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Fantasy Forecaster: Week 7
On tap: It’s yet another week with a wide range of scheduled games per team. Week 7 has three more teams scheduled for five-game weeks, and one scheduled for eight — the New York Yankees — thanks to a traditional doubleheader at the Cleveland Indians on Monday that is a makeup of their April 10-11 […]
Continue readingThe All-2017 fantasy team
For a second consecutive season, youngsters have dominated the fantasy baseball landscape. A quick glance at our Player Rater shows that five of the top 18 players are under the age of 25, significant in that the popular belief is that a player’s prime tends to reside somewhere between the ages of 25 and 30. […]
Continue readingHeyward, Miller intriguing after trade
The St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves made an unexpected swap of young players Monday, announcing at the start of the lunch hour (Eastern time) that the Cardinals had acquired right fielder Jason Heyward and right-handed reliever Jordan Walden and the Braves were landing right-handed starting pitchers Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins, the latter a […]
Continue readingDodgers call up prospect Andy Pages, to debut vs. Nationals
Pages started in center field and hit seventh for the Dodgers, who had lost four of five. The 23-year-old Cuban was hitting .371 with five home runs and 15 RBI in 15 games at Triple-A Oklahoma City after recovering from surgery last June to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder. “It’s an exciting […]
Continue readingCubs vs. Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers has international appeal
CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers face each other this weekend at Wrigley Field, but a year from now they’ll likely be doing the same in Japan to open the 2025 season. MLB has yet to make that official, but Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Sadayuki Sakakibara said Wednesday that MLB has slated […]
Continue readingShohei Ohtani hits 430-foot shot for first Dodgers home run
LOS ANGELES — The first person Shohei Ohtani encountered on his way to the dugout was Teoscar Hernandez, who, amid so much newness and so much turmoil, has become quite possibly his best friend on the team. Hernandez, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ affable corner outfielder, stood near the railing and bestowed Ohtani with the offering […]
Continue readingShohei Ohtani stands alone in spotlight amid gambling scandal
SHOHEI OHTANI WALKED from the left-field corner to the right-field corner of Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon to have a festive conversation with a group of his old Angels teammates, and the news of it was that he did it alone. Before Ippei Mizuhara was fired last week and accused Monday by Ohtani of stealing […]
Continue readingDodgers win off Cronenworth glove failure; 2 hits for Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani‘s RBI single capped a four-run eighth-inning rally in his Dodgers debut as Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 in Wednesday’s season opener in Seoul, South Korea, as the game turned when a routine grounder went through the webbing of first baseman Jake Cronenworth. Teoscar Hernandez scored the go-ahead run on an […]
Continue readingFantasy Baseball: Forecaster for the Seoul Series
The 2024 Major League Baseball season begins with two games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday and Thursday. Both games have a scheduled 6:05 a.m. ET first pitch, so set your alarms, grab some coffee, and call in late for work. Both games will be broadcast […]
Continue readingTyler Glasnow looking to combine athleticism and ability in L.A.
“It’s no big deal, really,” he said. (Yes, it is. There aren’t many people that big and tall who can do a backflip.) “Oh, I’m sure there are a lot of people bigger than me that can,” he said. (No, there aren’t.) Glasnow, 30, is a new member of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation, acquired […]
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