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Cubs Sign Drew Pomeranz To Minor League Deal

The Cubs quietly brought Drew Pomeranz back to the organization on a minor league deal late last week. The team never formally announced the signing, but Pomeranz suited up for the Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate in Iowa last night and tossed a scoreless inning with a walk and two strikeouts. Pomeranz had a resurgent season with […]

Astros Prospect Report: June 28th

Another day of minor league baseball is in the books. See the results below. Check out the previous day’s recap here. AAA: Sugar Land Space Cowboys (37-43) won 2-1 (BOX SCORE) Gordon started for Sugar Land and was great tossing 6 scoreless innings with 4 strikeouts. The offense got on the board in the 6th inning […]

Gage Jump Has Wasted No Time Proving His Worth

Gage Jump wasted no time making it to the big leagues. After being drafted in the second round of the 2024 MLB draft, Jump was recalled earlier in the season by the Athletics with just one full professional season under his belt. Jump, Just Baseball’s No. 30 overall prospect, has not only lived up to […] The post Gage Jump Has Wasted No Time Proving His Worth appeared first on Just Baseball .

Alex Anthopoulos on AJ Smith-Shawver, Braves rotation plans

The Braves will be happy once the calendar flips to July in hopes that their fortunes will change after one of their worst all-around months over the last decade. It also means they are one step closer to getting some reinforcements in the form of injured players returning and, of course, the trade deadline. Among […]

Pirates GM Ben Cherington comments on Paul Skenes velocity drop

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes has been surprisingly human this season. The Cy Young Award winner has been plodding along of late, sitting on a 6-7 record with a 3.10 ERA. His WHIP still looks good at 0.97, and he has 114 striekouts in 93 innings pitched. But one of the biggest differences of late […]

Better know a draft prospect: Eric Booth Jr.

The Royals have traditionally coveted speedy outfielders, to cover the spacious grounds at Kauffman Stadium. But as the game has evolved and the stadium dimensions have shrunk, will the team still pay a premium for speed? If they still want to wreak havoc on the basepaths, Mississippi prep star Eric Booth Jr. is one of […]

Can the Mets reset the luxury tax in 2027?

Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline written as a question can be answered in a single word – “no”. Unfortunately for the Mets, that likely holds true at a high level in this instance; it will be exceedingly hard to duck the tax in 2027. At a more granular level though, the answer […]

White Sox Minor Keys: June 28, 2026

The good news about a rocky small sample is that it’s a small sample, and one or two big games can overwrite it. Caleb Bonemer is the latest example, as he’s now hitting .293/.396/.415 over his brief Double-A career after going 4-for-5 with two doubles and his first Birmingham homer, which happened to be a… The post White Sox Minor Keys: June 28, 2026 appeared first on Sox Machine .

Phillies on the Pharm: 6/29/2026

On the farm, all eyes were on Andrew Painter in his return to Lehigh Valley for an arsenal tuneup. How’d he do? Syracuse 5, Lehigh Valley 4 Well, it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t too bad. Painter ended up throwing only 80 pitches across four innings, allowing one run on three hits, two walks and […]

MLB Daily Recap – June 29, 2026

Here’s the TJStats Daily Recap for June 29, 2026, covering 13 completed games. All advanced metrics (Whiffs, CSW%, tjStuff+) are sourced from the TJStats pitch database. Starting Pitchers Pitcher Team Opp IP H ER K BB Pitches Whiffs SwStr% CSW% tjStuff+ GS Dec Aaron Nola PHI PIT 4.1 8 7 5 2 86 23 26.7% […] The post MLB Daily Recap – June 29, 2026 appeared first on TJStats .

Braves offensive collapse headlines a nightmare June

The Braves should be eager to get home after yet another dismal road trip that saw them go 1-5 out west, much of which can be attributed to a struggling offense that scored just seven runs in five of their games. That’s probably the most shocking aspect of Atlanta’s recent rough patch. The starting pitching […]

Red Sox’s Sonny Gray Makes MLB History in Near No-Hitter Against Yankees

It hasn’t been the ideal season for the Boston Red Sox by any means, but over the weekend they completed their best four-game stretch of the year.Boston swept the New York Yankees at Fenway Park and capped Sunday night’s win with a late rally in the bottom of the 10th inning, ending on a Jarren […] The post Red Sox’s Sonny Gray Makes MLB History in Near No-Hitter Against Yankees appeared first on HEAVY .

Why Defensive Versatility Could Be Max Anderson’s Ticket to the Big Leagues

TOLEDO, Ohio — Keeping up on Nebraska baseball comes easily for Joba Chamberlain. While his time as a member of the Cornhuskers baseball team may have been limited, he has remained an ardent supporter of the program since being drafted by the New York Yankees in 2006. So, when the Detroit Tigers selected Nebraska infielder Max Anderson as their […] The post Why Defensive Versatility Could Be Max Anderson’s Ticket to the Big Leagues appeared first on Just Baseball .