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The “vibes” — as rookie phenom Elly De La Cruz calls them — across the Cincinnati Reds lately could be laborious to explain. But they’re evident when the first-year slugger steps to the plate with lengthy, golden chains hanging round his neck. Or when previous man Joey Votto smashes a house run within the stands of Nationals Park, and is greeted at house by De La Cruz — who’s there to have a good time with an elaborate handshake.  ...

The ball felt good popping out of his hand, because it had all through that bullpen session final August. But this specific pitch felt a bit completely different to Noble Meyer. So the 6-foot-5, 185-pound Portland child with the lengthy limbs and spider fingers went and checked the iPad he makes use of to trace his velocities, and there was the noteworthy quantity staring again at him: The son of two engineers, the right-handed Meyer had engineered his personal triple-digit warmth. “I started jumping up and down and yelling,” Meyer mentioned. “It was surreal.” Surreal is the operative phrase for a child who arrived to highschool with a pedestrian profile and got here out of it as MLB Pipeline's No. 8 Draft prospect and the highest prep pitcher on many MLB Draft boards. Surreal can be an ac...

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports The Angels began off Independence Day by asserting that Mike Trout had suffered a damaged hamate bone in his left wrist and can miss no less than the following four-to-eight weeks. That cuts brief what had been his healthiest season since 2016; Trout had performed in 81 of the staff’s 87 video games, and the costovertebral dysfunction in his again — one thing that’s going to stay a long-term concern — didn’t stop him from taking part in heart subject each day. That wasn’t the one firework for the Angels, both; later that day, Anthony Rendon fouled a pitch off his decrease leg, a painful sufficient blow that he wanted assist standing up and getting off the sector. And if that weren’t sufficient for the followers in Orange County, Shohei Ohtani was pulle...

NEW YORK — The Baltimore Orioles promoted outfielder Colton Cowser to the main leagues Wednesday, the second high prospect they’ve referred to as up prior to now couple of weeks. ...

Path to .400 for Marlins' Luis Arraez n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"**What would 600 at-bats require?**nnThis is fairly easy. If Arraez finishes with precisely 600 at-bats, then 240 hits would get him to a .400 common, on the dot.nnWhile no person within the AL or NL has batted .400 for the reason that nice Ted Williams in 1941, a 240-hit season is sort of as uncommon. In that very same timeframe, simply three gamers have completed it: Ichiro Suzuki in 2001 and '04, Darin Erstad in 2000 and Wade Boggs in 1985. (The latter two completed with precisely 240.)nnWilliams, in his .400 season, notched “...

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The Dodgers got here into 2023 with a ton of query marks. Was a platoon of James Outman and Trayce Thompson really the reply in middle area? Was Miguel Rojas a adequate backstop given Gavin Lux’s damage? Was Jason Heyward’s bat salvageable, and the place would he play if it was? Was Miguel Vargas prepared? The offense was hardly as much as the requirements of the crew’s current run. They didn’t reply all these questions positively, however with the advantage of hindsight, the offense appears wonderful. The crew is hitting a collective .243/.328/.446, good for a 110 wRC+. They’re the most effective baserunning groups in baseball. Mookie Betts can play shortstop now, which is neat. But they’ve exchanged these worries for one which has dogged each crew i...

Julio Rodríguez hit a two-run double in a four-run ninth inning in opposition to All-Star nearer Camilo Doval, and the Seattle Mariners held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-5 on Monday night time. ...

The No. 1 total choose within the Draft is meant to be the no-brainer, the slam dunk, the no-doubt-about-it kind of choose. Those taken with the primary choice are those slated not only for a giant league profession, however for superstardom. As historical past has proven, it hasn't all the time labored out that means. With the Pirates making ready to open the 2023 Draft on Sunday night time, a evaluation of the primary 58 years of the occasion (1965-2022) reveals the problem Pittsburgh faces. With the super good thing about hindsight, and excluding the previous two years as far too early to name, solely 10 of these No. 1 picks stand the check of time because the optimum alternative based mostly on the knowledge accessible right this moment, even giving the drafting crew some good thing ab...

Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports Jacob Berry noticed his prospect inventory drop earlier this season. Highly regarded coming in, the sixth general choose in final 12 months’s draft had an abysmal .477 OPS in April and his .509 mark in May was barely higher. Showing little resemblance to the participant who’d raked first on the University of Arizona after which LSU, he fanned 41 occasions whereas logging simply 25 hits, solely two of which left the yard. Playing at High-A Beloit in Midwest League spring climate definitely didn’t assist, however pink flags had been nonetheless flying. When our Miami Marlins Top Prospects record was revealed on May 31, Eric Longenhagen wrote that he was “content to have a hair trigger when it comes to sliding Berry because I was already skeptical… but decidin...

LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy not solely hit his nineteenth homer of the season Monday night time, he was the primary to congratulate Dave Roberts for his 700th win because the Dodgers’ supervisor after Los Angeles‘ 5-2 in over the Pittsburgh Pirates. ...