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Friday, July 28, 2023
Web site Outage Postponed
I’ve approach too many issues that also must 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. House was far too busy this previous week. Issues get again to regular tomorrow. Hopefully the additional time will assist shorten the outage.
BBTF.org shall be offline beginning Tuesday, August eighth at 9 AM EDT for a much-needed server migration and backend updates. The ETA to be again on-line is TBD. I’ll present updates on Twitter.
Thanks to your endurance.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Is It Time to Cease Utilizing Scripts on Sports activities Uniforms?
By my rely, 19 of MLB’s 30 groups at present have a script brand on at the very least one — and generally multiple — of their non-CC jerseys: the A’s, Brewers, Cardinals, Dodgers, Giants, Guardians, Marlins, Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Phillies, Pirates, Rangers, Reds, Royals, Tigers, Twins, White Sox, and Atlanta.
That’s a variety of script jerseys! Clearly, scripts additionally seem sometimes in hockey, soccer, and basketball, however they’re most prevalent in baseball. And baseball is the game extensively perceived to be dealing with the steepest advertising challenges with youthful followers — those who’re now not being taught cursive writing..
Personally, I like most of MLB’s jersey scripts and am in no hurry to see them change. However this …
Ex-Nats reliever Sean Doolittle exits after ‘11 unbelievable seasons’
Sean Doolittle, a two-time All-Star reliever who helped the Washington Nationals to a World Sequence title, has introduced his retirement.
Doolittle revealed his choice in a social media submit Friday, writing that he had a “full coronary heart” as he stated farewell “after 11 unbelievable seasons enjoying the game I really like.”
He stated he felt very welcome in Washington, the place he first pitched from 2017 to 2020, earned his second All-Star honor in 2018 and recorded a save in Sport 1 of the 2019 World Sequence because the franchise received its first and solely championship.
“The 2019 World Sequence title will all the time be the spotlight of my profession as a result of we have been in a position to share it with you,” Doolittle wrote, addressing Nationals followers. “I don’t have the phrases to let you know how …
Listed below are the 2023 Arizona Fall League rosters
Ten of MLB Pipeline’s Prime 100 prospects are headed to this 12 months’s showcase circuit, with the Guardians and Tigers main the best way with two apiece:
17. Colson Montgomery, SS, White Sox (Glendale)
19. Carson Williams, SS, Rays (Peoria)
31. Ricky Tiedemann, LHP, Blue Jays (Shock)
39. Harry Ford, C, Mariners (Peoria)
54. Jackson Jobe, RHP, Tigers (Salt River)
58. Kyle Manzardo, 1B, Guardians (Peoria)
67. Jace Jung, 2B, Tigers (Salt River)
71. Kevin Alcántara, OF, Cubs (Mesa)
85. Chase DeLauter, OF, Guardians (Peoria)
89. Kevin Parada, C, Mets (Glendale)
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Qualifying Supply Worth To Land Round $20.5MM
The qualifying supply for the upcoming offseason shall be within the $20.5MM vary, stories Joel Sherman of the New York Submit. The particular quantity will not be recognized till shortly after the conclusion of the common season.
It’ll be the best QO worth in league historical past. The supply value is calculated by averaging the salaries of the 125 highest-paid gamers within the majors. That determine usually will increase 12 months over 12 months as general spending rises….
Shohei Ohtani, Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell, Matt Chapman, Aaron Nola, Sonny Grey and Josh Hader are among the many gamers who’re close to locks to obtain and reject the QO this winter. Jordan Montgomery and Lucas Giolito have been taken out of QO consideration by midseason trades, whereas Eduardo Rodriguez and …
Jeff Greenberg named Tigers basic supervisor
The Detroit Tigers have named revolutionary and skilled government Jeff Greenberg because the membership’s Common Supervisor. Greenberg, 37, will report back to President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, and joins the Tigers after spending the final 16 months as an Affiliate Common Supervisor with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Greenberg would be the twentieth Common Supervisor within the 123-year historical past of the membership, relationship again to 1901.
Previous to becoming a member of the Blackhawks, Greenberg spent 11 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, together with his remaining three seasons as an Assistant Common Supervisor. He additionally held roles as Director of Professional Scouting and Baseball Operations, Director of Baseball Operations and Assistant to the Common Supervisor. Whereas with the Cubs, Greenberg performed a key …
Left-handed hitters describe the craft of hitting lefty pitching
Final 12 months, solely 53 left-handed major-league batters confronted southpaw pitchers at the very least 100 instances, tied for the bottom variety of gamers since at the very least 2002. This 12 months, there are solely 45 left-handed hitters with 100 or extra plate appearances towards left-handers by play Tuesday. That cohort is ready to say no in numbers for a fourth straight full season. There have been 67 in 2013.
