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If the season ended today, the National League batting title would not belong to Trea Turner as it did last year or Luis Arraez as it did for the two years prior. Nope, it’s Ildemaro Vargas — yes, Ildemaro Vargas — who leads all of Major League Baseball in batting average. And it’s not particularly close. If you weren’t already, it’s time to pay attention to the Diamondbacks infielder, who […]

Currently, the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers are not the team with the best record in baseball. Instead, that distinction belongs to the Atlanta Braves. But even the Dodgers sitting 3.5 games back in the MLB standings hasn't stopped bettors from backing the Boys in Blue. At BetMGM, they're still the favorites to win it all, moving to +190 from +350 since the season opened. They also have the highest […]

John Sterling, the longtime New York Yankees radio broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls, died Monday. He was 87. Sterling had undergone heart bypass surgery this winter and after the procedure was attended to by health care aides at his home in Edgewater, New Jersey. He died Monday at Englewood Hospital, according to his former wife, Jennifer. "John Sterling breathed life and excitement into Yankees games for 36 […]