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Friday, July 28, 2023
Website Outage Postponed
I’ve means too many issues that also have to be achieved earlier than migrating the server. I’m going to maintain plugging and can replace once I’m prepared to maneuver the location.
UPDATE: Sorry, I’ve to push again the replace till subsequent Monday. Residence was far too busy this previous week. Issues get again to regular tomorrow. Hopefully the additional time will assist shorten the outage.
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Sunday, November 05, 2023
Tigers beat Buffaloes in Sport 7 to finish 38-year Japan Collection drought
After struggling via a 38-year drought that felt a lot, for much longer due to dropping seasons, close to misses and even a curse linked to Kentucky Fried Rooster, the Tigers and their followers can lastly rejoice.
The wait is over. The Tigers are Japan Collection champions.
Sheldon Neuse hit a three-run residence run and drove in 4 runs, and Hanshin followers set free almost 4 many years of frustration after the ultimate out of a 7-1 win over the Orix Buffaloes in Sport 7 of the Japan Collection at Kyocera Dome Osaka on Sunday evening.
“That is what we play for all yr,” Neuse mentioned. “I’m simply completely satisfied, very grateful I’m right here to get the chance and glad I used to be in a position to contribute.”
The Tigers received the Japan Collection for the primary time since 1985 — when supervisor …
Dick Drago, staple of Purple Sox pitching employees in Seventies, dies at 78
Dick Drago, who pitched for the Purple Sox within the Seventies, died Thursday at age 78.
Drago, who spent 5 years with the membership from 1974-1975 and 1978-1980, compiled a 30-29 report and three.55 ERA over 206 video games with Boston. He registered 9 full video games, 41 saves, and struck out 305 batters.
The Purple Sox expressed their condolences Saturday afternoon, referring to him as “a staple” of the employees and a “beloved teammate.”
Posted: November 05, 2023 at 11:15 AM | 3 remark(s)
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Reds decline $20M choice on Joey Votto, probably ending Cincinnati profession after 17 seasons
Joey Votto’s $20 million choice for 2024 was declined Saturday by the Reds, making the primary baseman a free agent and probably ending his profession with Cincinnati after 17 seasons.
Votto will get a $7 million buyout, finishing a contract that assured $251.5 million over 12 seasons.
Cincinnati additionally declined its a part of a $4 million mutual choice with catcher Curt Casali, who will get a $750,000 buyout.
“At this level of the offseason, primarily based on our present roster and projected plans for 2024, as a company we can not decide to the taking part in time Joey deserves,” normal supervisor Nick Krall mentioned in a press release. “He endlessly can be a part of the Reds’ household, and on the applicable time we’ll thank and honor him as one of many biggest …
Saturday, November 04, 2023
Marcus Stroman Opts Out Of Deal With Cubs
Marcus Stroman has enacted the opt-out clause in his contract and can now turn into a free agent, the New York Submit’s Jon Heyman experiences (X hyperlink). Stroman’s three-year, $71MM take care of the Cubs from the 2021-22 offseason allowed Stroman to decide out of the ultimate yr of that contract, and the right-hander can be leaving $21MM on the desk in search of a bigger and extra profitable deal this winter.
Stroman confronted one of many extra fascinating choice selections of any participant available on the market, as his 2023 marketing campaign was a story of two seasons. Within the first half, Stroman had a 2.96 ERA over 112 2/3 innings and acquired an All-Star nod for his efforts. Within the second half, Stroman had an 8.63 ERA over solely 24 innings, as he missed about six weeks on …
White Sox To Decline Membership Choice On Tim Anderson
The White Sox will decline their $14MM membership choice on shortstop Tim Anderson, in accordance with ESPN’s Jesse Rogers (X hyperlink). Anderson will as an alternative obtain a $1MM buyout, and turn into a free agent for the primary time in his skilled profession.
The choice marks the tip of an period on the South Aspect, as Anderson had been a part of the group for the reason that White Sox made him the seventeenth total choose of the 2013 draft. Rising as an everyday via the membership’s rebuilding years, Anderson made two All-Star Video games, received a Silver Slugger Award (in 2020), and received the 2019 AL batting title throughout his eight seasons in a Sox uniform.
