What Sam Darnold has noticed in watching Le’Veon Bell tape Sam Darnold has a new best friend. The Jets’ quarterback has been watching plenty of film on his new running back Le’Veon Bell, and is looking forward to having him in the backfield next fall. “I love it. What’s not to love about it?” Darnold…
DetailsFans’ guide to MiLB Opening Night 2019 MiLB.com’s Sam Dykstra and Benjamin Hill combine forces to give fans a breakdown of the best ways to get fully prepared for the 2019 Minor League season during Opening Night on Thursday. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190403&content_id=305870976&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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Rockies Long-Term Core Takes Shape with Marquez Extension Tuesday, the Rockies and 24-year-old right-hander German Marquez reached an agreement on a five-year, $43 million contract extension, with the deal first reported ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The contract includes a club option for a sixth year, though that becomes a mutual option if Marquez finishes at or…
DetailsTim Beckham Has Found What Works After a strong 2017 campaign for Tampa and Baltimore led some observers to declare, perhaps prematurely, that the former No. 1 pick had finally figured out how to sustainably deliver on his sky-high potential, Tim Beckham’s 2018 performance was so sufficiently awful (a 79 wRC+ over 402 plate appearances)…
DetailsBaseball legend Bobby Cox hospitalized: ‘Very concerned’ ATLANTA — Hall of Famer Bobby Cox, the Atlanta Braves former longtime manager, has been admitted into an Atlanta-area hospital. Braves manager Brian Snitker told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he reached out to Cox’s family and was “very concerned” but couldn’t share details of his condition.…
DetailsKiley McDaniel Chat – 4/3/19 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/kiley-mcdaniel-chat-4-3-19/
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Miles Mikolas Defies Comparison Here’s something that won’t surprise you. The number one starter in all of baseball last year, when it came to getting batters to chase pitches outside the strike zone, was Patrick Corbin. Of course it was Patrick Corbin! Dude threw 95% sliders last year, and that’s only a little bit of…
DetailsJon Duplantier Delivered the Hits in His D-backs Debut Twenty-three months ago, I wrote about how Jon Duplantier was no longer perfect. The previous day — May 2, 2017 — he’d allowed a pair of earned runs while pitching for the Low-A Kane County Cougars. Going into that game, Arizona’s third-round pick in the 2016…
Details100 Greatest Catchers of All-Time Catcher is one of the most difficult positions in all of sports. The list of responsibilities for a catcher is extensive. If a player demonstrates quality defensive ability most teams are willing to accept his shortcomings at the plate. The man who can handle both the defensive and offensive aspects…
DetailsFraming the Hall of Fame Cases for Martin and McCann Amid winters that were rather underwhelming relative to the excitement of their respective 2018 seasons, the Braves and Dodgers brought back a pair of familiar, if grizzled, faces, namely 35-year-old Brian McCann and 36-year-old Russell Martin. Now several years removed from their last All-Star appearances,…
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