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The Brewers couldn’t capitalize on their first chance to close out the Cubs, as they dropped a 4-3 contest at Wrigley Field this evening. Chicago put up a four spot against Quinn Priester in the first inning, building a 4-1 cushion from which the Milwaukee bats couldn’t recover. Priester didn’t make it out of the first. Manager Pat Murphy used five pitchers — Nick Mears, Jose Quintana, Grant Anderson, Jared Koenig and Chad Patrick — to combine for 7 1/3 scoreless frames out of the bullpen. The damage had been done, however, and the Brewers will need to try to close things out again tomorrow. Neither Milwaukee nor the Cubs have announced a starter for tomorrow’s game, though ESPN’s Jesse Rogers reports that Chicago will give the ball back to Matthew Boyd. The Brewers pummeled Boyd for six runs in the first inning in Game 1 and cruised to a victory behind Freddy Peralta. Milwaukee could turn back to Peralta on four days rest for the same matchup, though Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes that they’ve worked to provide their starters with an extra rest day when possible during the season. Saving Peralta for a potential Game 5 on Saturday would probably mean the Brewers go back to a bullpen game, which they did in Game 2. Aaron Ashby opened that contest and surrendered a three-run homer to Seiya Suzuki, but the Brewers blanked the Cubs from then on and won 7-3. Running a bullpen game one day after their starter failed to escape the first inning isn’t ideal, but Murphy mostly relied on lower-leverage arms tonight. The Brewers stayed away from Ashby, Jacob Misiorowski, Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill entirely. Koenig only threw seven pitches and is surely still in the mix for tomorrow. On the position player side, Jackson Chourio played the full eight innings in left field tonight. He went 1-4 with a strikeout. Chourio has battled a nagging right hamstring injury and made early exits in favor of defensive substitute Brandon Lockridge in Games 1 and 2. Those were mostly precautionary absences with Milwaukee holding decent leads. Meanwhile, Rhys Hoskins is watching the NLDS from the dugout, a difficult outcome for a player who had a solid season. Even though he didn’t make the postseason roster, Hoskins has remained involved as a teammate. “You got to play the hand that you’re dealt and try to help these guys accomplish the goal we set out to do,” the first baseman told Hogg in a separate column at the Journal Sentinel. With Andrew Vaughn and Jake Bauers handling first base duties, the Brewers opted for Lockridge to add a speed element and provide cover for Chourio with their final roster spot. While Hoskins admitted to being frustrated, he accepted the role of supportive teammate after Murphy pushed to keep him in the mix. “He’s a great voice for these young players,” Murphy told Hogg. “He’s also well-respected and being genuine really adds to our whole unit.” The NLDS exclusion wasn’t the first time Hoskins was pushed aside this season. After the veteran went down with a thumb injury in early July, Vaughn emerged as a key cog in the middle of Milwaukee’s lineup. Hoskins was limited to bench duties once he rejoined the team in September. The lefty-hitting Bauers provides more balance in a platoon with the right-handed Vaughn. Hoskins was hitting .242/.340/.428 across 318 plate appearances when he suffered the injury. That opened the door for Vaughn, who cemented himself in the lineup with a monster performance as soon as he was recalled from Triple-A. Hoskins was limited to pinch-hitting when he returned, going 1-10 in eight games. There’s a decent chance he’s made his final appearance with the Brewers. The team will buy him out for $4MM in lieu of an $18MM mutual option. He’ll be a free agent and almost certainly will head to a team that has more at-bats available at first base. Milwaukee could still swap Hoskins onto the roster for future playoff rounds should they advance, but they’re already carrying 14 position players. While Lockridge would probably be the player they might swap out, they’ll be reluctant to subtract outfield depth while Chourio is at less than full strength. View the full article

http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/USATSI_27275825.jpgMatt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs stayed alive in the National League Division Series on Wednesday, narrowly beating the Brewers in a 4-3 Game 3 squeaker. Neither starting pitcher went long, with both teams needing to go relatively deep into their bullpens to finish out the contest; a combined 10 relievers were used. Carlos Zambrano threw out the ceremonial first pitch, 13 years after his final game in the majors — Big Z’s former teammate, Rich Hill, appeared for the Royals in 2025 and is older than him — but things got off to an inauspicious start for the Cubs after that, as a lazy curve from starter Jameson Taillon was far less lazily lashed down the first base line into right field for a Christian Yelich double. After a Jackson Chourio groundout, Taillon lost the strike zone a bit, walking Brice Turang to put runners on first and second for William Contreras. Contreras hit an infield single to load the bases. Of course, that’s burying the lede a bit, but you couldn’t see that I was making the air quotes gesture with my fingers while I was writing that sentence. The “infield single” was anything but; it was a popup on the infield that Michael Busch lost in the sun while his sunglasses remained unused on his cap. Both Carson Kelly and Nico Hoerner ran over, but they weren’t in time to salvage the play. Dansby Swanson ran over as well, which became a problem when Kelly