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Ronald Acuña Jr. isn’t the one Braves star pursuing historical past in 2023. While Atlanta’s famous person outfielder is on the verge of the primary 30-homer, 60-steal marketing campaign in AL/NL historical past and will develop into the fifth member of the 40/40 membership, Matt Olson is marching his manner towards a historic season of his personal, one monstrous homer at a time. Olson went deep once more Thursday in opposition to the Pirates and is now tied with Shohei Ohtani for the MLB lead with 40 residence runs on the season. With 49 video games to play, the Atlanta native wants to achieve the seats 12 extra instances to interrupt Andruw Jones’ single-season Braves document. He wants 20 extra residence runs to develop into the seventh participant (tenth prevalence) to achieve the 60-...

Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports A big portion of each season’s prospect-related transaction exercise takes place between the draft and the commerce deadline, a window that, for the reason that draft was moved to July, spans just some weeks. We can use the best way the FanGraphs farm system rankings are calculated to trace motion throughout this era on the baseball calendar and hopefully come to extra absolutely perceive how profitable rebuilds are born. Over time, we will higher contextualize commerce and draft hauls through the use of this system to construct a historic understanding of prospect motion. Mostly although, these rankings observe the depth and influence of expertise in every farm system at a particular second in time. Or, within the case of the under hyperlinks and tab...

BOSTON — Drew Waters, MJ Melendez and Michael Massey every hit two-run residence runs and the Kansas City Royals snapped a three-game dropping streak with a 9-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night time. ...

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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Patreon supporter Samuel Giddins banter about Samuel’s baseball background and historical past with Effectively Wild, earlier than (9:52) discussing a Juan Soto quote and the kind of disappointing workforce that’s most irritating. Then (21:35) they reply listener emails about randomizing on-field choices, the legibility of participant autographs, whether or not groups ought to make use of designated huggers, whether or not veterans are extra clutch, whether or not we’re misusing the phrase “heating up,” what would occur if Shohei Ohtani requested the Angels to launch him, whether or not groups in a robo-umps world ought to alternate tall and brief hitters within the lineup, providing Ohtani an possession stake, why we use miles per hour for pitch speeds ...

MILWAUKEE — Mark Canha scored the successful run within the backside of the tenth inning on a throwing error by shortstop Ezequiel Tovar off a grounder by Andruw Monasterio and the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Wednesday. ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts put it finest: Everything simply makes extra sense for Los Angeles when Clayton Kershaw is on the mound each fifth day. After being sidelined for greater than a month with a left shoulder harm, Kershaw was again atop the Dodger Stadium mound on Thursday night time, and seemed each bit just like the pitcher who was main the National League in nearly each stat earlier than his harm. Kershaw allowed one run and struck out 4 over 5 stable innings in Dodgers' 2-1 win over the Rockies within the sequence opener. “It was great to be back,” Kershaw mentioned. “You want to be a part of what’s going on here. You want to help your team win. It was a great feeling, good to be back out there, good to be at Dodger Stadium again. I don’t take for granted tho...

Senior Performance Analyst, Foundational Research Reports to: Assistant Director, Foundational ResearchAdditional reporting duties to: Director, Integrative Baseball PerformanceLocation: Philadelphia, PA or Remote Position Overview:Analysts with the Phillies are tasked with maximizing organizational impression, in pursuit of constructing a constant World Series contender. As a Performance Analyst within the Foundational Research division, you sort out baseball’s most troublesome issues in biomechanics, energy and conditioning, and athletic coaching, leveraging proprietary knowledge sources to systematically enhance participant analysis, growth, efficiency, and well being at scale. You work intently with technical employees and efficiency specialists in Baseball Operations to stipulate...

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Phillies first baseman/designated hitter Bryce Harper left Thursday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Washington Nationals with what the staff referred to as mid-back spasms. ...

ST. PETERSBURG -- When Matthew Liberatore was working within the bullpen Tuesday, two days earlier than he would face a Rays group that drafted and dealt him away to the Cardinals, pitching coach Dusty Blake stopped the lanky lefty throughout his session and requested what effort degree he was utilizing in the course of the tune-up. “I said, ‘Maybe 70-to-75 [percent],’ and then he was like, ‘Well, stay right there, because that’s the hardest you’ve thrown in a bullpen in the last two months,'” Liberatore recalled following a spectacular two-hit, seven-strikeout effort over eight innings within the Cardinals’ 5-2 victory over the Rays on Thursday night time at Tropicana Field. The bullpen isn’t a spot the place pitchers usually discover upticks in velocity, however that Tuesday session aler...