The Five Trends That Could Define Baseball’s Future – The Ringer Baseball is always evolving, partly through random mutations—like a suddenly supercharged baseball, assuming MLB is being honest about not intentionally tampering with the pill—but largely through the same principle that governs evolution in other cutthroat environments: Traits that aid an organism’s survival tend to…
DetailsFanGraphs Audio: Kiley McDaniel Doesn’t Care for Cats Episode 866 Prospect analyst Kiley McDaniel returns to the program to discuss the recently concluded Trade Value Series. We discuss Kiley’s process for generating the list, a few players he expects to move into and out of the top 50 next year, the most difficult guys to…
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What Should We Make of Shane Greene? In 2017, Shane Greene appeared to have turned a corner. He was coming off his first season as a near-full time reliever, one he’d finished with an ugly ERA (5.82) but a pretty nifty FIP (3.13). The latter mark, as is typically the case, proved to be the…
DetailsAaron Boone gets one-game suspension for ‘f–king savages’ rant Yankees manager Aaron Boone will face repercussions for his explicit rant at rookie home-plate umpire Brennan Miller. Chief of Baseball Officer for Major League Baseball Joe Torre announced Friday that Boone will receive a one-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for his hellish behavior, including contact…
DetailsDeadspin: Baseball Writer Jonah Keri Arrested, Charged With Assault On His Wife Baseball writer Jonah Keri, who works for The Athletic, Sportsnet, and DraftKings, was arrested Thursday and charged after an alleged assault on his wife, as reported today by CTV Montreal. Keri faces three counts of assault as well as one count of uttering…
DetailsHow a Gyroscopic Slider Remade Luke Jackson If it wasn’t for gravity, the pitch would travel on a straight line into the catcher’s glove. But the effect of gravity causes the pitch to “fall off the table” or break downward. While it might look like a curveball to the average viewer, the pitch rotates laterally…
DetailsWhat Mariano Rivera was like behind the scenes Standing inside London’s Finsbury Park in late June, Mariano Rivera was asked to describe his Hall of Fame career in one word. As he surveyed a group of youth who had finished learning from Rivera and other Yankee greats at a clinic, Rivera simply said, “Amazing.’’ Quick.…
DetailsLatest On Giants’ Deadline Plans For Bumgarner, Other Trade Candidates It was reported just days ago that the Giants were still planning to sell despite a run of success that has yet to abate. That’s not quite how president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi characterized things, though he certainly left the door wide open to…
DetailsProspect Pack: Cape Top Performers, July 19 Our in-depth prospect coverage from the Cape Cod League begins with David Seifert’s in-depth look at prospects from Arizona, Arizona State, Texas, Coastal Carolina, Notre Dame and Central Michigan. Source: https://d1baseball.com/prospects/prospect-pack-cape-cod-top-performers-july-19/
DetailsThe man behind the viral Aaron Boone ‘Savages’ rant video In Game 1 of the Yankees doubleheader on Thursday against the Rays, manager Aaron Boone went viral on social media after he unleashed fury on rookie home plate umpire Brennan Miller, prompting an ejection. But the viral video didn’t come from a major television network…
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