picked up the ball but had nobody to actually throw to for an attempted forceout of Turang. Since the Cubs won the game anyway, this play needn’t elicit any high emotions, but it’s still worth addressing the infield fly issue. One of the keys to calling an infield fly is whether, based on the umpire’s judgment, a play can be made by an infielder with ordinary effort. Even if the popup was hit in a place that typically makes for an easy play, the sun was a factor, and from Busch’s arm shimmying at first, it was clear pretty quickly that it wasn’t as routine of a play as it typically might be. Without the umpire’s call, there was no infield fly. Disaster didn’t ensure, however, and while Sal Frelick’s sac fly scored Yelich from third to put Milwaukee on the board, a Caleb Durbin flyout put an end to an inning the Cubs were no doubt happy to have escaped with just a 1-0 deficit. For Quinn Priester and the Brewers, the bottom half of the frame was a nearly unmitigated disaster. For the Cubs, it was a textbook example of the power of plate discipline when used wisely. Priester wasn’t absurdly wild in his inning of work, but the Cubs worked the count against him like they were participants in a Kevin Youkilis-themed fantasy camp, taking Priester deep into every plate appearance and swinging at the meaty stuff. Chicago’s batters only whiffed on three of their 17 swings against Priester, and of the three balls that were put in play that inning, all three had an exit velocity over 100 mph. Busch’s leadoff home run tied the game at 1-1, and a pair of singles and walks scored two more. With runners on first and third and two outs, Priester’s day was at an end. Nick Mears came in and allowed a fourth run with a fastball well down and away, scoring Ian Happ from third. After walking Swanson, Mears whiffed Matt Shaw with a bunch of fastballs. That Happ run was the last one the Cubs scored in Game 3. Having to cover 8 1/3 innings, the Brewers’ bullpen mostly stayed out of trouble, with just two brief rallies that came to naught. Jose Quintana’s most dangerous moment came in the fourth after a screaming double into the ivy for Seiya Suzuki and a walk to Happ after getting ahead 0-2. He cleaned up his own mess, however, setting Kelly, Pete Crow-Armstrong, and Swanson down in order. Quintana’s outing wasn’t exactly a shining moment, but he kept Chicago from doing any further damage. He didn’t miss many bats, and while that isn’t unusual for him, he also didn’t induce much in the way of soft contact. After Quintana’s three innings of work, Grant Anderson contributed two of his own, only allowing a two-out hit to Swanson in the sixth that came to nothing. He was on the mound, however, for one of the funnier plays of the game — well, maybe not if you’re a Cubs coach — after inheriting Kyle Tucker at first base from Quintana. Tucker appeared to decide on a weird compromise between leading off first and stealing second, resulting in him being caught awkwardly in no man’s land. He was nipped trying to get back to first far too late. Chicago’s last fruitless attempt to add an insurance run came in the seventh after singles by Hoerner and Tucker knocked Jared Koenig out of the game. Chad Patrick came into the finish the Cubs for the inning and then again in the eighth. For their part, the Brewers spent the game trying to chip away at that three-run deficit from the first inning. Taillon settled down after the game’s initial shenanigans, but one-out singles from Frelick and Durbin put the tying run at the plate in the fourth. A third single from Jake Bauers trimmed the deficit to two runs. A safety squeeze from Brandon Lockridge was hit too hard, leaving the Cubs with plenty of time to trap Durbin, the runner on third, in a rundown, though Bauers did advance to third, while Lockridge reached second. Drew Pomeranz had only just started warming up, and Taillon finished the innings with no further damage. Pomeranz and Daniel Palencia mowed down the Brewers for two innings, but Andrew Kittredge didn’t fare nearly as well in the seventh. Bauers, who explored pitching this spring in order to have a better chance of continuing his big league career, had his second big hit, a round-tripper on Kittredge’s first offering. Kittredge recovered to close out the rest of the inning, but allowed a leadoff double to Chourio in the eighth before being yanked for Caleb Thielbar. Thielbar managed to get strike four on Turang — strike three was pretty awfully de-framed by the catcher Kelly into a ball — but Contreras walked to continue the rally. Frelick just barely beat out a grounder to deny Thielbar a double play to end the inning. Manager Craig Counsell apparently was uninterested in seeing Thielbar take on Durbin to see which Caleb reigned supreme, and brought in Brad Keller. Keller immediately walked Durbin, and a pitch clock violation got Bauers a free ball to start his at-bat. But redemption was in the forecast rather than tragedy; Keller whiffed Bauers, then set the Brewers down in order in the ninth to finish things, making up for an ugly appearance last week that almost gave the Padres their comeback. There it ended, 4-3 Cubs. The Cubs remain the underdogs, having to win two games in a row, but their 2025 season will continue at least one more day. Source View the full article

