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Starting pitcher, like outfield, is almost too much to bite into with this method. One guide to rule them all Obviously, you need bunches of them, so if you hope to build a good pitching staff, you’ll be drafting more than one player from some of the top tiers. And thus, the strategy of drafting one of the last players within a given tier doesn’t wholly apply. But the tiers still show…

Things are looking up. Shortstop will never be a deep position. The defensive threshold is so high that only a small percentage of the best baseball players in the world can meet it, and the odds of them all being good hitters is, frankly, pretty low.  But an infusion of talent over the past couple years has made for a new golden age at the position, giving it, at least…

From baseball’s humble beginnings when they were rare, home runs have exploded. There were 5,610 hit in 2016, the second most in one season to the 5,693 hit in 2000 and an astonishing 1,424 more than were hit in 2014. In fact, the home run accounted for a higher percentage of runs than ever before, in part because there were fewer runs scored in 2016 than in 2000. Which means…

An Arkansas collector pleaded guilty in Chicago’s federal court Monday to heading a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors of sports memorabilia, including using a phony Heisman Trophy as collateral on a $100,000 loan. In pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud, John Rogers admitted he had a trophy company fix a nameplate to a Heisman replica to make it look like it was the authentic 1978 trophy awarded to…

ECB planning to bring forward bidding for TV packages from 2021 onwards Fall-out between Sky and BT over football packages likely to lead to bidding war Sky more determined than ever to keep cricket coverage on their channels BT looking to increase investment in cricket after winning Australian rights By Charles Sale for the Daily Mail Published: 17:30 EST, 6 March 2017 | Updated: 20:14 EST, 6 March 2017 e-mail…

The Sports Business Daily is reporting that NASCAR is considering a proposal to reduce the noise stock cars make in “a move that could make it easier for fans to talk to each other during races and engage more socially.” The move, according to the SBD, is yet another attempt to attract younger race fans. “Quieter cars could be targeted more toward millennials, who place heavy importance on the social…

The Sports Business Daily is reporting that NASCAR is considering a proposal to reduce the noise stock cars make in “a move that could make it easier for fans to talk to each other during races and engage more socially.” The move, according to the SBD, is yet another attempt to attract younger race fans. “Quieter cars could be targeted more toward millennials, who place heavy importance on the social…

BT Sport have secured exclusive rights to screen the Champions League and the Europa League until 2021 – extending their current deal by three years They have paid £394million per season to renew their contract BT will screen every game, including the new ‘double header’ kick-off times But new deal means the end of highlights shows on terrestrial channel ITV  By Adam Shergold for MailOnline Published: 02:35 EST, 6 March…

It can often go ugly when a television entity moves on from a longtime staffer (see: Curry, Ann), but give ESPN management a ton of credit: They handled the end of the Chris Berman era with particular aplomb, threading the fine line of allowing Berman a celebratory exit as the host of Sunday NFL Countdown and ESPN’s NFL draft coverage while making it clear they were moving in a new…

Eden Hazard finished off a wonderful counter-attack in the 25th minute Diego Costa and Eden Hazard scored as Chelsea beat West Ham to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to 10 points. It was the Blues’ 21st victory of the league season and another big step towards winning the title in Antonio Conte’s first season as manager. The Italian was once again spot on with his…

BOSTON (CBS) — The fear that David Price would need Tommy John surgery was alleviated on Friday when the pitcher returned from his visit with Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Neil ElAttrache with some good news. Both doctors were surprised when they got to examine the pitcher at the NFL Combine, and Price returned to Spring Training optimistic that he’ll be back in the Boston rotation soon. “They were like, ‘Your…

Atlanta United is one of two new MLS squads that started play over the weekend. While the team waits on its new digs to open up in downtown Atlanta, it’s the primary offseason tenant at Bobby Dodd Stadium, which typically houses the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (insert your joke here about a team in red and black invading Georgia Tech). Atlanta fans absolutely packed the place to the gills, so…

U.S. Soccer has adopted a new policy requiring all players to “stand respectfully” for the playing of the national anthem. The move comes after one of the women’s team players, Megan Rapinoe, kneeled while in uniform as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played before games against Thailand and the Netherlands in September. New Policy added to @ussoccer bylaws: Players “shall stand respectfully during playing of national anthem @ which federation is represented” pic.twitter.com/fkVtCI1iHC…

Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway looked like a runaway victory for Kevin Harvick, until a late-race pit-road speeding penalty allowed Brad Keselowski to score the victory for Team Penske. In general, the first use of NASCAR’s low-downforce package was a success, as drivers fought ill-handling race cars all day long, with lots of dicing in the pack. Here’s some of the best social…

Playing soccer with billionaires doesn’t come cheap. BT Group Plc had to stump up 30 percent more to keep the broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League from 2018 to 2021. Bidding against Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Plc pushed the price up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion). Champions League price $1.5 billion It’s an inexorable law by now: the cost of flagship sports rights, whether for the NFL or the…

An Orange County deputy who was injured while trying to break up a fight among fans after the Orlando City soccer game Sunday is at home and recovering, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Gustavo “Gus” Marinoni, a 14-year department veteran, was working extra duty for the Orlando Police Department at the soccer team’s home opener, the team’s first game in its new stadium. After the game ended about 7:45 p.m.,…

Playing soccer with billionaires doesn’t come cheap. BT Group Plc had to stump up 30 percent more to keep the broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League from 2018 to 2021. Bidding against Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Plc pushed the price up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion). Champions League price $1.5 billion It’s an inexorable law by now: the cost of flagship sports rights, whether for the NFL or the…

British telco BT’s pay-TV sports service, BT Sport, has secured the exclusive U.K. rights to soccer matches from UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League until the end of the 2020/21 season. The deal with UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, is worth around £394 million ($483 million) a year, and extends the existing pact with BT by a further three seasons for a total £1.18 billion ($1.45 billion). The deal…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

Kevin Harvick probably lost Sunday’s Folds Of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway by driving too fast. It’s funny how that works in NASCAR. Harvick was completely dominating the race – leading 292 laps – until he was caught speeding on pit road with 11 laps remaining. The penalty for exceeding the 45 mph speed limit on Atlanta’s pit road shuffled Harvick to 18th place. That allowed Brad Keselowski…