{"id":938088,"date":"2026-10-23T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938088\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:04:11","slug":"mlb-news-outside-the-confines-the-fall-classic-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938088\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News Outside The Confines: The Fall Classic is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. The World Series starts tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Berry and Adam McCalvy point out that the real &#8220;x-factor&#8221; in the Series are <a data-ylk=\"slk:the two roofs at the two home stadiums.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the two roofs at the two home stadiums.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/ground-rules-for-roofs-rays-brewers-world-series\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the two roofs at the two home stadiums.<\/a> While Milwaukee&#8217;s roof is retractable, the forecasts are that it will be closed for the entire Series, making this the first World Series played entirely indoors.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees have come to an <a data-ylk=\"slk:agreement with general manager Brian Cashman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;agreement with general manager Brian Cashman&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/50238406\/yankees-gm-brian-cashman-agree-new-contract\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">agreement with general manager Brian Cashman <\/a>to stay as GM. Is there any other non-owner in baseball who has been in the same job since the 20th century? Cashman has been the Yankees GM since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Fielding Bible Awards were announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fielding Bible Awards were announced&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/fielding-bible-award-winners-for-2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Fielding Bible Awards were announced<\/a>. Alex Bregman won the award for third base. Pete Crow-Armstrong won the award for center field as well as the overall Player of the Year. The Cubs were named the defensive Team of the Year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. The World Series starts tonight. Adam Berry and Adam McCalvy point out that the real &#8220;x-factor&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-938088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}