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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Baltimore Orioles managing accomplice John Angelos launched a joint assertion Thursday saying there’s been progress on their imaginative and prescient to broaden the Camden Yards campus. ...

The well-liked adage states the baseball season is a marathon, not a dash. But because the season leaves the All-Star Game within the mud and the pennant chase heats up with the climate, the race for the postseason takes on a unique tempo. And some gamers decide up their tempo with it. Dozens of gamers all through baseball historical past have all however carried their groups to October on the again of an distinctive second half. Here are 12 of essentially the most notable performances after the All-Star break -- going again to the primary Midsummer Classic in 1933 -- that led to a postseason berth. Aaron Judge, OF, 2022 YankeesThe file books will present that the Yanks received the AL East in 2022 by a snug seven-game margin. But it is honest to surprise the place they'd have been if not ...

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Dane Dunning is excelling in Texas. Now in his third season with the Texas Rangers after debuting with the Chicago White Sox in 2020, the 28-year-old right-hander is 8–2 with a 2.84 ERA over 92 innings. And although he’s fanned simply 59 batters, that fits him simply positive. It’s not that he doesn’t like strikeouts; he very a lot does. It’s simply that he lacks the ability profile of your prototypical modern-day ace. Epitomizing the time period “crafty righty,” he successfully limits harm by mixing and matching with considered one of baseball’s most expansive repertoires. Dunning mentioned his atypical strategy, and the arsenal that goes together with it, when the Rangers visited Fenway Park previous to the All-Star break. ——— David Laurila: Let’s begi...

NEW YORK -- When the Yankees’ flip arrived within the first spherical of the 2023 MLB Draft, there was solely a quick dialogue inside the partitions of the membership’s battle room at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., with the group swiftly settling upon highschool shortstop George Lombard Jr. because the twenty sixth decide within the nation. “We had a lot of people on this one who were on board with George,” Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees’ vice chairman of novice home scouting, stated on Thursday. “There was no dissension at all in terms of picking him, so that worked out pretty good.” The son of Tigers bench coach George Lombard, the 18-year-old is a right-handed-hitting shortstop from Gulliver Prep in Pinecrest, Fla., who confirmed off intriguing instruments on the summer ti...

Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports Last yr, the sweeper took baseball by storm. Fast ahead to this season, and 4.2% of all choices via the primary half have been sweepers, in line with Statcast, almost twice as many as final season. But I've my points with MLB’s pitch classification system, and it’s been nicely documented that below their sweeper umbrella there are a number of variations of the pitch; the Yankees’ employees alone threw a number of totally different variations final season. Plus, if the variety of totally different names for the pitch (whirly, rising slider, and so on.) is any indication, different groups have their very own iterations, too. Qualms with MLB’s system apart, if we wish to search for the following sweeper, it’s a on condition that MLB gained’t have a classif...

MLB.com is maintaining monitor of all the most recent free-agent and commerce rumors involving the Dodgers proper right here. July 13: Dodgers seen as front-runners to signal Ohtani in offseasonThe Dodgers' efforts to signal Shohei Ohtani date again greater than a decade. Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times lately detailed the franchise's long-running infatuation with Ohtani, who's slated to be a free agent this offseason. A handful of groups are prone to vie for his providers. But Castillo writes that it is the Dodgers whom many see because the front-runners within the bidding. More > July 13: Dodgers focused on Giolito (sources)The Dodgers' pitching rotation has been beset by accidents this season. Julio Urías and Tony Gonsolin have frolicked on the injured checklist this 12 month...

Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports It wasn’t fairly as much as the extent of Shohei Ohtani versus Mike Trout with the 2023 World Baseball Classic championship on the road, however the remaining plate look of Tuesday night time’s All-Star Game did characteristic a memorable matchup. On the mound making an attempt to safe a 3–2 victory — the National League’s first since 2012 — was Craig Kimbrel, he of the 408 profession saves. Working to deliver residence the tying run from second base (or no less than maintain the road shifting) was José Ramírez, already taking part in in his fifth All-Star Game at age 30. Ramírez fell into an 0–2 gap by taking a fastball after which chasing a curveball within the dust however battled again to even the depend earlier than Kimbrel struck him out with a e...

NEW YORK — The Chicago Cubs shall be at Texas in the one interleague matchup on Major League Baseball’s conventional opening day on March 28 within the second season of the balanced schedule. ...

The second half of the 2023 season is nearly to start, however it’s not too early to start out fascinated about subsequent yr. MLB formally unveiled its full 2024 regular-season schedule on Thursday, sooner or later after saying its slate of worldwide video games, as a part of the MLB World Tour. After the Rays and Red Sox meet within the Dominican Republic Series throughout Spring Training (March 9-10), the Seoul Series (March 20-21) will kick off the 2024 season with the Dodgers and Padres enjoying MLB’s first video games in Korea. The Mexico City Series (Astros vs. Rockies, April 27-28) and London Series (Mets vs. Phillies, June 8-9) additionally will return from 2023. There is in fact a lot to sit up for within the U.S. and Canada as effectively. All 30 golf equipment are slated to pla...

Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports One of my favourite sorts of baseball commerce is the one which sends main league expertise each methods, between groups ostensibly enthusiastic about being aggressive, every giving from surpluses to satisfy instant wants. It’s actually the safer choice for a entrance workplace simply to take the passive route and keep on with the fellows you’ve bought, however I recognize the boldness of swapping a participant who’s poised to contribute to your membership for one you suppose may offer you extra, clear up some piece of the positional puzzle, or have the ability to be a extra vital a part of your plans down the street. Such was the case for the Marlins and Twins in January when Luis Arraez (who appears poised to defend his title) was dealt to Miami in ...