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Good morning! I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. Let's check out the various headlines from the past few days:
- Grant Brisbee takes a look at five trades that heavily impacted the Indians' and Cubs' playoff runs.
- The A's got into a strange Twitter spat with the band Smash Mouth.
- An autopsy report revealed that Jose Fernandez had cocaine and alcohol in his system that fateful night.
- Fernandez was selected as the Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year.
- August Fagerstrom takes a look at why the Indians bullpen has been outperforming the Cubs bullpen.
- It's possible that Trevor Bauer, tonight's Game 5 starter, is becoming easy to read, writes August Fagerstrom.