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With this yr’s MLB free agent market enlivened by worldwide gamers, Ben Lindbergh talks to 3 visitors about three baseball-rich international locations. First, Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap News Agency joins to debate the response in South Korea to Jung Hoo Lee 이정후’s signing, Shin-Soo Choo 추신수’s forthcoming retirement, the legendary profession of Choi Dong-won, and the continued reckoning with bullying within the KBO and Korean tradition at massive. Then (44:21) Ben talks to NPB historian Rob Fitts about trailblazing Japanese pitchers Eiji Sawamura and Masanori Murakami, and the way baseball can be totally different if Japanese gamers had entered MLB earlier. Lastly (1:12:02), Ben brings on Sami Khan, co-director of The Last Out, a documentary about three Cuban gamers who hoped to make the ...

NEW YORK — The Yankees traded former high prospect Estevan Florial to the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday, buying right-hander Cody Morris for the 26-year-old outfielder. ...

It’s becoming that Christmas Day gifted us with three Hall of Fame gamers. Here’s a subjective rating of the highest 5 for December 25: 1) Rickey Henderson (1958)The stolen-base champ, 10-time All-Star and 1990 AL MVP with the A’s is a no brainer lead for this record. Always quotable, ever assured, the “Man of Steal” was a pleasure to look at on the sector. Here’s simply one in every of many wild Henderson information: He practically ran a marathon over his profession, simply by stealing bases. His 1,406 steals, at 90 toes apiece, comes out to 126,540 toes … or 23.97 miles; simply over two shy of a marathon. 2) Nellie Fox (1927)Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Fox was an important piece of the “Go-Go” White Sox of the Fifties. He was the 1959 AL MVP, a 15-time All-Star and three-tim...

Last Sunday’s column included my opining that Joey Votto ought to retire reasonably than signal with a workforce aside from the Cincinnati Reds, thus making him a one-franchise participant. My pal Sam — a bona fide baseball nerd — learn the column and proceeded to share an attention-grabbing thought once I bumped into him on the espresso store we each frequent. Being of the assumption that gamers sticking with one workforce is an efficient factor — I feel most followers would concur — Sam wonders if tweaking the Competitive Balance Tax in a way that might incentivize groups’ capacity to re-sign their free brokers is perhaps doable. For occasion, if participant X have been to signal a one-year $20M contract with a brand new workforce, your entire quantity would issue into the workforc...

Ryan Minor, the Baltimore Orioles infielder who grew to become a part of baseball historical past when he changed Cal Ripken on the finish of his record-setting consecutive video games streak in 1998, has died. He was 49. ...

The Tigers’ vacation purchasing for pitching continued Friday with a last-minute deal. The group signed veteran right-hander Shelby Miller to a one-year, $3 million contract with a $4.25 million membership choice for 2025.  The contract consists of as much as $1,175,000 in efficiency bonuses for 2024 and 2025: $100,000 every for 50, 55 and 60 video games pitched, $150,000 for 70 video games pitched and $150,000 every for 40, 45, 50 and 55 video games completed. Miller also can increase his 2025 base wage by as much as $1.4 million in efficiency incentives in 2024: $100,000 every for 50, 55 and 60 video games pitched, $150,000 every for 65 and 70 video games pitched and $200,000 every for 40, 45, 50 and 55 video games completed. The 33-year-old Miller, a former first-round choose in 2009 an...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports For the previous decade, the joke round Mets pitchers has been that they spend extra time injured than energetic. There’s no scarcity of examples; Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard spring to my thoughts first, however Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander handled accidents of their time in Queens, too. Edwin Díaz simply missed the 2023 season. Zack Wheeler by no means fairly lived as much as his potential when he was there, and accidents had been a key cause why. Matt Harvey, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz — heck, right here’s a narrative from 2017 in regards to the Mets’ damage woes, which had been already a trope earlier than their latest woes. In that sense, Coleman Crow is the platonic splendid of a Mets pitcher. He joined the group in June, a part of the bundle th...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hunter Renfroe and the Kansas City Royals finalized a $13 million, two-year contract Tuesday, filling the most important offensive gap for a membership that has spent closely in free company in an try to go from worst to first within the AL Central. ...

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Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports The following article is a part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing take a look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2024 Hall of Fame poll. For an in depth introduction to this 12 months’s poll, and different candidates within the sequence, use the software above; an introduction to JAWS could be discovered right here. For a tentative schedule and an opportunity to fill out a Hall of Fame poll for our crowdsourcing challenge, see right here. All WAR figures confer with the Baseball-Reference model except in any other case indicated. Before Joe Mauer started starring for the Twins, there was Torii Hunter, and earlier than Chase Utley started starring for the Phillies, there was Jimmy Rollins. Hunter, a rangy, acrobatic middle fielder who finally gained 9 Gold Gloves an...