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Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has made it no secret that reducing game times is one of his biggest goals. He’s even managed to make some strides in that area. Since Manfred took over, clocks have reduced between-innings breaks, batters are encouraged to stay in the batter’s box and pitch clocks have been implemented in the minors. While some of those solutions have been viewed as radical, particularly considering his predecessor…

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has made it no secret that reducing game times is one of his biggest goals. He’s even managed to make some strides in that area. Since Manfred took over, clocks have reduced between-innings breaks, batters are encouraged to stay in the batter’s box and pitch clocks have been implemented in the minors. While some of those solutions have been viewed as radical, particularly considering his predecessor…

Former front-office analyst and now stats professor at Smith College Ben Baumer has a paper out, with cowriters Michael J. Lopez of Skidmore College and Gregory J. Matthews of Loyola University Chicago, that hopes to answer a question we’ve all thought about when our favorite team loses: how often does the best team win in a given sport? How much of our pain can we explain away with luck?…

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has made it no secret that reducing game times is one of his biggest goals. He’s even managed to make some strides in that area. Since Manfred took over, clocks have reduced between-innings breaks, batters are encouraged to stay in the batter’s box and pitch clocks have been implemented in the minors. While some of those solutions have been viewed as radical, particularly considering his predecessor…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Welcome to the Great Baseball Skills Competition, a week-long breakdown and ranking of baseball’s elite and unique talents. Each of the next four days, we’ll take an aspect of the game and profile the players who best demonstrate specific skills, such as hitting a fastball, snapping off a nasty breaking ball, dashing around the bases or taking away a home run. Which…

With an official MLB license under its uniform belt, R.B.I. Baseball 17 offers more than 1,000 real-life players and all 30 stadiums. R.B.I Baseball is back in 2017 — and it’s more licensed than ever. Compared to the original games from the NES and SNES era, today’s versions are much more affiliated. With an official Major League Baseball license under its belt, R.B.I. Baseball 17 comes with players, stadiums and teams taken straight from the real…

Vanderbilt’s Kyle Wright offers more projection than other college arms due to his body and clean arm (Photo by Cliff Welch) SEE ALSO: College Preview IndexEvery year Baseball America surveys scouting directors and national crosscheckers asking them to vote on our Preseason College All-America team. This year 17 of the 30 teams participated, giving a solid cross-section of how scouts view the college talent heading into the 2017 season. As…

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Jack Graney chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research will hold its winter meeting Saturday, Feb. 4. The SABR meeting, open to the public, is at the Baseball Heritage Museum visitors center at League Park, 6601 Lexington Ave., Cleveland. Cost is $5. Itinerary 9-9:30 a.m. – Introductions. 9:30-10 a.m. – “Memorable moments from League Park,” Joe Gazzo. 10-10:30 – Jeremy Feador, the Cleveland Indians curator, will speak…

R.B.I. Baseball, the only baseball game licensed by Major League Baseball on the Xbox One, is back for a fourth season. National League Rookie of the Year Corey Seager of the Los Angeles Dodgers was declared the cover star, though it isn’t clear if the game will have a physical disc launch. R.B.I. Baseball 17 will feature all 30 MLB clubs and the full membership of the Major League Baseball…

A Catholic bishop in New Jersey was slightly injured during a memorial Mass for a revered Hall of Fame baseball player when a crazed man in a white robe walked up to the altar and punched him in the mouth. The attack Saturday caught the 63-year-old Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, completely by surprise, knocking him backward until he fell on the…

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The 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame election has come and gone. To be elected, a candidate must be named at least 75 percent of the ballots cast. This year, the members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, who do the voting, cast 442 votes. Each ballot allows the naming of 10 players. A candidate had to appear on a total of 332 ballots to be elected.  Jeff Bagwell,…

Seattle Mariners CEO John Stanton, who leads the baseball team’s ownership group, at Safeco Field on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) John Stanton, the investor, Microsoft board member and veteran wireless executive, took over as Seattle Mariners CEO and chairman last fall after leading the group that bought a majority interest in the team from Nintendo of America. On Saturday at Safeco Field, Stanton joined Mariners president and COO Kevin Mather for…

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Brandon McIlwain has traded in one helmet for the other at South Carolina, but his experience on the football field has him excited for his experience on the baseball diamond this spring. “It was great to be on the field and it made me want to be on the field more in baseball,” McIlwain said. “It made me see how the Gamecock fans are and how the…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Brandon McIlwain has traded in one helmet for the other at South Carolina, but his experience on the football field has him excited for his experience on the baseball diamond this spring. “It was great to be on the field and it made me want to be on the field more in baseball,” McIlwain said. “It made me see how the Gamecock fans are and how the…

The LSU baseball team could not have rightly expected to be in this situation, yet here it is: donning gold jerseys three weeks before the 2017 opener were seniors Kramer Robertson, Jared Poche, Cole Freeman and junior Greg Deichmann. All four were selected in the Major League Baseball draft last June, and all four decided to return. It was an unexpected windfall for coach Paul Mainieri, who happily…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

January 28, 2017 at 5:00 am | By EMILY PYREK In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, author Bill Leonard poses at his Onalaska, Wis. home. Leonard has written books about baseball, infamous fires and his childhood neighborhood. He is currently working on a book about local homelessness. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune via AP) ONALASKA,…