The spring is usually the time for hope and lofty goals in the MLB universe.

It’s also the time for the “I’m in the best shape of my life” quotes by players, and the “we built a squad to compete” by general managers.

With that in mind, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts may have gone a bit too far last year.

In late March, around the end of spring training, he said that he “guaranteed” the Dodgers winning the World Series.

In reality, every sign pointed at LA being extremely competitive until the end.

Time proved that his squad was historically good, with 111 wins and just 51 losses.

However, they lost in the first round of the playoffs, against the San Diego Padres no less.

Dodgers (and other teams’) fans blasted him for his spring training remarks.

They couldn’t believe he promised a World Series win and couldn’t even get past the Division Series.

That’s why this time, Roberts decided to be a bit more cautious with what comes out of his mouth.

“Dave Roberts, speaking to the media at Dodgers Fanfest, said he will not guarantee the Dodgers winning the World Series this season,” Jorge Castillo of the LA Times tweeted.

Dave Roberts, speaking to the media at Dodgers Fanfest, said he will not guarantee the Dodgers winning the World Series this season.

— Jorge Castillo (@jorgecastillo) February 4, 2023

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Talk about learning from your own mistakes.

He received so much backlash that he is trying a more conservative approach.

He knows that his Dodgers are still elite, but he prefers the team to show it on the field this time.

They might not have such a dominant regular season because the Padres improved a lot.

However, all fans want is to see them win the last game of the season.

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Corey Kluber, one of the Boston Red Sox‘s signings for the upcoming season, has a long-standing reputation of being a baseball gentleman, a professional in all the sense of the word.

Not everybody can play for the Cleveland Guardians, the New York Yankees, the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Red Sox and still enjoy the love and respect of fans of all those franchises.

Those are all American League contenders and have been for the better part of the last decade.

Yet everybody respects Kluber because of the way he approaches the game, like a pro: you won’t find him badmouthing a team or a fanbase.

The 36-year-old veteran is, however, enjoying his still brief time as a member of the Red Sox.

He has updated his Twitter account to include the team on his profile.

Corey Kluber has updated his socials.

Welcome to the Red Sox, Klubot. pic.twitter.com/3zZvvNbvBz

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— Tyler Milliken (@tylermilliken_) February 6, 2023

His profile picture shows him with a Red Sox hat and the letters “K-L-U-B-E-R”, but with the same art and graphic identity as the franchise that now employs him.

It actually looks very, very cool.

Kluber finally pitched something close to a full workload last season with the Rays.

He logged 164 innings and posted a 4.34 ERA that may not look so sexy, but when you compare it to his 3.57 Fielding Independent Pitching, or FIP, you know he was much better than his ERA.

A former two-time Cy Young award winner with plenty of postseason experience, Kluber is still looking for that first World Series ring.

The Red Sox are not really favored to win it all this year, but stranger things have happened in baseball.

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The Minnesota Timberwolves had a dominant performance over the top-seeded Denver Nuggets on Sunday, beating that team 128-98.

It was an impressive showing for multiple reasons.

But it was made even more impressive when you look at Minnesota’s recent track record.

The Timberwolves have won 7 of their last 10 games.

They’ve beaten each of the top 3 teams in the west over that span.

They have the best defensive rating in the league over that span as well pic.twitter.com/k1PuHYCl8F

— The Lead (@TheLeadSM) February 6, 2023

The Timberwolves have won seven of their last ten games and have beaten each of the top three teams in the West during that time.

To make that record even better, they had the best defensive rating in the league during the span of time.

The Timberwolves are starting to finally look like the team fans were expecting in the summer.

As you recall, they rocked the entire NBA world in the offseason when they acquired Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz.

There was talk of the Timberwolves being the best team in the West since Gobert was joining players like D’Angelo Russell, Anthony Edwards, and others.

But the team has been shaky throughout the season, suffering multiple losses that seemed avoidable.

Perhaps they just needed time to get their act together and figure out how to play in sync.

On Sunday night, there were six players who scored in double digits, including Gobert, Russell, and Edwards.

Before that big victory, the Timberwolves also defeated the Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies, and others.

That certainly looks like a team that has its sights set on the top of the Western Conference.

Sure enough, Minnesota has now climbed to 7th place in their conference, which is much better than where they were just a few weeks ago.

Coming up for the Timberwolves are tough competitions against the Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Grizzlies, and Dallas Mavericks.

How many more big wins can they achieve?

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