Braves Select John Ryan Murphy The Braves announced today that they have selected the contract of catcher John Ryan Murphy. A 40-man roster spot was cleared by placing injured utilityman Charlie Culberson on the 60-day injured list. Murphy, 28, was added over the summer in a minor swap with the Diamondbacks. He had struggled to…
DetailsDodgers Hope September Shuffling Pays October Dividends NEW YORK — They’ve won back to back National League pennants and clinched their seventh straight NL West title on September 10. They have a four-game lead over the Braves for the senior circuit’s best record. And yet, even as they close in on 100 wins and the…
DetailsFelipe Vazquez Arrested & Charged In Florida In a stunning and deeply troubling turn of events, Pirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez has been arrested and charged with a series of crimes in the state of Florida, according to James Santelli of CBS Pittsburgh. Whether he is in police custody is not apparent at this time. Vazquez is…
DetailsPoll: NL MVP Front-Runner We just polled the MLBTR readership regarding the state of the American League Most Valuable Player race. There’s a clear preference for Mike Trout, even if he’s going to miss the last few weeks of the season. Injuries could well impact the state of the National League MVP voting as well.…
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Spencer Turnbull Has a Sneaky Fastball It was never going to be a fun year to be a Detroit Tigers fan. The hundred losses could tell you that, or the fact that the team’s lone All-Star was reliever Shane Greene, who now plays for the Braves. The joy in Tigers fandom was concentrated in the…
DetailsPhotos: Playoff moments from around MiLB Sunsets, champagne and sweet celebrations made up some of the best moments of the Minor League playoffs this September. Take a look at some of our favorite images. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190917&content_id=310764532&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsThree Needs: Seattle Mariners We’re bringing back our “Three Needs” series, in which we take a look at the chief issues to be addressed for clubs that have fallen out of contention. We’ll start things up with the Mariners, who opened the season at a sprint before hitting the skids … [Seattle Mariners Depth Chart]…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 9-17-2019 Essex County [Vermont] Herald, September 17, 1919:Way back in ‘89 Cincinnati was playing one afternoon with Chris Von Der Ahe’s St. Louis aggregation on the St. Louis grounds. … Cliff Carroll was playing center field for the St. Louis nine. The Cincinnati batter hit a slow grounder…
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Kolby Allard Has Been Quite the Find for the Rangers In the final moments of the 2019 trade deadline, the Astros shocked the baseball world with their trade for Zack Greinke. As Dan Szymborski put it at the time, “In a league in which money and prospects are meekly handed out when a team has…
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Effectively Wild Episode 1431: Curtains for Trout Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Twins’ missed opportunity for a mid-plate-appearance pitching change, more mind-boggling home run facts about the year of the dinger, fun facts about the Diamondbacks and Jarrod Dyson, Guy Fieri endorsing Spencer Torkelson and which celebrity character references might make them…
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