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Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports Kim Ng broke floor as each the majors’ first feminine basic supervisor, and its first of East Asian descent, the end result of a three-decade rise by means of the entrance places of work of the White Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, and Major League Baseball. But after a three-season run throughout which she guided the Marlins to simply their fourth postseason look ever, to not point out their first full-season end above .500 since 2009, she and the crew have parted methods. Reportedly, whereas the Marlins exercised their finish of a mutual choice for 2024, she declined her finish, believing she had earned a stronger dedication from possession. After a decade and a half of interviews that put her on the cusp of historical past, Ng turned the primary feminine GM of a...

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper celebrated his thirty first birthday with a bang — a 420-foot homer on the primary pitch he noticed within the NL Championship Series. ...

PHILADELPHIA -- It might be a battle of National League Wild Cards with a visit to the World Series on the road starting Monday night time at Citizens Bank Park. While the fourth-seeded Phillies hope to achieve the Fall Classic for the second straight yr and hoist the Commissioner’s Trophy this time round, the sixth-seeded D-backs look to profit from their first NL Championship Series since 2007. “They're playing a lot like us right now,” Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto mentioned. “They're sizzling. That's what the postseason is all about. You get in a rhythm. You get confidence. You get momentum, and that is one thing that they've actually performed with this postseason. “Their lineup is really deep. They have really good right-handed hitters. They have really good left-handed hitters. The...

Ryan Noda was a 22-year-old Toronto Blue Jays prospect coming off his first full skilled season when he led Sunday Notes on December 15, 2018. Drafted within the fifteenth spherical out of the University of Cincinnati a yr earlier, Noda had logged 20 dwelling runs and a .421 OBP with then-Low-A Lansing, prompting me to check him to former Bearcat Kevin Youkilis. With the caveat “I’m not close to being in his class,” he informed me that he modeled his sport after Joey Votto. Five years and two organizations later, Noda is now a big-leaguer himself. Selected by the Oakland Athletics out of the Los Angeles Dodgers system in final winter’s Rule 5 draft, the left-handed-hitting first baseman proceeded to place up strong numbers with MLB’s worst-performing membership. In 495 plate appearanc...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities are searching for a minimum of 5 folks in an armed theft of the St. Louis Cardinals advanced within the Dominican Republic on Friday. ...

MILWAUKEE -- Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff underwent surgical procedure on Friday to restore the anterior capsule in his proper shoulder. He is anticipated to overlook most, if not all, of subsequent season, based on the membership. “Brandon is not only one of the best pitchers in our franchise’s history, but is also a valued member of our organization off the field,” Brewers common supervisor Matt Arnold stated in an announcement. “He and his wife, Jonie, have gone above and beyond here in the community. Brandon's health is our top priority at this point in time.” Dr. Keith Meister carried out the surgical procedure in Dallas after delivering a second opinion on the extent of Woodruff’s damage, which was first revealed on the eve of the Brewers’ NL Wild Card Series matchup toward...

Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports You all understand how playoff aid pitchers work lately. A starter comes out, maybe sooner than he would within the common season, after which the parade begins. A 23-year-old who throws 99 with a mind-bending slider. A former starter who pops 100 with ease. A artful lefty is subsequent, a humiliation to his friends because of a mere 97-mph radar gun studying. Then it’s time for the massive cheese, the bullpen anchor; he throws 100 as properly, solely with a secondary pitch that will get him convicted of witchcraft in an earlier period. That’s simply the best way baseball has gone lately. Pitcher coaching is best than ever and velocity misses bats, so the development is inexorable. In 2014, the typical fastball thrown by a reliever within the playoffs ch...

PHILADELPHIA — The Atlanta Braves picked right-hander Bryce Elder to begin Game 3 of the NL Division Series in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday. ...

This story was excerpted from Kennedi Landry’s Rangers Beat publication. To learn the complete publication, click on right here. And subscribe to get it recurrently in your inbox. ARLINGTON -- Rangers common supervisor and Dallas native Chris Young got here to the group with the imaginative and prescient of bringing postseason baseball again to North Texas.  Young was within the midst of his 13-year MLB profession in the course of the group’s finest years with back-to-back American League pennants in 2010-11. Now, again in his hometown after a short stint within the Commissioner’s Office following his retirement from the sphere, Young is prepared for a packed home at Globe Life Field for its actual postseason debut when the Rangers host the Orioles for Game 3 of the American League Divisio...

Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK On Saturday, three of the 4 house playoff groups misplaced the opener of their respective Division Series. The losses ranged from 3-2 dramas to 11-2 laughers. Sunday, the American League groups performed their second video games, and the house groups went 0-2. Now that we’ve seen six video games and the house groups are 1-5, it’s time to ask the plain query: Is this format irrevocably damaged? Okay, superb, that’s probably not a good query. But there’s been plenty of hue and cry in regards to the playoff system just lately, headlined by an article by the estimable Ken Rosenthal that got here out this morning in The Athletic, and because the resident “I don’t see what all the fuss is about” man at FanGraphs, I don’t see what all of the fu...