The White Sox acknowledged this potential early, and locked Anderson up on a six-year, $25MM extension previous to the 2017 …
Posted: November 04, 2023 at 03:51 PM | 7 remark(s)
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Tigers purchase OF Mark Canha from Brewers for minor leaguer
Veteran outfielder Mark Canha is on the transfer once more, with the Milwaukee Brewers buying and selling him to the Detroit Tigers on Saturday relatively than choosing up his choice for the 2024 season.
The Brewers acquired minor league pitcher Blake Holub within the deal.
Milwaukee was dealing with a Monday deadline on whether or not to choose up Canha’s $11.5 million staff choice for 2024 or pay a $2 million buyout. The Brewers as an alternative dealt Canha to the Tigers, the second time he’s been traded this yr.
Friday, November 03, 2023
Kershaw has shoulder surgical procedure, hopes to pitch in ‘24
Clayton Kershaw underwent surgical procedure to restore the glenohumeral ligament and capsule in his left shoulder, he introduced on Friday in an Instagram put up. The surgical procedure was carried out by Dr. Neal ElAttrache.
Kershaw, who will flip 36 in March, mentioned within the put up that he’s “hopeful to return to play sooner or later subsequent summer time,” which all however confirms that he’ll try to take the mound for his seventeenth MLB season. He had not beforehand confirmed whether or not he could be returning for the 2024 season.
Kershaw is a free agent after taking part in final yr on a one-year contract, and he had one of many worst begins of his profession his final day out, as he allowed six runs and recorded only one out towards the D-backs in Sport 1 of the Nationwide League Division …
Ian Kennedy To Retire
The Yankees chosen Kennedy within the first spherical of the 2006 draft. The USC product reached the majors a bit greater than a yr later, debuting as a September call-up in ’07. He noticed restricted motion within the Bronx over the following two-plus seasons. Through the 2009-10 offseason, the Yanks dealt Kennedy to the Diamondbacks as a part of the three-team blockbuster that moved Max Scherzer to Detroit and Curtis Granderson to New York.
Kennedy spent three and a half seasons as a key piece of the Arizona rotation. He led the Nationwide League with 21 wins whereas pitching to a 2.88 ERA throughout 222 innings in 2011, securing a fourth-place end in NL Cy Younger balloting. On the 2013 deadline, the Snakes flipped Kennedy to the Padres for Joe Thatcher. He …
Sinclair Broadcasting desires to scoop up bankrupt RSN big Diamond Sports activities: sources
Sinclair Broadcasting Group desires to pay pennies on the greenback to regain management of a nationwide chain of regional sports activities networks — which it had paid $10.6 billion to amass 4 years in the past solely to see it fall into chapter 11 this spring, The Submit has discovered.
Sinclair, which owns 185 tv stations in 86 markets, has supplied roughly $850 million in partnership with Bally’s proprietor Soo Kim to regain management of its bankrupt subsidiary, Diamond Sports activities Group, which airs native video games on TV beneath the Bally Sports activities model and owns the rights to 39 groups throughout MLB, the NBA and NHL, sources mentioned.
The deal appears like a final gasp to maintain the decades-old regional sports activities networks broadcasting on native TV. Diamond, which has been mired in …
Thursday, November 02, 2023
Low World Collection TV rankings in 2023 proceed 7-year downward development
As tv rankings proceed to come back out for the 2023 World Collection, the information continues to worsen for MLB.
Sport 2 of this yr’s Fall Basic between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers was the lowest-watched World Collection recreation of all time with 8.15 million individuals tuning in, in accordance with Nielsen knowledge collected by Sports activities TV Rankings. Two nights later, Sport 3 set a brand new report low of fewer than 8.13 million individuals.
Tuesday evening’s Sport 4 motion noticed a soar again above the numbers for Video games 2 and three, however the common of 8.48 million viewers was nonetheless a report low for a World Collection Sport 4, per Sports activities TV rankings.
As of the time of writing, Nielsen has not but launched knowledge on viewership for Sport 5 on Wednesday evening.
The low rankings of …
Dodgers’ Max Muncy: Inks two-year extension
Muncy signed a two-year, $24 million contract extension with the Dodgers on Thursday, Jon Heyman of the New York Submit experiences.
Muncy had a $14 million membership choice for the 2024 season, however the Dodgers will as an alternative give him a brand new deal that retains the 33-year-old slugger in Los Angeles via 2025 with a $10 million membership choice for 2026. Muncy slashed .212/.333/.475 throughout 482 plate appearances in 2023 whereas recording private bests in residence runs (36) and RBI (105).
