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White Sox, Nationals, Pirates, D-backs, Cardinals announce positive tests for coronavirus
The Chicago White Sox, Washington Nationals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Arizona Diamondbacks all announced Sunday that two of their players have tested positive for the coronavirus and are in isolation. The St. Louis Cardinals also announced that another one of their players tested positive. Pirates manager Derek Shelton said Sunday that reliever Blake Cederlind and outfielder […]
Continue readingBaseball’s top 60 storylines for a 60-game MLB season
There is going to be a baseball season after all, one of 60 games, following a month of ugly public negotiations between the players and owners over how to navigate through the money of the shortened season. In the words of Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, “COVID-19 already presented a lose-lose-lose situation and we’ve somehow found […]
Continue readingEx-Astros catcher Evan Gattis: We obviously cheated baseball, fans
Evan Gattis, who won a World Series ring with the Houston Astros in 2017, said the team and its players “obviously cheated baseball and cheated fans” with the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the sport. “Everybody wants to be the best player in the f—ing world, man,” Gattis, who has since retired, told The Athletic’s […]
Continue readingExpert league: Tout Wars mixed roto league auction
Then I went and did exactly the opposite. This is no reflection of how I felt about Tristan’s valued recommendation. If the prices were more to my liking, perhaps I would have done what pretty much everyone else did. There are myriad ways to build a championship fantasy roster in an auction format — although […]
Continue readingWhy the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal could be worse for MLB than the steroid era
Do Damage. That phrase emblazoned across sweatshirts during baseball’s postseason the past few seasons came across as a longing, desperate attempt by marketing sloganeers to find some way, any way, for baseball to return to the cool, Madison Avenue merchandising game now dominated by the NBA. After Reggie, Fernando and Junior, this was a space […]
Continue readingWho could be this year’s Nationals? How all 30 MLB teams stack up
Only one World Series favorite entering the season actually won the World Series in the decade we just completed. Wait, let’s put that another way: A team that was one of the top five favorites entering the season won the World Series only once over the past decade. The 2019 Washington Nationals didn’t necessarily feel […]
Continue readingWhat if Mike Trout had been on the 2017 Houston Astros? It could have happened
In 2009, before he was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels, Mike Trout had committed to play baseball at East Carolina University. Because Trout has gone on to have the most historically significant career of his generation, that alternative history has always been delicious: What if he’d gone to college? How would it have changed […]
Continue readingMike Fiers greeted with cheers before first spring start
MESA, Ariz. — Oakland Athletics starter Mike Fiers got a warm reception from the crowd at the A’s spring training home before he took the mound Sunday for his first start since he blew the lid off the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal this past winter. Considering he wasn’t coming to the plate to hit, due […]
Continue readingIn a sea of Astros criticism, some lines should never be crossed
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The 2017 Houston Astros were cheaters. They were selfish, unfair, wrong. Their actions influenced opponents’ careers. Their championship is tarnished. Perhaps this was inevitable — that the fallout of the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal would include cowards protected by the anonymity of social media allegedly issuing death threats to players and […]
Continue readingAthletics’ Mike Fiers acknowledges receiving death threats
Former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers says he has received death threats after he exposed Houston’s 2017 sign-stealing scheme. “Whatever, I don’t care. I’ve dealt with a lot of death threats before. It’s just another thing on my plate,” the Oakland Athletics pitcher told the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday. Fiers revealed to The Athletic in […]
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