Athletics Call Up Skye Bolt The A’s have called up some outfield depth for the final few games of the season, summoning Skye Bolt to the big league roster, per a club announcement. Oakland was without Khris Davis due to the stomach flu yesterday and saw Mark Canha exit last night’s game due to a…
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This Isn’t the Same Eduardo Rodriguez It’s tempting to look at Eduardo Rodriguez’s 3.94 FIP in 2019, nearly identical the 3.97 FIP he has for his career, and think that nothing has substantively changed. His strikeout, walk, and homer numbers are all similarly in line with his career rates too, while his BABIP allowed and…
DetailsWhat Brodie Van Wagenen should do to improve 2020 Mets Boldness won Brodie Van Wagenen the job of Mets general manager, and lost the season. The Wilpons wanted to hear the word “rebuild” as much as “Madoff,” and Van Wagenen sold ownership that the Mets had a core for contention now and in the future.…
DetailsWomen in baseball connect at MiLB Innovators Summit On Wednesday, executives in Minor League Baseball filled the Rio Grande room of the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center to discuss the challenges facing women in baseball. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190926&content_id=310926618&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsGreg Bird can’t believe this turned into another lost Yankees season The Yankees could see a healthy Greg Bird report to spring training next season. “Oh, yeah,” the oft-injured first baseman told NJ.com on Wednesday at Tropicana Field. “I’ll be ready. It’s just been a long process. Frustrating.” Bird, who was visiting his teammates before…
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Maximum Launch Angle is a Blast Wherever you sit along the spectrum of baseball observers, from newcomer through casual fan, diehard, junkie, nerd and professional, you are by no means obligated to care about Statcast. Publicly available numbers quantifying three-dimensional coordinates, velocity, spin rate, and more are now attached to everything this side of how…
DetailsDan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 9/26/19 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/dan-szymborski-fangraphs-chat-9-26-19/
DetailsMichael Wacha Set For MRI Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha exited what may have been his final appearance in a Cardinals uniform during the second inning last night due to what the team initially termed a “mild strain” of his right shoulder. Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Wacha had difficulty getting loose…
DetailsWe Get It, You Like Pickoff Throws As the Twins closed in on a division title and their second playoff berth in three years, each of their games took on greater importance. On September 17, that intensity created a truly ridiculous 10 minutes of baseball. Sergio Romo came into a tie game in the eighth…
DetailsWe Get It, You Like Pickoffs Throws As the Twins closed in on a division title and their second playoff berth in three years, each of their games took on greater importance. On September 17, that intensity created a truly ridiculous 10 minutes of baseball. Sergio Romo came into a tie game in the eighth…
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