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x Embed x Share The Fond du Lac Baseball Club announced their new team nickname on Nov. 21. The Dock Spiders beat a variety of other suggestions, and more than 1,000 people voted. Taima Kern/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Buy Photo Students at Faith Lutheran School pose for a picture after the event announcing the name of the Fond du Lac Northwoods League franchise team. The Dock Spiders will start playing at…

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2016) – ETSU baseball head coach Tony Skole and his staff announced on Monday that seven future Buccaneers have signed their national letter of intent to join the Blue and Gold in the fall of 2017. David Beam (Knoxville, Tenn.), Parker Chavers (Montgomery, Ala.), Justin Cooke (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.), Ben Jackson (Guyton, Ga.), Sean Kearney (Powell, Tenn.) Brandon Parrott (Seymour, Tenn.), and Nathan Ruble (Memphis,…

Monday morning, the Baseball Writers Association of America released the official 2017 Hall of Fame ballot. The 34-player ballot includes 15 holdovers from last year and 19 newcomers. Here are the 15 holdovers on this year’s ballot, as well as their voting results from a year ago. The players are listed alphabetically. McGriff, Raines, and Smith are all on the ballot for the final time. Players used to remain on…

Robert Elwood, left, and Brendan V. Sullivan III are engaged in a legal battle over Headfirst Baseball. This photo of them was entered into evidence. Brendan V. Sullivan III and Robert Elwood sat across from each other last week in a federal courtroom, separated by the distance at which they played catch as Little League teammates. Now the two men — sons of prominent families in the nation’s capital —…

x Embed x Share 5 Angels Memorial Soccer Tournament head chair Margaret Sheridan discusses the importance of the tournament and how it has grown. Matt Allibone Buy Photo Carroll Granger of Hanover has run Morning League Instructional Baseball for children in Hanover for the past 43 years. Granger calls his efforts a ‘labor of love.’(Photo: Harrison Jones, For The Evening Sun)Buy Photo Carroll Granger has always had a message for…

AP FILE – In this Sept. 18, 2016, file photo, New York Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes swings for a double as John Ryan Murphy catches for the Minnesota Twins in the third inning of a baseball game, in New York. The price of qualifying offers for Major League Baseball free agents will be $17.2 million this year. The figure, announced Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, is up 8.9 percent from $15.8 million…

Robert Elwood, left, and Brendan V. Sullivan III are engaged in a legal battle over Headfirst Baseball. This photo of them was entered into evidence. Brendan V. Sullivan III and Robert Elwood sat across from each other last week in a federal courtroom, separated by the distance at which they played catch as Little League teammates. Now the two men — sons of prominent families in the nation’s capital —…

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This week in baseball blogs: Wayniac Nation regards the Yankees-Astros trade involving catcher/designated hitter Brian McCann as a win-win. Outside Pitch MLB opines that the Braves are not yet in position to trade a haul for an ace. BP Toronto thanks free agent Jose Bautista for his Blue Jays tenure, while Baseball Docs ponders where he’ll sign this offseason. Clubhouse Corner’s Bernie Pleskoff scouts the Arizona Fall League’s best prospects….

If this list is any indication, second base is going through an identity crisis. Right now in the majors, it’s replete with middle-of-the-order bats, but so many of the next wave is more in the Mark Grudzielanek mold. First base prospects Top catcher prospects Rotisserie mock draft Head-to-Head mock Um, what year is this? Of course, it’s possible some of the best of that next wave aren’t even represented here….

By Bill Thomas, Correspondent WORCESTER — If you build it, they will come. Although emblematic of the popular flick “Field of Dreams,” that inspirational phrase could just as well be the watchword for Baseball Swag, a growing, web-based purveyor of lifestyle apparel inspired by the game of hardball. Baseball Swag is perhaps representative of nascent, online entrepreneurship, in that its genesis stemmed from a Twitter account…

Los Angeles Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda visited “Rams Primetime Saturday” to talk baseball and football. He said Dodgers’ outfielder Joc Pederson should stick to baseball when asked about his dip into football during a Los Angeles Rams practice session. Lasorda also talked about the difficulties that can come with managing a sports team that has rookie players and the decision to put them in starting positions. Host Rob Fukuzaki even…

Nov 19, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Some things never change. Another year of awards voting from the Baseball Writers Association of America, another year of giving fans and people inside the game reasons to complain about the process and especially about the voters, perhaps none of those complaints more epic than the one from Kate Upton, Justin Verlander fan-in-chief and spouse to be named later. While moaning…

The Red Sox will have some sort of outside help in their bullpen next season. They need it. Perhaps Brad Ziegler — technically on the outside now as a free agent — comes back and is part of the plan, at least against righties. No matter the signings ahead for president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski, right-hander Matt Barnes should have no shortage of important innings in 2017. He just…

The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America named him the National League Most Valuable Player for 2016. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America…

9:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Some things never change. Another year of awards voting from the Baseball Writers Association of America, another year of giving fans and people inside the game reasons to complain about the process and especially about the voters, perhaps none of those complaints more epic than the one from Kate Upton, Justin Verlander fan-in-chief and spouse to be named later. While moaning…

CHICAGO — Big stuff going down at baseball’s quarterly owners’ meetings at the historic Drake Hotel. There is a new collective bargaining agreement being negotiated with a Dec. 1 deadline, the game’s future in the hands of those at the table. Most folks here seemed a little antsy or curious over its completion and its details. On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, though? The Lords of the Realm pivoted to…

Buy Photo Andrew Caliendo, center, signs a letter of intent to play baseball for New Mexico Junior College on Friday at the Jerry A. Conner Fieldhouse.(Photo: Karl Schneider/The Daily Times)Buy Photo FARMINGTON — Andrew Caliendo set his baseball future in motion when the Piedra Vista senior signed a letter of intent to play for the New Mexico Junior College Thunderbirds today at the Jerry A. Conner Fieldhouse. Caliendo said there…

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BUIES CREEK, N.C.—After a search that took them to approximately 40 sites across the Carolinas, the Astros announced on Friday their agreement to have their high Class A club play at Campbell’s Jim Perry Field for the next two seasons while they wait for their new stadium in Fayetteville, N.C., to be built. The team—which will be known as the Buies Creek Astros for the next two years—is one of…