Anthony Rendon’s Hot August Adds Third Face to MVP Race For the first few months of this baseball season, everything had been coming up “Belli vs. Yeli.” Of course, this was for good reason. Since the two sluggers got off to scorching starts, the race for the National League Most Valuable Player award has centered…
DetailsEastern League playoff preview Top Phillies prospect Alec Bohm looks to fend off league MVP Chris Gittens when Reading faces Trenton in the first round, while Harrisburg brings a 20-year title drought into their best-of-5 set with Bowie. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190903&content_id=310482542&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsProspect Roundup: Games of September 2 Second-ranked St. Louis Cardinals prospect Dylan Carlson homered and doubled on a three-hit night while Colorado Rockies prospect Brenton Doyle went deep twice and notched five hits. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190903&content_id=310498730&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsReport: Yankees Nearly Acquired Ken Giles At Deadline The Yankees and Blue Jays almost pulled off a significant, intra-division deal involving closer Ken Giles at this year’s trade deadline, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (subscription link). Three prospects would’ve headed to Toronto had the deal gone through, though their particular identities aren’t known.…
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Taylor Rogers, Tremendously Underrated The Twins are undeniably one of the most exciting stories of the year. They’ve hit, and I’m approximating here, eighteen million home runs on their charge to the top of the AL Central, holding off the Indians with burst after burst of offense. Their starters are deep and talented — Martín…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 9-3-2019 Honus Wagner on how to break out of a slump, quoted in the Pittsburgh Press, September 3, 1919:When I was going bad and simply couldn’t hit anything safe, I would find myself the biggest, heaviest bat imaginable—some huge piece of timber that you’d never think of using…
Details2019 Cape Cod Top 50 Prospect Rankings It was yet another summer to remember at the Cape Cod League and it’s time for our staff to rank the Top 50 prospects at the prestigious summer league. Source: https://d1baseball.com/prospects/2019-cape-cod-top-50-prospect-rankings/
DetailsThe 20 Greatest San Diego Padres of All-Time The San Diego Padres franchise has existed since 1969. For the entirety of their existence, they have played in the National League. During their history, they have been known exclusively as the San Diego Padres. The Padres franchise has never won a World Series but has won…
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Justin Verlander Earned That No-Hitter Entering Sunday’s games, 30 pitchers since 1908 had thrown multiple no-hitters. The list is an impressive one, including names like Warren Spahn, Max Scherzer, Walter Johnson, and Randy Johnson. There are also some less exciting names on the list with Homer Bailey, Mike Fiers, and Jake Arrieta all accomplishing the…
DetailsA lifelong dream washed away Out of the Philadelphia Phillies’ clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park he strode, past the coaches’ offices and the video room, down the steps, through the dugout tunnel, clad in team-issued, home-white game pants and a T-shirt. It was perhaps 21/2 hours before the first pitch of a game that, judging…
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