Since this site has already mocked up the most awesome ballpark and most awesome hitter, it seemed only natural to attempt to create the theoretical man that would be Major League Baseball’s best pitcher.
But given the deceptive nature of pitching mechanics and how difficult it is to isolate the specific physical tools that make great pitchers great, it feels better to provide our Frankenpitchers with the nastiest possible four-pitch arsenal than to assign them one guy’s shoulder, one ...
Dietrich said he had just finished up with an appearance at the MLB Fan Cave and was headed to the subway when his agent, David Meter, nudged him: “Hey, D, that’s Daniel-Day Lewis on the corner.”
...As Dietrich recalled this morning, “We look and he’s talking to a young kid, who was his son. We stood there and we waited. He handed his son some money. His son went one way, he went the other. He started walking towards us.
A man barreled over his son trying to catch Kyle Seager’s historic grand slam ball at Wednesday’s Mariners game.
“He was crying because he was got hurt, he fell down the steps,” said Zac Wilch, who was at the game with his little league team. Wilch caught the whole thing. He picked up the ball and handed it to the boy.
After saying he “cannot stand” the New York Yankees in a pre-draft video, Yankees first-round pick Ian Clarkin used his first comments to the New York media to say he was sorry.
I really wonder if players play better for a team they grew up rooting for or worse for a team they grew up rooting against. It seems like there could be a psychological factor there.
Because the easiest way to obtain a young star is to do so high in the draft. But tomorrow — for the 20th straight year — the Yankees will not have a pick in the top half of the first round of the MLB draft. In fact, in the past two decades the highest the Yankees have picked is 17th. Usually, it is in the 20s, sometimes in the 30s and in two extreme cases not until the 51st and 71st selections (with that 71st pick they took current Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden in 2002 as the ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pinch-runner Skip Schumaker scored on the second wild pitch by Anthony Varvaro in the 10th inning, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday night.
Ramon Hernandez started the rally with a one-out single, took second on the first wild pitch and advanced to third on a single by Luis Cruz.
Varvaro (3-1) then bounced another wild pitch to Juan Uribe, allowing Schumaker to score. Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig was on-deck, but he wasn’t needed ...
By the time the dust settled, Kennedy had thrown an alarming total of 50 pitches in the inning — the second-highest single-inning total in the majors this year, and the highest by a Diamondback since Doug Davis threw 44 in an inning on June 10, 2009 — long before Gibson was manager. Asked about his starter after the game, Gibson told MLB.com:
“We need around 100 [pitches] from him, no matter what…
But the same advice worked so well for Doc Gooden!
How different would Mariano Rivera’s career have been if baseball’s all-time saves leader had mastered what Mel Stottlemyre was teaching in the spring of 1996?
In his first year as Joe Torre’s pitching coach, Stottlemyre was doing his job when he tried to add off-speed pitches to Rivera’s explosive fastball.
“We didn’t know what we had but the fastball, and we wanted to work on a curveball and changeup,’’ Stottlemyre said ...
While Apel’s story is surely one to watch moving forward, 16th-overall pick, J.P. Crawford is compelling as well.
Crawford, who ranked 19th on MLB.com’s Top 100 Draft Prospects list, is the cousin of the Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford, so you know multi-tooled dopeness is in the genes.
He’s also a rare “black” shortstop, considered by many experts to be the best middle infielder in the draft and only one of three taken in the first 20 picks.
As another famous Wally once said…“Look, don’t get sloppy on me. I might just slug you one.”
Wally Backman no longer is a reclamation project or the subject of a baseball rubbernecking endeavor. As manager of the Las Vegas 51s, baseball’s most challenging Triple-A affiliate, he’s an accomplished baseball man in his fourth year back as a Mets employee.
He has won back his full resume.
“I think I’ve served my time,” Backman told The Post yesterday, before his club took on Tacoma at ...
The move has become such a tradition that it has become known as the “Handshake of Doom” on social media and in the Comerica Park press conference.
So, when Verlander approached the dugout after a seven-pitch seventh inning and saw Leyland waiting at the bottom of the steps, he knew what that meant. Instead of accepting his fate meekly, he swerved at the last moment and used a different set of dugout stairs.
“He always stands there right at the bottom of the stairs, so I ...
“I understand that they’re saying they can’t fight a fair fight with the people they are saying violated the contract [the players who are represented by the players’ association],” Beguiristain said. “They have to be bullies and go bully the little people. Every named defendant has been bullied by Major League Baseball. Investigators showing up at their houses, what is wrong with these people? Go to the guy’s job. Why are you coming and banging on the guy’s door? Who do they think they are?”
The addition of the second wild card logically should reduce the number of sellers at the non-waiver deadline. This season, though, might be an exception.
So many teams stink, there will be no shortage of sellers. Several of them, including the Astros and Brewers, will display their wares this weekend on MLB on FOX’s “Baseball Night in America” (Saturday, 7:15 p.m. ET).
You can’t buy this type of advertising, but FOX is happy to ...
Looks like this Trout’s fielding stats may be a bit fishy ...
We talked to a scout—one who has seen Trout play more than 20 times in person over the past two seasons. He was as surprised by the numbers as we were and felt they were not a good measure of his overall skills. He offered this assessment:
“The great thing about Trout is that he has exceptional baseball instincts and exceptional speed to close on balls. He has tremendous body control and great natural ability. He’s very ...
I wear this crown of thorns
I Big Hurt myself today. (scrambles for some legit Timi Yuro pain)
Thomas, in New York on Thursday for baseball’s first-year player draft, called the Biogenesis scandal “embarrassing’’ for the game and a “shameful’’ episode in baseball history. He said he has spoken with numerous Hall of Famers recently while taking part in a series of charity games, and they’re strongly opposed to players with links to performance-enhancing drugs gaining entry to Cooperstown.
As Jonah points out…“Chris Davis feature with enough stats and .gifs to choke a horse.” Peakness Stakes, if you will…
For the first 1,495 at-bats of his career, Chris Davis looked like a thousand big, lumbering, mediocre sluggers before him. He didn’t run well and didn’t field well. He had a terrible batting approach, one that could best be described as swing for the moon, then offer every fan on the third-base side a nice, cool breeze. Sure, he would close his eyes and launch balls fairly ...
Cleveland Indians pitcher Chris Perez and his wife, Melanie, have been charged with misdemeanor drug abuse after a package containing marijuana was delivered to their rental home earlier this week.
The charge is a fourth-degree misdemeanor, indicating that the amount discovered by police was small. There are reports that the package contained 5.8 ounces of marijuana.
You want one quality starting major league pitcher. You want one quality infielder (so long Rickie). And, here’s where it gets complicated, you want three players from the minor leagues. Pitchers. If the team that wants Braun doesn’t have all three, they have to go out and trade for them so they can become part of the package.
But not before he tells me where to get some decent lox to go with this Begel…
These are the first three paragraphs of a Sports Illustrated cover story by Gerry Callahan in the July 8, 1996 issue:
In the off-season he lives with his mother, Lourdes Navarro, and shares a bedroom with his best friend, a three-year-old German shepherd named Ripper. He plays golf each morning and hoops each evening, and by 10 p.m. he is nestled in bed with his Nintendo control pad. He makes Roy Hobbs look like John Kruk, and he makes you wonder if ...
Scranton, Penn., June 6—One ball only was used in all the plays in to-day’s Scranton-Syracuse New York State League game. This is believed to be a new baseball record.
And this is before he hit one deep into the fragrance sector last night.
Puig is a dead ringer for a young Floyd Patterson if he had decided to shave his Jheri curl down into a Mohawk. Like all great athletes, Puig’s body almost looks like it has been spliced together from Olympian parts. If you ever stand next to Dwight Howard, you’ll swear that he’s just a skinny tall guy with a pair of Hulk shoulders stapled on. Puig, who stands about 6-foot-3, is broad, trim, and chiseled. He wears the ...
As if Yasiel Puig, or any other major league outfielder, doesn’t have enough to worry about, add one thing to the list. Umpire Jordan Baker is quickly gaining fame for a pretty gross habit: After each half inning, he turns and throws his chewing gum into the outfield.
The gum-throwing, first reported by Lobshots.com, means that at the end of each game Baker leaves 18 wads of chewing gum in the outfield. Who has to clean this up? You have to bet if an ...
So now consider the real winter ahead for the New York Mets owners. They have less than a year to either find a way to pay J.P. Morgan Chase $320 million, or convince the bank to give them more time. And they’ll have to do so with more than just a Fred Wilpon press conference sunnily declaring his money problems a thing of the past. If the bank believes, unlike Standard and Poor’s, that the Mets are on the cusp of profitability, or that a forced sale now will produce less ...
Sports! Paul brings the case against his friend Jeremy. Paul loves to wear his favorite baseball team’s gear to games, even when that team isn’t playing the game.
At issue: is it okay to wear a Phillies hat, jersey, t-shirt, and (possibly) pair of crocs to a Dodgers-Reds tilt in Dodger Stadium?
“Everybody says it’s bursitis,” Johnson said. “I thought if he took some anti-inflammatory it would calm it down, but it’s kind of been lingering. When he runs it swells up. He was jogging in the pool it swelled up from that. We’re concerned so we’ll get another opinion on it.”
One possibility Johnson acknowledged was Harper getting the bursa sac removed. His bursitis is due to swelling in the bursa sac in his left knee.