After recording a career-high 32 saves in 2025, right-hander Emilio Pagán has expressed interest in rejoining the Reds. “I’d love to be back and run it back with them and take another run at it,” Pagán told Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The pending free agent has spent the past two seasons in Cincinnati’s bullpen. Pagán stepped in as manager Terry Francona’s preferred 9th inning option after Alexis Díaz went down with a hamstring injury in the spring. He entered the year with 33 career saves across eight MLB seasons. Pagán nearly doubled that mark as the Reds’ stopper, going 32-for-38 in save opportunities. He notched a 2.88 ERA across a career-high 70 appearances. Pagán was tied with Aroldis Chapman and Jhoan Duran for fifth in the league in saves. A solid campaign with Minnesota in 2023 earned Pagán a two-year, $16M deal with Cincinnati ahead of the 2024 season. Injuries limited him to 38 innings in his first year with the team. He spent time on the IL with triceps tightness and a lat strain. The latter issue cost him more than two months. Pagán struggled when healthy, pitching to a 4.50 ERA with a bloated 1.34 WHIP. He was set to open the 2025 season on the periphery of Cincinnati’s late-inning mix, but Díaz’s injury opened the door for another reliever to step forward. Despite having former closers Taylor Rogers and Scott Barlow on the roster, it was Pagán and Tony Santillan who emerged as the top candidates for the role. Both pitchers earned a save within the team’s first 10 games, but Santillan wouldn’t get his second save until early June. By then, Pagán had run away with the job. The closer role wasn’t completely foreign to Pagán, but it had been a while since he had spent the majority of a season in the position. He served as Tampa Bay’s primary closer in 2019 after Diego Castillo and Jose Alvarado faltered. Pagán earned 20 saves that year. He was dealt to San Diego in the offseason, and then to Minnesota a couple of years later. Pagán opened the 2022 season as the Twins’ closer, but lost the job to Duran after an extended stretch of poor performance. Pagán will be one of many intriguing names on the closer market this offseason. Devin Williams, Ryan Helsley, and Raisel Iglesias are free agents. Edwin Díaz and Robert Suarez could opt out of their current deals and hit the open market. Kenley Jansen, Luke Weaver, Kirby Yates, Ryan Pressly, and Kyle Finnegan have extensive late-inning experience. Pagán’s best choice might be to stick with the club where he just posted a career season. It sounds like the interest is mutual, too. Team president Nick Krall told Wittenmyer that Pagán would be “tremendous to have back.” Krall added that the veteran “fits in the culture of our bullpen.” The Reds should certainly have the financial flexibility to add in free agency. FanGraphs’ RosterResource tool has them below $100MM for next year’s payroll, though the team does have an ample group of arbitration-eligible players. The club had a payroll of around $120MM this past season. Cincinnati is stuck paying $13MM to Jeimer Candelario next year, but he’s currently the only player on the books for more than seven figures in 2026, assuming they decline the $12MM mutual option on Austin Hays. If the Reds don’t make any additions to the bullpen, they’re likely looking at patching together the closer gig with Santillan and converted starter Graham Ashcraft. View the full article

http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/USATSI_27275743.jpgCredit: Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images Maybe the three runs the Tigers scored in the ninth inning of their Game 3 blowout loss weren’t so inconsequential after all. Maybe they were a sign of better things to come on Wednesday. Facing elimination, Detroit’s bats woke up in a big way in Game 4 en route to a 9-3 victory. That sends the American League Division Series back to Seattle on Friday for a decisive Game 5, allowing Tarik Skubal one more chance to beat the Mariners for good. Consider this: Through the first three games of the ALDS, the Mariners had hit more home runs than the Tigers had extra-base hits. Kerry Carpenter hit a home run in Game 1, the team’s lone long ball to that point, and Spencer Torkelson and Gleyber Torres each had a pair of doubles, but that was it. Granted, three of those extra-base hits drove in runs, and two of them tied the game — the Tigers made the most of their limited opportunities — but Seattle had been absolutely outslugging Detroit: Tigers Hitters, Through ALDS Game 3 Player H RBI WPA wOBA xwOBA wRC+ Gleyber Torres 4 0 0.03 0.382 0.372 147 Spencer Torkelson 2 4 0.39 0.299 0.337 90 Colt Keith 1 0 -0.05 0.225 0.370 39 Kerry Carpenter 1 3 0.00 0.210 0.405 29 Riley Greene 2 0 -0.15 0.147 0.117 -14 Zach McKinstry 1 1 0.10 0.131 0.145 -25 Indeed, outside of Carpenter’s clutch home run, a pair of two-run doubles from Torkelson, and four hits off the bat of Torres, the Tigers offense had been conspicuously absent during the series. Even after their mini-rally in the ninth on Tuesday, Detroit was batting .165 and slugging .233 as a team entering Game 4. On the other hand, Seattle was slugging .423 even while batting just .212 through three games. That narrative completely flipped on Wednesday. The Tigers collected seven extra-base hits (three home runs and four doubles), while the Mariners could only muster one. Torkelson, Torres, Zach McKinstry, and Javier Báez each had multiple hits, and Jahmai Jones had a huge pinch-hit double in the decisive fifth inning. And as they have all series long, home runs defined the shape of Game 4. Riley Greene had been mostly bottled up during the ALDS; he had collected just two hits through the first three games of the series. His first extra-base hit against Seattle was a 454-foot blast to give the Tigers a 4-3 lead in the sixth inning. After hitting 36 homers during the regular season, his go-ahead home run was the first of his postseason career and broke open the floodgates for the Tigers. For his part, Báez hit his first postseason home run since the 2017 NLCS, a two-run shot, later in the inning. Then in the seventh, Torres