Both players were July trade deadline acquisitions and both underachieved with their new team. “Our acquisitions at the deadline … were absolutely the right moves to make on a team that had World Series aspirations,” general manager Rick Hahn said on a Friday Zoom with reporters. “We don’t regret being aggressive. We don’t regret addressing […]
Continue reading“I feel better than in spring training,” Jimenez said Thursday. “I feel like 110 percent — let’s say 200 percent. I feel pretty normal. I can go do my swing and finish, and it’s not going to hurt.” Jimenez was injured while attempting to catch a home run ball over the outfield wall in a […]
Continue readingThe 29-year-old Engel hit .295 with three homers and 12 RBI last season. He recorded the final out of Lucas Giolito‘s no-hitter against Pittsburgh on Aug. 25 when he extended on the run to catch Erik Gonzalez’s slicing drive toward the right-field line. Engel started all three games of Chicago’s wild-card series against Oakland and […]
Continue readingOAKLAND, Calif. — Sure, most of these young Oakland Athletics might barely remember some of the gut-wrenching October losses over the past two decades. Two recent defeats were plenty fresh enough to motivate manager Bob Melvin’s slugging, happy-go-lucky A’s. Oakland finally ended 14 years of postseason futility, riding Chad Pinder’s go-ahead, two-run single in the […]
Continue readingAs the Major League Baseball season heads into a third week of action, we’re seeing plenty of drama on the diamond. That’s reflected in our rankings, as our panel of voters took stock of whose hot starts to take seriously — hello, Colorado Rockies — and which teams doing better than expected might be discounted. […]
Continue readingAlso reaching deals were recently acquired outfielder Nomar Mazara ($5.56 million), right-hander Evan Marshall ($1.1 million), utility player Leury Garcia ($3.25 million) and lefty Carlos Rodon ($4.45 million). Mazara hit .268 with 19 homers for Texas last season, when he made $3.3 million. He was traded to the White Sox last month. The 29-year-old Marshall […]
Continue readingFriday was the deadline for 155 arbitration-eligible players and their MLB teams to agree on salaries or exchange desired numbers for 2020. This year, big names including Mookie Betts, Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, Aaron Judge, George Springer and Noah Syndergaard are among those who either came to a settlement amount before the deadline or are […]
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