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LOS ANGELES – None of their rivals have gotten worse, and plenty of them have gotten better. That’s how it looks, at least, halfway through the offseason in both the Angels and Dodgers’ divisions, with most of the league-wide improvement seemingly concentrated within one region. “It’s like the Gold Rush all over again,” Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss said at this month’s Winter Meetings. “Everyone’s going…

As a Techdirt reader, the business of professional baseball is not required reading. That said, for many reasons, the baseball business aligns nicely with many of the topics we discuss here, and baseball in general is probably the math-iest of sports. That’s why it seems necessary to push back on this Chicken Little piece at the Wall Street Journal, which claims that the laughably large baseball contracts players are signing…

0 Shares print It’s a new dawn of the sport in Cuba when Major League Baseball’s current stars, even some who fled the island nation years ago, step into the outfield. It happened recently and ESPN’s Marly Rivera was there to experience and document it first-hand. Now she’s back on the Max y Marly podcast to share her experience. “It was amazing,” Rivera said of her trip. .@ClaytonKersh22 les muestra…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

This week in baseball history featured arguably the worst trade in baseball history and the beginning of free agency in Major League Baseball. December 26, 1919: On this date, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees agreed in principle to a trade that would send star pitcher George Herman “Babe” Ruth to the Yankees in exchange for $100,000 and a $300,000 loan for the reconstruction of Fenway Park In…

As I’ve done in the past when revealing my ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, I’ll begin with my email address: sbuckley@bostonherald.com. That’s not bravado. That’s a genuine interest in wanting to know your opinions, for the simple reason that it was an impassioned email from a reader, several years back, that inspired me to dig a little deeper . . . and then add Jack Morris to my ballot. Morris…

As a Techdirt reader, the business of professional baseball is not required reading. That said, for many reasons, the baseball business aligns nicely with many of the topics we discuss here, and baseball in general is probably the math-iest of sports. That’s why it seems necessary to push back on this Chicken Little piece at the Wall Street Journal, which claims that the laughably large baseball contracts players are signing…

The other day Donald Trump used the term “schlonged” to describe Hillary Clinton’s defeat to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. Because we now live in Insane Land, this possibly off-color/possibly Yiddish/possibly insider slang caused much more controversy than, say, Trump praising the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and his other arguably fascist policy proposals. Propose laws which would make an entire religious minority literal second class citizens?…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

0 Shares print It’s a new dawn of the sport in Cuba when Major League Baseball’s current stars, even some who fled the island nation years ago, step into the outfield. It happened recently and ESPN’s Marly Rivera was there to experience and document it first-hand. Now she’s back on the Max y Marly podcast to share her experience. “It was amazing,” Rivera said of her trip. .@ClaytonKersh22 les muestra…

Free agency is a fact of life in baseball, but it’s a relatively recent fact of life in the context of the game’s 150-year professional history. Indeed, it began only 40 years ago today when baseball arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled, in a landmark decision, that pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally were free agents. There were precursors, of course. Precursors which muddy the history in the minds of many. Curt…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

Practice squad players are important to every NFL team. Every franchise can have up to 10 players on their practice squad to do just that: practice. The players come to work every day and are there with the 53 players on the active roster, whether it’s in the weight room, in the locker room, or on the field, where they play a major role in preparations for that week’s opponent by…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

The World Series will have new voices in 2016. Fox confirmed on Tuesday that Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci (who is a senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated) will no longer serve as the lead analysts on its baseball broadcast package, which includes the All-Star Game MLB postseason and World Series. The new team will consist of longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz. Andy…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — At the end of the day a frustrated Ron Rivera didn’t have a choice whether Carolina players could continue to bring baseball bats on the field before games. The NFL made sure Tuesday that Rivera and other coaches were clear on the rules. League spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email to The Associated Press that the NFL sent a memo all 32 teams reminding them that…

Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman and at least one team official reportedly taunted star New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. during pregame warm-ups Sunday by swinging baseball bats and making comments toward him, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Jay Glazer of FoxSports.com shared a video on Instagram showing Norman wielding one of the bats: Video: One of reasons sources say OBJ went ballistic was threat from Panthers player…

Things are quiet in Baseball. But we still find stuff in spite of all that. If I can find a bargain or two when nobody is looking, why can’t Eppler. Enjoy some National Date Nut Bread Day (some yeast-based religions recognize this holiday on September 8th) Links: ______________________________ Everywhere In Baseball Holly Dazed: Baseball gets into the spirit of hte season! On the West Coast we…

Jaden Ellett always had a way of making an impact on a game for Wayne’s baseball team. Whether it was at the plate, on the bases or with the glove, the senior could usually be counted on to deliver for the Badgers. That was never more evident than in the 1A championship game in October. When the leadoff hitter stepped to the plate in the top of the first inning,…