MURPHY’S RIDICULOUS WEEK NETS HIM PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS MOORHEAD, MN- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that St. Paul Saints’ OF Max Murphy has been named this week’s Pointstreak Player of the Week for the week ending June 23, 2019. Murphy earned the award after posting a ridiculous .514/.525/1.189…
DetailsREDHAWKS’ HELTON SCORELESS WEEK EARNS HIM PITCHER OF THE WEEK HONORS MOORHEAD, MN- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks’ RHP Bret Helton has been named this week’s Pointstreak Pitcher of the Week for the week ending June 23, 2019. Helton (2-1) earned the award after a masterful week…
DetailsThe Mariners’ Tom Murphy Is Making The Most Of It Less than a year ago, Tom Murphy was catching in Triple-A Albuquerque, batting eighth for the Isotopes and wrapping up a fourth consecutive season in which he failed to register 100 big-league plate appearances. Now platooning with Omar Narvaez in Seattle, Murphy’s .366 wOBA is…
DetailsThe ZiPS (Almost) Midseason Update – National League Welcome to the more interesting league. Back in 2015, ZiPS saw two very different leagues — an American League in which most of the teams were competitive, and a bifurcated National League that featured a stronger line between the haves and the have-nots than 1780s France. By…
DetailsSolid hoofdklasse debut for Sebastian Kok By now this is old news but all major baseball news outlets in the Netherlands overlooked a fine debut by a 17-year old kid. On Friday, June 14, an unusual day for hoofdklasse games, Sebastian Kok made his debut for the flagship team of Meerlease Pioniers vs Silicon Storks.…
DetailsThis isn’t the first time the Mets have turned on reporters Here’s a look at other times Mets players and officials have snapped at members of the media: April 1993 Eddie Murray and Bobby Bonilla confronted Daily News reporter Bob Klapisch about a book “The Worst Team Money Could Buy,” written by Klapisch and former…
DetailsMarcus Stroman shreds Dennis Eckersley after on-air criticism Marcus Stroman’s antics have irked another individual, albeit this time it came from the broadcasting booth. NESN commentator Dennis Eckersley took issue with the 28-year-old pitcher’s celebration after striking out Eduardo Nunez to end the sixth inning of the Blue Jays’ 6-1 victory over the Red Sox…
DetailsJustin Verlander Is Dominating Despite All of the Dingers It’s been a weird season thus far for Justin Verlander. On the one hand, the 36-year-old righty has enjoyed dominant stretches and generally pitched well enough to put himself in the conversation for another All-Star appearance (perhaps even a start) and that elusive second Cy Young…
DetailsMarlins Return Riley Ferrell To Astros Right-hander Riley Ferrell has cleared outright waivers and been returned to the Astros, tweets Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. Ferrell, whom the Marlins selected out of the Houston organization in last December’s Rule 5 Draft, was placed on waivers by Miami late last week. Ferrell, 25, pitched reasonably…
DetailsIL notes: Katoh hoping to get off shuttle Yankees prospect Gosuke Katoh has bounced back and forth between Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre but knows what he has to do to reach the next level. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20190624&content_id=308400110&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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