[ad_1] (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) MLB fans and collectors are in for a treat. Few things are more valuable to them than items that were used in actual MLB games: balls, gloves, bats, mitts, etc. Baseball card and collectibles company Topps, together with the league and its teams, is taking things to the next…
[ad_1] (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images) MLB has had to deal with an unexpected controversy in 2024. As part of their three-way agreement, Fanatics fabricated the uniforms that Nike designed for MLB. Ever since players started to wear them in spring training, however, there were numerous complaints. Players complained about the see-through pants and…
[ad_1] We’re nearly a month through the season and there’s still a jumble of teams sitting around .500 who could wind up in the playoff picture with one hot streak. That’s exactly what happened with the Twins last week. Of course, the opposite is true, too, with the Rays learning that lesson while getting swept…
[ad_1] Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports When I interviewed Marco Gonzales in spring training 2018, the now 32-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates southpaw was with the Seattle Mariners and about to establish himself as a solid big league starter. We discussed his return to health — he’d undergone Tommy John surgery two years prior — as well as…
[ad_1] Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports Pat Murphy is nominally in his first season as a full-time MLB manager, having previously helmed the Padres for a 96-game interim stint in 2015. But it’s not like he just fell off the turnip truck; he started coaching so long ago I’m not sure they even had trucks or…
[ad_1] Welcome to another edition of Five Things My weekly column that highlights strange and often delightful happenings from the last week of baseball. My own baseball watching was a bit stilted this week, for the best possible reason. I went to three Giants games, an exciting event made possible by cheap ticket deals, a…
[ad_1] Kyle Hendricks has long been lauded as a cerebral pitcher, and for good reason. Nicknamed “The Professor,” the 34-year-old Chicago Cubs right-hander not only has an economics degree from Dartmouth College, he relies far more on guile than gas. The antithesis of your prototypical power arm, Hendricks subsists with a heater that sits in…
[ad_1] This all started because I was staring at Jose Siri. I don’t think I’ve ever set out with the intention of staring at Jose Siri, but it ends up happening kind of a lot. He’s very watchable. He runs like the wind, if the wind had big muscles. He swings with a righteous fury,…
[ad_1] Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports C’mon now. You don’t really believe in Reed Garrett. Honestly, you might not even know who he is unless you’re a Mets fan or really into interchangeable middle relievers. Garrett debuted for the Tigers in 2019, tossing 15.1 forgettable innings. He departed for Japan and pitched for the Seibu Lions…
[ad_1] Last week, Andrew Golden of the Washington Post asked several Nationals pitchers where they focus their gaze as they prepare to pitch. They all seemed to have different answers. “When we go to the bullpen, that’s what we’re finding out,” said Robert Garcia. “It changes every pitch,” said MacKenzie Gore. I’ve been thinking a…
