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Meet Lazaro Armenteros, the next Cuban baseball star – USA TODAY

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Lazaro Armenteros, 16, hopes to sign with a major league team in 2016. He poses in this photo taken Dec. 5, 2015 in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic.(Photo: Courtesy of Culture 39) Lazaro Armenteros, born and raised in Havana, Cuba, wasn’t around last week when Major League Baseball’s goodwill mission hit the island. He texts and talks all of the time to fellow Cuban Yasiel Puig, the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder,…

Venezuelan baseball player bat flips into the stratosphere following grand slam – SB Nation

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Eat your heart out, Jose Bautista. There’s a new sheriff in town. Jesús Guzmán plays for Leones del Caracas in Venezuela, and after his moonshot he decided to send his bat into space along with the ball. This bat flip is a solid 15 feet in the air, maybe more. Now we wait to see how angry Venezuelan baseball purists get. * * * Reviewing 2015:…

Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. ‘felt threatened’ by Carolina Panthers carrying … – NJ.com

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

For those of you looking for an explanation for why Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. retaliated so many times with so many cheap shots aimed at Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman, ESPN’s Adam Schefter provided one possibility. PLUS: Mike Francesa rips Beckham, Coughlin (AUDIO) The reporter posted this on his Facebook page on Monday afternoon: Does that really explain everything? That the presence of some bats and comments set off one of the…

UofL baseball preseason ranking its best ever – The Courier-Journal

Monday, December 21, 2015

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Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. ‘felt threatened’ by Carolina Panthers carrying … – NJ.com

Monday, December 21, 2015

For those of you looking for an explanation for why Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. retaliated so many times with so many cheap shots aimed at Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman, ESPN’s Adam Schefter provided one possibility. PLUS: Mike Francesa rips Beckham, Coughlin (AUDIO) The reporter posted this on his Facebook page on Monday afternoon: Does that really explain everything? That the presence of some bats and comments set off one of the…

This Week in (Dumb) Baseball: Hall candidates deserve some thought – CBSSports.com

Monday, December 21, 2015

It’s Monday on CBS Sports’ Eye on Baseball, which means it’s that time again. This Week in (Dumb) Baseball. As regular readers already know, this feature has the title, sure, but it’s mostly for fun— a fact that eludes the masses but remains the case. For example, if you tell me to “quit whining,” you are missing the point. I’m mostly chuckling to myself as I write these things (with…

The “Cuban Baseball Crisis” – NBCSports.com

Monday, December 21, 2015

The Boston Red Sox announced this afternoon that they are retiring Wade Boggs’ number 26 in a ceremony at Fenway Park on May 26, 2016. It’s kind of crazy that this is only happening now. Boggs’ decade in Boston saw him post some of the best numbers any hitter has posted in baseball history. While there he collected 2,098 hits and posted a line of .338/.428/.462. Which, we should remember, came…

Baseball Executive Paul DePodesta Joins Scripps – KPBS

Monday, December 21, 2015

Credit: Scripps Translational Science Institute Paul DePodesta, right, walks with Eric Topol, director of Scripps Translational Science Institute, in this undated photo. Scripps Health announced today that baseball data guru Paul DePodesta is joining the Scripps Translational Science Institute faculty as an assistant professor of bioinformatics. DePodesta, who will start Jan. 1 but maintain his role in the New York Mets front office, rose to fame with the use of…

Cuba baseball tour organizers see it as good start to addressing defection issues – Los Angeles Times

Sunday, December 20, 2015

The story of Yasiel Puig‘s escape from Cuba reads like a crime thriller, complete with speedboats, kidnappings, betrayal, drug kingpens and murder. So like most baseball fans, Dan Halem was appalled the first time he heard it. But unlike most fans, Halem, as Major League Baseball‘s chief legal officer, had the power to do something about it. “The trafficking issue has been very eye-opening,” he said. “It’s not transparent to…

Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Sunday, December 20, 2015

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Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Sunday, December 20, 2015

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To keep Rose out of a proudly flawed Baseball Hall is petty – SFGate

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Caption Close COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — To walk through the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s museum is to realize that the old scamp Pete Rose is already in the house. There’s his Cincinnati Reds uniform, No. 14. There’s a video of his 4,192nd hit, which broke the record of Ty Cobb. There’s a discussion of Rose’s gambling jones, replete with a smart use of social media and dueling quotes. All that’s…

Happy Holidays: Let’s open some baseball cards – CBSSports.com

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Because it is winter and there is no baseball here, this scribe is going to look at some baseball cards in lieu of looking at actual baseball. So come with us, won’t you? As was the case last time out, this trove of earthly delights was gifted to us by thinking man’s thinking man Eric Kay. Behold … Now let us explore not only the dungeons but also the dragons…

Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Sunday, December 20, 2015

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Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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Inside Baseball: Hot Stove’s mid-point winners and others; plus MLB notes – CBSSports.com

Saturday, December 19, 2015

It’s somewhat dangerous to do a winner and losers column only halfway through the winter. After all, there around 100 free agents still unsigned, so by the time spring training starts exactly two months from now, this could all be reversed. Or at least wildly different. But here goes, with one minor adjustment, rather than “losers” we’ll have non-winners. That’s only fair as there’s still plenty of time to go….

Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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Inside Baseball: Hot Stove’s mid-point winners and others; plus MLB notes – CBSSports.com

Saturday, December 19, 2015

It’s somewhat dangerous to do a winner and losers column only halfway through the winter. After all, there around 100 free agents still unsigned, so by the time spring training starts exactly two months from now, this could all be reversed. Or at least wildly different. But here goes, with one minor adjustment, rather than “losers” we’ll have non-winners. That’s only fair as there’s still plenty of time to go….

Baseball Has a New Policy on Netting, but There’s a Catch – New York Times

Saturday, December 19, 2015

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