations

Hosted on MSN · 16h

Giants name former catcher Buster Posey new President of Baseball Operations, replacing Farhan Zaidi

The 37-year-old Posey joined the club’s ownership group in September 2022, less than a year after his retirement in November 2021.

USA TODAY Sports on MSN · 15h

San Francisco stunner: Buster Posey named Giants president, replacing fired Farhan Zaidi

The San Francisco Giants fired president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and appointed future Hall of Fame catcher Buster Posey to that role.

The Athletic on MSN · 9h

San Francisco Giants fire Farhan Zaidi; Buster Posey new president of baseball operations

Not long after the Giants hired Farhan Zaidi to become their top baseball official prior to the 2019 season, the analytically inclined former lieutenant with the A’s and Dodgers met with season-ticket holders for a chalk talk in the home clubhouse.

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UCLA baseball loses its home field — for now — in a lawsuit over its use of veterans’ land

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to temporarily block access to UCLA's Jackie Robinson ...

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Giants fire Farhan Zaidi, name Buster Posey new president of baseball ops

The 37-year-old former MVP joined the club’s ownership group in September 2022, less than a year after his retirement in ...

UCLA baseball stadium is locked up over VA land use dispute

The orders stem from an earlier federal ruling, resolving a class action lawsuit on behalf of disabled homeless veterans in ...

UCLA baseball team locked out of home field in lawsuit over lease involving veteran land

The baseball program at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been locked out of its home stadium on veterans’ land ...

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Giants hire former catcher Buster Posey as president of baseball operations, replacing Farhan Zaidi

The San Francisco Giants have hired former catcher Buster Posey their president of baseball operations and fired Farhan Zaidi ...

Cavalier Daily3h

Hoos in the Pros: Catching up on Virginia baseball alumni ahead of the MLB Postseason

Nine former Cavaliers appeared in big league action in 2024, and two are continuing their charge into the postseason.

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Serena Williams' Newest Nike Collection Takes Style Notes from the Baseball Field and Los Angeles

Serena Williams may be the GOAT of the tennis court, but it's the ball field that's inspiring her fall wardrobe. The latest ...

Bryce Miller: Padres hold all the advantages vs. Braves, but baseball’s a fickle game

A savvy veteran like Machado knows, however, that the universe between the lines can flash a sinister sense of humor. Forget ...

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