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This story was excerpted from Bryan Hoch’s Yankees Beat e-newsletter. To learn the total e-newsletter, click on right here. And subscribe to get it recurrently in your inbox. Aaron Boone had heard one Aaron Judge query too many. As he leaned again in an workplace chair deep inside Fenway Park’s red-brick corridors, he produced the folded blue lineup card and rolled a black ballpoint pen by areas 1 by 9. “That’s the storyline, so we’re going to get beat over the head with that,” Boone mentioned. “The reality is, that team we’re rolling out there, they’re capable of doing damage offensively. [Judge], to me, is just an excuse right now.” These two issues are concurrently true: The Yankees nonetheless have solely a murky timetable for Judge’s return from a proper huge toe sprain (doubtlessly a...

The Guardians made a catching change heading into the weekend, designating veteran Mike Zunino for project and calling up prospect Bo Naylor from Triple-A Columbus to take his place. Zunino, signed this previous offseason, hit .177/.271/.306 in 42 video games in Cleveland, “good” sufficient for a 63 wRC+ and -0.1 WAR. Naylor, in his second go of Triple-A, is having a season just like final one, hitting .254/.393/.498 with 13 homers in 60 video games, giving him a wRC+ of 122. Signed to a one-year, $6 million contract this previous offseason, Zunino was by no means meant to be a long-term possibility for the Guardians. He’s all the time been a maddingly inconsistent hitter from 12 months to 12 months, oscillating between .850-OPS and .550-OPS seasons, and he missed almost half of 2022...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Corey Seager and Ezequiel Duran every had 4 hits, and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-7 on Sunday. Seager drove i...

Everybody is aware of the unhealthy information proper now for the Yankees, the run of unhealthy information that started with Aaron Judge injuring his proper massive toe operating into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium. The Yankees misplaced 5 of six to the Red Sox over the previous two weekends, and so they simply acquired themselves swept at Fenway Park. They are scoring a run and a half fewer with out Judge within the batting order than they do with him; they don't have any backside of the order today; their rookie shortstop, Anthony Volpe, has a batting common of .189; Carlos Rodón nonetheless hasn’t pitched an inning for them; and their document is at the moment 13 video games worse than it was a yr in the past after we thought they have been about to run away from the entire wo...

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Marcus Semien is as much as his typical methods. He’s eighth amongst all place gamers in WAR, comfortably the perfect on a first-place Rangers squad. For the third straight yr and the fourth out of 5, he’s on monitor to rack up four-plus WAR as one of many two finest gamers on his staff. For somebody who didn’t put up an above-average batting line till his seventh main league season, it’s a powerful accomplishment. Perhaps extra spectacular to me: he’s doing it proper below our noses, and nobody appears to note. Semien is nice at every part however not in a means that provides as much as an amazing offensive line. His finest ability could be sturdiness. He’s clearly an excellent participant, however his explicit set of abilities are highlighted by the fram...

OAKLAND -- Kyle Schwarber's June dominance has been occurring for lengthy sufficient that it may possibly now not be referred to as a coincidence --it’s extra of a behavior. In 2021, Schwarber hit 16 homers and drove in 30 runs in June. In the identical month in '22, he hit 12 homers and logged 27 RBIs. And together with the 2 runs he drove in through the Phillies’ 3-2 win over the A’s on Father’s Day Sunday on the Coliseum, Schwarber now has seven homers and 14 RBIs in June -- with 10 video games remaining earlier than the calendar flips to July. Schwarber doesn’t know why June appears to be the magic month for him, and he needs it didn’t take him fairly this lengthy to warmth up. The outfielder/DH slashed .163/.318/.395 within the first two months of the season. What issues most to him i...

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The Reds made the playoffs in 2020, which, even with the expanded format, isn't nothing. But nonetheless: They haven’t gained a postseason sport since 2012, when Dusty Baker was their supervisor, and so they haven’t gained a postseason collection since ... would you consider, 1995? The profitable pitcher within the collection clincher was David Wells when he was solely 32 years outdated, earlier than he was ever a Yankee. Can you consider Wells was ever 32 years outdated? That’s to say: It has been a very long time since Reds followers have had the pure pleasure they’ve skilled up to now week. They went undefeated this week, all on the highway, profitable three video games in Kansas City after which three extra in Houston towards the defending champion Astros. They’ve gained eight in a row...

LOS ANGELES -- Few issues have been as dependable for the Giants this season as Logan Webb going deep into video games. He did so once more in Sunday’s sequence finale at Dodger Stadium, pitching seven innings of two-run ball as San Francisco defeated the Dodgers, 7-3, for a seventh straight victory. “He's becoming one of the more durable and dependable starting pitchers in baseball,” mentioned supervisor Gabe Kapler. “... That's what a horse does -- they post and they pitch deep into games.” In serving to the Giants obtain their first sweep at Dodger Stadium since Aug. 20-22, 2012, Webb needed to navigate via some site visitors, as he allowed eight hits, two walks and successful batter whereas putting out 5. But even when the Dodgers managed to get to him, Webb did a superb job of not let...

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