From Released To Elite J.D. Martinez did not start his major league career in auspicious fashion, but as a 20th-round pick in 2009, it’s remarkable that the outfielder even made his way to the bigs. Houston took Martinez in the draft, and though he was highly productive in the organization’s system through 2011, he was…
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An Unpopular Trade Paying Off In Seattle The Mariners’ rebuild began in earnest following a disappointing finish to the 2018 season, when GM Jerry Dipoto first began talk of re-imagining his roster. The M’s have added a bevy of prospects since that time, highlighted by Jarred Kelenic and Justus Sheffield, but one of their most…
DetailsMets’ Seth Lugo fully embracing his new role as a father Seth Lugo is losing sleep, but not necessarily over baseball. The Mets reliever has spent the last two months embracing life as a new father, after his wife Amanda gave birth to the couple’s first child, James, on March 19. The new arrival came…
DetailsMike Tauchman made Yankees winners of this minor trade Part 23 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees When Mike Tauchman was acquired from the Rockies late last March for lefty reliever Phillip Diehl, some in the scouting community viewed the transaction as nothing more than the Yankees getting a Triple-A outfielder who could…
DetailsWhich 15 Players Should The Astros Protect In An Expansion Draft? In a few weeks, we’ll be running a two-team mock expansion draft here at MLBTR. Currently, we’re creating 15-player protected lists for each of the existing 30 teams. You can catch up on the rules for player eligibility here. So far, we’ve done the…
DetailsSet Building 101 Set building equates to putting back in order what has purposely been randomized and that is my best definition of what baseball card collecting is all about. Surely it’s what Woody Gelman of Topps had in mind all those years ago in Brooklyn. Why else would he have cataloged his own work…
Details50 years after Curt Flood, coronavirus pushes MLB-player battle to forefront With each day comes a new crate of tea leaves, hints and clues of what’s to come, and when. We gauge ebbs and flows of “momentum” — toward the resumption of sports, away from it, who wants to play, how can they play, will…
DetailsLatest On Salary Dispute Between MLB, MLBPA As Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association continue their standoff over player compensation in a shortened 2020 season without fans in attendance, it seems neither side is prepared to budge. MLB Network’s Jon Heyman tweets that some with the league believe they “have it cold in…
DetailsMLBPA, Tony Clark discuss 67-page proposal in lengthy call More than 130 players participated in a union-run conference call Monday night mainly to go over MLB’s 67-page health and safety proposal for restarting the season. All 30 teams were represented on the call, which was led by Players Association executive director Tony Clark and Bruce…
DetailsBest of D1: LSU’s Bregman Was Brilliant To The End From the D1Baseball vault: Alex Bregman’s college career at LSU ended without a national title, but he left a lasting mark on the Tigers program. Aaron Fitt saluted Bregman after his final game in the 2015 CWS. Source: https://d1baseball.com/college-world-series/fitt-lsus-bregman-was-brilliant-to-the-end/
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