Best of Short Relief 2019: Grief Of the wide band of human emotions, grief is the most elusive, the most chimerical, as distinctive to each person as a fingerprint, as impossible to pin down as rain. In college I had a friend who died suddenly and for months afterward her mother, whom I did not…
DetailsBest of BP: Dustin Pedroia Deserves A Better Ending This isn’t how it’s supposed to end for franchise icons. This isn’t how it’s supposed to end at all. On Monday, Dustin Pedroia said the quiet part out loud: because of his ever-balky left knee, he’s unsure if he’s ever going to play baseball in the…
DetailsBest of BP: The Logan’s Run All-Stars One of the formative movie-watching experiences of my young life was, without a doubt, the 1976 film, Logan’s Run. This film’s premise is fairly straightforward: in a supposedly-utopian-but-actually-dystopian society of the year 2274, humans live a life of hedonistic enjoyment inside a giant, climate-controlled geodesic dome. There’s one…
Details2020 CBD TOP 100 COUNTDOWN: 32. PARKER CHAVERS (COASTAL CAROLINA) As you might imagine, Coastal Carolina has had some elite talent come through since winning the… Visit College Baseball Daily for the Full Story Source: http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2019/12/27/2020-cbd-top-100-countdown-32-parker-chavers-coastal-carolina/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29
DetailsReds Reportedly Leading Shogo Akiyama Bidding Dec. 27: The Reds have a multi-year offer to Akiyama on the table and are the likeliest landing spot for the 31-year-old, per a Friday report from Nikkan Sports (Japanese language link). Dec. 26: When he declared his intentions to come to the majors, Japanese center fielder Shogo Akiyama…
DetailsMLBTR Poll: How Good Are The White Sox? With the holiday season in full swing, this has been a fairly quiet week around Major League Baseball. If you’re a White Sox fan who happens to read MLBTR, though, we’ve had plenty of items relating to your favorite team over the past couple days. There has…
DetailsD1Baseball’s All-Decade Team College baseball has never been in a better place, and with another decade in the books, it’s time to unveil D1Baseball’s All-Decade team for 2010-19. Source: https://d1baseball.com/awards/d1baseballs-all-decade-team/
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Effectively Wild Episode 1476: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Hockey and Cricket) Effectively Wild: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange Basketball/Football Hockey/Cricket Golf/Tennis Soccer/Rugby Esports/Volleyball NASCAR/Cycling Diversity and Inclusion In the second installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to Evolving-Hockey.com’s Josh and Luke Younggren about…
DetailsRyosuke Kikuchi To Stay In Japan Japanese infielder Ryosuke Kikuchi won’t be coming to the majors in 2020. Kikuchi’s Nippon Professional Baseball team – the Hiroshima Carp – posted him Dec. 3, which gave him a chance to sign with a big league club through Jan. 2. But Kikuchi announced this week that he’ll remain…
DetailsLatest On Yasiel Puig, White Sox The White Sox have reportedly been in talks with free-agent outfielder Yasiel Puig, but the team’s not pushing to sign him, according to Bruce Levine of 670 The Score. The two sides don’t have any negotiations taking place at present, Levine reports. [RELATED: Extension Candidate – Luis Robert] Puig…
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