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Two fans ignore the rain delay and celebrate atop the Minnesota Twins dugout during a rain delay in a baseball game against the Houston Astros Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 in Minneapolis. The Houston-Minnesota game was postponed Wednesday by persistent rain that started in the third inning and was forecast to last throughout the night. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) In a few years from now, we’ll fondly recall the days when people…

BOSTON – It’s only natural to assume Tim Tebow’s quest to play professional baseball is little more than a publicity stunt, but the former major-leaguer training the Heisman Trophy winner believes his protégé can make a successful transition to a new sport. Chad Moeller, a former Yankees catcher who played for seven teams during an 11-year big-league career, has been working with Tebow since late-May, helping the former…

BOSTON – It’s only natural to assume Tim Tebow’s quest to play professional baseball is little more than a publicity stunt, but the former major-leaguer training the Heisman Trophy winner believes his protégé can make a successful transition to a new sport. Chad Moeller, a former Yankees catcher who played for seven teams during an 11-year big-league career, has been working with Tebow since late-May, helping the former…

Maybe Tim Tebow’s attempt at playing professional baseball isn’t a Hail Mary after all. While Tebow hasn’t played competitive baseball since high school, current Gulf Coast League Red Sox manager and scout Tom Kotchman witnessed a moment not too long ago that gives him reason to believe the former Jets quarterback could play professional baseball. “The lone time I personally saw Tebow on a baseball field was when he threw…

Former Heisman Trophy winner and either subpar or blackballed NFL quarterback — depending upon who you ask — Tim Tebow would like to make a career of being a Major League Baseball player. (Pause for laughter.) As is bound to be the case when anything happens regarding the Tebow lightning rod, there was some completely and utterly dumb stuff being said on the internet on Tuesday. Let’s run through the…

One year after its shares began a 12% slide driven by concerns over ESPN’s growth trajectory, Walt Disney Co. has come up with an answer for Wall Street: The media giant said Tuesday it will spend $1 billion to acquire a 33% stake in BAMTech, the streaming media unit created by Major League Baseball. As part of the deal, ESPN will later this year launch a new digital service, separate…

Rangers DH Prince Fielder recently underwent major neck surgery for the second time in his career. At the very least, Fielder will miss the remainder of the 2016 season, but now comes this from Fox’s Ken Rosenthal: Sources have confirmed to multiple Rangers writers that Fielder is indeed done. The Rangers will reportedly be able to get some financial relief from insurance, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning…

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Rangers DH Prince Fielder recently underwent major neck surgery for the second time in his career. At the very least, Fielder will miss the remainder of the 2016 season, but now comes this from Fox’s Ken Rosenthal: Sources have confirmed to multiple Rangers writers that Fielder is indeed done. The Rangers will reportedly be able to get some financial relief from insurance, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning…

Tebow throws during a workout in July 2015.(Photo: Gary A. Vasquez, USA TODAY Sports) Tim Tebow is serious about his professional sports rebirth as a baseball player and his representatives said the former NFL quarterback’s workout for major league scouts won’t be a sideshow. Tebow has trained for the last several months in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Los Angeles at a sport he hasn’t played regularly for more than a decade. Tebow has…

An upcoming Fox drama about the first woman to play Major League Baseball is not merely about baseball, said its co-creator and co-executive producer, Dan Fogelman. “It’s a show that takes place in the world of baseball,” he said, “It’s about this young woman coming of age with the lens of the world watching her.” Fogelman doesn’t believe the series is based in folklore either, but more a…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

On Sunday morning, the New York Yankees announced that Alex Rodriguez would play his final game for them this Friday. The 22-year veteran infielder and designated hitter departs with a star-crossed legacy. Rodriguez was amongst the top 10 professional athletes, in terms of pure talent, of the past two decades. Yet none invited more scorn throughout the better half of their careers—not even Tiger Woods. As the 14-time All-Star takes…

Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN broadcaster Tim Tebow is actively pursuing a career in professional baseball and plans to hold a workout for Major League Baseball teams later this month, according to his agents Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan. For almost the past year, Tebow has been training in Arizona and Los Angeles to hone his play as a professional batter and outfielder in a sport he has not…

It may be set in the world of baseball, but Fox’s new fall drama Pitch is not a baseball show. Pitch follows a young female pitcher (Kylie Bunbury) who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. “It’s a show about a young woman coming of age,” executive producer Dan Fogelman told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s press tour on Monday. “It’s…

It turns out the big baseball stars in Wichita for the National Baseball Congress tournament aren’t the only celebrities hanging out at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. A few of their non-athlete celebrity friends have been showing up, too. On Saturday night, “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson was all over the field, throwing out the first pitch clowning around with buddy Adam LaRoche, one of the organizers of an All Star team of…

For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

It may be set in the world of baseball, but Fox’s new fall drama Pitch is not a baseball show. Pitch follows a young female pitcher (Kylie Bunbury) who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. “It’s a show about a young woman coming of age,” executive producer Dan Fogelman told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s press tour on Monday. “It’s…

By Sam McPherson As the Major League Baseball season moves into its final stages this month and next, all teams are making lineup adjustments after the non-waiver trade deadline. After all, with all the trade activity that went down at the last minute on August 1, pretty much every team had to shuffle its lineup last week to either accommodate new players—or replace traded players. That’s just the nature of…