continued his hot hitting by launching an opposite field solo shot to extend the Tigers’ lead, making it 8-3. The game hadn’t started off so lopsided. As they have in each game of the series, the Mariners got on the board first, scoring a run in each of the second, fourth, and fifth innings. With a 3-0 lead halfway through the ballgame, things were looking pretty encouraging for the Mariners. They’ll likely look back on Wednesday and be haunted by some pretty big missed opportunities to put the game away early. In the fourth, Seattle loaded the bases with no outs, but wound up pushing just one run across after a double play and a pop out squelched the threat. The next inning, the first two batters reached, earning the team another run, but the Mariners couldn’t keep the rally going. Things turned in the bottom half of that inning. Torkelson led off with a single, and after a fielder’s choice, Dillon Dingler drove in the Tigers’ first run with a double. That chased Bryce Miller from the game, and Mariners manager Dan Wilson went with trustworthy lefty Gabe Speier to face the bottom of Detroit’s lineup. Jones, pinch-hitting for Parker Meadows, ripped the first pitch he saw down the left field line to drive in Dingler, and Báez tied the game with a single up the middle in the next at-bat. Speier came back out in the sixth inning to face Greene, but the Tigers left fielder turned on a hanging slider and deposited it in the right field stands. From there, the flood gates opened. The Tigers scored three more in the sixth, capped off by Báez’s home run off Eduard Bazardo, and they added insurance runs in the seventh and eighth. For Seattle, it’s a pretty concerning shift from what had been a fairly dominant bullpen through three games. Even when you include the three runs allowed by Caleb Ferguson in the ninth inning of Game 3, Mariners relievers had put up a 3.38 ERA and a 1.71 FIP in 13.1 innings during the ALDS — their ERA drops to 1.35 if you ignore those garbage time runs. The Tigers have also scored all of their runs in this series in the fifth inning or later, putting even more pressure on the Mariners’ relief corps. The runs Speier and Bazardo allowed in Game 4 were their first of the series, and you have to wonder if familiarity is starting to work against Seattle’s ‘pen. Bazardo has appeared in all four games, while Speier has now gotten some high-leverage work in three of the four games, including facing Carpenter and Greene three times apiece. Because Detroit’s most dangerous hitters are left-handed, Speier will almost certainly be called on to work in Game 5 on Friday, and thanks to Ferguson’s struggles on Tuesday — he’s the only other lefty in Seattle’s bullpen — Speier seems like the most critical piece of the pitching puzzle for Wilson and the Mariners. The Tigers turned to Game 1 starter Troy Melton to shut down the Mariners bats once they had tied it up in the fifth. Melton worked around some trouble in the sixth, getting Randy Arozarena to fly out to center after allowing two two-out baserunners. The right-hander carved through the heart of the Mariners order on seven pitches in the seventh, then erased a leadoff baserunner in the eighth with a made-to-order double play, again only needing seven pitches to set the M’s down in order; he has to have Tigers manager A.J. Hinch feeling really good should the team need a fireman to quell a late rally from the Mariners on Friday. Will Vest closed the door with a 1-2-3 ninth. While Detroit’s starter for the decisive Game 5 isn’t in question, Seattle’s is still unsettled. Both George Kirby and Luis Castillo could start Friday’s game on normal rest, and both looked pretty good in their earlier starts this series. Ultimately, it’ll come down to who Wilson trusts more to work through the Tigers’ lineup twice, with whoever doesn’t make the start likely available out of the bullpen anyway. I should mention that between the two, Kirby is the only one who has made a relief appearance during his big league career, closing out Game 2 of the 2022 Wild Card series against the Blue Jays. No matter who starts for the Mariners on Friday, this was the exact scenario they were hoping to avoid. Allowing Skubal two opportunities to affect the outcome of the series is a very dangerous proposition, even if Seattle has beaten him three times this year. Tempting fate a fourth time tips the scales toward Detroit; our ZiPS game-by-game odds currently give the Tigers a 54% chance of advancing to the ALCS (assuming a Kirby start for Seattle). That’s a percentage Mariners fans are well acquainted with. Source View the full article

Catcher Sandy Leon has returned to the Braves on a minor league deal, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. The veteran was assigned to the Triple-A Gwinnett Stripers, where he’s spent the majority of the past two seasons. Leon appeared in five games with Atlanta over the final two months of the 2025 campaign. The 36-year-old Leon joined Atlanta as a free agent ahead of the 2024 season. He played in 79 games with the Stripers that year, but didn’t make an appearance in the big leagues for the first time since 2011. Leon had two separate stints with the Braves this past season. He made his MLB return on July 22, coming on as a defensive replacement. Leon was sent back to Triple-A on August 15, only to come back up a few weeks later. Leon finished the year with just one hit in 12 at-bats, though he made it count, launching a three-run home run off Craig Kimbrel on September 14. Leon made his debut with the Nationals in 2012. He’s spent parts of 13 MLB seasons with seven different teams. The backstop had his longest big-league stretch with one organization from 2015 to 2019 with Boston. He