Braves Designate Shane Carle For Assignment The Braves announced Wednesday that they’ve designated right-hander Shane Carle for assignment in order to open a 40-man roster spot for righty Jeremy Walker, whose contract has been selected from Triple-A Gwinnett. Right-hander Wes Parsons was optioned to Gwinnett to clear a spot on the 25-man roster. More to…
DetailsRed Sox protest gutting loss to Rays after substitution chaos Sometimes, the charms of baseball’s rules mean that you get one pitch in 21 minutes because the umpires are quibbling over whether a substitution is legal. Here’s what the Rays tried to do against the Red Sox Wednesday in the eighth inning: With Mookie Betts,…
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A Season of Improbabilities in Cleveland Cleveland entered last offseason with one of the better rosters in baseball, but they spent the winter not offering Michael Brantley a qualifying offer, not bringing in an MLB-level replacement, switching out Edwin Encarnacion for Carlos Santana and Jake Bauers, trading away Yan Gomes, and then went through months…
DetailsInside the high-stakes deadline bidding on Syndergaard, Bauer The wild cards in the starting pitching market are Noah Syndergaard and Trevor Bauer. The Mets and Indians have set high prices on the talented righties and are gauging how much they could extract in a starting-pitcher-hungry market. Outside executives believe the Indians are more likely to…
DetailsMarvel leads Tribe’s shutout of Syracuse Pirates prospect James Marvel allowed one hit while striking out seven and walking four over six innings as Triple-A Indianapolis shut out Syracuse, 1-0, on Wednesday afternoon. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190724&content_id=309369280&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsA tiny Aaron Hicks adjustment defines what these Yankees are all about MINNEAPOLIS – Epic. Even that word doesn’t put the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning happenings at Target Field into perspective. Let’s turn it up a notch: Homeric. In what is becoming a most magical season, the Yankees played a magical game, beating the Twins 14-12…
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Putting The “Trade” in the Trade Value Series Last week, FanGraphs wrapped up our annual Trade Value Series. As a window into teams’ valuation of players, it’s an invaluable resource, built as it is from a mixture of industry sources. One thing it isn’t, though, is a list of players we realistically expect to be…
DetailsYasiel Puig suddenly an intriguing trade deadline wild card The Reds’ chances of playoff contention are slipping away, and their chances of selling off assets in the next week are slowly rising. Including Yasiel Puig. Though president of baseball operations Dick Williams told The Athletic at the All-Star break that they planned to be trade…
DetailsCubs Option Addison Russell To Triple-A The Cubs have optioned infielder Addison Russell to Triple-A Iowa and activated catcher Willson Contreras from the injured list, the team announced to reporters (Twitter link via ESPN Chicago’s Jesse Rogers). More to come. Source: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/07/cubs-option-addison-russell-to-triple-a.html
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The 2019 Replacement-Level Killers: Shortstop and Third Base 2019 Replacement-Level Killers Intro and C 1B 2B SS & 3B Jose Ramirez has hit better of late but is a far cry from the MVP candidate he once was. (Photo: Keith Allison) As I noted yesterday, within the context of the 2002-19 period covered by our…
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