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Yankees 2023 Draft signings tracker n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"• All Yankees Draft signings","type":"text","__typename":"Markdown","content":"**1 (26): George Lombard Jr., SS, Gulliver Prep (FL) -- $3,300,000 (Pick value $3,065,000)**  nDamon Oppenheimer, the Yankees’ vice president of domestic amateur scouting, described Lombard Jr. as a player who “doesn’t take any pitches off, and then you get ... his dad being an ex-Major League participant and his mother being an elite soccer participant and gymnast. Those sorts of issues all add up for us to what we expect we will get as a particular prospect.”","typ...

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Spencer Strider at present leads all certified starters in strikeout price. When I discovered that bit of knowledge, my instant response was, “Wow, that tiny little guy’s on track to throw enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, good for him!” But Strider is manner out in entrance of the sector. His Okay% is 38.9%; Kevin Gausman is second at 32.6%, with a small group of pitchers clustered behind him within the low 30s. Strider isn’t notably walk-averse — his BB% is Fortieth-lowest amongst 67 certified starters — and but his Okay-BB% of 31.4% can be the fifth-best strikeout price within the league. I don’t wish to say that is taking place with out anybody batting a watch — right here we're, in spite of everything, batting our eyes at Strider’s strikeo...

NEW YORK — First-round draft choose Colin Houck will obtain a $2.75 million signing bonus from the New York Mets, above the slot worth of $2,607,500 for his choice at No. 32 general final week. ...

Josh H. Smith scores winner on wild pitch as Rangers beat Rays n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"“It was very, very emotional for us,” mentioned Ezequiel Duran, who hit a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth. “That was a key moment in the game, two strikes, two outs. We get that [wild pitch], we get the win, and it’s something that's very emotional for everyone and makes us very happy.”nnThis was the Rangers’ third walk-off victory of the season, but their first on a wild pitch since March 31, 2019, against the Cubs, when Joey Gallo scored the winning run. nn“Jung, off a tough pitcher, that’s a good at-bat to get...

Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports As is custom at FanGraphs, we’re utilizing the lead-up to the commerce deadline to take inventory of the highest 50 gamers in baseball by commerce worth. For a extra detailed introduction to this yr’s train, in addition to a have a look at the gamers who fell simply wanting the highest 50, make sure you learn the Introduction and Honorable Mentions piece, which may be discovered within the widget above. For these of you who've been studying the Trade Value Series the previous couple of seasons, the format ought to look acquainted. For each participant, you’ll see a desk with the participant’s projected five-year WAR from 2024-2028, courtesy of Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections. The desk may also embrace the participant’s assured cash, if any, the yr...

With the Rangers having unexpectedly shot to the highest of the AL West this season, Texas is in place to make historical past in a number of methods. Secondly, the Rangers completed 38 video games behind the World Series-winning Astros in 2022, that means they're on tempo to develop into the primary crew in MLB’s Divisional Era (since 1969) to win a division one 12 months after ending 35-plus video games out. But one other potential supply of historical past is the person largely liable for that turnaround: first-year supervisor Bruce Bochy. A 3-time World Series champion because the Giants’ supervisor, Bochy additionally received the 1996 NL Manager of the Year Award with the Padres. If the 68-year-old manages to win that award once more this season, he’d be the fourth-oldest particular ...

SEATTLE -- Max Kepler put a literal “flip” in “bat flip” and a literal “trip” in “trip around the bases.” Fortunately for each the Twins and their proper fielder, he may chortle about it afterwards. After Kepler roped a line drive into the right-field nook throughout the fourth inning of the Twins’ 7-6 loss to the Mariners on Monday, he dropped the bat, as any hitter does -- but it surely turned out he didn’t fairly fling it far sufficient away. It fell at Kepler’s toes, the place his legs obtained tousled within the lumber, leading to an enormous faceplant just a few steps out of the field. Kepler recovered in time to get to his toes, and he noticed that Seattle proper fielder Jarred Kelenic was nonetheless far sufficient from the ball that he may make the flip round first base and slide ...

TORONTO — Danny Jansen hit a three-run double within the eighth inning to provide Toronto what turned out to be an essential cushion, and the Blue Jays beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 on Sunday to finish a three-game sweep. ...

Nick Pivetta units Red Sox file with 13 strikeouts in reduction n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":""I simply go on the market and I execute what I must execute," Pivetta mentioned. "Just get ahead of guys, compete in the zone, use my stuff in the zone and then expand the zone after that."nnAlong with opener Brennan Bernardino and Chris Martin, Pivetta led the way in which because the Red Sox shut out the A's on only one hit. The trio of Boston arms mixed for 18 strikeouts, the A's most in a sport this season.nnThere's little question about it -- although it was a group effort backed by manufacturing on the plate, P...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bobby Witt Jr. homered and tripled with three RBIs, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-4 on Sunday for his or her second win in 10 video games. ...