Nelson Cruz Retires from MLB After 19 Seasons; Gained 2011 ALCS MVP with Rangers
Nonetheless, the 43-year-old had an exceptional 19-year MLB profession that spanned 2005-2023. He primarily performed for the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners, however he additionally suited up for the Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers in that span.
Cruz is among the most prolific energy bats in baseball historical past, having slashed .274/.343/.513 with 464 residence runs and 1,325 RBI in 2,055 video games throughout 19 seasons. His 464 blasts rank thirty seventh on MLB’s all-time residence run record.
Though he by no means received a World Collection title, Cruz was a seven-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger and the 2011 American League Championship Collection MVP. In 50 playoff video games throughout his profession, he slashed .278/.348/.631 with 18 residence runs and …
Free agent rankings: Prime 25 for the 2023-24 offseason
1) Shohei Ohtani, RHP/DH (age: 29)
Even with a torn UCL that required a second elbow surgical procedure, Ohtani is well the highest free agent on this yr’s market. It stays to be seen if/when Ohtani will return to the mound, however his offensive profile alone—which compares favorably to Aaron Decide, who signed for 9 years and $360 million final yr—ought to land him a deal in that vary, as he’s greater than a yr youthful than Decide was when he reached free company. Most anticipate him to pitch once more no later than 2025, and it’s attainable his deal goes far past Decide’s, although the assured {dollars} are positive to take a success from what they’d have been with out the harm.
Potential matches: Angels, Dodgers, Giants, Mets
Braves deliver again Jiménez on 3-year, $26 million deal
The Braves signed right-hander Joe Jiménez to a three-year contract price $26 million, with the reliever set to make $8 million in 2024 and $9 million in every of the ultimate two years of the deal. Jiménez has agreed to donate 1% of his wage to the Atlanta Braves Basis.
Jiménez, 28, performed his first season with Atlanta in 2023 and went 0-3 with a 3.04 ERA over 59 appearances.
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Rangers take out D-backs for franchise’s 1st World Collection title
The Texas Rangers spent seven months of this season terrorizing opponents with a menacing offense that feasted on residence runs and infrequently let up. The primary evening of November showcased the opposite facets that make them dominant—gritty beginning pitching, sound protection and a lineup versatile sufficient to fabricate runs when wanted.
It sealed them a title.
The Rangers defeated the upstart, underdog Arizona Diamondbacks in entrance of a soldout Chase Discipline crowd, 5-0, in Sport 5 of the World Collection on Wednesday, clinching the primary championship within the 62-year historical past of their franchise. Nathan Eovaldi regularly weaved out of bother, one way or the other matching a dominant Zac Gallen via six scoreless innings, and the Rangers’ offense lastly got here …
The Athletic: Padres not too long ago took out $50 million mortgage to assist cowl payroll: sources
Regardless of promoting extra tickets this season than all however one Main League Baseball staff, the San Diego Padres took out a mortgage for about $50 million in September to deal with short-term money move points and meet their obligations, together with participant payroll, individuals briefed on the staff’s funds informed The Athletic.
MLB groups generally faucet into strains of credit score to pay their payments, prompting some officers within the sport to recommend any concern needs to be tempered as a result of the Padres had been in the end creditworthy sufficient to attract the mortgage. However different officers briefed on the staff’s funds who weren’t licensed to talk publicly seen the Padres’ scenario as worrisome.
“The Padres group continues to have entry to all of the assets, …
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
State AGs Urge Supreme Courtroom to Overview MLB Antitrust Exemption
On Monday they filed an amicus temporary urging the Supreme Courtroom to evaluation a case involving two minor league baseball groups, the Tri-Metropolis ValleyCats and Norwich Sea Unicorns, that misplaced their MLB affiliations through the MiLB reorganization a couple of years in the past. By their attorneys at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the ValleyCats and Sea Unicorns petitioned the Supreme Courtroom final month.
