Nettuno BC 1945 presents new road jersey Today, Italy’s oldest baseball club, Nettuno BC 1945 (BC stands for Baseball Club) presented its new road jersey through Facebook. A true thing of beauty. Normally I do not pay attention to second-tier league teams. If I have to do that, I won’t have time to do something…
DetailsFour Players Opt Out Of Major League Season As Major League Baseball and the Players Association engaged in tense negotiations to resume play after the season was initially suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the focus was understandably spent on the money players would be paid for competing in games during the crisis.…
DetailsWBSC U23 Baseball World Cup 2020 in Mexico postponed to 2021 Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation LAUSANNE, Switzerland — 30 June 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), together with the Mexican Baseball Federation and respective Local Organizing Committee (LOC), today announced the postponement of the 2020 WBSC U-23 Baseball World Cup® to 24…
DetailsPhillies Release, Re-Sign Anthony Swarzak The Phillies included just 53 players in their initial pool over the weekend, but right-hander Anthony Swarzak will soon be added as the 54th player, per The Athletic’s Matt Gelb (Twitter link). General manager Matt Klentak revealed to reporters that the Phils released and re-signed the veteran Swarzak to a…
Details2020 Minor-League Season Will Be Canceled The 2020 minor-league season will be canceled, according to a report from Baseball America’s J.J. Cooper and Josh Norris. While widely expected, the news comes as a major blow to the minor-league teams and many young players who were hopeful of continuing to chase after a coveted MLB roster…
DetailsAustrian competition will start coming weekend Last week, the Austrian Baseball Federation announced that the Baseball Bundesliga would start in July. The other day, the Federation announced the highest Austrian league will start on July 3rd. According to the website, 20 games in two months is a very tight schedule. Teams will be split in…
DetailsMLB Pre-Approves 7 Bidding Groups For Mets While it’s fun to imagine Alex Rodriguez and Jenifer Lopez overseeing the Mets from an ownership suite, they’re not alone in their bidding group … and there are plenty of other competing outfits eyeing the New York organization. At the moment, it’s far from clear just how the…
DetailsBack 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. We continue with the letter M…
DetailsOrioles Sign Heston Kjerstad The Orioles have signed second overall draft pick Heston Kjerstad, per a team announcement. Bonus terms aren’t yet known. Kjerstad was expected to go near the top of the draft, but not with the second selection. The O’s obviously liked him quite a bit, but also saw an opportunity to save some…
DetailsRyan Braun has doubts the 2020 MLB season will happen As Major League Baseball teams prepare to start training camp this week, at least one player isn’t so sure that the 2020 season will actually be played. “There’s still a part of me that isn’t quite sure we will actually play games,” Brewers outfielder Ryan…
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