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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Paul Goldschmidt surpassed 1,100 RBIs with a two-run single and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-4 on Wednesday evening. ...

The new Top 100 Prospects record is coming! Revised Top 30s for each group too! Thursday night, to be precise. We provide you with a sneak preview under by figuring out the prospect who has risen the furthest on every crew's Top 30 because the begin of the season. As for the largest leap on the Top 100, that can belong to Padres catcher Ethan Salas. Blue Jays: Alan Roden, OFSelected within the third spherical final yr, Roden was a wait-and-see prospect left on the surface of the preseason Top 30 whereas we evaluated how his excessive on-base abilities translated to the professionals. Verdict: fairly comfortably actually. Roden hit .321/.437/.459 with a 32/42 Ok/BB ratio over 69 video games with High-A Vancouver after Blue Jays coaches labored with him on standing extra upright in his stanc...

Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports One of the unusual issues about projecting baseball gamers is that even outcomes themselves are small samples. Full seasons end in particular numbers which have minimal predictive worth, resembling BABIP for pitchers. The predictive worth isn’t actually zero — particular person seasons kind a lot of the premise of projections, whether or not math-y ones like ZiPS or just our private opinions on how good a participant is — however we now have to develop instruments that enhance our capability to clarify a few of these stats. It’s not sufficient to know that the variety of dwelling runs allowed by a pitcher is risky; we have to know the way and why pitchers permit homers past a common sense of pitching poorly or being Jordan Lyles. Data like that which St...

CINCINNATI – Josh Bell homered twice - as soon as left-handed and as soon as right-handed - and drove in 4 runs, Bryan De La Cruz hit the go-ahead shot within the ninth and the Miami Marlins rallied late for a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday. ...

Pete Alonso slugs thirty fifth dwelling run in Mets' win over Cubs n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"“I’m seeing the ball tremendous properly and being tremendous balanced,” Alonso stated. “I’m keeping movements to a minimum and just being super accurate to the baseball. I have a good attack plan. Obviously I do the best I can to study and research my opponent. Tonight’s game plan worked pretty well."nnThat was quite an understatement. Alonso showed once again that he loves Cubs pitching, homering off Chicago for the fourth time in three days during a victorious night that was capped by Phil Bickford's clutch save...

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports The Chicago Cubs are white sizzling. Shortly after the All-Star break, the Cubbies have been as many as 8 1/2 video games out of first place within the NL Central and 6 video games beneath .500. About three weeks later, they’re slightly higher than an even-money wager to seize a playoff spot. So let’s discuss Ian Happ, who has been a key offensive participant for the Cubs over that span, and the odd season he’s having. If you make a behavior of checking the key league stroll price leaderboards commonly, as I’m certain all of us do, you'll little doubt have observed that Happ is within the high 5 with a 16.1% stroll price. (All stats present by way of Tuesday’s motion.) Now, Happ has at all times been able to drawing a stroll; his profession stroll p...

NEW YORK — With all of the discuss in regards to the eye-popping numbers Cody Bellinger and the Chicago Cubs are placing up on the plate currently, maybe Jameson Taillon and their unheralded bullpen are getting slightly missed. ...

ANAHEIM -- Shohei Ohtani stated he was annoyed with the way in which he pitched. Manager Phil Nevin stated it was obvious that Ohtani has been coping with some fatigue. But that didn’t cease the Angels' two-way famous person from bouncing again after leaving his earlier begin early due to cramping in his proper center finger. Ohtani threw six robust frames with none points in a 4-1 win over the Giants on Wednesday night time at Angel Stadium, giving the Angels a much-needed collection win over San Francisco and serving to Ohtani make extra historical past. With the victory, he grew to become the primary participant in MLB historical past to tally 10 wins and hit 40 homers in the identical season. “The wins, obviously we need to score runs to get a win, and I’m in the batter’s box, but I ne...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether or not the plight of working backs within the NFL is analogous to any data-driven developments in MLB, the advantages and disadvantages of extra or fewer off days throughout postseason sequence (and the issue with pluralizing “series”), the White Sox going 0-11 in video games once they’ve struck out 14 or extra opposing batters, Cody Bellinger and the surging Cubs, the flailing Diamondbacks and the way the sequencing of slumps and scorching streaks impacts the notion of seasons, and extra. Then (1:16:05) they meet main leaguers Slade Cecconi and Davis Schneider, adopted by (1:36:45) a Future Blast from 2044. Audio intro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effective...

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Weston Wilson homered in his first main league plate look, a long-awaited milestone for the 28-year-old rookie who was drafted in 2016. ...