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9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This story is also posted in Spanish. Read it here. SINCE ROBERTO CLEMENTE emerged as the first Latino superstar in the 1960s, Latino players have been bringing their bat flips, broad smiles and exciting play to a pastime that feels ever more international. Last season 207 Latino players appeared on Opening Day rosters, comprising a full 24 percent of…

Lee Jin-man/AP Images I know I’m warmer than most on the World Baseball Classic, but I think it can only be a good thing that there’s actual, competitive baseball being played right now, after a long cold winter. (My enthusiasm will wane by May, when I’ll be wishing they could just skip ahead to September already. But let’s enjoy this!) Advertisement The tournament got started with an upset as Israel…

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…

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…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment SINCE ROBERTO CLEMENTE emerged as the first Latino superstar in the 1960s, Latino players have been bringing their bat flips, broad smiles and exciting play to a pastime that feels ever more international. Last season 207 Latino players appeared on Opening Day rosters, comprising a full 24 percent of the league. And while these players come from different countries,…

Israel has reached the World Baseball Classic tournament for the first time.(Photo: Sebastian Scheiner, AP) The written history of Israeli baseball would be a pretty small book, but as the World Baseball Classic gets ready to begin on Monday the tournament’s biggest underdog is motivated to provide one of its best story lines. Team Israel will take part in the 16-team field for the first time and is not expected…

Lars Nootbaar made a change by staying the same. It led to an extra-innings RBI double to push USC to a 4-3 win over UCLA in the Dodger Stadium College Baseball Classic on Sunday evening. Normally when a pitcher gets two strikes against Nootbaar, the USC cleanup hitter will spread out his stance, cut down the intensity of his swing and all but eliminate his leg kick. But after UCLA…

The 2017 World Baseball Classic is upon us. The tournament begins early Monday with Game 1 of Pool A at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. Pool B will be played at Tokyo Dome, Pool C will be played at Marlins Park in Miami, and Pool D will be played at Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico. Here’s how you can watch the tournament’s opening game: How to…

Station Camp senior Dylan Pottorff (25)(Photo: File / Chris Brooks / Gallatin News Examiner) Fifteen high school baseball players to watch in Sumner County this season: Ben Brooks, Pope John Paul II, Sr., shortstop: Memphis signee is reigning All-Sumner County Player of the Year, hit .386 with .493 on-base percentage, 34 runs, 12 stolen bases. Brett Coker, Hendersonville, Jr., infielder/outfielder: All-District 9-AAA in 2016, hit .302 with seven stolen bases….

Here’s this week’s first top 25 prep baseball rankings by The Times after the opening week of games. Ranking, team, record, comment and last week’s ranking. 1. CHATSWORTH (4-0); Face Harvard-Westlake on Tuesday in Easton final at 7 p.m. at Birmingahm; 1 
2. SOUTH HILLS (4-0); Play in Bonita tournament semifinals; 2
 3. HUNTINGTON BEACH (4-0); Hagen Danner hit two home runs in win over Orange Lutheran; 3
 4. HARVARD-WESTLAKE…

The University of Miami baseball team has at least two serious problems: hitting and fielding – or more accurately, a lack thereof. The Hurricanes were shut out at home to Dartmouth 5-0 Sunday in the third and final game of their weekend series. They are 4-6 overall in a 56-game regular season, with two mid-week games coming up against FIU and opening Atlantic Coast Conference opponent Georgia Tech traveling to…

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11:28 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Maybe the World Baseball Classic isn’t your thing. That’s OK, we don’t have to agree on everything. The tournament kicks off Monday, with two Pool A games in Seoul, including Israel versus South Korea at 4:30 a.m. What, you have something better to do? The U.S. team kicks off against Colombia on Friday at 6 p.m. in Miami (all…

HOUSTON – Ryan Merrill’s walk-off double capped a wild comeback for No. 1 TCU as it rallied to defeat No. 15 Texas A&M 11-10 in 15 innings. The Horned Frogs scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extra innings. Here’s the game-winner courtesy of Ryan Merrill! #LateNightWithTheFrogs #GoFrogs pic.twitter.com/umIgvU96ys — TCU Baseball (@TCU_Baseball) March 5, 2017 Josh Watson’s…

HOUSTON, Texas – The No. 10 Texas Tech baseball team got back in the win column on Saturday afternoon, taking down No. 11 Ole Miss, 5-1, in game two of the 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic at Minute Maid Park.   The Red Raiders (10-2) reached the 10-win mark after receiving another masterful performance by sophomore left-handed pitcher Steven Gingery, earning his third win in his third start of the…

If you stayed up late Saturday night to watch Arkansas baseball, you were sweetly rewarded. Arkansas put Nebraska on blast in the second game of the Frisco Classic down in Frisco, Texas, 15-5. Unlike previous Razorbacks’ high-scoring efforts, Saturday’s was well-rounded. Arkansas scored runs in six different innings to handle the Cornhuskers all night. And all morning. The game didn’t end until 12:24 a.m. It was supposed to begin at…

Michigan State baseball coach Jake Boss.(Photo: Al Goldis, for the Lansing State Journal) College baseball: A six-run sixth inning powered Michigan State to a 10-2 win over Presbyterian at the First Pitch Invitational at Greenville, S.C. Brandon Hughes had two hits, scored two runs and stole three bases for MSU (8-1). … Ryan McClelland had three RBIs as Northwood beat Chestnut Hill, 7-1, at Ft. Pierce, Fla. Nathan Langerfeld (1-0)…

By Jason Avery News-Times Staff PARKERS CHAPEL – One thing is for certain. When Parkers Chapel and Smackover meet on the baseball diamond, there is never a dull moment. The Union County rivals played another nail-biter on Saturday afternoon, as the Trojans outlasted the Bucks 7-6 at Robert McKinnon Park in a game that wasn’t decided until Logan Selman struck out Nick Jennings with the tying and go-ahead runs at…