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Arizona Republic Tommy Henry isn’t a Statcast darling. The 25-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks southpaw doesn’t possess elite motion or spin on any of his 4 choices, nor does he mild up radar weapons. What he does do… properly, he pitches. Selected by the Snakes within the second spherical of the 2019 draft out of the University of Michigan, Henry would possibly finest be described as a purveyor of the artwork of pitching. Fourteen begins into his big-league profession — 9 final yr and 5 up to now this season — Henry has admittedly had comparatively modest success. He has a 5.23 ERA over 74 innings and has allowed 75 hits and 33 walks, with a pedestrian 49 punchouts and a 15.3% Ok-rate. Writing him up previous to final season, our lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen opined that “No. 4...

MIAMI — Jorge Soler hit a go-ahead residence run for the second straight sport, and the Miami Marlins held off the Washington Nationals for a 4-3 win Wednesday evening. ...

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Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports When Luis García first debuted again in 2020, he was the youngest participant within the majors at simply 20 years outdated. He’s cut up the previous two seasons between Triple-A and the massive leagues, and turned 23 simply yesterday. Players who make it to the present at such a younger age are virtually solely extremely regarded prospects; García was ranked 87th general on our 2020 prime prospect record. Of the 12 gamers who’ve made it to the majors at age 20 or youthful over the past decade, García’s -0.5 WAR in his debut season was the second-worst mark and his whole WAR ranks useless final. Despite getting known as up at such a younger age, he’s actually struggled to make an impression on the highest degree. But after enjoying in over 200 video games...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers aspire to be like Randy Johnson. Zac Gallen unintentionally obtained actual shut in emulating the Ha...

DETROIT -- Rich Hill? Just name him Tiger King. The 43-year-old was untouchable in an 8-0 win over Detroit on Wednesday afternoon at Comerica Park, going six scoreless innings and surrendering just one hit whereas putting out seven. It was clear from the beginning that Hill had his “A” recreation working: after a leadoff single on a grounder off his glove, Hill struck out the subsequent 5 batters. That was the one hit he allowed; two extra Tigers reached base, each on walks. Hill dazzled Detroit along with his fastball/curveball mixture, the heater topping out at 89.8 mph and the curve registering as little as 64.6 mph. “He was really good, and it was a start we needed,” stated supervisor Derek Shelton. “All right-handed lineup with some good hitters -- I thought it was the best curveball ...

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports It’s formally scorching begin season. Now is the time after we write about gamers who've rocketed out of the blocks, then hope past hope that they don’t tumble to the observe instantly after our articles get revealed. Today I’m Jonah Heim, the Rangers’ switch-hitting catcher. Heim has began off the 2023 season in an enormous approach. Then once more, perhaps that’s not information, as Jonah Heim simply tends towards bigness. He’s 6-foot-4, which actually ought to be too tall to be a catcher. Seriously, right here he's (crouched!) subsequent to Nick Madrigal simply over a month in the past: I might pay good cash to observe Heim pat Madrigal on the top and deal with him as “Scout.” Last yr, the Rangers backstop accrued 2.8 WAR, which made him a top-...

TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jay Jackson says he believes he was tipping his pitches when New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge homered towards him Monday evening. ...

NEW YORK -- Amid a team-wide energy outage and regardless of organizational reservations, the Mets on Wednesday relented to make a transfer they've resisted for a number of weeks. The staff referred to as up nook infielder Mark Vientos, hoping he can present an influence spark for his or her flagging lineup. Infielder Luis Guillorme was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse in a corresponding transfer. Vientos, the membership’s seventh-ranked prospect based on MLB Pipeline, hit his thirteenth house run in 38 video games on Tuesday night time for Syracuse and is slashing .333/.416/.688 at that stage. He briefly made his Major League debut late final summer season, batting .167 with one homer in 16 video games. One of the youngest members of his 2017 Draft class, the previous second-round decide has...

Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports There is a few unbelievable teaching occurring in Milwaukee. Over the final handful of years, there have been a number of cases of catchers utterly turning their protection round with the Brewers, with Omar Narváez essentially the most notable instance. The workforce’s newest success story is William Contreras. In his first 146 video games with Atlanta, Contreras was a strong participant with an distinctive bat. In 376 plate appearances in 2022, he had a 138 wRC+. That is a good mark for any hitter, not to mention a catcher. However, his protection was lackluster throughout the board. The expertise have been there — that didn’t appear to be a serious concern — however Contreras’ efficiency was beneath common when it got here to framing, blocking, and ...