Increasingly, knowledge drives lineup choices and takes many left-handed hitters out of the lineups towards southpaws. Proper-handed batters face right-handed pitchers within the majority of their plate appearances as a result of, in fact, they’re of the dominant handedness, however groups usually attempt to restrict left-on-left publicity. On the floor, there’s a good motive for …
Yankees’ established order beneath Brian Cashman resulted in ‘catastrophe’ season, and a recent perspective is required
Quite a few missteps have led the Yankees to the place they’re at the moment and GM Brian Cashman, who has been on the helm since 1998, is beneath extra warmth now than at some other level in his tenure. We all know this as a result of, on July 9, the Yankees fired hitting coach Dillon Lawson. It was the primary time they fired a coach through the season since 1995. It was a transparent act of desperation.
“It has been properly documented that I’ve been reluctant previously to make adjustments to our teaching employees in the midst of a season,” Cashman stated in a press release after Lawson was let go. “I’m a giant believer that successes and failures are collective efforts. Nevertheless, I in the end felt {that a} change was wanted and {that a} new voice overseeing our hitting operations would give …
Carroll makes extra historical past: 1st rookie to have 25-HR, 50-SB season
Can we simply go forward and provides Corbin Carroll the Nationwide League Rookie of the 12 months Award already?
The D-backs outfielder continues to pile up spectacular accomplishments. In Arizona’s 7-1 win over the Giants on Wednesday at Chase Discipline—which gave the D-backs the season-series win over San Francisco—he stole his forty ninth and fiftieth bases of the season and belted his twenty fifth dwelling run.
With these steals and the homer, Carroll turned the primary rookie in MLB historical past to compile 25 or extra dwelling runs and 50-plus stolen bases.
Posted: September 21, 2023 at 11:12 AM | 3 remark(s)
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The Athletic: How the $445 million Mets crashed and burned
As Tommy Pham, the perpetually intense veteran outfielder, bluntly put it in a current interview, “We had a horrible f—ing June.”
Usually after video games or throughout meals on the highway, gamers mentioned how they might flip issues round.
After a devastating sweep in Atlanta, Pham, infielder Eduardo Escobar, catcher Francisco Alvarez and star shortstop Francisco Lindor talked about small issues that the Mets wanted to enhance in between bites of meals at a Brazilian steakhouse, Fogo de Chão, in Pittsburgh. Pham, 35, has performed on seven groups, and organizations know when negotiating with him that he brings an edge, robust work ethic and little tolerance for lackadaisical effort.
For weeks forward of the dinner, Lindor had held himself …
Oakland vs. the A’s: The within story of the way it all went south (to Las Vegas)
Thao was surprised. Since taking workplace in January, she and her employees had picked up the place earlier mayor Libby Schaaf left off, negotiating with A’s proprietor John Fisher to facilitate an enormous, city-altering $12 billion undertaking for a ballpark village on 55 acres alongside the waterfront at Howard Terminal. The work to maintain the A’s had been a protracted haul, spanning a number of mayoral administrations and three A’s possession teams, however Thao believed they have been $101 million away from procuring the required quantity of public funding for the infrastructure exterior the ballpark. It was a paltry sum for such an enormous undertaking, and Oakland had simply been assured of one other $65 million in federal grants that might have introduced the distinction right down to $36 million. Thao …
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
The ragtag group that saved Darryl Strawberry’s profession
Again in 1996, Strawberry was in a distinct place. He was a slumping star with drug, alcohol, authorized and tax points on his resumé—a participant no affiliated group would contact. The Saints, who have been then an impartial bunch recognized extra for his or her advertising mischief than their developmental pedigree, have been Strawberry’s final likelihood.
He was hesitant to take it.
“I didn’t actually need to come to play,” Strawberry says. “I assumed I used to be utterly completed with baseball.”
The story of how Strawberry lifted up the Saints and himself for just a few wonderful weeks in the summertime of ’96—and the unlikely buddies he made alongside the best way—is without doubt one of the many poignant moments in “The Saint of Second Probabilities,” a brand new documentary about former Saints co-owner …
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Republicans suggest $614M in public funds for Brewers’ stadium upgrades
Republican legislators introduced a invoice Monday that might dedicate greater than $614 million in public funding to restore and renovate the Milwaukee Brewers’ stadium—excess of taxpayers spent to construct it greater than twenty years in the past.
