Clock is suddenly ticking on MLB’s 82-game season proposal A virtual meeting was set for Tuesday afternoon at which MLB would present its proposal to top officials from the Players Association concerning how to return the game to the field. The expectation was that the meeting would begin at 2:30 p.m. with an MLB group…
DetailsHow They Got There: The 1980-1989 NL Cy Young Winners If you want to get an idea of how high the bar is to become a Hall of Fame pitcher, consider that only two of the 17 Cy Young winners from the 1980s have been inducted. One, Steve Carlton, is a four-time winner whose career…
DetailsThe Nats’ Amazing Run Of First Round Draft Picks Let’s start with the obvious: it was easy for the Nationals to select Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper with the first overall picks of the 2009 and 2010 drafts, respectively. And the team was quite fortunate that its low point in the standings coincided with the…
DetailsYankees’ Montana Semmel dodged coronavirus, now he’s helping defeat it Let’s face it: Many professional athletes, their lives upended like the rest of us due to the coronavirus, exist in isolation not only from their previous existences, but also from the suffering that so many people have endured. Montana Semmel is not such a professional…
DetailsDid you know? Pacific Coast League edition In the second part of a weekly series, MiLB.com’s Ben Hill unearths one unique fact about each of the Pacific Coast League’s 16 teams. Idiosyncrasy abounds. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20200512&content_id=313406422&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 5-12-2020 Pittsburgh Press, May 12, 1920:WASHINGTON LAUGHS AT RUTH In the Yankees’ recent series in Washington, Ruth, for whom the Gotham “kernels” are reported to have paid $125,000 or more, amassed a magnificent batting average of .167 for five games. He didn’t make a single home run, and…
DetailsToolshed: 2015 Draft retrospective Five years later, the 2015 First-Year Player Draft stands out for the large Astros class led by Alex Bregman and Walker Buehler’s fall to the Dodgers late in the first round. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20200512&content_id=313414088&fext=.jsp&vkey=toolshed&sid=milb
DetailsThis is where the postseason legend of Daniel Murphy exploded The Mets hadn’t been to the World Series in 15 years and trailed the Dodgers in Los Angeles in Game 5 of the 2015 NLDS at Dodger Stadium. That’s when Daniel Murphy closed out an outstanding personal series by nearly single-handedly leading the Mets to…
DetailsD1Baseball/Driveline Podcast: Navigating Uncertain Times As A Player D1Baseball has a special partnership with Driveline Baseball, and in our first podcast, Driveline’s Tosh Semblacher and Kyle Boddy join Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt. Source: https://d1baseball.com/featured/d1baseball-driveline-podcast-navigating-uncertain-times-as-a-player/
DetailsRafael Devers, Inefficient Thief Rafael Devers was an absolute stud last year. He amassed more than 700 plate appearances, the first full season of his career, and put up career highs in pretty much everything. Each of the three slash stats, ISO, wRC+, WAR, defensive value, baserunning runs — seriously, pretty much everything. But I’m…
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