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Buy Photo Adam Laskey, Haddon Heights(Photo: Kevin Minnick/Staff photographer)Buy Photo Each week, baseball beat writer Kevin Minnick will discuss a variety of topics with players from the South Jersey baseball scene. This week he spoke with Haddon Heights senior pitcher Adam Laskey. KM: What sold you on Duke University? AL: I love the coaching staff and I felt really comfortable. Once I got on the campus, I knew it was…

Once again, we find ourselves reading about the same story we were reading about a decade ago. A player, up and down on the minor league shuttle, is suddenly doing great things for a new team that’s unexpectedly winning their division. He’s putting up numbers that he’s never put up in the majors before. Somewhere, someone is whispering that he’s dirty. Is it fair? No, those first accusations aren’t…

HAVANA Cuba will uphold its ban on baseball players that defected from the Communist-ruled island from playing for the national team at international events, a top government official told Reuters, quashing speculation that changes in the rules may be afoot. Most Cubans with big league dreams leave the island illegally given that there is no deal on formal player transfers between Cuba and Major League Baseball, the organization that runs…

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9:25 AM ET print He leads the league in homers. He leads the league in stop-what-you’re-doing-and-turn-on-SportsCenter moments. And, of course, he leads the league in hair. But in other news, Bryce Harper has a war to fight. The culture war. He might not look the part. But baseball’s most magnetic player is the Gen. George S. Patton of the baseball culture war. He sees what the men around him don’t….

During a recent interview, Chauncey welcomed having his history with Harper become the main subject. His own mother even likes telling Harper stories, almost as much as talking about her son. And while he managed to avoid comparing himself to Harper as they grew up together, Chauncey tries to model his friend’s baseball mentality. “When he gets up to the batter’s box, it just feels like…

By Ira Boudway and Kate Smith | April 27, 2016 Photographs by Matt Eich From Sometime in 2003, when he was the mayor of Pearl, Miss., Jimmy Foster got a visit from a man he’d never met. The stranger, Tim Bennett, came to City Hall, an old brick schoolhouse on Pearl’s church-lined main street. “He just showed up in my office that day,” says Foster, “and started talking about baseball.”…

https://serve.castfire.com/s:5L8r1/audio/2737673/hottakedown_2016-04-26-184213.64k.mp3?ad_params=zones%3DPreroll%2CPreroll2%2CMidroll%2CMidroll2%2CMidroll3%2CMidroll4%2CMidroll5%2CMidroll6%2CPostroll%2CPostroll2%7Cstation_id%3D2786 Subscribe: iTunes | Download | RSS | Video Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (April 26, 2016), we break down how Steph Curry’s MCL strain will affect the Warriors’ chances of repeating as NBA champions. We discuss the Chicago Cubs’ lightning start to the baseball season and ask if they might turn into the Warriors of MLB. Then we talk…

Andre Ethier(Photo: Russell Gates/The Republic) Phoenix St. Mary’s has never won a state baseball championship in its long storied athletic history, but it has produced its share of players who not only got to the big leagues, but made an impact. Jim Sanford, part of St. Mary’s athletics for the better part of 60 years, from his elementary school days to high school playing days to head baseball coaching days for much…

9:25 AM ET print He leads the league in homers. He leads the league in stop-what-you’re-doing-and-turn-on-SportsCenter moments. And, of course, he leads the league in hair. But in other news, Bryce Harper has a war to fight. The culture war. He might not look the part. But baseball’s most magnetic player is the Gen. George S. Patton of the baseball culture war. He sees what the men around him don’t….

Brendan Lowery of Randolph collects used baseball equipment for donation.(Photo: Courtesy of Chris Lowery) Most of the time, Brendan Lowery is a sophomore infielder on the Randolph baseball team. Lowery is busy with his Rams teammates preparing to face Morristown-Beard in the second round of the Morris County Tournament on Saturday. But in their spare time, Brendan and his father, Chris Lowery, help underprivileged baseball players in the Dominican Republic…

Andre Ethier(Photo: Russell Gates/The Republic) Phoenix St. Mary’s has never won a state baseball championship in its long storied athletic history, but it has produced its share of players who not only got to the big leagues, but made an impact. But Jim Sanford, who has been a part of St. Mary’s athletics for the better part of 60 years, dating to his elementary school days to high school playing…

On one end of baseball evolution is the supremely talented Mike Trout, and on the other is a couple of pieces of paper from 1857 under lock and key at an auction house in Laguna Niguel. The handwritten “Laws of Base Ball” documents just sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for $3,263,246, prompting SCP Auctions Vice President Dan Imler to predict that baseball will never be…

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It’s getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative analysts in MLB front offices has multiplied to keep up, producing an army of number crunchers, modelers and decision scientists who would have seemed out of place at the ballpark even a decade ago. Because we, too, are statheads at heart, we’ve mined the data…

Welcome to today’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 today’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. 5 Things to Watch: 1. Clayton Kershaw ($13,800) is the biggest favorite on the board, and a better bet than fellow aces Max Scherzer ($12,900) and Chris Sale ($12,000). Scherzer against the Phillies…

Note: Don’t whiff on this special FanDuel offer. Win your first contest or get your money back (up to $10) to keep playing. Try FanDuel now! Madison Bumgarner owners have reason to rejoice today. By following up his eight-strikeout performance over seven two-run innings Wednesday with a nine-strikeout performance over 6 2/3 two-run innings Monday, their ace appears to be firmly back on track. Corey Kluber owners had their turn…

There is little that’s old about Major League Baseball’s old ball game once you get out to the ballparks. Heralded as a sport of grand tradition and unwritten rules, baseball went through a spate of demolition and building within the past few decades that left it with ballparks that are only about as old as Taylor Swift, on average. The…