Mariners’ Devin Sweet(Southeast Guilford High School): Selected to roster The Mariners purchased Sweet’s contract from Double-A Arkansas on Wednesday, Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times reports. Sweet earned the promotion after collecting a 1.54 ERA and 47:8 K:BB over 35 innings at Arkansas. The 26-year-old will be making his major-league debut when he gets into a game. Arkansas ?? Seattle We’ve called-up RHP Prelander Berroa and RHP Devin Sweet from the @ARTravs. #SeaUsRise ? https://t.co/VyKVzOf1WU pic.twitter.com/O7bosV6MMM — Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) July 19, 2023 Devin Sweet for the Seattle Mariners worked one inning vs. the Minnesota Twins, late Wednesday night….. It…
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Yankees manager is not ready for robot umpires, even after latest ejection from Adam Gretz,with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com In what seems to be a weekly occurrence this season, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected on Thursday night. His beef was again centered around the strike zone in his team’s 3-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. Despite that, he is not quite ready to see Major League Baseball turn to robot umpires to offer a more automated and consistent approach to the calling balls and strikes. From ESPN: “Clearly he shouldn’t have had to throw almost 30 pitches in that first…
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MLB implements unusual rule to avoid pitch clock violations from Larry Brown Sports, with Steve DelVecchio, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com Major League Baseball has implemented a new rule that will help players avoid pitch clock violations if they take extra time to acknowledge a standing ovation from fans. Seattle Mariners outfielder Teoscar Hernandez received a warm reception from fans at the Rogers Centre prior to his first at-bat in his team’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. Hernandez played for the Blue Jays for six seasons before being traded to Seattle, which is why fans in Toronto wanted to…
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Top MLB prospect Bobby Witt Jr. to debut Thursday for Royals from Victor Barbosa, with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com The top prospect in all of MLB will be making his big-league debut on Thursday for the Kansas City Royals. Lifelong dream came true today! It’s go time! #TogetherRoyal https://t.co/rbkqrAqOek — Bobby Witt Jr (@BwittJr) April 5, 2022 Bobby Witt Jr. was called into Mike Matheny’s office this morning. He found Whit Merrifield, Andrew Benintendi & Salvador Perez in there. Merrifield was videoing it. “That’s when I knew something was up. It was awesome. I can’t put words to the feeling. Tears came to…
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MLB umpires to begin announcing replay decisions from MLB Trade Rumors, with Steve Adams, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com Major League Baseball announced Friday morning that beginning in the 2022 season, Major League umpires “will conduct in-park announcements during the replay review process.” It’s an overdue update to a replay system that has often been confusing for fans viewing at home and, particularly, for fans at the the park. The NFL-style announcements regarding the nature of the challenge and the reasoning behind the umpires’ rulings will lend some clarity for all spectators. The league announced that training for this process is already…
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MLB adds new ‘Shohei Ohtani Rule’ from Larry Brown Sports, with Larry Brown, and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com **********MLB has added a new “Shohei Ohtani Rule” to the Collective Bargaining Agreement that will take effect in 2022.********** MLB’s new CBA includes several rule additions or modifications. According to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, one of the new rules allows a pitcher to remain in the game as the designated hitter even after they are removed from their start as a pitcher. Previously, teams would have to remove the pitcher from the batting lineup after they were removed as a pitcher. This…
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MLB reportedly plans to cancel more games if no deal is reached Tuesday/Today from Adam Stites, with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com Major League Baseball cancelled the first two series of the season for every team last week and it’s already prepping to continue to shorten the 2022 schedule. According to Evan Drellich of The Athletic, the MLB has informed the MLB Players Association that another week’s worth of games will be cancelled if a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement isn’t reached Tuesday. The likelihood that such a compromise will be reached seems slim given most reports indicate little progress has been…
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2022 MLB season viewed as unlikely to start in April from Sportsnaut, with Matt Johnson and from YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com The Major League Baseball lockout that led to commissioner Rob Manfred canceling the first week of the MLB season could cost the league much more than expected. After already postponing Opening Day, the 2022 regular season might not begin for another month. Manfred officially announced the cancellation of games on March 1, following extended in-person negotiations between owners and the MLB Players Association in Florida. An outcome that the MLB commissioner said would be ‘disastrous’ weeks prior is now a reality and…
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MLB to cancel first two series of 2022 season, commissioner announces from Adam Stites with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com The 2022 Major League Baseball season will officially be shortened due to the current labor dispute, as commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that the first two series of the year will be cancelled. “The calendar dictates that we are not going to be able to play the first two series of the regular season and those games are officially cancelled,” Manfred said at a press conference Tuesday. In a statement, the MLB Players Association said it was “disgusted, but sadly not surprised” by Manfred’s…
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Seattle Mariners left-hander Hector Santiago became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to be ejected for a foreign substance violation. from Erin Walsh at YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com Santiago was tossed from Seattle’s game against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday in the fifth inning after his glove was examined during an inspection. The umpires kept his glove after he was removed from the contest. The Mariners were leading 2-1 when Santiago was ejected. He had pitched 2 1/3 innings, striking out four batters while walking two and allowing three hits. Santiago will now be subject to a 10-day suspension under MLB’s…
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Lots of talk this week about Major League Baseballs being covered in Spider Tack, and how Spider Tack can help MLB pitchers get better grip on the baseball…And that causes many of us to ask the question, “What is Spider Tack?” We were able to find out this information about Spider Tack, at SpiderTack.com…www.spidertack.com….. Spider Tack About Spider Tack Spider Tack is a super-sticky paste for improving grip on Atlas Stones. It comes in Heavy, Competition Grade (the original), and Light. Description Spider Tack Competition Grade is the original Spider Tack. It’s the most versatile, will work great in both…
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CLICK HERE and check out the list of major Major League Baseball faces, that will be in new places(teams) as we begin the 2021 MLB season… Despite an offseason marred by the COVID-19 pandemic, there were still plenty of big MLB transactions leading into 2021. These 25 notable new faces in new places are creating intrigue for the upcoming season. (Be sure to check out this list from YardBaker.com.)