appeared in 358 regular-season games with the Red Sox. Leon was part of the World Series-winning squad in 2018. The 2016 season was Leon’s only campaign as a viable hitter at the highest level. He posted a 124 wRC+ across 283 plate appearances. Leon popped seven home runs and drove in 35 while splitting time with Christian Vázquez. He would never post another season with better than a 66 wRC+. Leon is more known for his work behind the plate. He threw out at least 36% of would-be base stealers in each of his first three seasons in Boston. Statcast began tracking fielding run value in 2018, and Leon ranked fourth among catchers that season. Leon will serve as a depth option for Atlanta behind Drake Baldwin and Sean Murphy. The Braves ranked sixth in OPS at the position this past season. Baldwin is among the favorites for NL Rookie of the Year after slashing .274/.341/.469 in his first taste of MLB action. Murphy failed to hit .200 for the second straight year, but did pop 16 homers in just 337 plate appearances. Murphy has been banged up during his tenure in Atlanta, so Leon could assume backup duties behind Baldwin if injuries strike again. View the full article

Bo Bichette took a small step forward on Wednesday in his recovery from a left PCL sprain. The star shortstop was seen jogging in the outfield at Yankee Stadium prior to Game 4 of the ALDS, reported Mitch Bannon of The Athletic. It’s the first we’ve heard of on-field running work for Bichette since he went down with the knee injury on September 6. Bannon added that Bichette jogged three times in the outfield for about 50 yards, but still had a noticeable limp when he walked back. Bichette has been out for just over a month since injuring his knee on a slide against the Yankees. He’d been able to hit in the batting cage, but hadn’t progressed to any sort of running drills until today. Bichette was unsurprisingly left off of Toronto’s ALDS roster. Andres Gimenez has picked up the majority of the starts at shortstop in Bichette’s stead. He’s played short in each of the Blue Jays’ playoff games so far. Ernie Clement also picked up a couple of starts at shortstop in September. While the progress is encouraging for Bichette, he still has multiple hurdles to clear before making his 2025 postseason debut. He’ll certainly need to shake off the limp before moving to more intense drills. Toronto will likely want to see him field ground balls at shortstop before considering adding him to the playoff roster. The ALCS starts on Sunday, so there isn’t much time for Bichette to get back into playing shape before the next round. The World Series, if the Blue Jays were to advance that far, might be a more reasonable goal for Bichette at this point. Toronto’s DH situation is somewhat crowded, so the best route for Bichette to make an impact in the playoffs might be off the bench, similar to how the Dodgers used catcher Will Smith as he recovered from a hand fracture. Smith didn’t make an appearance against Cincinnati, but has been able to contribute as a sub in the NLDS against Philadelphia. He scored on Teoscar Hernandez’s go-ahead home run in Game 1, then knocked in a couple of runs with a single in Game 2. Smith will draw his first start of the postseason in Game 3 on Wednesday. The knee injury cut short Bichette’s best full season at the plate. He posted a healthy 134 wRC+, his best mark since his brief 46-game stint as a rookie in 2019. Bichette’s .311 batting average ranked second in the league behind only Aaron Judge. The shortstop finished the regular season with 628 plate appearances, his most since 2022. While the power and speed tailed off, Bichette showed the best plate discipline of his career in 2025. He cut his strikeout rate to 14.5%, the first time he’d been below 19% in the big leagues. Bichette’s 6.4% walk rate, while still not great, was his best mark since 2019. Toronto’s offense hasn’t felt the loss of Bichette so far in the postseason, piling up 29 runs against the Yankees. They lead the league with nine playoff home runs, which is especially impressive considering they’ve only played three games. On an individual level, the results haven’t been as inspiring. Gimenez has been fine, going 3-for-11 with a couple of runs batted in. Glove-first veteran Isiah Kiner-Falefa has seen time at second base with Gimenez sliding over to shortstop, but has gone hitless in six at-bats and made an error in Game 3. Addison Barger then had his own defensive miscue after replacing Kiner-Falefa in the eventual loss. A return in the postseason might ease some concerns for potential Bichette suitors this offseason. He’ll be one of the top free agents on the market heading into 2026, but persistent injury issues might affect the length and dollar amount of his next contract. Calf and finger injuries wrecked Bichette’s 2024 season. He missed time with knee and quad issues in 2023. Getting back to action during this playoff run could be a boost to his value as he looks for a new deal. View the full article

