The Lizard King Reigns in St. Louis The St. Louis Cardinals answered one of their long-term rotation questions Tuesday afternoon, signing starting pitcher Miles Mikolas to a four-year, $68-million extension that keeps last year’s 6th-place NL Cy Young finisher from hitting free agency until 2023. Bringing in Mikolas was one of the league’s best free-agent…
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Sod Poodles unveil more jerseys Last year you could read here about the Amarillo Sod Poodles unveiling their home jersey. Today, the club unveiled their road jersey and alternate jersey as well. The home jersey was described in the aforementioned blog post already. The road jersey and alternate jersey have the same feature the home…
DetailsSmash Mouth has exclusive and angry Bryce Harper report The years start coming and then they do stop coming in a potential Bryce Harper-Giants mega-deal, and Smash Mouth is not happy about it. The Giants are not willing to offer Bryce Machado the long-term contract he has awaited because of hesitations from their new president…
DetailsRockies’ Arenado Gets His Mountain of Money Earlier this month, I made the case for the Rockies to sign Nolan Arenado to an extension that could rival Miguel Cabrera’s eight-year, $248 million deal for the largest average annual value of any position player contract. My suggestion wasn’t coming out of left field, as the going-on-28-year-old…
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On The Upswing: Week Two Rising Teams
FORMER FARGO-MOORHEAD ACE ALEXANDER GETS SHOT WITH OAKLAND A’S By Bob Wirz At 27 and with the type of left arm that really excites baseball people, Tyler Alexander seems a perfect fit, especially for a major league organization that is always struggling to keep up with the competition because its payroll isn’t as flush as…
DetailsNolan Arenado’s $260M is Yankees blow and Bryce Harper target Plan B has evaporated for the Yankees. Nolan Arenado and the Rockies reached agreement on an eight-year, $260 million pact that will keep the slugger from next offseason’s free-agent market. The Yankees privately held more affinity for Arenado than Manny Machado. It was not among…
DetailsOn MLB’s New Pitch Clock and “Icing the Pitcher” If you watch American football, you’re probably familiar with the concept of “icing the kicker.” For the uninitiated, icing the kicker is not actually the process of freezing the kicker in Carbonite, though that would probably be more fun. Instead, icing the kicker refers to the opposing…
DetailsMeg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 2/26/2019 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/meg-rowley-fangraphs-chat-2-26-2019/
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The Scouting Trail: Week Two