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Prior to Tuesday’s contest with the Miami Marlins, the Atlanta Braves announced several roster moves, most notably placing catcher Drake Baldwin on the 10-day injured list with a strained oblique. The club also selected Chadwick Tromp to the major league roster, reinstated Dylan Dodd from the injured list, optioned JR Ritchie to Triple-A Gwinnett, recalled […]
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: W, 15-4 at Lehigh Valley IronPigs SS George Lombard Jr. 3-5, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SBRF Yanquiel Fernández 3-6, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 2 R2B Marco Luciano 2-6, 1 R, 2 K, 2 SB3B Oswaldo Cabrera 1-4, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 R, 2 BB, […]
Good morning Birdland, This Orioles team is just not fun to watch right now. They lost again on Tuesday night, a 4-1 defeat to the AL-leading Tampa Bay Rays. At 21-28, the O’s are back in the division cellar, among the absolute worst teams in the entire sport. Once again, the offense was basically a […]
Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (24-21) SYRACUSE 9, BUFFALO 5 (BOX) Syracuse scored six runs in the first and made that stand up, with three more insurance runs in the seventh making things a bit easier. A.J. Minter tossed a clean inning as he gets closer to a potential return to the majors, while Ben Rortvedt – likely the […]
Jakob Pelletier only appeared in five NHL games this season, his lowest since he made his debut in 2022-23. While that probably wasn’t what he was hoping for when he inked his three-year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning last summer, he didn’t let it affect his game. Instead, he put up a career season with the Syracuse Crunch, leading the AHL in points. In turn, he was named the Fortune Tires “Expect More” AHL Player of the Year. In 63 games, Pelletier put up 28 goals and 49 assists. Five...
The Arizona Cardinals are preparing to step into the strength of the NFC West Division and attempt to upset a lot of fans and stable franchises. The Cardinals will have to learn a new offense and become the Los Angeles Rams 2.0 and mirror the San Francisco 49ers. How much this Cardinals’ offense will improve […]
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Bobby Murcer, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, in 1971 – Martin Dihigo dies in Cienfuegos, Cuba, at the age of 65. Over the course of his career, Dihigo made seamless transitions between all nine positions and played in several countries. As a hitter, he won both batting […]
If today is going to be a 1:00 start and both teams know that a storm is coming that would delay the game for quite a while, how often are they swinging at anything that is remotely close to the strike zone? On to the links. Phillies news: MLB news:
Notable risers, fallers and new additions to our Detroit Tigers Top 30 MLB prospects rankings for May 2026. The post 2026 Detroit Tigers Top 30 Prospects May Update appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America .
Yesterday, Jake opened up the day with a discussion about what the biggest positive development the Yankees have gotten out of this season has been. If you’ll forgive the shameless piggy-backing off of that topic, I’d like to flip the question on its head and ponder what the worst development has been, what decline in […]
While Maryland baseball missed the conference tournament for the third consecutive season under head coach Matt Swope, the future of the program is bright. That belief was furthered on Tuesday. The Terps had five players receive All-Big Ten honors, headlined by Brayden Martin’s third-team selection. Bud Coombs, Ryan Costello and Ty Kaunas were selected to […]
The Minnesota Twins had a busy day. Royce Lewis was optioned to Triple-A St. Paul, the second member of Minnesota's Opening Day lineup to be sent down in the past week following Matt Wallner's demotion. Ryan Jeffers broke his left hamate bone on a foul ball Monday night and will likely require surgery, sidelining their best offensive producer for a significant stretch. Veterans Orlando Arcia and Alex Jackson were recalled to fill the positional gaps. And in the middle of all of it, rig...
The New York Mets designated outfielder Austin Slater for assignment, promoting outfield prospect Nick Morabito to the active roster in a corresponding move that will mark Morabito's major league debut. Slater appeared in nine games as a Met, going 5-for-20 with a 69 wRC+ in 21 plate appearances, and has now been designated for assignment by two organizations in less than a month. Mets DFA'd Austin Slater After Nine Games The Marlins DFA'd him on April 23 after a dozen games in Miami...
When he was a young prospect, future Hall of Famer Mike Piazza was a nobody. He was drafted in 1988,and only as a personal favor to his father from his godfather, L.A. Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda. He was the 1,390th pick out of 1,395 prospects. That’s close to Mr. Irrelevant status. Clearly, not much was […]
Toledo Mud Hens vs. Indianapolis Indians (postponed) Rains washed out Tuesday’s start of this series in Toledo and sent Troy Melton back down to Lakeland to get a rehab start in. They’ll play two tomorrow starting at 11:05 a.m. ET. Altoona Curve 4, Erie SeaWolves 2 (box) Seth Stephenson returned from the injury list in […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Pirates fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. After last night’s loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates fell to 24-24 on […]
NY Post | Greg Joyce: Giancarlo Stanton has been out since the end of April with a calf strain, but he isn’t quite where he needs to be to resume running and get close to a return. MRI results have not been clean, showing the strain still as recently as last week, and the team […]
There’s an old sketch from The State called “The Barry Lutz Show” where a doctor played by Thomas Lennon explains his research in the field of “monkey torture,” accompanied by an adorable simian. He eventually takes a phone call that purportedly tells him he has to stop torturing monkeys forever and let them all go, […]
After the high of last night’s win, the vibes went right back to terrible today despite the presence of hundreds of shirtless fans in the upper deck providing energy into an otherwise sleepy Tuesday, cheering on the dual start of Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo. Unfortunately, the bats didn’t get the message, as once again […]
Every once in a while, you get a night where you have to tip your cap to the opponent. It might stem from a stellar pitching performance, a buttoned down operation in all phases of the game, or a bunch of clutch hits piled together. When you play 162 of these things, it’s going to […]
Just when you’re sure the letdown is coming, they find a way to keep doing it. After dropping a sleepy one last night, the White Sox were on the verge of dropping another sleepy one in Seattle this evening, trailing 1-0 from the moment the game opened all the way until they had just two […]
After a heartbreaking loss last night in the J.T. Ginn near no-hitter the A’s needed to regroup for game two of the four-game series against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. Jacob Lopez gets the start tonight against Reid Detmers for the Angels. Detmers was on fire the first two innings, striking […]
Tonight almost fell into the bucket of the very frustrating games that this team definitely should have won category. Their starting pitcher went 7 strong innings while their offense continued to squander opportunity after opportunity late into the game. However with 2 outs in the 9th, the biggest star on the team Ketel Marte finally […]
The first two games this season between the teams with the two best records in the National League West have been close, hard-fought battles going down to the wire. After not scoring in the series opener, the Dodgers found just enough offense on Tuesday and capitalized on an absolute gift from the most dominant closer […]
White Sox 2, Mariners 1 My mood when I volunteered to do the chart in the eighth inning: Bryce Miller, +0.30 WPAMy mood now: Andres Muñoz, -0.56 WPA Game thread comment of the day: