Prospect Rundown: Amsterdam Mohawks Maryland slugger Maxwell Costes was one of the standout prospects for the Amsterdam Mohawks, a thriving summer ball machine that won the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League title for the fifth time this summer. Source: https://d1baseball.com/summer-baseball/prospect-rundown-amsterdam-mohawks/
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In 2019, Team Payroll and Wins Are Closely Linked Over the last decade, we’ve seen a change in the demographics of baseball, with playing time shifting away from older, declining veterans toward younger players still in their prime. There’s a good reason for that, as each new generation of player entering the majors has been…
DetailsYankees Sign Tyler Lyons The Yankees have signed left-hander Tyler Lyons to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, per Conor Foley of the Scranton Times-Tribune (Twitter link). He’s the second veteran reliever the club has added on a minor league deal this week and the third veteran piece of bullpen depth…
DetailsFrom the Outfield Grass: Getting Ahead and Paying the Price The post From the Outfield Grass: Getting Ahead and Paying the Price appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/52470/from-the-outfield-grass-getting-ahead-and-paying-the-price/
DetailsMoonshot: The Atlantic League’s Radical Stolen Base Experiment The post Moonshot: The Atlantic League’s Radical Stolen Base Experiment appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/52488/moonshot-the-atlantic-leagues-radical-stolen-base-experiment/
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The Best Thing in Baseball This Week: Bloopers It seems a bit anachronistic that, in an age where more people are constantly recording, reproducing, adding music to sports sequences, we have seen the blooper reel in its death throes. Once a charming and goofy way to understand that even those at their physical peaks, whose…
DetailsProspectus Feature: Mike Fiers is Succeeding With One Weird Trick The post Prospectus Feature: Mike Fiers is Succeeding With One Weird Trick appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/52475/prospectus-feature-mike-fiers-is-succeeding-with-one-weird-trick/
DetailsMinor League Update: Games of August 16 The post Minor League Update: Games of August 16 appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/article/52491/minor-league-update-games-of-august-16-3/
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Short Relief: Scoreboard Confessional This past weekend was the ninth annual Saberseminar, held at Boston University. Touting itself as “Sabermetrics, Scouting and the Science of Baseball”, it is a gathering of roughly 350 nerdy baseball types from a variety of backgrounds: physicists, data wranglers, MLB front office guys (and gals) and tech-savvy fans of the…
DetailsDeep League Report: Week 21 The post Deep League Report: Week 21 appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/article/52497/deep-league-report-week-21-2/
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