COVID-19 Roundup: A New Spring Training League Plan This is the latest installment of a regular series in which the FanGraphs staff rounds up the latest developments regarding the COVID-19 virus’ effect on baseball. Latest Florida-Arizona Plan Revealed On Friday, Bob Nightengale reported a potential regular season plan that would divide teams not along American…
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The D-backs Replaced Paul Goldschmidt With A Waiver Claim — And It Worked It’s been three years since Christian Walker rode the waiver carousel. A 2012 fourth-round pick of the Orioles, Walker’s chance of being a regular with the Baltimore organization likely went up in flames the moment owner Peter Angelos green-lighted the seven-year, $161MM…
Details2020 Conference Wrap: Sun Belt Our look back at the too-short season for Sun Belt teams includes Mark’s picks for the teams and players who stood out most in the four-week campaign. Source: https://d1baseball.com/analysis/2020-conference-wrap-sun-belt/
DetailsThe Road to The Show™: Jo Adell After being drafted 10th overall by the Angels in 2017, Jo Adell has turned in three pristine professional seasons to propel himself to the top of MLB.com’s Top 100 Prospects list. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20200413&content_id=313211128&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 4-13-2020 Toledo News-Bee, April 13, 1920:Some of the Washington players claim that their ball lot registers more on a thermometer than any of them, but Slim Sallee of the Reds begs to differ. Slim says: “Cincinnati’s park is the hottest of all. Get down there in the hole…
DetailsHoskins broke barriers in Texas League Former Negro leaguer Dave Hoskins followed in Jackie Robinson’s footsteps as a trailblazer. In 1952, the outfielder-turned-pitcher was the first African American to suit up in a Texas League game. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20200413&content_id=313247010&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsClayton Richard Discusses His ‘Project 2020’ Clayton Richard has been busy preparing for a 2020 season that won’t be starting any time soon. He’s done so without a team — the 36-year-old southpaw remains a free agent — and in a manner to which he’s not accustomed. Fifteen years after being drafted out of the…
DetailsMets mailbag: Why this might not be Yoenis Cespedes’ final season with team You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. How would the Mets…
DetailsThe Arizona-Florida Plan Creates a Solvable Scheduling Pickle Last week, two competing plans for an alternate-site baseball season were leaked. The first was the so-called Arizona Plan: Send all 30 teams to Arizona, rotate games between the available fields, and play an abbreviated major league season with no in-person audience. That plan has its logistical…
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Baseball Shorts: How the Black Sox got their name In today’s episode, we will describe how the Chicago White Sox got their nickname Black Sox. It has nothing to do with them throwing the 1919 World Series. The general thought is that the Chicago White Sox were called the Black Sox because eight of their…
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