The gamut of emotions were visceral, Jake Marisnick yelling to an adoring crowd after another of his spectacular diving catches in the center field gap during the eighth inning of Friday's win against the White Sox. Marisnick played one more inning and descended into the clubhouse. "You come in and, the next thing you know, you're going somewhere else," Marisnick said Tuesday ... He's a bigleague player and he can help us." .......
Whoa! ... As a community, does Tampa Bay want to be in the business of MajorLeagueBaseball? ... The cost of remaining a big-league market can be hefty. Some would say the cost of losing a Major League team is hefty as well ... What I am saying is Major League Baseball is an exclusive business, and membership typically comes at a high price ... Just a market deciding whether it has the wherewithal and desire to invest in Major League Baseball....
Rafael Palmeiro is 53 years old and still raking at the plate as he chases a big-league encore as a banged-up icon with the independent Cleburne Railroaders, who are playing the Saints this week in St ...Minnie Minoso was 54 in 1980 when he pinch hit in two games for the Chicago White Sox, the last player over 50 to appear in a big-league lineup....
Drew Gagnon was living the dream Tuesday night. After eight seasons in the minors, the 28-year-old one-time prospect was making his major league debut for the Mets. The third-round pick for the Brewers in the 2011 draft had been planning a trip to the Grand Canyon this week during the Triple-A... ....
The gamut of emotions were visceral, Jake Marisnick yelling to an adoring crowd after another of his spectacular diving catches in the center field gap during the eighth inning of Friday's win against the White Sox. Marisnick played one more inning and descended into the clubhouse. "You come in and, the next thing you know, you're going somewhere else," Marisnick said Tuesday ... Still, the organization opted for Tucker, their No ... Media....
“This game is tough no matter where you are — in rookie ball or the bigleagues... “As tough as it is to play in the bigleagues, all the guys here are working their tails off to get there, too ... It really makes me appreciate everything I have at the bigleague level.” ... It’s always good to have bigleague guys come down, but KB is one of the best.”....
The ongoing conversation developed legs at the annual Big> 12 league meetings, when commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he’d prefer to have each conference play nine games if all things were equal, or “if I was the benevolent dictator.” ... The league already has a built-in 19th game via the annual Big 12/SECChallenge, and Pollard said the Big 12 and Big......
The ongoing conversation developed legs at the annual Big> 12 league meetings, when commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he’d prefer to have each conference play nine games if all things were equal, or “if I was the benevolent dictator.” ... The league already has a built-in 19th game via the annual Big 12/SECChallenge, and Pollard said the Big 12 and Big......
Adding quality hitters to the big-league roster, and even more to an emaciated farm system, was an emergency-room priority for general manager Al Avila. The Tigers are 25th among 30 big-league teams in baseball’s most telling offensive statistic, OPS... Adames, Suarez, Garcia, Hernan Perez — it’s an overall tight crop of Tigers position players who have cracked the bigleagues....
I came here to win titles,” the 24-year-old told reporters.“I think the first target has to be to win Serie A and then comes the ChampionsLeague.That has to be our aim ... the team.“I decided to come to Juventus because I think the project here is very big. They have very big aims....
In fact, it was the only one of Europe's big five leagues which did not turn into a one-horse race. Serie A was also one of the big winners in the recent reform of the ChampionsLeague with its number of guaranteed slots in the lucrative group stage increasing from two to four. It has also shown itself to be open to innovation as one of the leagues which agreed to experiment with video replay technology (VAR) last season....
In his long career behind the dish, new Eugene Emeralds manager Steven Lerud watched and learned and is using his experience to get each of his players where they ultimately want to be — MajorLeagueBaseball... “I think working as long as I did to finally get the opportunity to get up to the bigleagues — that was pretty cool,” Lerud said ... “I think the best moment was getting that first hit in the bigleagues,” Lerud said....
Here’s the reason to pump the brakes on SummerLeague hype ... All previous Summer League MVPs or Summer League Championship Game MVPs since 2013 ... Just go ahead and just slam the brakes on Summer League hype. So does that make what Bulls rookie big man Wendell Carter Jr ... And fortunately for the 6-foot-10 big man he won’t be asked to immediately be a scoring threat once the regular season starts....