Quick Hits: Snell, Draft, Torkelson, Molina, Jefry It’s not quite a Cy Young Award, but Rays southpaw Blake Snell captured another unique honor by winning the MLB The Show Players League championship today. (MLB.com’s Mandy Bell, Adam Berry, Do-Hyoung Park and Juan Toribio have the details.) The tournament featured one player from each team competing…
DetailsBrett Gardner is being robbed of making Yankees history Part 8 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees Brett Gardner was in line not just to continue a remarkable run of durability and success in the latter stage of his career heading into 2020, the 36-year-old is also on the cusp of some significant…
DetailsJacob deGrom’s Cy Young quest gets harder with coronavirus break Eighth in a series about the Mets The relative sprint of a shortened season, should MLB decide to play this year, may hurt Jacob deGrom’s chances of winning a third straight National League Cy Young award. Often, it’s the marathon of a full season that…
DetailsYankees’ Aroldis Chapman shows off massive muscles in shirtless workout Noah Syndergaard isn’t the only star pitcher going shirtless around here. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman on Saturday shared an Instagram video of himself tossing pitches partially unclad, and it seems his massive muscles only continue to grow during baseball’s coronavirus shutdown. “Bullpen day,” the 32-year-old…
DetailsHow Nomar Mazara Can Reach His Potential With The White Sox One of the wild cards of the 2020 season will be the development of 25-year-old outfielder Nomar Mazara, who will look to finally break out, this time in a new environment. By now, Mazara has had four whole seasons to prove himself at the…
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Nettuno Baseball Club 1945 officially gets its titles back After a long legal struggle, the FIBS (Italian Baseball and Softball Federation) has given back all Italian Championships and European Championships to the rightful owner Nettuno Baseball Club 1945. At some point in recent history, the other baseball club in Nettuno, Nettuno Baseball City, claimed to…
DetailsThe Indians’ Loss Is The Yankees’ Gain Tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of a seemingly innocuous decision that ultimately backfired. On May 4, 2018, the Indians designated third baseman Gio Urshela for assignment. Five days later, they traded him to the Blue Jays for cash considerations, ending his decade-long tenure in the organization. The decision to…
DetailsMatt Keough, former MLB All-Star, dead at 64 OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64. The Athletics announced the death Saturday night without providing details. “Matt was a great baseball man and a proud Oakland A,” Billy Beane, the team’s executive vice president of…
DetailsMLB Hoping To Stage Regular Season Games At Home Parks In 2020 We’ve heard of a handful of ideas about ways in which MLB could look to bring back games in 2020. Many have involved centralizing teams in a few states, perhaps with temporary league and divisional realignment. MLB’s “preferred plan,” however, is to stage…
DetailsYankees mailbag: Weighing how Gleyber Torres’ career could play out You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Yankees. Let’s say Gleyber Torres plays for the…
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