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As the USA Collegiate National Team and Cuba’s national team prepared to continue a series of “friendly” games Saturday night at Charlotte’s BB&T Ballpark, the Cubans were suddenly without two star players who defected while the teams played in North Carolina. The series began last week at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, with the second and third games played at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham. At…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for July 5 2015 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 65 Danny Salazar R @Pit 7-3 3.80 1.16 1-1 4.86 1.20 64 Gerrit Cole R Cle 11-3 2.20 1.14 2-1 3.70 1.27 63 Lance Lynn R SD 5-4 2.74 1.27 1-0 0.75 1.08 63 Cole Hamels L @Atl 5-6 3.22 1.15 0-1 3.32 1.16 55 Jordan…

Among the first reasons Phillies part-owner John Middleton provided for the organization’s selection of Andy MacPhail as its next president was his track record. In the eyes of Middleton and partners Jim and Pete Buck, the “ideal candidate” to succeed Pat Gillick after the season would be someone who had won World Series championships. He would have rebuilt several teams and led them to the playoffs….

As the USA Collegiate National Team and Cuba’s national team prepared to continue a series of “friendly” games Saturday night at Charlotte’s BB&T Ballpark, the Cubans were suddenly without two star players who defected while the teams played in North Carolina. The series began last week at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, with the second and third games played at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham. At…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Welcome to the night-game version of the free late DFS MLB Playbook for Saturday, July 4, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It’s a great place to start your MLB DFS research for the day, but there’s…

By Garrett Wilson Are the Angels now the worst organization in baseball? It seems almost impossible that any franchise could ever step to the Marlins and dare displace them atop the dysfunction power rankings. Yet somehow in the last six months and culminating in the resignation of Jerry Dipoto, Arte Moreno and company have shown the world that when it comes to reprehensible behavior, they go to 11. To be…

You’ll recall that Yankees DH Alex Rodriguez homered off Justin Verlander on June 19 and in doing so recorded the 3,000th hit of his career. You’ll also recall that said home run ball was retrieved by an enterprising sort named Zack Hample, who actually wrote a book on catching home run balls and foul balls. That, of course, brought us to this … Here’s A-Rod’s 3,000th hit/ball. Told the @Yankees…

More on this Big inning lifts Cuba past USA, 5-1 07/02: Team USA blanks Cuba again, 2-0 07/01: Team USA no-hits Cuba in 2-0 win 06/30: Medlin: USA-Cuba series mirrors world events Duke’s Clark, NCSU’s DeJuneas added to Team USA roster 06/30: Seiler: Sports can be a bridge between countries Durham, N.C. — Ahead of Friday night’s game between the USA Collegiate National Team and the Cuban Senior National Team…

You’ll recall that Yankees DH Alex Rodriguez homered off Justin Verlander on June 19 and in doing so recorded the 3,000th hit of his career. You’ll also recall that said home run ball was retrieved by an enterprising sort named Zack Hample, who actually wrote a book on catching home run balls and foul balls. That, of course, brought us to this … Here’s A-Rod’s 3,000th hit/ball. Told the @Yankees…

When Derek Jeter retired last year, the pundits puzzled over who would be the next “Face of Baseball.” Jeter was the guy on the Wheaties box, after all. And more broadly, Jeter’s retirement seemed to close one era of baseball and open another. Without an elder statesman, the game belonged to the kids. But would there be enough excellent, prodigious young players to replace Jeter’s cohort? We already have an…

Two Cuban baseball players have defected while in the United States for a series of games against U.S. collegians, the island’s official sports media confirmed. Third baseman Luis Yander La O left the team in North Carolina, where the Cuban team has been playing tuneups ahead of the Pan American Games in Toronto, according to a Friday report by the sports website Jit — a phonetic rendering of “hit” in…

1904 — The Philadelphia Phillies snapped the New York Giants’ 18-game winning streak with a 6-5 10-inning victory. 1935 — Tony Cuccinello of the Dodgers and his brother Al — for the Giants — each hit home runs in the same game to mark the first time in major league history that brothers on opposing teams connected for homers. Brooklyn beat New York 14-4. 1937 — Hal Trosky hit three…

Getty Images On Monday night, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show, where he dropped an “F” bomb and talked about “grabbing my ding-ding.” (And he also grabbed his ding-ding several times.) On Thursday night, teammate Russell Wilson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. While there was no “ding-ding” talk, Wilson stepped way out of his carefully-manicured character by using a word that had to be bleeped. “I’ve…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for July 3 2015 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 79 Clayton Kershaw L NYM 5-6 3.20 1.04 0-3 2.70 0.98 67* Chris Archer R @NYY 9-5 2.31 0.95 2-1 3.81 0.96 67 Masahiro Tanaka R TB 4-3 3.88 1.11 1-2 5.25 1.46 61 Jesse Chavez R Sea 4-7 3.02 1.16 2-1 4.38 1.26 60 Michael…

There are, officially, only two confirmed selling teams as the calendar hit July, the very two who started the year as sellers – yes, the Phillies and Braves. But there are at least 10 more teams with the potential to sell, which could blow the trade market wide open, turning it quickly from a seller’s market into a buyer’s market. Some of those other 10 clubs could of course still…

Last week, women from around SB Nation participated in a roundtable discussion on Melissa Mayeux, and the possibility of a woman playing in Major League Baseball. With the news breaking earlier that day that Mayeux would be the first woman to appear on the international registration list, wonder did not take long to give way to some of the more plausible realities. Mayeux is a long shot to be signed this…

Members of a prominent Gwinnett County high school baseball team who may have been physically or sexually abused by teammates on a team trip in South Carolina have declined to press charges, police said Thursday. Gwinnett officials received an email tip last month that “contained an allegation of sexual assault” by some players on Parkview High School’s team during a trip to North Charleston. Police in that city began an…

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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Just in case the teasing Odell Beckham takes about his minor injuries becomes too much, there’s always an escape to another sport. The Giants‘ megastar, who could probably be a striker on the men’s national soccer team, our lead heavyweight power lifter in the next Olympics and democratic presidential hopeful in 2016, has also received an offer to play professional baseball. That’s right….