As the Coronavirus Halts Teams, Cain, Céspedes, and Others Opt Out As the 2020 baseball season seemed to teeter on the brink of collapse this weekend in light of the news of an outbreak on the Cardinals, the comments of commissioner Rob Manfred, and the inactivity of six teams, four players — three of them…
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Shane Bieber’s New Old Curve It’s the beginning of August, and one only one pitcher is on pace for a 6 WAR season. In a normal year, that would be disappointing; there are usually something like four or five of them. In this short year, on the other hand, it’s downright amazing, and I don’t…
Details2021 College Top 150 Prospect Rankings Fall workouts are right around the corner and it’s time to unveil our first College Top 150 Prospects list for the 2021 draft class, headlined by Vandy righthander Kumar Rocker. Source: https://d1baseball.com/prospects/2021-college-top-150-prospect-rankings/
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Anyone Can Strike Out Nine Batters in a Row Since he was drafted in the second round in 2015, Tigers left-hander Tyler Alexander barely needs two hands to count the number of times he’s struck out nine batters in a game. There was the first time, on April 23, 2016, when he was in High-A.…
DetailsPhillies To Resume Season Tonight The Phillies announced this morning that their latest wave of testing again revealed no new positive Covid-19 tests. The team is traveling to New York to play the Yankees in the Bronx tonight, per the announcement. Jake Arrieta is lined up to face Gerrit Cole in tonight’s series opener, and Aaron…
DetailsEven Gerrit Cole is in awe of the Yankees’ potential Having spent the previous two seasons with the Astros, Gerrit Cole knows what a good team looks like. On Sunday afternoon, the Yankees ace was asked his impression of the club he signed with as a free agent and has made two successful starts for.…
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Tyler Chatwood and Strikeouts Have a Meet Cute If you’re a fan of the Chicago Cubs, it would not be surprising if you describe your feelings about Tyler Chatwood as some kind of frustrated exasperation. Able to survive in the mile-high environment of Coors Field despite occasionally spotty control and an inability to punch out…
DetailsPadres Add Three To Player Pool The Padres announced that they’ve added left-hander Travis Radke and infielders Seth Mejias-Brean and Jason Vosler to their 60-man player pool. All three will head to the club’s alternate training site. The additions bring San Diego’s pool up to a total of 57 players. Radke, 27, pitched well across…
DetailsListen to Episode 15 of ‘Amazin’ But True’: Cespedes Goes AWOL, Opts Out The Mets can never find themselves out of the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Sunday was a wild ending to a rough weekend for the Mets. Yoenis Cespedes went AWOL, Brodie Van Wagenen put out a statement that they don’t know…
DetailsBox Score Banter: Oh-no-tani This content is for Basic , Premium, Super-Premium, and Premium Monthly members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post Box Score Banter: Oh-no-tani appeared first on Baseball Prospectus. Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/60693/box-score-banter-ohtani-wild-velocity-mri-tucker-chatwood/
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