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Fantasy baseball pitcher rankings, lineup advice for Monday’s MLB games
Note: This file will be updated with any overnight pitching changes or weather-related game postponements, along with the addition of the latest MLB game odds as of the indicated time of publication. By Todd Zola • Closer Chart: Latest bullpen intel • MLB Depth Charts for every team • Player news wire with fantasy spin […]
Continue readingPittsburgh Pirates, 1B Carlos Santana agree on 1-year, $6.7M deal
Santana, 36, finished with a league-average OPS last year, hitting .202/.316/.376 between stints with the Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals. But his expected numbers, based on how hard he hit the ball (an 81st-percentile exit velocity) and his elite walk rate (97th percentile), projected far better results, something that drove his market. Further, nobody […]
Continue reading2022 MLB All-Star Game – Best moments, takeaways from the American League’s victory in Los Angeles
The 2022 MLB All-Star Game came to Hollywood as Dodger Stadium hosted the biggest and brightest names in baseball. It was familiar territory for Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, who was just the sixth pitcher in the past 40 years to start the All-Star Game in his home park. The American League extended their […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani named to American League All-Star team as pitcher and hitter
Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani was elected to the American League All-Star team as a pitcher and hitter for the second consecutive season, while brothers William Contreras and Willson Contreras will both start for the National League. Ohtani, 28, was voted in as the designated hitter for the AL team, then selected by MLB […]
Continue readingESPN’s 2022 AL and NL All-Star picks
The 2022 MLB All-Star starters are here! Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Manny Machado and Jazz Chisholm Jr. all are headed to Los Angeles as starters, with the reserve squad still to be named (5:30 p.m. ET on ESPN). Ahead of the announcement, ESPN asked six of its contributors — Bradford Doolittle, Buster Olney, David Schoenfield, […]
Continue readingPittsburgh Pirates’ Jack Suwinski becomes 1st rookie in MLB history with 3-homer game that includes walk-off blast
PITTSBURGH — Jack Suwinski hit his third homer of the game in the ninth inning, giving the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3, walk-off victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep. The rookie drove a slider from sidearming Tyler Rogers (0-3) to right for his second game-ending home run of the […]
Continue readingWas Tony La Russa’s intentional walk of Trea Turner the worst in MLB history? A ranking
And you thought the intentional walk had gone the way of Blockbuster, the iPod and those titanium-infused Phiten necklaces that stabilized the body’s energy flow. You were wrong! Turns out, the intentional walk is still part of the game — and, courtesy of Joe Maddon and now Tony La Russa, it gifted us with two […]
Continue readingWhatever happened to triples? If Pittsburgh Pirates DH Daniel Vogelbach can hit one, anyone can!
The biggest news Tuesday wasn’t the Houston Astros hitting five home runs in one inning off Nathan Eovaldi, or even the Boston Red Sox fan sitting in the Green Monster seats who caught two of those home runs. No, the biggest news: Daniel Vogelbach hit a triple. Let’s get this out of the way first: […]
Continue readingCincinnati Reds don’t allow hit but fall 1-0 to Pittsburgh Pirates
PITTSBURGH — In what’s quickly become a lost season for the Cincinnati Reds, this really was the ultimate misery. Prized rookie Hunter Greene and reliever Art Warren combined to allow zero hits in a complete game, but it didn’t count as a no-hitter — or even a win. Instead, the Pittsburgh Pirates eked out a […]
Continue readingJose Quintana becomes first Pittsburgh Pirates starter to collect win this season, ending a record drought in majors
PITTSBURGH — Jose Quintana pitched six scoreless innings for his first win since 2019 and the first victory by a Pittsburgh starting pitcher this season as the Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 on Monday night. The Pirates also ended a 16-game losing streak against the Dodgers dating to 2018 and snapped Los Angeles’ […]
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