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Buy Photo Paul White, a retired long-time USA TODAY baseball writer and the founding editor of USA TODAY Baseball Weekly, shared his thoughts on various ballplayers at the Martin Library’s annual fantasy baseball program on Saturday.(Photo: Gary Haber, York Daily Record)Buy Photo They came seeking wisdom. They carried notebooks, too, ready to scribble down the one overlooked piece of information or obscure statistic that would give them an edge over the competition….

It has only been a year since major league baseball started putting all those fancy Statcast cameras up in our ballparks. Ever since then we have been treated, now and then, to a taste of “the future” in the form of how fast such and such can run or how hard such and such can hit the ball. Now that guys in suits have a full season worth of data…

5:22 PM ET print Seamheads sure are looking forward to Sunday’s big game … by which we mean the thrilling conclusion of the Caribbean Series. Later in the day, however, it’s conceivable that some of those baseball fans might also check out Super Bowl 50. So, in that spirit of cross-sport connectivity, let’s take a look back at a few of the more memorable baseball players to make a go…

Keith Holcombe’s in for a busy spring. Two years after playing his last baseball game at nearby Hillcrest High School, the Alabama linebacker is back on the ball field. It was time to give baseball another try, this time at the collegiate level. Alabama baseball coach Mitch Gaspard spoke highly of Holcombe, a 37th-round MLB draft pick in 2014. It’ll make for a tricky few weeks when spring football practice…

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Robby Howard’s return to baseball didn’t happen without some rigorous tugging at his heartstrings. That’s why he’s offering no guarantees for a lengthy second stint as South-Doyle High School coach. Howard, who coached the program for 28 years before retiring in 2008, formally was hired back to the post on Thursday,…

Robby Howard’s return to baseball didn’t happen without some rigorous tugging at his heartstrings. That’s why he’s offering no guarantees for a lengthy second stint as South-Doyle High School coach. Howard, who coached the program for 28 years before retiring in 2008, formally was hired back to the post on Thursday,…

Tommy Morrell has coached football. He’s coached basketball. Until now, however, he’s never coached baseball. Morrell is the new Grace Baptist diamond coach and the only stipulation he had for taking the job was for the school’s administration to get a baseball-minded person to help him. “They sure did that,” Morrell said Thursday. The person who will be Morrell’s right-hand man is former big league…

Gophers football coach Tracy Claeys and his staff did a tremendous job of not only holding onto key recruits, but bringing in some big names late in the recruiting period to secure what Rivals.com called the 50th-best recruiting class in the nation. One recruit looking to follow in the steps of former Gophers great Eric Decker is Drew Hmielewski, the wide receiver and defensive back from Marshall (Minn.) High, who…

It is time to wrap up our 2016 position rankings (previous rankings: C | 1B | 2B |SS | 3B | LF | CF | RF | DH | SP) with the guys pitching at the end of the game, the relievers. As was the case with previous rankings, let’s keep these things in mind: 1. We are ranking the players based upon which ones we’d most want to have…

View gallery . (1991 Score Dream Team Jose Canseco ) If you love baseball like we do, one thing is assured: At some point in your life, you owned baseball cards. Opening your first pack of cards is a rite of passage for fans. Maybe you saved up your allowance in order to buy your first pack, maybe your mom bought them for you after you brought home a strong…

AUGUSTA, Maine — Momentum to bring pitch-count restrictions to Maine high school baseball is growing. The baseball committee of the Maine Principals’ Association discussed the use of pitch counts during its winter meeting Tuesday, and while nothing will change for the 2016 season, all signs indicate that adoption of the practice statewide is inevitable at all levels of high school baseball. “It’s something that’s being talked about a lot nationally,”…

We’ve made our way through the position player and DH rankings (previous rankings: C | 1B | 2B |SS | 3B | LF | CF | RF | DH), and now it’s time to give the starting pitchers their due. As was the case with previous rankings, let’s keep these things in mind: 1. We are ranking the players based upon which ones we’d most want to have for the…

This is a study in contrast. Earlier this month, MLB.com released top-10 prospects for each position. The Giants had one entrant, Class-A catcher Aramis Garcia. He was 10th. If you want a thumbnail sketch about the state of the Giants’ farm system, that will do nicely. There’s a little depth, but there aren’t a lot of elite talents. However, those lists are culled from a pool that includes every…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – For the third time in five seasons, the Missouri State baseball squad has been tabbed the Missouri Valley Conference favorite by the league’s coaches in their annual preseason poll, which was announced Wednesday (Feb. 3). Three Bears were selected for the Valley’s preseason all-conference squad, including returning All-Americans Jake Burger and Bryan Young, as well as three-year starter Spencer Johnson. The defending Valley champs of head coach Keith…