Steve Cohen is Mets’ godsend that ‘should bother the Yankees’ If this really is Christmas for Mets fans — and, heck, it is close enough to the holidays for them to dream with the greatest aspirations — then there is going to be a second team that spends like the Yankees in town. Steve Cohen,…
DetailsThe Life & Death of Jim Devlin, Baseball’s Original Cheat You can’t cheat an honest man … except maybe in sports. In the summer of 1876, a Brooklyn bookie by the name of Fred Seibert tried with his partner, a man named McCloud, to enlist Jim Devlin in throwing a game or two. Devlin flatly…
DetailsOrioles trade Dylan Bundy to the Angels According to Ken Rosenthal, Baltimore sent Bundy to LA in exchange for Triple-A pitching prospect Isaac Mattson. Jeff Passan reported that the three pitchers included in the package to Baltimore are Zach Peek, Kyle Bradish and Kyle Brnovich. The Orioles took Bundy fourth overall in the 2011 draft,…
DetailsMets in Talks to Sell 80% of Team to Investor Steve Cohen The owners of the New York Mets are in talks to sell up to 80% of the Major League Baseball team to billionaire Steve Cohen, who is already an investor in the club, according to person familiar with the matter. The transaction would…
DetailsMarlins Notes: Park Dimensions, Outfield, Catcher, Villar, Aguilar Changes are coming to Marlins Park, as the team announced Wednesday that the fences will be moved in and new synthetic grass will be installed prior to Opening Day 2020. “In going through the process of evaluating the playing surface at Marlins Park in 2019, we set out…
DetailsSep 20: Ripken ends streak SEPTEMBER 20, 1998 | BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Cal Ripken didn’t play for the Baltimore Orioles on this date in 1998, the first time he was not in the lineup in over 16 years. It marked the end of his 2,632 consecutive game streak, a record Ripken held since breaking Lou…
DetailsMLBTR Live Chat: 12/4/19 Click here to join tonight’s chat with Connor Byrne of MLBTR. Source: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/mlbtr-live-chat-12419.html
Details2020 Competitive Balance Draft Pick Order Major League Baseball has determined the orders of Competitive Balance Rounds A and B for the 2020 amateur draft, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com reports. Comp Round A takes place after the first round of the draft, while Comp Round B goes down at the conclusion of the second round.…
DetailsSep 18: Sometimes it is over SEPTEMBER 18 | VARIOUS CITIES – So you’re down because your team is out of the race, maybe not mathematically but, what are the odds? Well, not good, but it has happened. Here are some historic comebacks, and collapses, and where the teams stood on this date — September 18th.…
DetailsSteve Cohen’s looming Mets takeover changes everything The words seem coldly ironic now, almost 40 years later. But early on the Friday afternoon of Jan. 25, 1980, they had the desired effect. Until this moment, Fred Wilpon had been an anonymous millionaire. Now, he had a stake, and a say, in the New York Mets,…
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