Phillies Hire Bryan Price As Pitching Coach 10:32am: The Phillies have formally announced the hiring. 9:22am: The Phillies have made a key hire for the staff of incoming manager Joe Girardi. As expected, the team will bring on Bryan Price as pitching coach, per Matt Gelb of The Athletic (via Twitter). He’s said to have turned…
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DetailsRoyals To Hire Mike Matheny The Royals will hire Mike Matheny as their next manager, Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com reports (via Twitter). That’s been reported to be the likely outcome since Matheny joined the Royals organization as a special advisor to GM Dayton Moore last offseason. Matheny replacing the recently retired Ned Yost has looked…
Details2019-20 Offseason Calendar Baseball’s offseason calendar largely flows from the end of the World Series. Last night’s thrilling game seven, in which the Nationals prevailed over the Astros, also served as a starting point for several key dates. Today Eligible players officially file for major or minor-league free agency November 4 End of “quiet period”…
DetailsReporter gets in tight spot with celebrating Nationals fans: ‘Is that weed?’ It’s been en eventful postseason for NBC Washington reporter Shomari Stone. Stone found an expensive ticket on the ground outside Nationals Park before Game 4 of the Nationals’ NLCS triumph over the Cardinals and found the rightful owner after posting about it on…
DetailsPhillies To Hire Bryan Price As Pitching Coach The Phillies have made a key hire for the staff of incoming manager Joe Girardi. As expected, the team will bring on Bryan Price as pitching coach, per Matt Gelb of The Athletic (via Twitter). Price, 57, served as the Reds manager from 2014 until his firing early…
DetailsCrooked Numbers: Keeping baseball weird It’s Halloween, a better time than most to look at the weirdest moments of the 2019 Minor League season. Ben Hill delivers the goods in Crooked Numbers. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191031&content_id=311333946&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 10-31-2019 New York Sun, October 31, 1919:Major league legislation barring freak deliveries may be expected in the near future .Action looking toward the abolition of the spitball and shine ball and their several first cousins was started in earned last night, when John A. Heydler, president of the…
DetailsDiamondbacks To Hire Matt Herges As Pitching Coach After running into some roadblocks with other candidates, the Diamondbacks have settled upon Matt Herges as their next pitching coach, per Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic. Herges will join the staff of skipper Torey Lovullo after a pair of seasons as the Giants’ bullpen coach. The…
DetailsOn Work and Being Found Wanting We talk about work as a cohesive, coherent thing — I am a writer, your dad is a plumber, these are our jobs — but it isn’t really. Jobs are a bunch of tasks and to-do lists and calendar reminders, wholes made up of discrete parts that add up…
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