Happy New Year, Friends! We’ve got Mookie going full Pottymouth, Carlos with extremely bad but a little funny real estate issues, and Shohei letting us cross train with Babe Didrikson. Our TEX boyfriends include a Duran upgrade and a small town boy making good, and CIN brings us a viking and an NBA smackdown. The umpires’ union says sure to the electronic strike zone, and Dave Kaval cuts and runs from the Athletics. Yadi is rocking that LIDOM manager gig, Rougie is player of the week, and there’s still time to book your travel for the Serie del Caribe.

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