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James Tibbs III capped an incredible debut series in Triple-A with two home runs and a double, driving in five runs in the Oklahoma City Comets’ second straight romp, 13-4 over the Albuquerque Isotopes (Rockies). Coming off a strong first spring training with the Dodgers, Tibbs on Sunday hit a solo home run in the […]
The Orioles have unveiled a new slogan/marketing motto for this season: Fly different. Pedantic people among us will observe right away that this is a grammatically-incorrect pair of words. It is rather unlikely that this minor sin against language will have any impact on the on-field product. Grammar aside, this year does need to be […]
The San Diego Padres announced prior to the start of Opening Day that starter Yu Darvish was going to be added to the Restricted List. The move meant Darvish would remain in the San Diego organization, could rehab with the medical staff, but would not be required to follow a certain program or schedule given […]
Another win they probably shouldn't have. The kids are doing the thing—for better or worse.
The boys are back in town! The Royals come home from their season-opening series in Atlanta to begin the home portion of their schedule. They will host the Twins for a three-game set, beginning on Monday, March 30 at 3:10 CT. Here is what you need to know! Heading out to the K today? Parking […]
If you haven’t gotten a chance to look at the lineup projections, I posted those on Friday. What I am doing is demonstrating over a more extended period of time of how I arrived at my season projection of 85-77. I noticed two things right off the bat. First, I had the worst record projection […]
Good morning. Shawn McFarland checks out what we learned about the American League West-leading Texas Rangers during their first series of the season, a series win in Philadelphia. Kennedi Landry writes that MacKenzie Gore’s debut with Texas went swimmingly as the Rangers took the opening series from the Phillies in a Sunday blowout. McFarland writes […]
Man, I wish I never had to talk about this again. But, y’know, I do, apparently. Also, it makes easy fodder for a daily question post. If you haven’t, you should peruse this page: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/drag-dashboard. There’s not a lot there. I’ll replicate the top chart here: Each dot is an average of the day’s readings […]
It’s Monday, and March Madness is still going strong, plus New Mexico is still in the NIT. Also, many Mountain West teams are going through spring practices. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. Initial 2026 SP+ Rankings Bill Connelly debuts his initial projections for next […]
It was yet another crazy week in Mountain West baseball. The top-seeded Falcons got off to a strong start, then fell apart in Texas. SDSU and Nevada took care of business on the road, pushing the notion that home turf might not matter as much as it does in a sport like men’s basketball. And […]
One weekend of baseball is not enough to tell you much of anything about your favorite team. It’s a big sample size sport and we just don’t have much data yet on the 2026 season. Some players on big league rosters haven’t even seen game action yet. So any sort of good or bad vibes […]
Baseball takes series against UC Santa Barbara Softball takes series against Northwestern Lacrosse falls to Michigan Basketball Lands Former Arizona State Sun Devils Recruit Highlight of the Day: 2025 Malik Benson Highlights
Happy Monday, everyone. It was a fine weekend on the diamonds, as softball laid waste to an overmatched NDSU squad and baseball swept previously 5th-ranked Auburn. The baseball thing is particularly amusing as Auburn fans had latched onto that program as the last hope for what has been a disastrous school year for their athletic […]
Back-to-back one-run victories, including a walk-off victory in extra innings on Saturday, enabled the TCU baseball team to secure a Big 12 Conference sweep against Texas Tech at Lupton Stadium over the weekend. It’s the first Big 12 sweep of the season for the Horned Frogs (17-10), who moved one game above the .500 mark […]
Cal Quantrill started for Round Rock on Sunday and had a difficult outing, allowing seven runs in two innings, striking out three and walking four. Patrick Murphy threw a shutout inning. Ryan Brasier struck out one in 1.1 scoreless innings. Josh Sborz allowed a solo homer in 1.2 IP, striking out two. Luis Curvelo struck […]
For the third consecutive year, the Yankees have begun the season by sweeping their first series of the calendar. This year’s opening series was a tour de force of pitching, as Yankee hurlers held the Giants to just one run across all 27 innings of their time in the Bay. Now they head up to […]
Meet the Mets Sorry, we all used up our Good Extra Inning Victory coupon on Saturday, so we were left to suffer through 2026’s first of what we can only hope is very few Bad Extra Innings Losses. Choose your recap: Amazin’ Avenue, MLB.com, Newsday, New York Daily News, New York Post, The Athletic With […]
(F/10) Lehigh Valley IronPigs 8, Toledo Mud Hens 7 (box) The Toledo Mud Hens had plenty of chances to end their three-game opening series against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs with a win, but some late mistakes from the bullpen led to an 8-7 walk-off loss. Max Clark notched his first hits of the season and […]
While Sunday was a bit disappointing in a 4-1 loss to the Royals, the Braves were able to win the series and have a strong start to the season. More than anything, it feels like a higher level of confidence should be had for both the lineup and starting rotation, as both aspects of the […]
A roster crunch forced the Rays’ hand in trading Jake Woodford to the Brewers, but I’m still a bit disappointed by it on a personal level because he was one of my favorite players in camp this spring. He’s a funky, unique pitcher with an offspeed pitch that has no comps from his slot. It’s […]
Here’s a smorgasbord of leftover Dodgers stories from the weekend. The Dodgers’ hype video for the season last week embraced their status as the bad guys of MLB. Bill Plunkett at the Orange County Register talked to some players about that perception of the team. Alex Vesia talked in detail to Jack Harris of The […]
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Happy Monday, everyone! We’ve gotten through the first series of the season (it could have gone better for hte Cubs, let’s just not talk about it), and the season is underway. We’ve already seen the ABS system getting used a bunch, often with game-changing impact, and we’ll get into that below, but it has especially […]
Good morning, baseball fans! A new week of San Francisco Giants baseball begins today, so let’s take a look at what’s on deck for this week. First up, the Giants will travel down to San Diego for a three-game series against their division rivals, the San Diego Padres starting tonight. After that, they will welcome […]
Triple-A: Nashville Sounds (MIL) 6, Norfolk Tides 2 Even an 0-for-4 line in the box score is good to see when it means that Jackson Holliday is continuing to have a successful rehab from his hamate bone injury. That being said, this game was a dud for the Tides, who fell into a 1-0 hole […]