(Image Credit: Universal Pictures) Black Phone 2 reviews are beginning to arrive, with the film looking to promise a worthy sequel to the 2021 horror movie of the same name. What are the Black Phone 2 reviews saying? Over on Rotten Tomatoes, Black Phone 2 is currently sitting at an 80-81% rating, which matches the 2021’s original score. Black Phone 2 has 25 reviews as of now, most of which are positive and praising of the film’s style and general step up from the original. Rogert Ebert’s Brian Tallerico said the film is a “tick too long,” but is “at its best when it leans into surreal nightmare logic, but this weird movie works its fear factor in unexpected, creative ways.” Slant Magazine’s Rocco T. Thompson praised director Scott Derrickson, saying he “collapses dreams, reality, past, and present sidelong into a singular cinematic haunted space.” Elsewhere, Variety’s Peter Debruge called the film “remarkably scary,” while Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro praised it’s “strong vision” and “unique interpretation of horror classics.” Based on characters created by Joe Hill, the script for Black Phone 2 comes from Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill. The cast further includes Demián Bichir, Arianna Rivas, Miguel Mora, Jeremy Davies, Maev Beaty, and Graham Abbey. Derrickson, Cargill, and Jason Blum produce the movie, while Ryan Turek, Adam Hendricks, Daniel Bekerman, and Jason Blumenfeld serve as executive producers. Black Phone 2 arrives on October 17, 2025. The post Black Phone 2’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Promises Horror Fans a Worthy Sequel Movie appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

(Image Credit: Warner Bros.) Heat 2 is officially a go, but the film’s potentially star-studded cast isn’t as guaranteed as many people think just yet. What do we know about Heat 2’s cast? According to a recent post on social media from Deadline’s Justin Kroll, the idea that Leonardo DiCaprio — who is said to be circling the lead role in the sequel — is a shoe-in for the movie should not be treated as fact. Kroll said “a lot of actors” have met with director Michael Mann in the past to talk about the role, and even DiCaprio himself is “still a maybe” when it comes to being in it. In a separate report from Jeff Sneider of The InSneider, he notes that other actors like Austin Butler, Adam Driver, and Bradley Cooper have all met with Mann about the movie, confirming reports from years ago. Sneider also noted that Cooper could be being eyed to be the back up choice for DiCaprio, who is rumored to be playing Chris Shiherlis, the role portrayed by Val Kilmer in the original, should DiCaprio decide not to be in the movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, after Warner Bros. decided to let the movie be shopped around in August 2025, Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists division is now in talks to acquire the rights to the movie. Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber, and Nick Nesbitt have also now joined the project as producers. From the sounds of it, we’ll have to wait for more concrete info on casting, although it seems like the eventual movie will feature a massive, star-studded group whenever it does come out. A release date for Heat 2, which will be executive produced by Eric Roth and Shane Salerno, has not yet been set. The post Heat 2’s Star-Studded Cast Isn’t Guaranteed for Michael Mann Movie Sequel appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

Royals owner John Sherman spoke to Anne Rogers of MLB.com and addressed various topics related to the club. He voiced his support for general manager J.J. Picollo and manager Matt Quatraro. He expressed optimism about the way things have been trending for the club, while simultaneously noting that they need to do more. He also said he would love for Salvador Perez to continue on with the club, something that already seems inevitable. Perhaps most notably for fans, he said the payroll is “in a good spot.” Rogers notes that Picollo said last week that he and Sherman hadn’t discussed a firm payroll number but he added that what the club has now is “plenty” and it is the responsibility of the front office “to make that work.” Those comments seem to suggest that the 2026 payroll will likely stay in a similar range to 2025. According to RosterResource, the Royals spent $138MM on their players this year and have $127MM committed to next year’s club, which doesn’t appear to include Perez’s $13.5MM club option. There’s a $2MM buyout on that option, so picking it up would add $11.5MM to the club’s ledger. That would put the Royals fairly close to this year’s payroll before even doing anything, but not all of their arbitration-eligible players will be tendered contracts. In MLBTR’s recent Offseason Outlook for the Royals, Jonathan India, Kyle Wright, Bailey Falter, Sam Long, Michael Massey, MJ Melendez and James McArthur are listed as non-tender candidates. That would be a projected $18.9MM saved if all were let go, though the Royals may not part with every name on that list. A trade or two could also open up some more breathing room. Time will tell exactly how things shake out but it doesn’t appear there will be a massive amount of powder dry for the front office. Going into 2026, adding offense is the goal, an annual concern in Kansas City. The pitching staff had a collective 3.73 earned run average this year, good for sixth among MLB teams. But the bats had a collective .247/.309/.397 batting line. The resultant wRC+ of 93 was better than just eight big league clubs. Second base could be a target area if the club does decide to move on from India and/or Massey, but as is customary for the Royals, the outfield will be a focus. The club bolstered their group on the grass with midseason trades for Mike Yastrzemski, Randal Grichuk and Adam Frazier but all three are impending free agents. That will leave them with a lackluster group consisting of Jac Caglianone, Kyle Isbel, John Rave, Drew Waters and a few others. The free agent market is headlined by Kyle Tucker, but no one will be expecting the Royals to be in the running there. Guys like Cody Bellinger and Trent Grisham are likely a bit outside their price range as well. Going after someone like Harrison Bader, Cedric Mullins or bringing back Yastrzemski should be more. The trade market could also have some possibilities. The Cardinals appear to be entering a rebuild period and could make players such as Lars Nootbaar or Alec Burleson available. The Twins also might be taking a step back, so Trevor Larnach or Matt Wallner might be out there. Further possibilities will surely emerge in the coming weeks and months. The details will become more clear as the offseason rolls along but the Royals will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing 82-80 season. “We’re looking forward to the future, and I feel pretty good about it,” Sherman said. “It’s hard to look at this season by itself. When you think about what we’ve accomplished the last couple of years, I feel really good about the fact that the franchise has been turned around. We’re going in the right direction. We should be proud of that. But we’re also very unsatisfied.” Photo courtesy of Denny Medley, Imagn Images View the full article

