OOTP Brewers: So Long, First Place Today puts a neat bow on the with-no-live-baseball portion of the Out Of The Park season. Next week, there will be actual live baseball games. This week, it’s the OOTP All-Star Break, which means there won’t be any games all week. The All-Star Break is the traditional first-half/second-half delineation,…
DetailsTyler Glasnow Returns To Rays’ Camp Rays righty Tyler Glasnow finally appeared in Summer Camp today. Better still, he was able to take the hill in the team’s intrasquad game, as Juan Toribio of MLB.com covers on Twitter. One of the highest-ceiling hurlers in all of baseball, Glasnow just might hold the key to the Rays’ hopes…
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2020 Positional Power Rankings: Third Base 2020 Positional Power Rankings Intro 1B 2B You’ve read the intro. You’ve read about first basemen and second basemen. Now, as our positional power rankings continue, it’s time to examine the state of third base. If you scroll through the first half-dozen names on this list, you might note…
DetailsRed Sox Add 5 Prospects To 60-Man Pool The Red Sox have added five of their top prospects to the organization’s 60-man player pool, according to Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com (via Twitter) and Alex Speier of the Boston Globe (Twitter links). That leaves the organization with five remaining openings. Infielder Jeter Downs, the club’s consensus top prospect,…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 7-14-2020 [Juneau] Alaska Daily Empire, July 14, 1920:A water baseball game will be staged at Del Monte [California] July 17 and 18 between teams from the Olympic Club of San Francisco and Del Monte. … The game is played with a team of seven men on a side,…
DetailsARROYO, LAMBSON EARN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION WEEKLY HONORS MOORHEAD, MN – The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball as named Chicago Dogs INF Edwin Arroyo and Winnipeg Goldeyes LHP Mitch Lambson the Pointstreak Player and Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced. Due to the schedule the honor covers the first ten days of the…
DetailsDaniel Bard Has Chance To Make Rockies Talk about a comeback. Long-lost MLB reliever Daniel Bard may finally be turning the corner in his latest attempt to return to the highest level of the game. Per Nick Groke of The Athletic, via Twitter, Bard “seems to be pitching his way to opening day” after a…
DetailsYou Could Look It Up: Today isn’t the Day Every generation of Americans gets to decide what its version of the United States stands for. They will, through thought, action, word, and deed, define how the nation will look and act and feel for everyone in it. Sometimes they reach a point of discontinuity with…
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2020 Positional Power Rankings: Second Base 2020 Positional Power Rankings Intro 1B On Monday, Jay Jaffe kicked off our positional power rankings series by evaluating the league’s first basemen. If you need a refresher on the series, Meg Rowley wrote a handy explainer. Today, we stay on the infield and turn our attention to second…
DetailsMarcus Stroman Discusses Pending Free Agency Mets right-hander Marcus Stroman is slated to become one of baseball’s most prominent free agents in a few months, though no one knows how the game’s economic landscape will look then in the wake of a 60-game season. Stroman discussed his upcoming trip to the open market over the…
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