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According to a report from Mark Saxon of ESPN Los Angeles, Andrew Friedman, who is the new president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has reached out to former San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Josh Byrnes to discuss the vacant Dodgers’ general manager position.

Longtime Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts announced his retirement from baseball on Friday, per Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun.

There is no such thing as "clutch," despite what the cliches and eyeball tests say. 

Baseball teams and players throughout time have been slapped with that label, but data tells us there really is no penchant for timely hitting in high-leverage situations. There is only opportunity, and the results are sometimes good, more often bad for hitters.

In a season defined by standout performances from their biggest stars, the characteristically steady managing of Bruce Bochy and, most recently, one of the great heroic blasts in postseason history, it's not easy to pick a definitive unsung hero of the 201

People will do some crazy things for World Series tickets. Just ask Kansas City Royals fan Jeremy Scheuch.

Scheuch has been tweeting at Royals stars Billy Butler, Eric Hosmer and Jeremy Guthrie asking for admission into the Fall Classic.

In return, the K.C. diehard will get a personalized unicorn tattoo on his posterior.

How can they pass this up?

It looked like we were on our way to a Game 6 in the National League Championship Series when the St. Louis Cardinals took a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday. In reality, we were on our way to a dramatic walk-off home run and a World Series date between the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants.

The Kansas City Royals have made it all the way to the World Series by virtue of one of the most improbable runs in baseball history, but the San Francisco Giants stand between them and a championship.

Although this World Series matchup may be lacking in terms of star power, it should be intriguing nonetheless. While Kansas City hasn't won a title since 1985, San Francisco is in search of its third championship in five years.

The St. Louis Cardinals didn't lose the National League Championship Series because of Mike Matheny. But the manager didn't exactly do the greatest job of preventing his club from losing—or even of putting it in position to beat the World Series-bound San Francisco Giants.

After a short league-championship round, this year's World Series is a matchup between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals.

That might as well read Madison Bumgarner vs. James Shields, as no two players are more vital to their  teams' success than the two projected to start Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

Kansas City Royals pitcher Greg Holland earned a save in each of his team's four games during the American League Championship Series against the Baltimore Orioles to join Dennis Eckersley as the only pitchers with four saves in a single LCS, per MLB Stat of the Day.