DAVIDOFF: Yankees facing a new Clint Frazier trade value reality WFAN callers hardest hit. In 69 major league games, Frazier, the top return piece in the trade that sent lefty reliever Andrew Miller from The Bronx to Cleveland, slashed .267/.317./489, slamming 12 home runs in 225 at-bats. He indeed played a critical role prior to…
DetailsSources: Ben Cherington has accepted Pirates’ GM job | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Hopefully, he’ll be given free reign. Source: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/sources_ben_cherington_has_accepted_pirates_gm_job_pittsburgh_post_gazette
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Cole Hamels’ Vintage Changeup Returned in 2019 There’s a lot of starting pitching on the free agent market this offseason. There’s Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, Madison Bumgarner, Zack Wheeler, Dallas Keuchel, and Hyun-Jin Ryu, among many others. But one guy who has always piqued my personal interest is left-hander Cole Hamels, who is entering free…
DetailsPirates To Name Ben Cherington General Manager Former Red Sox general manager and current Blue Jays senior vice president of baseball operations Ben Cherington has accepted an offer to become the next GM of the Pirates, Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (via Twitter). Mackey reported last night that Cherington had been offered the…
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Mike Trout’s Third MVP Is His Latest Step Into Elite Company When I was a little kid, I used to love reading Guinness World Records books. My childhood bookshelf at my parents’ house reflects this admittedly odd curiosity: There are several of the, I don’t know, adult(?) versions of the book from the mid-2000s —…
DetailsWild, Wild East: The Braves Sign Will Smith It seems like only last week, I was jamming 14 Will Smith movies into a single paragraph of free agent hype, taking an obvious joke well past its logical conclusion. What would I do when Will Smith actually signed? Use the same movie jokes again? I wasn’t…
DetailsCubs, Diamondbacks Have Interest In Shogo Akiyama The Cubs have free-agent center fielder Shogo Akiyama “on their radar,” reports Patrick Mooney of The Athletic (subscription required), and Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen acknowledged his own club’s interest in the 31-year-old at this week’s GM Meetings (link via Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Repbulic). Akiyama, a longtime…
DetailsLegend has it: Vibes get spooky for Copa Of the 22 teams who unveiled Copa de la Diversión identities on Nov. 14, the Rocky Mountain Vibes were the spookiest. Ben Hill looks into Las Lloronas. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191115&content_id=311857214&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsToolshed: Class A Advanced park factors New stadiums in Dunedin and Fayetteville — as well as extreme environments in places like Lancaster and Wilmington — affected statistical performance at the Class A Advanced level in 2019. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191115&content_id=311853790&fext=.jsp&vkey=toolshed&sid=milb
DetailsSupak, Ashby headline Brew Crew future While top prospects like Mauricio Dubon and Keston Hiura graduated to the big leagues, right-hander Trey Supak headlines a deep talent pool waiting its turn in the Brewers farm system. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191115&content_id=311859082&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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