Yankees’ Gleyber Torres, Gio Urshela seem to dodge the worst BALTIMORE — Gleyber Torres spoke of his Sunday night injury scare the way one would speak of a burglar alarm going off accidentally. The Yankees’ dynamic middle infielder, who departed the team’s 7-4 victory over the Red Sox in the eighth inning on Sunday due…
DetailsBrewers To Place Zack Davies On IL, Promote Jake Faria The Brewers will place righty Zach Davies on the 10-day injured list, per Robert Murray of The Athletic (Twitter links). His precise injury situation isn’t yet clear, but it seems he’s dealing with some sort of back ailment. Also heading off of the active roster is…
DetailsBraves’ Waters, Anderson promoted to Triple-A One day after news broke of Cristian Pache’s promotion, Braves No. 2 and 3 prospects Drew Waters and Ian Anderson, respectively, are also moving up to Triple-A Gwinnett. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190805&content_id=309723648&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsRays Place Yonny Chirinos On 10-Day IL The Rays announced today that righty Yonny Chirinos is headed to the 10-day injured list with an inflamed middle finger in his pitching hand (via MLB.com’s Juan Toribio, on Twitter). Fellow right-hander Austin Pruitt is coming up to take the open roster spot. Details of the injury aren’t…
DetailsReds Place Derek Dietrich On IL, Select Brian O’Grady, Designate Blake Trahan The Reds announced a series of moves today, driven by ongoing shoulder inflammation for infielder Derek Dietrich. He’ll head to the 10-day injured list. To fill the opening, the Cincinnati organization selected the contract of infielder Brian O’Grady. That necessitated a 40-man opening,…
DetailsDodgers’ Gray leads Pitchers of the Week Dodgers No. 5 prospect Josiah Gray struck out 11 and allowed just one earned run over 11 innings last week for Double-A Tulsa to headline the latest group of Minor League Pitchers of the Week. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190805&content_id=309715200&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_opotw&sid=milb
DetailsParedes picks up Player of the Week award Fifth-ranked Tigers prospect Isaac Paredes was named the Eastern League Player of the Week for July 29-August 4 after batting .552 with a homer, two doubles, five RBIs and four runs scored. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190805&content_id=309715658&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_opotw&sid=milb
DetailsToday in baseball: Game canceled due to lack of balls Today, eighty-two years ago, an Appalachian League game was called because there were no balls left to play with. The Newport Canners was one of the inaugural members of the Appalachian League’s restart in1937. The team, named after its local main industry, would stay six…
DetailsMarlins Make Flurry Of Roster Moves The Marlins announced Monday that they’ve officially promoted top prospect Isan Diaz for his MLB debut (as had been previously reported), recalled Lewis Brinson from Triple-A New Orleans and selected the contract of right-hander Robert Dugger. Miami also placed infielder Neil Walker (sprained index finger) and outfielder Cesar Puello…
DetailsGiants Claim Ryan Dull Athletics right-hander Ryan Dull was claimed off outright waivers by the Giants on Monday, the teams announced. Dull will head to Triple-A Sacramento for the time being. More to come. Source: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/08/giants-claim-ryan-dull-waivers-athletics.html
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