• November 22, 2024
What's fueling the rise in arm injuries across MLB? A dangerous 'cocktail' of causes

What’s fueling the rise in arm injuries across MLB? A dangerous ‘cocktail’ of causes

[ad_1] Matt Blake texted Cleveland Guardians pitcher Shane Bieber a conciliatory message over the weekend. As a member of the Cleveland player-development system in the 2010s, Blake aided Bieber’s rise from college walk-on to unanimous American League Cy Young Award winner in 2020. For a time, Bieber represented the modern model for the manufacturing of…

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After seasons of struggle, Juan Soto’s historic bet on himself is about to pay off

[ad_1] On July 16, 2022, more than 37,000 thousand fans crammed into Nationals Park on a muggy midsummer afternoon. Washington already had 62 losses by that point — still days before the All-Star break — and there was little hope that a second-half surge was coming. Fans were there to see their homegrown prodigy, Juan…

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Final MLB offseason grades: Which teams passed — and which teams failed

[ad_1] The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0. By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several…

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2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out

[ad_1] As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings? See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation…

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When your landlord bats leadoff: Inside the cliquish world of baseball real estate 

When your landlord bats leadoff: Inside the cliquish world of baseball real estate 

[ad_1] Shortly after haggling his way out of free-agent purgatory and into a new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Kiké Hernández asked his wife, Mariana, to investigate another market. She contacted former Dodger Rich Hill’s wife, Caitlin, with a request: Could the Hernándezes live in the Hills’ house again?  The Hills had bought the…

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Which teams, front offices and managers are feeling the most pressure? Insiders weigh in

Which teams, front offices and managers are feeling the most pressure? Insiders weigh in

[ad_1] As the February sunshine beams down on all of baseball, and the standings say that everyone is undefeated, it’s easy to melt into a zen state of spring training nirvana. But there’s one question in our annual spring survey that jolts us back to life. That’s the part where we ask our voters —…

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Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1

Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1

[ad_1] Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s…

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Stark: 5 things we learned from the Baseball Hall of Fame election

[ad_1] COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness. Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of…

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Gary Sheffield, one of baseball’s great offensive forces, is still defending his reputation

Gary Sheffield, one of baseball’s great offensive forces, is still defending his reputation

[ad_1] However you perceive Gary Sheffield — icon or problem child, steroid user or public-opinion victim — one image almost certainly springs to mind. It’s that waggling bat, the pulsating motion that for 22 seasons radiated so much swagger. Through eight teams, nine All-Star nods, steroid allegations and a list of other microcontroversies too long…

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Baseball Hall of Fame ballots: The Athletic's voters explain their selections

Baseball Hall of Fame ballots: The Athletic’s voters explain their selections

[ad_1] Look, we get it. The Baseball Hall of Fame is a breathtaking idea. It’s a celebration. It’s a history lesson. It’s a pilgrimage. The museum in Cooperstown is home to heroes and memories and the posters on our walls. The very notion can fill a fan with wonder, and actually being there feels like…

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