Beneath the proposal, the state would give the group $60.8 million subsequent fiscal 12 months and as much as $20 million every year after that by 2045-46. The town of Milwaukee would contribute a complete of $202 million, and Milwaukee County would kick in $135 million by 2050.
The group would contribute about $100 million and lengthen its lease at American Household Discipline by 2050, holding Main League Baseball in its smallest marketplace for one other 27 years.
Reviews commissioned by the Brewers and one other by a state marketing consultant discovered …
Monday, September 18, 2023
200 WINS! Adam Wainwright caps profession with long-awaited milestone
Welcome to the 200-win membership, Adam Wainwright! In one of many final scheduled begins of his embellished MLB profession, Wainwright reaches a long-awaited milestone.
Wainwright and the Cardinals defeated the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers 1-0 for Waino’s 2 hundredth profession win. Wainwright allowed 4 hits and struck out three in seven innings.
With the victory, Wainwright turns into simply the third pitcher in historical past to win at the very least 200 video games with the St. Louis Cardinals and simply the sixth energetic hurler to achieve 200 victories.
Can Freddie Freeman Re-Open the three,000 Hit Membership?
What makes the nadir of the three,000 Hit Membership so jarring to a baseball fan is the novelty of this phenomenon. The explosion of offense within the Nineties wasn’t simply homers, however batting common as properly. Even going again 10 years, there have been all the time a variety of gamers with profession hit totals someplace north of two,000.
In 2023, that quantity is seven, and that’s solely as a result of there have been 4 new members this 12 months: Freeman, Jose Altuve, Elvis Andrus, and Andrew McCutchen. (I’m going to exit on a limb and predict that Evan Longoria received’t get 72 hits over the subsequent two weeks.) Distinction that with 2004, which featured 27 energetic gamers with 2,000 profession hits.
That brings us again to Freeman. Whereas he was all the time good at hitting for common all through his …
MLB playoffs 2023: Orioles clinch postseason berth
AFTER THE ORIOLES improved from 52-110 in 2021 to 83-79 final season—the ninth-biggest year-to-year enchancment in MLB historical past—Baltimore followers anticipated, or at the very least hoped, that Elias would tackle the rotation. The Orioles had ranked twenty third within the majors in ERA, twenty sixth in strikeout price and twenty fifth in FanGraphs WAR—not precisely a playoff-caliber rotation. The large strikes have been anticlimactic: The group signed veteran innings eater Kyle Gibson to a one-year, $10 million contract and bought Cole Irvin from the A’s. Thus, the less-than-stellar projections.
There are 3 ways to view the offseason:
(1) Elias noticed the 2022 season as a little bit of a fluke, seen regression as possible and didn’t need to commit massive cash in free company simply but, not till it was …
Rays to announce St. Petersburg stadium deal this week
Right here’s what we all know:
After 16 years of hypothesis, relationship again to the change from Satan Rays to Rays, the group is staying in St. Petersburg, FL.
The stadium plan stays what was reported earlier: a set roof stadium seating 30,000 and anchoring a bigger general improvement within the Historic Gasoline Plant District, which is the place the present stadium is situated at the moment.The brand new stadium would open for the 2028 season, however the general improvement will not be full till a decade later. You possibly can view the Rays stadium redevelopment proposal right here.
Final week, Topkin additionally reported the Rays can be prepared to tackle round $600 million to fund a brand new stadium, with rumors floating that Stu Sternberg was focused on promoting a stake within the group for …
Sunday, September 17, 2023
How the knee-down revolution modified catching – with out downgrading protection
Swanson initially thought that having a knee down may have an effect on how umpires perceived pitches: Since umpires sometimes place themselves between the batter and the catcher’s inside shoulder, Swanson experimented with dropping the fitting knee for a left-handed batter and the left knee for a right-handed batter.
“I assumed there was an opportunity umpires have been utilizing the catcher’s physique, particularly their knees, to gauge the peak of pitches,” he stated. “I assumed if we take away the knee from their visible discipline, perhaps they’ll lose notion. … I used to be by no means in a position to validate the speculation.”
