Why Yankees were right to pass on Manny Machado TAMPA — As if by karmic choreography, the 2019 Yankees full squad took the field en masse for the first time Tuesday just as it was being publicly revealed Manny Machado had reached agreement with the Padres. The symbolism was hard to ignore. Machado — despite…
DetailsReloaded Nationals bring big rotation into NL East battle with Mets WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Here is what the Mets are up against in the NL East: Sure, free agent Bryce Harper is not in the Nationals clubhouse, but this most dangerous team has reloaded. “We had several needs that we had to fill,’’…
DetailsRemembering Don Newcombe, whose biggest win came off field This was well into his 30th year of sobriety, the thing about which Don Newcombe was always most proud. He was the workhorse on those old Brooklyn Dodgers teams, the guy who would take the ball, demand it, give you an honest day’s work as long…
DetailsESPN: Former Dodgers great Don Newcombe dead at 92 Newcombe, one of the first African-American pitchers in MLB, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949, winning Rookie of the Year while helping the team win the NL pennant. In Newcombe’s debut season, he and Dodgers teammates Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella became three of the first…
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Prospect Valuation: How Much are the Top Prospects Worth to Professional Baseball Teams? Over the next few months, we’re sharing several articles that look at player development from a different perspective relative to what you typically see on this blog. Rather than exclusively tackling more specific topics such as spin rate, blast metrics, or biomechanics,…
DetailsYankees’ recruiter: Older Manny Machado would have picked differently TAMPA — Carlos Beltran knows something about signing a huge free-agent contract, and while he seemed a bit stunned when he heard the news Manny Machado had agreed to a 10-year, $300 million deal with the Padres, he insisted it wasn’t a shock. But he also…
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The Padres Are Actually Signing Manny Machado According to those estimated franchise values at Forbes, the San Diego Padres are in the bottom half of baseball’s 30 organizations. Perhaps even more relevant, the Padres are routinely among baseball’s bottom ten spenders. The Padres have pretty much never behaved like a big-market team, and after long…
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The Scouting Trail: Opening Weekend
This is the Zack Britton Yankees like to see TAMPA — Zack Britton replaced the “H” with a “K” at the end of his first name recently, but when it came to the left-handed reliever throwing batting practice to hitters Tuesday on the back field, nothing changed from other spring trainings. “My mind-set doesn’t change,”…
DetailsBaseball’s 10 richest free-agent contracts, topped by Manny Machado It may not last very long since Bryce Harper could eclipse him at any moment, but for now Manny Machado is owner of the largest free-agent contract in MLB history thanks to the 10-year, $300 million deal he agreed to Tuesday with the San Diego Padres.…
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