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One of the top pitchers in Major League Baseball history, Bob Gibson is gone at age 84…..He rarely smiled and he was one of the toughest competitors to ever play the game of baseball….Bob Gibson, was not only good, Bob Gibson was GREAT!!!!! from www.espn.com:/CLICK HERE Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson died Friday at age 84, the St. Louis Cardinals confirmed to ESPN. **********Gibson, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, played all of his 17 MLB seasons with the Cardinals, from 1959-75.********** Gibson announced in July 2019 that he had pancreatic cancer. The nine-time All-Star and two-time World Series…
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“Tom Terrific”/Tom Seaver led the New York Mets to a World Series title, and he threw a No-Hitter for the Cincinnati Reds, and he is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York…Tom Seaver was a dominant major baseball pitcher back in the late 1960’s and on into the 1970’s, and he was as good as it gets, when he had that Terrific stuff… from ESPN.com and you can much more on Tom Seaver, when you CLICK HERE ESPN.com…. NEW YORK — Tom Seaver transformed a franchise and captivated a city, setting enduring standards as he whipped his…
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The bubble seems to working out for the NBA, with the National Basketball League playing all of their games under a Bubble in Orlando, Florida….. Makes you to start to wonder why Major League Baseball didn’t play all of their games under a Bubble, at their Spring Training sites in Florida and Arizona…. (You have all of those same baseball Spring Training playing sites centralized around the same cities, in both states.) Would that not have been easier to control for MLB? You have your teams together and you are able to monitor the players and their day-to-day conditions, and…
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MLB/Major League Baseball coming up with a plan on Tuesday that would put together a 60-game regular season, with all games, for both the American and National Leagues, using the designated hitter, and the MLB postseason would be expanded from 10 teams to 16 teams this season… The plan is on the table and now the players and owners will have to reach an agreement on this new MLB plan for 2020… It would all get started with the new 2020 MLB season, on July 20. More details as you read on below…. NEW YORK — After days of angry…
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The word coming in early this week is MLB/Major League Baseball is hoping for a return of baseball in early July…. MLB would love to get going/throwing again right around America’s birthday on July 4…. A July 4 start would be a big spark in the return of baseball, but Major League Baseball would look to return with “Fan-Free Stadiums” and the money that makes this game spin, would have to come from TV revenue… The revenue-split between the MLB players and the MLB owners will determine how quick this July 1 return proposal can be agreed upon…The big riff…
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Where are the boys of the Summer? Courtesy of Jordan Stowe, for GreensboroSports.com and taking us back to Days/Daze of Summer, and the sport of baseball in the Major and Minor Leagues.. “Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root For the home team If they don’t win it’s a shame Aahh. For it’s one,Two, Three strikes you’re out At the old ball game…” Major League Baseball is as American as apple pie, banana pudding, and…
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It was either a 32 or a 34 and it sure wasn’t a 28, but that baseball bat you used to use as a kid, that was probably at one time or another, an Al Kaline bat, and the man that made those Al Kaline bats and those Al Kaline gloves famous, it was the Detroit Tigers’ outfielder and Mr. Kaline was “Mr. Tiger”, and he played his entire major baseball career for the Detroit Tigers… I can still see his name on those bats and his name signed in those baseball gloves….It seemed like with the Al Kaline bat,…
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In his Major League Baseball playoffs preview on Tuesday Bryson Gordon had the Cubs winning 4-1 over the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago took that game last night 4-0….Not bad at all on the part of young Mr. Gordon….Bryson had the Yankees eliminating the Houston Astros in the AL Wildcard Game, but Houston took that one by the 3-0 final…. Keep a look out on BG’s picks as they getting deeper into the MLB postseason, this could get good, as the going gets tougher…. On tap for today you have: Texas Rangers at Toronto Blue Jays 3:37pm Houston Astros at Kansas…