Jeff Curry-Imagn Images The St. Louis Cardinals received more than just the 2023 Texas League MVP when they traded for Thomas Saggese from the Rangers as part of the Jordan Montgomery deal at last year’s trade deadline. They also acquired a young hitter with a keen understanding of the mechanics of his craft. Saggese, Texas’…
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss a report that Jerry Reinsdorf might be willing to sell the White Sox, then talk about the tactics and storylines of ALCS and NLCS Game 2. They cover controversial Vogt decisions, how Yankees fans would perceive a pennant or championship, the importance of Max Muncy, visualizing success, Shohei Ohtani’s…
John Jones-Imagn Images In baseball history, there have been 15 players signed to contracts worth a total of $300 million or more. The Dodgers started three of those 15 players on Thursday night — Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That’s a ridiculous amount of money, especially for such a trivial enterprise as baseball….
Cleveland’s baseball club was known as the Blues when the American League was formed in 1901, but that’s far from what Guardians fans were singing following Thursday’s ALCS Game 3. Two days before A Tribe Called Quest and other musical luminaries are to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Progressive Field…
(Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) The Major League Baseball postseason is heating up as only four teams remain with a chance to win the World Series. In the National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers held a 2-1 lead over the New York Mets entering Game 4, while the New York Yankees held a…
(Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers hit three home runs in the 8-0 victory, including a three-run shot from superstar Shohei Ohtani in the eighth inning. Ohtani has struggled a bit in his first MLB postseason, but…
(Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) The New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Guardians in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series behind Gerrit Cole. The ace took the mound and threw 4.1 innings, allowing six hits, two earned runs and four walks while striking out four. Cole didn’t factor into the decision and struggled a…
Shohei Ohtani doesn’t have a hit with the bases empty. I kept hearing that throughout FS1’s broadcast of Game 3 of the NLCS. My first thought was, “Wow, I’m old enough to remember when they dogged star players for not hitting well enough with runners on base! I guess some people will find any reason…
Once considered the natural successor to Clayton Kershaw as The Man in the Dodgers’ rotation, Walker Buehler’s career hit a rocky stretch in 2022. Coming off arguably his best season in the majors, Buehler was pulled from a June start with elbow pain, starting a journey that ended with a Tommy John surgery, the second…
At my old job, my boss occasionally held idea sessions. He wanted everyone to participate, and the point wasn’t to come up with something actionable, just to brainstorm. No suggestion was too ridiculous – sure, it might get picked apart in discussion, but the whole point was to suggest weird stuff and see what came…
