Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 1, 2020 by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MEXICAN LEAGUE PLANS AUGUST 7 OPENER, 12-TEAM PLAYOFF The Mexican League announced last week that they will play a shortened season of 48 games per team beginning Friday, August 7, followed by a postseason in October and November that will include a record 12…
DetailsOff The Top Of My Head: The Regionals Edition In Eric’s latest column, he takes a look at the top five regional upsets, the best Cinderella stories in the modern era and much more. Source: https://d1baseball.com/columns/off-the-top-of-my-head-the-regionals-edition/
DetailsLenny Dykstra’s shady past costs him lawsuit against Ron Darling Lenny Dykstra’s defamation and libel lawsuit against his former Mets teammate Ron Darling was dismissed by a judge Friday. The former Mets outfielder filed a lawsuit about a year ago against Darling following the release of the pitcher’s autobiography, “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns,…
DetailsBen Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 6/1/20 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/ben-clemens-fangraphs-chat-6-1-20/
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Origin of Minor League Team names, a Reprise: F Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are…
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Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. This time the letter: F Fayetteville…
DetailsMLB’s potential disaster isn’t about players’ greed: Sherman I think the players have a responsibility to help find a financial solution that allows major league baseball to be played this year. For the long-term damage to reputation and revenue without games will make the 2020 salary dispute feel like fighting for a drop of water…
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What the 2020 Season Will Look Like: Crowdsource Results Round 5 Usually, these results would have been posted last week, but the holiday combined with having some other business to attend to meant a delay until today. The polls closed early last week, before the most recent news cycle of proposals began. We again received…
DetailsEdwin Jackson, Travis Snider Among D-backs’ Minor League Releases The D-backs have released more than 60 minor league players over the past couple of weeks, and Baseball America’s J.J. Cooper reports several of the names that were cut loose (Twitter links). Veteran right-hander Edwin Jackson was the most experienced player to be released. Arizona also…
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Foley’s, the Very Best Baseball Bar, Is Closed for Good To call Foley’s NY Pub and Restaurant a sports bar would be like summarizing Citizen Kane as a movie about a sled. Sure, the bar at 18 West 33rd Street in Manhattan stood out as a place where one could enjoy a beer while watching…
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