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With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…

The kid is cursed, or so the story goes. Mike Trout’s talent is being wasted by the Angels, yada, yada, yada. It’s an accurate description of what’s happened to the best player in baseball over the last couple of seasons, except here we are in mid-July, two weeks from the nonwaiver trade deadline and the Angels are somehow within arm’s reach of a place in the postseason. This after 46…

In April, Major League Baseball celebrated the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking its color barrier. The milestone came the same week a report was issued showing the percentage of African-American players in the majors on Opening Day was at an all-time low. The Racial and Gender Report Card for Major League Baseball is an annual study conducted by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport headed by Dr….

In April, Major League Baseball celebrated the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking its color barrier. The milestone came the same week a report was issued showing the percentage of African-American players in the majors on Opening Day was at an all-time low. The Racial and Gender Report Card for Major League Baseball is an annual study conducted by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport headed by Dr….

In April, Major League Baseball celebrated the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking its color barrier. The milestone came the same week a report was issued showing the percentage of African-American players in the majors on Opening Day was at an all-time low. The Racial and Gender Report Card for Major League Baseball is an annual study conducted by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport headed by Dr….

“You are Baseball Czar and have the power to change any one thing on the field or off. What would you do?” Sandy Alderson, Mets GM “I would require a pitcher to throw to three hitters. One, it would speed up the game. Two, and more important, it would change the dynamics of the game in the late innings. Today, we have too few lead changes late in games, in…

With 22 Class A games under his belt, how do Tim Tebow’s minor league numbers stack up against other cross-sport stars like Michael Jordan and Russell Wilson?  Welcome to Baseball Week. As training camp approaches and baseball takes a break for its mid-summer classic, The MMQB presents a week of stories on the crossover between hardball and football. Deion Sanders is dancing. Not down the sideline, balletically high-stepping…

As Major League Baseball emerges from the All-Star break,the finish line is starting to come into view. The four-day break affords a chance to reset starting rotations, and in places such as Washington, Los Angeles and Houston, it isn’t too early to start counting in five-day chunks to line up your Game 1 starter. Elsewhere, the wild-card standings become an essential part of each morning. The next few weeks will…

At the 2017 MLB Amateur Draft, the Hawkeyes had four guys drafted from what turned out to be one of their best and most exciting teams in a long time. With the addition of Jake Adams, Mason McCoy, Ryan Erickson, and Nick Gallagher to the squad of former Iowa players in the minors, the Hawkeyes now have thirteen players trying to work their way to the show. At about the…

I must confess, I missed the great exodus of baseball fans. I must have mistaken as an illusion all those heads I see buried every single night during the summer, scouring scores, firing up the MLB package to watch games on their cell phones that aren’t being shown on the saloon TV. I must have missed all those empty seats at the ballpa … Wait, what’s that you say? There…

I must confess, I missed the great exodus of baseball fans. I must have mistaken as an illusion all those heads I see buried every single night during the summer, scouring scores, firing up the MLB package to watch games on their cell phones that aren’t being shown on the saloon TV. I must have missed all those empty seats at the ballpa … Wait, what’s that you say? There…

I must confess, I missed the great exodus of baseball fans. I must have mistaken as an illusion all those heads I see buried every single night during the summer, scouring scores, firing up the MLB package to watch games on their cell phones that aren’t being shown on the saloon TV. I must have missed all those empty seats at the ballpa … Wait, what’s that you say? There…

I must confess, I missed the great exodus of baseball fans. I must have mistaken as an illusion all those heads I see buried every single night during the summer, scouring scores, firing up the MLB package to watch games on their cell phones that aren’t being shown on the saloon TV. I must have missed all those empty seats at the ballpa … Wait, what’s that you say? There…

See more of the story We’re not going to get into an argument over whether baseball is “in trouble.” That’s an old discussion and the answer can be framed in so many ways. The position here is that baseball is doing just fine. But like almost everything that’s doing just fine, baseball could be better. One of the issues addressed by commissioner Rob Manfred over the All-Star Game break was…

Rays outfielder Colby Rasmus was on the disabled list with a hip injury heading into the All-Star break, but now he might miss the rest of the season with what sounds like an unrelated matter.  The Rays released a statement:  Rays Tampa Bay Times beat writer Marc Topkin further reports that Rasmus isn’t expected to return to the team this season. On the field, he was having a productive offensive…

Most recent American political coverage is centered on the lack of bipartisan cooperation. Partisanship and political animosity are at all-time high since 1992, according to a 2016 Pew Research Center study. On June 14, 2017, the shooting perpetrated by James Hodgkinson at a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Virginia, was the ultimate manifestation of partisan extremism. This tragedy occurred at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game, putting conservative Louisiana Rep….

“Nobody will ever outwork us,” he said. “One of my heroes in coaching is Woody Hayes, and Woody always said, ‘Nobody will outwork me.’ Well, I never got to meet Woody, but if I’d have met him, I’d have told him, ‘I’ll outwork you.’

There is still no baseball today, but that just gives us another chance to talk about how great baseball is — and how to keep it that way.  Let’s get this straight before we go too far: Baseball is not dying.  That’s a silly, dumb, lazy narrative that gets too much play from people who should know…

When Rob Manfred became Major League Baseball commissioner in August 2014, he didn’t just talk about focusing on youth participation. He put his words into action, investing money and time in several initiatives to increase the number of kids playing the sport. Three years later, the numbers aren’t necessarily booming, but leaders in youth baseball are optimistic about the strides being made, and pointed to the Commissioner’s Office as a…