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By Dan Jenkins@DanTJenkins Sometimes it’s hard to sift through the internet and find inspiring things in today’s world, but every now and then there’s a story that captures people’s hearts. This video from over the weekend shows how rewarding having children can truly be. A dad from Oakland, California pretends like he completely forgot about his son’s birthday as they head off to the boy’s little league baseball game. The boy…

Two players who began their careers at opposite ends of the spectrum nearly three decades ago ended up in the same place on Sunday — with their names etched on plaques at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, the culmination of their long journeys was tinged with tears all around. “I stand up here humbled and overwhelmed,” Griffey said, staring out at…

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,…

Few things in baseball make me more uncomfortable as a television viewer than when a pitcher is making his Major League debut and the camera is trained on his parents. It’s not as big a deal when a hitter plays in his first big league game, because if he strikes out, hey, strikeouts happen all the time — get back out there, rook. But when a pitcher takes the mound,…

As we surge toward the Major League Baseball non-waiver trade deadline (Aug. 1 this year), we’ll continue to hear all about which players might be traded. For fun, because that’s what we’re all about here, let’s go in the opposite direction and check out some of the most untradeable players in baseball. Caveats? We have caveats. Bad players with low contracts won’t make the cut Those type of players aren’t…

Staring out at their families and tens of thousands of fans who hung on every word, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame in a ceremony tinged with tears all around. “I stand up here humbled and overwhelmed,” Griffey said. “I can’t describe how it feels.” The two became a piece of history on their special day. Griffey, the first pick of…

ANALYSIS/OPINION: ESPN gave its kiddie corps in Bristol a summer project: Come up with the list of 100 greatest baseball players of all time. They got out their glue sticks and crayons and came up with a roster that includes Bryce Harper as one of the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. That may make baseball fun again for the kids, but Harper hasn’t done enough to be remotely…

Mike Piazza applauds during an awards ceremony at Doubleday Field on Saturday, July 23, 2016, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. are to be inducted Sunday. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)(Photo: AP) COOPERSTOWN – Staring out at their families and tens of thousands of fans who hung on every word, Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. were inducted Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame in a ceremony tinged with tears…

Claim: A woman who grabbed a baseball away from a child at an Astros game was identified as child psychologist Grennele Brashkowitz. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2016] A video from more than five years ago is making the rounds again showing a woman grab a baseball from a little girl at a game in Houston from 2011. What is difficult to verify are the supposed follow up stories…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Two players who began their careers at opposite ends of the spectrum nearly three decades ago ended up in the same place on Sunday — with their names etched on plaques at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, the culmination of their long journeys was tinged with tears all around. “I stand up here humbled…

Welcome to Sunday’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to Sunday’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. Five Things to Watch: 1. Here are the three highest projected over/unders, provided by OddsShark… ATL-COL 12 ARI-CIN 10 MIN-BOS 10 2. Weather: We should be all clear for Sunday. 3. You down with…

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Terry Ryan was drafted by the Twins, pitched in their minor league system for four seasons and haunted ballparks as a scout for several years before moving into their front office. When his 18 seasons as general manager concluded with his firing Monday, these were a few of his peers. See if you can spot any differences: • Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi grew up in the Philippines, studied economics at MIT…

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has again revamped its veterans’ committees, attempting to increase consideration for more contemporary players, managers, umpires and executives. Under the change announced Saturday by the Hall’s board of directors, there will be separate committees for Today’s Game (1988-2016), Modern Baseball (1970-87), Golden Days (1950-69) and Early Baseball (1871-1949). Today’s Game and Modern Baseball will vote twice every five years, Golden Days once every…

In this Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, Ken Griffey Jr., left, poses for a photograph with Mike Piazza at a press conference announcing they are both elected into the 2016 National Baseball Hall of Fame, in New York.(Photo: Kathy Willens, Associated Press) Cooperstown, N.Y. — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has again revamped its veterans’ committees attempting to increase consideration for more contemporary players, manager’s umpires and executives. Under the change…

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has again revamped its veterans’ committees, attempting to increase consideration for more contemporary players, managers, umpires and executives.

Outfielder Ken Griffey and catcher Mike Piazza will be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday, July 24, 2016. Here’s what you need to know: What: 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Where: Clark Baseball Center, Cooperstown, N.Y. When: Sunday, July 24, 2016 Time: 1:30 p.m. Eastern TV: MLB Network Livestream: www.baseballhall.org Piazza will enter as a Met A former Mets great, Piazza, who was in his fourth year…

Welcome to Sunday’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to Sunday’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. Five Things to Watch: 1. Here are the three highest projected over/unders, provided by OddsShark… ATL-COL 12 MIN-BOS 9.5 ARI-CIN 9.5 2. Weather: Pittsburgh and Miami both have strong chances of thunderstorms, but we…

To paraphrase Walter Matthau on poker, it seems baseball card collecting combines all the worst aspects of capitalism (and investing) that have made our country so great. Well, maybe not all of them. After all, no baseball card company, that I know of, ever fabricated the statistics of a player to make his card more valuable, as Enron and others have done and will do with their…