Every team’s most underappreciated player

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Friday, September 2

• Here is every team’s most underappreciated player

• Strider makes Braves history with 16 K’s … and he had no idea

• In battle between NL’s best, Mets come out on top

• Yankees call up prized shortstop prospect Peraza

• Bradish makes O’s history in statement win

• Fenway fun! Sox use 4-run 9th to walk off Rangers

• Mariners’ surge comes at the perfect time

• 30-year-old rookie’s dramatic blast delivers Nats’ first walk-off

• MLB to raise awareness for childhood cancer today

• White Sox try to ‘light that spark’ with players-only meeting

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Turns out these Trade Deadline adds were perfect fits

As the calendar flips to September, it’s natural to look ahead as the postseason draws nearer. But let’s take a minute to look back.

We are now one month removed from the 2022 Trade Deadline. You might remember it as a whirlwind, frenzied few days with some huge names changing uniforms.

Leading up to that Aug. 2 cutoff, more than 140 players and prospects landed on new clubs. Many players are still acclimating to their new environments, but others have already made significant contributions. Let’s give those guys some shine in this article as we rank the players who have performed the best since being dealt on or after July 22.

The greatest catch that never was

Mariners outfielder Sam Haggerty’s Spidey senses were tingling when he jumped into the net for this foul ball, bounced backwards off it like a trampoline … and just barely missed a sensational grab.

MLB.TV has new, low price

For the duration of the 2022 regular season, you can catch all the action on MLB.TV for only $29.99. Don’t miss any of the excitement from the stretch run!

Projecting top prospects in 2024

Allow the MLB Pipeline team to briefly peer into the future and predict which prospects will sit atop Top 30 lists two years down the road.

In a perfect world, Pujols already has 700 home runs

The St. Louis slugger is six dingers shy of joining that exclusive club in our reality, but in an alternate one, in which he wasn’t robbed of multiple homers, he could already be there. Let’s take a look.

An NL East clash on Apple TV+

Trying to keep pace in the division, the red-hot Braves take on the Marlins at 7 p.m. ET, followed by the Giants hosting the Phillies in the Friday Night Baseball nightcap on Apple TV+.

The best bat flips of August

Join host AJ Andrews for a look back at the best bat flips of the month on Play Ball, Saturday at 10 a.m. ET.

Today’s Trivia Question

Who holds the record for most strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher?

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