Nevertheless, he discovered there have been different advantages to catchers being nearer to the bottom: The perfect framers obtained most of their borderline strike calls within the decrease …
Posted: September 17, 2023 at 02:02 PM | 15 remark(s)
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Knuckleballer does one thing not seen in MLB since 2018
It’s 2023, and the knuckleball nonetheless performs within the massive leagues.
Matt Waldron and the Padres beat the A’s, 5-2, on Saturday afternoon on the Oakland Coliseum. It was a reasonably easy victory—one group attempting desperately to stave off elimination from playoff competition, over one other group lengthy since eradicated.
Nonetheless, this wasn’t simply any Padres victory. This was Waldron’s victory—the primary within the profession of the 26-year-old right-hander. And it had been some time for the reason that final time a knuckleballer earned a win in a giant league ballgame. Practically 5 years, to be precise.
Waldron pitched 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball, utilizing his knuckleball-heavy combine to induce loads of weak contact. Within the course of, he turned the primary pitcher to make use of …
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Shohei Ohtani completed for season, cleans out locker earlier than Angels announce IL transfer
With nothing left for him this season past medical procedures, Shohei Ohtani has cleared out his locker with the Los Angeles Angels. Probably for the ultimate time.
The 2-way famous person, who tore the UCL in his pitching arm final month, missed his eleventh straight recreation Friday and it turned clear after the sport that he would miss extra, as his locker was cleared out as soon as reporters entered the clubhouse for postgame interviews.
A few of his issues have been even within the trash, in line with the Los Angeles Occasions.
The following morning, the group introduced that Ohtani is on the 10-day injured record with an indirect harm and can miss the remainder of the season. Common supervisor Perry Minasian lastly elaborated on the story Saturday afternoon, telling …
Posted: September 16, 2023 at 11:29 PM | 6 remark(s)
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Friday, September 15, 2023
Giants’ all-Alou outfield made historical past 60 years in the past. It virtually didn’t occur
Simply, nonetheless, we wouldn’t be in place at the moment to rejoice that historic feat. Simply, we might have been disadvantaged of figuring out concerning the Alou household royalty. Simply, not one of the brothers might have performed a single inning within the majors.
“It virtually didn’t occur, the three brothers enjoying collectively,” Felipe Alou, 88, informed the Chronicle this week. “I actually needed to return dwelling, again to the college that I used to be attending. I had a ticket again to the Dominican. If I went dwelling that day in 1956, I wasn’t going to return.”
Alou significantly thought-about quitting baseball in his first skilled season within the New York Giants’ farm system due to excessive racism surrounding his first farm group in Lake Charles, La., the place he …
As Padres’ season spirals, questions emerge about tradition, cohesion and chemistry
For no matter else must be fastened or tweaked or modified relating to the Padres — and crucial factor can be their greatest gamers performing higher on the sector — there’s a perception within the clubhouse that the tradition inside the group is one which lacks cohesion and a central goal.
This doesn’t imply gamers don’t like one another or don’t work arduous, these inside say. A number of gamers pushed again on options there are deep-seated resentments between them.
The difficulty, a number of sources stated they imagine, is a scarcity of engagement.
This, in line with a number of veterans who’ve been with the Padres for various lengths of time and most who’ve additionally performed for different groups, is basically borne of the group’s greatest gamers being on …
Posted: September 15, 2023 at 12:23 PM | 43 remark(s)
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Minor League Baseball Unionization One 12 months Later: ’Now We Simply Get to Play Baseball’
This 12 months? The state of affairs has lastly modified. For the primary time, all minor leaguers shall be paid over the offseason, $250 per week for gamers at dwelling. That’s game-changing (and life-changing) for gamers like Washington.
“It’s simply the peace of thoughts,” says the 27-year-old reliever, who spent this season with the Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis Dodgers. “It’s not having to fret about what I’m going to do within the offseason, am I going to have the ability to make ends meet, all of that… It’s helped so much, truthfully, simply mentally. I don’t must stress as a lot.”…
It paid off. Actually. For the primary time, Case says, he completed the season with cash in his pocket: He’d by no means been paid sufficient to avoid wasting through the season earlier than. Now, …
Cardinals’ disappointing 2023 season can and have to be circled in 2024; is John Mozeliak up for the duty?