As detailed in Sportico, the case facilities on whether or not MLB and its groups unlawfully conspired beneath federal antitrust regulation. MLB received on the district courtroom and federal appellate ranges, with judges explaining MLB is exempt from antitrust scrutiny per the Supreme Courtroom’s 1922 determination in Federal Baseball Membership v. Nationwide League—a choice the Courtroom upheld 50 years later …
Rob Manfred says MLB may look to additional restrict the variety of pitchers groups can carry
“Traditionally, beginning pitchers have been a few of the greatest stars within the recreation,” Manfred mentioned Friday earlier than Sport 1 of the World Collection. “And I feel the way in which that pitching is getting used proper now has triggered a diminution in that star type of high quality for a few of our starters, and I do assume it’s a problem that we must always speak about.”
Manfred works for the 30 staff house owners, and he mentioned they care concerning the disappearance of the beginning pitcher for a similar cause the league carried out a slate of guidelines designed to change the aesthetic of the game.
“I feel they care as a result of it’s related to how our followers see the sport,” he mentioned. “To the extent that what we did this yr by way of rule modifications was profitable, I feel that it was …
Dick Bremer, Twins TV broadcaster for 40 years, retires to turn into a staff ambassador
Dick Bremer, the tv voice of the Twins for the previous 40 seasons, will depart the published sales space and be a part of the staff’s entrance workplace as a particular assistant.
He retires because the longest-tenured tv broadcaster for a single staff in Main League Baseball.
The Twins are assessing their broadcasting choices for subsequent season as Diamond Sports activities, mum or dad firm of Bally Sports activities North, works via chapter.
Bremer’s new function will embody being a staff consultant at Twins neighborhood and fan occasions.
In a information launch, Bremer mentioned, “In these 40 years, I broadcast 4,972 Twins video games. During the last yr or so, I assumed it might actually be cool to make it to five,000. Then, I assumed to myself, how egocentric would that be? A broadcast ought to …
The story behind the best bat flip in World Collection historical past
Tom Lawless was by no means a slugger. He by no means hit residence runs. He’ll inform you that himself, utilizing nearly some other attainable description for a ballplayer.
“By no means an influence hitter,” Lawless mentioned in a Zoom name. “Extra of a line-drive hitter, base stealer, scoring runs type of man. Center-infielder. Small man. Desk-setter type of man.”
Probably the most he ever hit was 13 throughout a Minor League season in Indianapolis in 1983. He had two over his total eight-year MLB profession. His profession slugging common was .258. He had 24 whole RBIs.
However on one chilly October evening in 1987, on the outdated Busch Stadium, Lawless remodeled into a house run legend.
Tied up with the Twins, 1-1, within the fourth inning of Sport 4 of the World Collection, the mustachioed utility-man from …
Posted: October 31, 2023 at 10:39 AM | 13 remark(s)
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Dodgers’ Mookie Betts hopes MLB groups contemplate signing ‘superior man’ Trevor Bauer, report says
“My expertise with Bauer just isn’t something remotely near what everybody else’s expertise is. I really like him. I feel he’s an superior man. The private issues? I’ve no management. I’ve no say. Clearly, nothing ever got here from it,” Betts informed the Los Angeles Instances.
“He’s an superior pitcher. He’s a terrific man, any person who desires to take the mound each fifth day. However, on the finish of the day, I don’t make the choice. That’s a choice that’s not so simple as baseball.”
Bauer and a girl who accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her in 2021 settled their authorized dispute this month, in accordance with Bauer’s attorneys. Bauer was positioned on administrative depart by MLB in July 2021 after the allegations had been made by the …
Fox isn’t exhibiting the pitch clock through the World Collection. Repair it, Fox!
As was defined in an indication final February in Arizona, the clocks had been particularly positioned at ballparks in order that they didn’t present within the middle area digital camera shot that almost all TV channels use for almost each pitch. This was a good suggestion — there’s no must distract the viewer with the consistently counting clock a serious characteristic of the image you’re seeing. However because it is a crucial a part of the sport — and a violation of the timer ends in a ball or a strike — TV channels made it part of their on-screen scorebox graphic. Thus, should you needed to look at it you may, however you didn’t must.
That’s, each TV channel besides Fox.
Fox didn’t present the timer throughout its common season protection both….
