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Assuming Zack Greinke misses his start Monday night due to injury, for the first time in my daily fantasy career I selected the two highest-priced pitchers. Give me a second, I might shed a tear because this is a big deal. It’s a strategy I rarely employ because it often cripples the remaining roster. However, there’s enough value on this small-ish 10-game slate for me to still slip in a…

Randolph High School graduates Andrew Hafner (left) and Brandon Lopez are organizing a Halloween costume baseball game to raise money for a scholarship fund and the families of two Randolph students who died in a car accident in 2014.(Photo: Bob Karp/Staff photographer) RANDOLPH – A Halloween-themed baseball game fundraiser to honor two Randolph High School student athletes who died in 2014 will return next month. The second annual Verduga-Timmerman Halloween…

Baseball player from DeSoto killed in crash [  ] Hide Caption [  ] Show Caption Chandlor Allen (right) died Sunday. His brother Andferne (left) and cousin Keenan (middle) are recovering in the hospital. News Baseball player from DeSoto killed in crash A tire blowout caused a crash that killed a college baseball player from DeSoto. DALLAS – A tire blowout caused a crash that killed a college baseball player from DeSoto. Friends…

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Former professional baseball player Randy Wells has opened a baseball academy in southern Illinois and is coaching varsity baseball at a Catholic high school in Belleville. Wells was a pitcher from 2008 to 2012. He played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs. Wells tells the Belleville News-Democrat (http://bit.ly/1Jyt1G0 ) that he opened K3 Academy so that people in southern Illinoisans could have access to…

i Baseball, surfing and skateboarding could be in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, under a proposal announced by Organizing Comittee President Yoshiko Mori on Monday. Koji Sasahara/AP hide caption itoggle caption Koji Sasahara/AP Baseball, surfing and skateboarding could be in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, under a proposal announced by Organizing Comittee President Yoshiko Mori on Monday. Koji Sasahara/AP Ousted from the London 2012 Games by the International Olympic Committee, baseball and…

Sunny Golloway, right, went 10-20 against the SEC in his first season as Auburn’s coach. (Photo: ZACH BLAND/AUBURN UNIVERSITY) AUBURN –Sunny Golloway is no longer the Auburn baseball coach after school officials announced his termination with cause Sunday afternoon. Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs announced the move in a university release. “I regret to announce that earlier today I dismissed Auburn head baseball coach Sunny Golloway with cause,” Jacobs said. “My commitment will…

DETROIT – Last week of the season. Seven games to go. And the Twins are hanging around the wild-card race. They need to make a run, but they are still within range. “Hey, the chance is right there,” righthander Ervin Santana said. “We just have to take advantage of it. Every series, every game counts. We can’t worry about other teams. We have to worry about us.” The Twins on…

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — NL MVP front-runner Bryce Harper and Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon got into a dugout fight a day after Washington was eliminated from playoff contention, tangling in the eighth inning Sunday of a 12-5 loss to last-place Philadelphia. Harper flied out in the eighth with the score 4-all. As he returned to the dugout, he exchanged words with Papelbon, who was acquired from Philadelphia in July to help…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Welcome to the home of a 2015 Southern League championship finalist. Well, home for 15 games anyway. The Biloxi Shuckers, formerly the Huntsville Stars and who played a sliver of their schedule here this summer, stretched the Southern League championship series to five games before losing to Chattanooga. The Shuckers play in a tidy new stadium a block from the Gulf of Mexico. The Lookouts play in…

Winslow Townson/AP Curt Schilling’s TV suspension for comparing Muslims to Nazis on Twitter is nearing its end. LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Curt Schilling is headed back to TV for ESPN. Schilling said Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway he would return to work for the sports network as part of its baseball postseason coverage team. ESPN confirmed that Schilling would return to the studio for “Baseball Tonight”…

How about that million dollar arm! Jon Hamm stepped up to the plate for a pickup game of baseball in Los Angeles on Saturday. The actor, who finally took home the Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama last weekend, kept it casual for the game. Hamm ran the bases in a short sleeve button-down shirt, paired with brown plaid shorts. The Mad Men star protected his handsome face…

Auburn baseball coach Sunny Golloway has been fired. Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs confirmed the move via a statement Sunday morning. “I regret to announce that earlier today I dismissed Auburn head baseball coach Sunny Golloway with cause,” Jacobs said via a release. “My commitment will always be to provide the best student-athlete experience in the nation, and we will not accept anything less.” The school announced assistant coach Greg…

Inside a fourth-floor suite at Kauffman Stadium, J.J. Picollo averted his eyes from the diamond, grabbed his phone and prepared to concede defeat. He had toiled for eight seasons aiding the resurrection of the Kansas City Royals as an executive working under general manager Dayton Moore, preparing for a night like this, Sept. 30, 2014, the American League Wild Card Game. The team’s first playoff appearance since 1985 looked set…

On Sunday FanDuel is offering a full slate of 15 games to choose from. The first game begins at 1:07pm Eastern and the last one starts at 8pm Eastern so you will need to set your lineups early and please be sure and select players that you are absolutely certain will be playing on Sunday. Also please consult local weather for any possible delays or rainouts. There are some…

The project called for patience, perspective and, perhaps most of all, a deep love of baseball. The last part was what made Neftalie Williams’ presence here, next to a baseball complex in Compton, so peculiar. Williams was there to interview Don Buford, subject No. 5 out of 111 in a quixotic mission: Over the next few years, it’s Williams’ job to interview, record and catalog every living African American player…

NEW HAVEN >> Donning throwback uniforms that harkened back to the days when baseball players sported handlebar mustaches and had nicknames like The Fordham Flash and The Georgia Peach, Yale and Wesleyan played a baseball game at historic Yale Field on Saturday night. But it was more than a game. And with Fay Vincent, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball,…

The project called for patience, perspective and, perhaps most of all, a deep love of baseball. The last part was what made Neftalie Williams’ presence here, next to a baseball complex in Compton, so peculiar. Williams was there to interview Don Buford, subject No. 5 out of 111 in a quixotic mission: Over the next few years, it’s Williams’ job to interview, record and catalog every living African American player…

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Despite the preponderance of useful data and the potential for a non-savvy manager to render it useless, most MLB managers are former players. Contrast this with the NFL, NBA, and NHL, where fewer than half of all head coaches are former players. These sports, by and large, recognize that a managerial or head coaching role is too important to assign to someone whose only success came when playing….

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