That brings us to the entrance workplace helmed by president of baseball operations John Mozeliak. There’s no assailing his broader document of success because the Cardinals’ lead operator. First as basic supervisor after which in his present position, Mozeliak has guided the Cardinals for the reason that fall of 2007, they usually’ve loved an amazing degree of success throughout his tenure – 10 playoff appearances and a World Sequence title in 2011. One misplaced season doesn’t meaningfully tarnish these prior achievements, particularly in gentle of the Cardinals’ market measurement and (considerably self-inflicted) payroll limitations, nevertheless it does increase questions concerning the future. That’s particularly the case since Mozeliak failed to deal with the rotation final offseason, and that flawed rotation …
Hanshin Tigers clinch first Central League pennant since 2005
Teruaki Sato homered for the second straight recreation because the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 4-3 to clinch their first Central League title in 18 years and sixth general on Thursday.
The Tigers, unbeaten up to now in September, accomplished a three-game sweep of the archrival Giants at Koshien Stadium whereas extending their successful streak to a season-high 11 video games.“I’m glad we received the title at the moment in entrance of Tigers followers at Koshien as a result of we’re going to Hiroshima tomorrow,” Hanshin supervisor Akinobu Okada stated.
The Tigers and the second-place Hiroshima Carp are scheduled to play a two-game collection from Friday at Mazda Stadium.
“I repeatedly informed my gamers that September can be the month of an actual battle, however we’ve received far more than …
Thursday, September 14, 2023
An “Previous-Customary Pitchers’ Duel” Didn’t All the time Imply What You Suppose
From that decade on, the context for “quaint pitchers’ duel” was established: There’s a variety of slugging within the recreation at the moment, however there was as soon as a time when baseball was dominated unilaterally by the lads who threw the ball. Nevertheless, that’s not the place or how this saying started. The really attention-grabbing historical past of the phrase begins properly earlier than Ruth ever despatched one deep.
In a Montana newspaper’s write-up of NL Opening Day 1919—a bit delightfully headlined “Previous Man Baseball Crawls Out Of Dugout”—one of many subheadings learn, “Brooklyn Takes Two Video games From Boston—Rudolph and Cadore Have Previous-Customary Pitchers’ Duel. Oh-h-h Boy, Come On, She’s Off!” That’s a implausible set of phrases, however after a 1918 season wherein NL groups had averaged simply …
Pink Sox fireplace Chaim Bloom
Bloom was named Chief Baseball Officer on October 28, 2019. He has labored in baseball for 19 years, beginning as an intern for the Tampa Bay Rays, the place he spent 15 years of his profession previous his time with the Pink Sox.
Along with this transformation, Common Supervisor Brian O’Halloran has been provided a brand new senior management place inside the baseball operations division.
The seek for new baseball operations management will start instantly. Within the interim, the day-to-day operations will proceed beneath the course of O’Halloran, and Assistant Common Managers Eddie Romero, Raquel Ferreira, and Michael Groopman.
Posted: September 14, 2023 at 12:33 PM | 56 remark(s)
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Is the AL Cy Younger Race Cole’s or Too Shut To Name?
In line with our new Cy Younger projection system, Cole is working away with the award. Per ZiPS’ forecasting, his lead in conventional Cy Younger Factors (CYP) over second-place Luis Castillo is similar because the hole between Castillo and seventh-place Zach Eflin. FIP-based CYP nonetheless has Cole within the lead, largely resulting from his league-leading innings whole, however there, he’s solely narrowly forward of Kevin Gausman. Gausman’s season feels fairly just like his 2022, when he earned only a single fifth-place vote regardless of main the league in FIP because of elite strikeout and stroll numbers.
This 12 months, Gausman can also be underperforming his league-leading FIP with uninspiring contact high quality numbers. In some ways, his profile is a poor man’s Strider: higher …
Posted: September 14, 2023 at 11:10 AM | 2 remark(s)
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Julio Rodríguez Joins What May Develop into a Bumper Crop of 30-30 Gamers
Rodríguez is the second participant to achieve 30-30 this season, after Acuña, who hit his thirtieth homer on August 31 to go along with what was then 61 steals (he added his 62nd later in that recreation). That was already an unprecedented mixture, and with six homers and three steals since, he’s as much as 36 of the previous and 65 of the latter, with sights set on the primary 40-70 season in main league historical past. In the meantime, 4 different gamers at present have at the very least 25 homers and 25 steals, giving them cheap photographs of reaching 30 in each classes, and two others have an out of doors likelihood of crashing the get together as properly….
What’s driving this 12 months’s potential bumper crop is the return of the stolen base because of the brand new guidelines — particularly the pitch clock, …
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