Hyun-Jin Ryu Hoping For Three- Or Four-Year Deal After accepting a one-year, $17.9MM qualifying offer last winter, lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu is slated to fully explore the open market for the first time in his career. The NL Cy Young runner-up won’t have the burden of draft-pick compensation attached to his name, as he would’ve had…
DetailsIs No One Else Going to Write About Martín Prado? Not a lot of people know this, but every baseball diamond is carefully balanced on a fulcrum and tilts in the direction of chaos. A ball is misplayed, a runner trips over a base, a swarm of wasps is unleashed from within a rolled-up tarp.…
DetailsReds To Give Consideration To Qualifying Offer Recipients Following a 2018-2019 offseason that saw the club focus primarily on pitching additions, offensive improvement is expected to be a chief initiative for the Reds this winter. With that goal in mind, the club will not rule out signing free agents attached to a qualifying offer this…
DetailsMLB’s sign-stealing probe will go beyond 2017 Astros, include Red Sox MLB wants to know if teams beyond the 2017 Astros illegally stole signs. The league’s probe will also explore whether cheating occurred in at least the last three World Series, and it will examine whether the 2019 Astros and other teams electronically stole signs…
DetailsGreg Bird survived his first Yankees injury test The injuries that have haunted Greg Bird’s Yankees career did not follow him to the Dominican Winter League. The first baseman made it through his week-long test at the end of October in the Dominican Republic unscathed. Bird and the Yankees wanted to find out if Bird…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 11-14-2019 Ogden Standard, November 14, 1919:George Tyler, southpaw pitcher for the Cubs, had an early appointment with a dentist today and before the end of the day he expected to have only two teeth left in his mouth. The pitcher, who did little work for his team last…
DetailsPete Alonso owns Twitter troll who called him a ‘fatass’ That’s home run No. 54 for Pete Alonso. After Jacob deGrom won his second straight NL Cy Young award on Wednesday, Alonso took to Twitter to congratulate his Mets teammate, and a Twitter troll came after the first baseman, who was crowned NL Rookie of…
DetailsGeneral Managers Meetings Notebook The General Managers meetings provide a great opportunity to check in with executives from across the game. A pair of hour-long media sessions are held, with the majority of the GMs, and/or Presidents of Baseball Operations, making appearances at both. I spoke to a large number of them, with the goal…
DetailsQuiet Early Market For Ken Giles Blue Jays reliever Ken Giles seemingly factors as a big potential trade piece. But the market isn’t bouncing with early interest in the righty, per Scott Mitchell of TSN Sports (Twitter link). That’s somewhat surprising to hear, given that teams weighing the open-market options don’t have many premium relief…
DetailsCBD Photo Gallery: San Diego and Grand Canyon Fall Ball Here are some sights from this past weekend’s fall ball matchup between San Diego and Grand… Visit College Baseball Daily for the Full Story Source: http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2019/11/14/cbd-photo-gallery-san-diego-and-grand-canyon-fall-ball/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29
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