2020 Conference Wrap: WAC Parker Brahms led a standout weekend rotation for Sacramento State this spring. Find out which other Western Athletic Conference teams and players stood out in the abbreviated season. Source: https://d1baseball.com/analysis/2020-conference-wrap-wac/
DetailsFormer MLB Players In NPB: Japan Pacific League Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball is targeting a June 19 Opening Day. As is the case with the Korea Baseball Organization, the league has plenty of recognizable names for MLB fans to follow as we await the return of baseball in North America. NPB is larger than the…
DetailsThe Universal DH Will Not Kill Your Fantasy Plans Amid the difficulties that need to be hammered out before a theoretical 2020 season gets going, probably the easiest to sort out is the universal DH. Baseball has been inching closer to this outcome — which I’ve felt was inevitable as soon as daily interleague play…
DetailsEric Byrnes doesn’t give ‘two s–ts’ about player-owner war complicating return Longtime outfielder Eric Byrnes has had enough of the MLB’s collective bargaining agreement feud between players and owners. Byrnes, who enjoyed a 10-year career in the MLB before retiring in 2010, told TMZ Sports he believes that both parties should just bite the bullet…
DetailsJay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 5/26/20 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jay-jaffe-fangraphs-chat-5-26-20/
DetailsOOTP Brewers: Taking Stock Sometimes the math just works out perfectly. Coming into today, our fictional OOTP Brewers have played exactly one third of their season. At 32-22, we’re atop the NL Central by four games, an outcome I would have happily accepted before the season started. Let’s take a look at how we got…
DetailsDoosan Bears’ Fernandez is Tearing Up the KBO The defending champion Doosan Bears are merely in third place in the Korea Baseball Organization standings, but through the season’s first three weeks, nobody in the league has been hotter than their designated hitter, Jose Miguel Fernandez 페르난데스. Through Sunday’s games, the 32-year-old Cuban defector is batting…
DetailsWhich 15 Players Should The Dodgers Protect In An Expansion Draft? In a few weeks, we’ll be running a two-team mock expansion draft here at MLBTR – just for the fun of it! Currently, we’re creating 15-player protected lists for each of the existing 30 teams. You can catch up on the rules for player…
DetailsDaniel Mengden “About 95 Percent” After February Elbow Surgery Athletics righty Daniel Mengden underwent an arthroscopic procedure on his elbow back in February, but the right-hander told Brodie Brazil of NBC Sports Bay Area over the weekend that he’s now at “about 95 percent” in his recovery process. Notably, Mengden also revealed to Brazil that he…
Details2020 Season In Review: Sudden Impact JUCO Transfers Our look back at the shortened 2020 season continues as David Seifert breaks down the most impactful junior college transfers, led by Oklahoma’s Dane Acker. Source: https://d1baseball.com/prospects/2020-season-in-review-sudden-impact-juco-transfers/
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