(Photo Credit: EA) The PlayStation Store continues to bring some of the best PS4 and PS5 video game deals to the platforms’ digital storefronts. That includes a very solid offer on a popular first-person shooter from one of the most beloved pop culture franchises of all time. How can you get Star Wars Battlefront 2 for cheap? Developed by Dice and published by Electronic Arts, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently just $4.99 on the PS Store. This is a 75% discount off its typical $19.99 listing. PS4 and PS5 players who want to take advantage of this limited-time deal will want to act fast. The offer ends on October 23 at 2:59 a.m. ET. Here is a trailer of Star Wars Battlefront 2, as well as a brief description of the game: “Rush through waves of enemies on Starkiller Base with the power of your lightsaber in your hands. Storm through the jungle canopy of a hidden Rebel base on Yavin 4 with your fellow troopers, dispensing firepower from AT-STs. Line up your X-wing squadron from an attack on a mammoth First Order Star Destroyer in space. Or rise as a new STAR WARS hero – Iden, an elite Imperial special forces soldier – and discover an emotional and gripping single-player story spanning thirty years.” When Star Wars Battlefront 2 was originally released in 2017, it received alright review scores. According to the review aggregate site Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 68 across 62 critic reviews. In our review, we gave it a 7 out of 10. However, players were not very fond of Star Wars Battlefront 2 when it originally launched. The infamous loot box controversy surrounding the game seemed to have doomed it from the start. Despite that uphill battle, it somehow gained a resurgence this year, reaching an all-time peak player count of over 35,000 players. Originally reported by Michael Ruiz on PlayStation Lifestyle. The post Hit Star Wars Video Game Is Less Than $5 appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

Giannis Antetokounmpo did little to clear the air after ESPN reported that he was open to leaving the Milwaukee Bucks this past summer. Back with the team after dealing with Covid, Antetokounmpo spoke with media after a practice session Wednesday. “I’ve communicated with my teammates, communicated with the people I respect and love that the […] The post Giannis Antetokounmpo ‘Locked In’ On Bucks But Could Change Mind In 6 Months appeared first on Basketball Insiders | NBA Rumors And Basketball News. View the full article

(Photo Credit: DreamWorks Animation) DreamWorks Animation Television has unveiled the release date and trailer for The Bad Guys: Breaking In, the upcoming prequel series set to premiere on Netflix. This comes after the recent theatrical release of the sequel movie, which garnered a Certified Fresh rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 106 reviews. Check out The Bad Guys: Breaking In trailer below (watch more trailers): When is the release date for The Bad Guys: Breaking In? The Bad Guys: Breaking In is scheduled to premiere on November 6, 2025, on Netflix. The prequel will feature the voices of Michael Godere as Wolf, Ezekiel Ajeigbe as Shark, Raul Ceballos as Piranha, Chris Diamantopoulos as Snake, Mallory Low as Tarantula, Patton Oswalt as Mr. Wigglesworth, Kate Mulgrew as Serpentina, and Zehra Fazal as Tiffany Fluffit. “Before everyone’s favorite felons became The Bad Guys, they were just some bad guys trying to earn their fearsome reputation,” reads the show’s official synopsis. “On their journey to be the biggest and baddest criminals in history, Wolf makes it their mission to become the top crew on 6 News Nightly’s Worst of the Worst List with their boldest heists yet… but they’ve never been very good at being bad.” The show is executive-produced by Bret Haaland and Katherine Nolfi, based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Aaron Blabey. This marks the first time that the franchise will have a full-length series, after getting two TV specials in 2023 and 2024. The said holiday and Halloween specials were both released on Netflix. The post The Bad Guys: Breaking In Trailer Sets Release Date for DreamWorks Prequel appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

