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Aptos High and Sonoma State alum Matt Manfre was named Pajaro Valley High’s baseball coach on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. The 23-year-old is the youngest baseball coach in Santa Cruz County. Twenty-three-year-old Matt Manfre was named Pajaro Valley High’s baseball coach Friday, ending the school’s three-month search and making him the youngest head coach in Santa Cruz County….

Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch careers in Major League Baseball. The departure of Yulieski and his brother Lourdes was confirmed with remarkable swiftness by Granma, the Communist Party newspaper in Cuba that serves as an outlet for official government statements. The paper said on its website Monday morning that…

NORMAL — The Illinois State baseball team’s first outdoors action usually comes when the Redbirds head south to open their season. Pleased that unseasonably warm weather has allowed his team to play at Duffy Bass Field each of the past two weekends, second-year coach Bo Durkac believes, “I don’t think you can understate that. We were able to get out and get a lot of stuff done. It…

5:37 PM ET print Ballparks, they are a-shrinking. For the fourth time in the past five seasons, at least one ballpark has moved in its fences. Following Citi Field in 2012, Petco Park and Safeco Field in 2014, then Citi Field again in 2015, Marlins Park will feature a smaller playing field when it reopens its doors in 2016. The Miami Marlins‘ stadium endured a significant renovation to its outfield…

When a team within your division wins the World Series, there is a sense of jealousy and “why not us” seeps into the brain. Out of the 19 matchups in 2015, Kansas City only had a 10-9 edge. The Indians outscored the Royals in those games 90-78. While the division was well out of hand (13.5 game back), Cleveland finished the 2015 season only 4.5 games out of the Wild…

Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch careers in Major League Baseball. The departure of Yulieski and his brother Lourdes was confirmed with remarkable swiftness by Granma, the Communist Party newspaper in Cuba that serves as an outlet for official government statements. The paper said on its website Monday morning that…

Rutgers two-sport athlete Jawuan Harris redshirted during football season but is in the mix for outfield playing time with the baseball team.(Photo: MARK R. SULLIVAN) PISCATAWAY – If Jawuan Harris was more apprehensive than most of his Rutgers football teammates about meeting their new coach, it’s only because he had more on the line. Harris arrived at Rutgers under an agreement between former football coach Kyle Flood and baseball coach…

HOME SPORTS NFL MLB NASCAR Soccer NBA NCAA BK NHL UFC NCAA FB GOLF MOTOR RACING TENNIS WWE BOXING HORSE RACING OLYMPICS OTHER SPORTS WATCH FANTASY MORE Who — if anyone — will dethrone the Royals this season? Now that the Super Bowl is over, Americans can properly realign their sports priorities. More to the point, spring training is 10 days away….

CAMDEN — Baseball season will soon be upon us but in Camden, the former home of the minor league Riversharks remains vacant following the team’s fall 2015 departure after 15 seasons there. The organization cited issues with lease negotiations and were unable to come to an agreement with the Camden County Improvement Authority (CCIA), which has owned Campbell’s Field since spring of 2015. Camden County Freeholder Louis Cappelli said last week that…

SAN ANTONIO — UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey has asked an architect for a preliminary “schematic” design and cost estimate for a refurbished baseball facility at Roadrunner Field. Hickey said she wants to see whether it’s feasible to build a 2,500-seat stadium around the team’s current home field. “I’m hoping it’s $10 million or less, but I’m not for sure,” Hickey said.  “We’ll just have to wait and see.” Last…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

2015 5×5 Rotisserie Stats   Sleeper Outlook Carter Capps has always had closer-caliber stuff with a fastball that can touch triple digits and a biting slider, but a quirky mechanical adjustment has allowed his career to take off. Already a big guy at 6’5″, Capps hops forward off the rubber toward the hitter before releasing the ball, so his 100 mph fastball looks like it’s right on top of you when he throws it….

It seemed insignificant at the time, and the record books have all but forgotten it. But for the final inning and a half of an otherwise meaningless September baseball game, Gene Baker made history. Near the end of the 1963 season, the 8th-place Pirates traveled to play a three-game series in Los Angeles against the pennant-bound Dodgers. In the top of the eighth inning of…

Editor’s note: A.J. Richards of Iowa City grew up in Newton and dreamed of being the Chicago Cubs’ third baseman. Her early dreams of a baseball career (player, coach, umpire, or broadcaster) were met with “baseball isn’t for girls.” She works for a local non-profit serving people who have disabilities. She also volunteers with Baseball for All and plays baseball and goes to as many games as possible. She have…

It seemed insignificant at the time, and the record books have all but forgotten it. But for the final inning and a half of an otherwise meaningless September baseball game, Gene Baker made history. Near the end of the 1963 season, the 8th-place Pirates traveled to play a three-game series in Los Angeles against the pennant-bound Dodgers. In the top of the eighth inning of…

GREENVILLE, N.C. (ECU Media Relations) – East Carolina baseball fans got the chance to meet the 2016 Pirates up close and personal on Saturday at the 2016 Pirate Baseball Banquet inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. Former Pirate great and 2015 ECU Hall of Fame inductee Chad Tracy served as the keynote speaker, while WNCT-TV Sports Director Brian Bailey emceed the event. Tracy, who spent nine years playing with four…

Red Sox starting pitcher David Price has long had a reputation as one of baseball’s good guys and here’s another reason. On Thursday, he donated $300,000 to Miracle Field in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The extra-special part here is the field will be equipped to aid children with disabilities. Some details on the facility, via The Tennessean (which has the full story for those interested): The Miracle Field will include lights, scoreboard,…

It’s one thing to have seen Sandy Koufax pitching in his prime at old Connie Mack Field in West Palm Beach. It’s another to have seen Koufax, in retirement, catching a John Prine concert at the Carefree Theater. Kevin Davidoff of Palm Springs saw all of that and more, and he has reams of photographs to prove it, along with just as many stories that brought to life the days…