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Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports Last week at Baseball Prospectus, Rob Mains did some digging into house discipline benefit and located a really curious impact: house groups did worse in additional inning video games than in regular-season video games. More particularly, he discovered that house groups gained roughly 54% of video games total however solely roughly 52% of additional inning video games. There are not any two methods about it: that’s unusual. Mains regarded into many potential explanations for this discrepancy: workforce high quality, pitcher high quality, video games that had been tied going into the ninth, and numerous methods of how groups have tailored to the zombie runner period. Today, I assumed I’d throw my hat into the ring with a barely completely different mi...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jacob deGrom’s return for the AL West-leading Texas Rangers has been pushed again till at the very least late June after the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner was transferred to the 60-day injured record Monday. ...

Shortstop Elly De La Cruz is likely one of the most hotly anticipated prospects in all of baseball, and Reds followers' wait to see him play within the large leagues is now over.  De La Cruz has arrived.  Cincinnati's No. 1 prospect and the No. 4 general prospect, in keeping with MLB Pipeline, the 21-year-old De La Cruz was referred to as up Tuesday from Triple-A Louisville. De La Cruz batted .297/.398/.633 with 12 residence runs and 36 RBIs in 38 video games at Louisville this 12 months. His season started on April 20 after he frolicked on the injured checklist with a left hamstring pressure suffered throughout his first large league camp at Spring Training.  Since his return from the harm, De La Cruz has routinely been a spotlight marvel for Louisville along with his five-tool expertise....

We are excited to introduce Quick Leaderboards – an intuitive, mobile-friendly interface for accessing our main league leaderboards. With this new addition, now you can simply discover and discover leaders for numerous statistics by way of a list-based interface. Our objective is to supply a seamless expertise that intently displays the net model’s strong leaderboards inside our app. Our future plans are to additional develop leaderboards within the app to intently match the performance of the net model. To entry the app and luxuriate in these new options, merely obtain it right here: Here’s a abstract of the current updates: We’ve added a devoted part in the primary app navigation for the leaderboards. We’ve included a abstract of common and essential stats, that includes the hi...

PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola’s strikeout whole was up - the Phillies’ ace would tie his career-high with 12 - and so was his pitch depend. As Nola delivered with two outs within the seventh inning, and a shot at baseball historical past nonetheless on the road, supervisor Rob Thomson wasn’t certain simply how for much longer he would let the right-hander go. ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies are planning the primary important addition to their possession group because the Middleton household in 1994. Sources informed MLB.com that the Buck household plans to promote a 3rd of its curiosity within the workforce to Stanley C. Middleman, a Philadelphia native and Temple University graduate who based Freedom Mortgage, which is headquartered in Mt. Laurel, N.J. The Phillies hope to shut the deal subsequent month, which is pending obligatory approvals by Major League Baseball. Phillies followers shouldn't discover any variations within the day-to-day operations of the workforce, as soon as the deal is finalized, however broadening the membership’s possession with a brand new restricted companion ought to strengthen its monetary standing. John Middleton is ...

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports Top Prospects Series Below is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Washington Nationals. Scouting stories have been compiled with data offered by trade sources in addition to my very own observations. This is the third yr we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “position” column under: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed usually correspond to the yr a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Manual changes are made the place they appear acceptable, however I exploit that as a rule of thumb. A fast overview of what FV (Future Value) means could be...

Six of the record-tying 10 Southeastern Conference groups within the NCAA Tournament will take the subsequent step on the “Road to Omaha.” No. 2 nat...

ARLINGTON -- Everything has appeared to go proper for the Rangers this season. It’s straightforward to really feel that method once they’ve received the second-best document within the Majors (39-20) whereas sitting atop the American League West. In Texas' 4-3 win over St. Louis on Monday evening at Globe Life Field, it felt like even when issues went fallacious, they nonetheless finally ended up a bit bit proper. It was a tighter sport than the Rangers have been used to in latest weeks, tied within the backside of the ninth after the Cardinals' two-run rally within the eighth. But the offense delivered nonetheless as Nathaniel Lowe drove an opposite-field single to left to attain Marcus Semien from second base. Texas’ second walk-off win of the season -- and the fourth walk-off hit of Low...

LOS ANGELES — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is hoping {that a} couple days off might be all he must relaxation his bruised proper toe. Judge was out o...