To sum up the …
How the Diamondbacks had been constructed with problem trades that dared to imagine in key stars resembling Sport 1 starter Zac Gallen
Uncommon in an period by which swaps typically happen between contenders and rebuilders and contain major-leaguers and prospects, this kind of swap flips like for like. A problem commerce eschews the inherent delayed gratification — and, due to this fact, the relative security of delayed judgment — of offers that spring from opposing places on the win curve and as an alternative epitomizes the boldest kind of participant analysis a entrance workplace can categorical: We imagine in that participant a lot that we’ll offer you this actually good one in return.
Sport 1 starter Zac Gallen, NLCS MVP Ketel Marte, breakout catcher Gabriel Moreno and veteran outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had been all acquired by Hazen in problem trades. They’re all gamers who initially impressed religion from …
Washington Nationals Mourn The Lack of Frank Howard
The Washington Nationals be a part of the Howard household in mourning the lack of Washington Senators nice Frank Howard. Howard’s decades-long profession as a participant, coach and supervisor leaves an indelible legacy on the game of baseball, and he’ll lengthy be remembered as the most effective gamers to ever put on the Curly W….
“Hondo” got here to D.C. on Dec. 4, 1964, as a part of a seven-player commerce with the Dodgers, and a love affair between participant and city started nearly instantly. Teammates, media and followers alike marveled at Howard’s tape-measure residence runs, a lot of which taunted cavernous D.C. Stadium’s dimensions.
Howard represented the Senators in 4 Mid-Summer season Classics and led the American League in residence runs twice (44 in each 1968 and ’70). …
Posted: October 30, 2023 at 04:47 PM | 61 remark(s)
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Nippon Ham pitcher Uwasawa looking for MLB transfer
Nippon Ham Fighters beginning pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa mentioned Saturday he’ll attempt to signal with a serious league membership this offseason via the posting system.
The 29-year-old right-hander had a 9-9 win-loss report with a 2.96 ERA in 24 video games in 2023, throwing 170 innings, essentially the most within the Pacific League. He was 70-62 with a 3.19 ERA in 173 video games over 9 seasons, all with the Fighters.
“Groups want pitchers that may eat up innings,” Uwasawa informed a press convention in Kitahiroshima, simply outdoors Sapporo. “I can contribute by going many innings with out getting an harm.”
Why you, as a baseball fan, shouldn’t fear concerning the rankings for Rangers-Diamondbacks
I don’t know when, as sports activities followers, our now-omnipresent fascination with rankings started. I don’t keep in mind individuals griping concerning the rankings when, say, the worst-to-first Braves and Twins performed in 1991 or the Buffalo Payments performed of their fourth straight Tremendous Bowl or the Chicago Bulls performed in six of eight NBA Finals. However now, as if we’re all TV execs fearful about advert {dollars}, each postseason matchup will get filtered via a lens of rankings viability. Massive groups and large stars: good! Small-market groups and unknown gamers: dangerous!
Ridiculous. Perhaps this fascination with rankings has arisen as a result of we’re residing in a very argumentative period, and followers swing rankings as a cudgel to pound residence no matter bigger level they’re making an attempt to …
Is Diamondbacks Vs. Rangers the Most Unlikely World Collection Matchup Ever?
FanGraphs projections gave the Rangers a 4.9 % likelihood to achieve the World Collection (ninth finest within the AL), which appears low however was a lot greater than the Diamondbacks’ mere 1.2 % likelihood (tenth finest within the NL). Multiply these two chances collectively, and there was a 0.06 % likelihood of this matchup, or about 1 in 1,700.
If you need a single reply for simply how sudden this World Collection matchup is, that’s your quantity: about 1 in 1,700. Within the 10 years of FanGraphs playoff odds knowledge, relationship again to 2014, that’s tied for the bottom chance of any eventual World Collection matchup. Beforehand, in 2015, the projections didn’t imagine within the Mets or the Royals (who had simply made the World Collection however had been infamously …
D-backs’ Ketel Marte hits in report 18th straight postseason recreation
Marte, 30, unseated Corridor of Famer Derek Jeter, 12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez and Hank Bauer, a seven-time World Collection champion with the New York Yankees. The primary 4 video games of Marte’s streak got here in 2017, and he has hit safely in all 14 of Arizona’s video games this postseason, the most recent Arizona’s 9-1 victory towards the Texas Rangers that evened the sequence.
“I do know what kind of participant I’m,” Marte mentioned. “After I’m wholesome, I can do very nicely.
“I by no means imagined doing one thing like this,” he continued. “However … I imagine in my expertise.”
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