Another day, another PS5 game leaked before its official announcement. This time around, the sequel to an underrated cooperative third-person shooter that has yet to be revealed has received a rating on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) website. How was the new Aliens video game accidentally revealed? The ESRB website had a listing for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Not much information was given on the listing, but it did confirm that it would release for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and will be rated M (Mature 17+) for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, and Violence. For those familiar with the Alien franchise and the previous game, this really isn’t a surprise, as this was the same case for the first Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Perhaps the more surprising part about this listing beyond its actual existence is that Daybreak Game Company is listed as the publisher. The original Aliens: Fireteam Elite was developed and published by Cold Iron Studios. When Aliens: Fireteam Elite was originally released for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, it received decent review scores. According to the review aggregate site Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 69 across 35 critic reviews. At our sister site ComingSoon, they gave it a 7.5 out of 10. “It’s clear that Fireteam Elite is a love letter to the franchise and one made with a lot of respect for the source material and the expanded universe,” reads our review. “There are moments when the action truly comes together that feel magical. Situations where players are getting overwhelmed by an onslaught of xenomorphs only to barely scrape by with help from their friends provide memorable action. However, that magic is fleeting rather than a constant occurrence and the game never finds the optimal balance between being an authored experience and one that is being replayed a decade later like Left 4 Dead 2 or other gold standards in the genre.” Originally reported by Michael Ruiz at SuperHeroHype. The post New Aliens Video Game Revealed by Accident appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

Photo Credit: Lionsgate An underrated horror movie starring Kevin Bacon is now available to watch for free. Stir of Echoes was released in United States theaters in September 1999. Directed by David Koepp and based on the 1958 novel by Richard Matheson, the film stars Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope, and Jennifer Morrison, among others. How can Kevin Bacon’s Stir of Echoes be watched for free? Lionsgate has now uploaded Stir of Echoes onto its YouTube channel, meaning the entire movie is now available to watch completely for free. View it below (watch more trailers and clips): “Blue-collar family man Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) scoffs at supernatural phenomena — until he lets his wife’s sister, Lisa (Illeana Douglas), put him into a hypnotic trance,” a description of the movie reads. “Upon waking, Tom realizes he has a psychic connection with his son, Jake (Zachary David Cope). He also has alarming hallucinations of a missing teenage neighbor named Samantha (Jennifer Morrison). Tom, convinced his visions will lead him to the girl, begins a desperate search that puts him into a life-threatening situation.” Stir of Echoes was positively received among critics and fans, as the film has a 69 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer and a 70 percent on the Popcornmeter. That being said, it didn’t make a big splash at the box office at the time of its release, as the film grossed approximately $23.1 million globally. A made-for-television sequel movie, titled Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming, premiered on the Sci Fi Channel in 2007. Directed by Ernie Barbarash, that movie stars Rob Lowe as Ted Cogan, while Marnie McPhail, Katya Gardner, Zachary Bennett, Ben Lewis, and Tatiana Maslany also star. While that movie doesn’t have a Tomatometer score, fans of the first movie were not too fond of The Homecoming, as it only has a 20 percent score on the Popcornmeter. The post Underrated Kevin Bacon Horror Movie Now Streaming for Free appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

Photo Credit: StudioCanal Saoirse Ronan has been tapped to star in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopic. The four-time Academy Award nominee will be joining previously announced cast members Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. The project is currently titled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event. Who is Saoirse Ronan playing in The Beatles movie cast? Ronan is set to play Linda McCartney, the first wife of Paul McCartney. Linda, born Linda Louise Eastman, was a photographer, musician, and an animal rights activist. She rose to prominence in the 1960s after becoming the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. Mendes has been previously announced to be creating a total of four Beatles biopics, with each film focusing on each band member’s story. According to Deadline, the Little Women actor will be prominently featured in the film focused on McCartney. Mendes will direct all features from scripts written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan, and Jack Thorne. All four Mendes-directed biopics will be released in theaters in April 2028, per the outlet’s report. The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event is a collaboration between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Mendes’ Neal Street Productions. Producers are Mendes, Pippa Harris, and Neal Street’s Julie Pastor. Alexandra Derbyshire will also produce, in association with Apple Corps for Sony Pictures. “Each man has his own story, but together they are legendary,” the official logline reads. Ronan is known for her starring roles in Lady Bird, The Lovely Bones, The Outrun, Atonement, The Seagull, Mary Queen of Scots, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Violet & Daisy, How I Live Now, Hanna, See How They Run, Foe, and Brooklyn, among others. She can next be seen in Bad Apples, an upcoming comedy thriller from director Jonatan Etzler. (Source: Deadline) The post The Beatles Movies Cast Adds Saoirse Ronan, Role Revealed appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article