Bryan Price Favorite To Become Phillies’ Pitching Coach Wednesday: Price is indeed the favorite for the position, reports Matt Breen of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rothschild is still in the mix, Breen adds, but Price is believed to be the front-runner. Tuesday: Former Reds manager Bryan Price is a legitimate candidate to become the Phillies’ pitching coach,…
DetailsRendon’s Signature Swing Lifts 2019 World Series Though the final score was once again lopsided, Tuesday night’s Game 6 was this World Series’ most entertaining game since the opener, even if much of it pivoted upon lengthy debates of rules both written (the seventh-inning interference call against Trea Turner) and unwritten (the bat-carrying homers of…
DetailsVolcanoes’ Howard wins 2019 Murphy Patriot Award Minor League Baseball announced that Jerry Howard of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes is the recipient of the fourth annual Charles K. Murphy Patriot Award. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191030&content_id=311340482&fext=.jsp&vkey=pr_milb&sid=milb
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 10-30-2019 Washburn [Wisconsin] Times, October 30, 1919:Jack Quinn of the Yankees is now the proprietor of the world’s wonder wild pitch record. The big miner uncorked one in the recent Philadelphia series that was pronounced by competent judges to have been the wildest, wooliest and thorough-going maverick wild…
DetailsPhil Hughes uses World Series fiasco to troll Alex Rodriguez Phil Hughes controls one of the best Twitter accounts in baseball, and a large part of that is the ex-Yankee hurler’s willingness to teasingly tweak and troll former teammate Alex Rodriguez. Hughes replied to a tweet by A-Rod that Tuesday’s controversial interference call on Trea…
DetailsLatest On Pirates’ Trajectory, GM Search Pirates owner Bob Nutting and new team president Travis Williams met with the media this week to discuss the organization’s direction. The team has already undergone its fair share of tumult this offseason, having fired manager Clint Hurdle and, a month later, cutting ties with general manager Neal Huntington.…
DetailsAlcides Escobar To Join NPB’s Yakult Swallows Former big league shortstop Alcides Escobar has agreed to a deal with the Yakult Swallos of NPB, the team announced. (Japanese-language link to Sponichi story; h/t Kazuto Yamazaki of Baseball Prospectus, on Twitter.) The longtime Royal saw MLB action every season between 2008 and 2018. Escobar is most famous…
DetailsCampbell releases 2020 Schedule BUIES CREEK, N.C. — Head coach Justin Haire, who enters his sixth season at the helm and 13th… Visit College Baseball Daily for the Full Story Source: http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2019/10/30/campbell-releases-2020-schedule/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29
DetailsTrea Turner calls out Joe Torre during World Series controversy A hot mic made Tuesday night’s chaos at the World Series an even more heated situation. During the controversial 10-minute delay in the seventh inning of Game 6, Fox microphones picked up Trea Turner calling out MLB’s chief baseball officer Joe Torre from the dugout…
DetailsJoe Girardi Gets a Fresh Start in a Shifting NL East The NL East: A division that, if it had ever been noble, would be referred to here as “once noble” now. That’s a bit unfair; there was some nobility to Atlanta wailing on this Senior Circuit subset for a decade and a half. But…
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