Domingo German Placed On Administrative Leave Under Domestic Violence Policy Yankees right-hander Domingo German has been placed on administrative leave under the Joint MLB-MLBPA Domestic Violence Policy, the league announced Thursday. Details surrounding any allegations against German have yet to surface. The Yankees have issued the following statement on the matter: We fully support all…
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The Athletics’ Shrewd July Is Paying Dividends Another year, another Oakland surprise. In July, I wrote about how the Athletics deserved your attention, again. After starting the season 29-28 through the end of May, the A’s got hot. The team is 62-33 since, tied with Houston for the best record in the American League in…
DetailsEdinson Volquez Open-Minded About Returning To Rangers In 2020 As recently as late July, veteran right-hander Edinson Volquez’s goal was simply to rehabilitate an elbow injury sufficiently enough to return to a big league mound before season’s end. After that, he suggested, retirement was his likeliest path. However, a return to health appears to at…
DetailsCraig Edwards FanGraphs Chat–9/19/2019 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/craig-edwards-fangraphs-chat-9-19-2019/
DetailsThe Irresistible Pull of a Yastrzemski in Fenway A Yastrzemski hit a home run in Fenway Park on Tuesday night, and if you’re any kind of student of baseball history, you might have felt some goosebumps. Two hundred miles away in the Yankee Stadium press box, I certainly did, because I’m old enough to remember…
DetailsOrioles Notes: Cobb, Harvey, Castro The Orioles are hopeful that right-hander Alex Cobb will be ready to go for Spring Training 2020, manager Brandon Hyde tells Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com. The 31-year-old righty (32 next month) is recovering from surgery to repair a labrum tear in his right hip as well as a separate procedure…
DetailsDan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 9/19/2019 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/dan-szymborski-fangraphs-chat-9-19-2019/
DetailsGiancarlo Stanton makes appearance on model’s Instagram story Giancarlo Stanton is back in action in more ways than one. Source: https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/giancarlo-stanton-makes-appearance-on-models-instagram-story/
DetailsThe 2019 AL Cy Young Voting Guide With just over a week to go in the regular season, Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole are running neck and neck as favorites for the American League Cy Young award. Verlander leads the league in innings (212) and ERA (2.50). Cole has the lead in strikeouts with 302…
DetailsBeen a while: Minors’ longest title droughts In Minor League Baseball, as in life itself, glory is not equitably distributed. Ben Hill takes a look at the teams with the longest title droughts. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190919&content_id=310769694&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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