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2:02 Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon people, and welcome to the final August version of my chat for 2023! 2:03 Jay Jaffe: I’m a bit giddy as a result of as of 20 minutes in the past, we have now accepted provides on our present and future houses in Brooklyn 2:04 Jay Jaffe: it’s been a journey, people 2:06 Jay Jaffe: I’ve obtained a chunk on Bryce Harper’s resurgence that’s about to go stay 2:06 Jay Jaffe: Anyway, let’s get to this one… 2:06 HOF Harper?: With Bryce approaching 300 HRs and his profession being.. attention-grabbing(?) up to now with a pair superb seasons, a pair underwhelming seasons, and fairly a number of actually good not essentially nice seasons.. What is the view on him via your HOF lenses? ...

CHICAGO — A taking pictures that probably occurred inside Guaranteed Rate Field, adopted by a scary second for Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. in Colorado. Both in a span of 4 days. ...

This story was excerpted from Scott Merkin’s White Sox Beat e-newsletter. To learn the complete e-newsletter, click on right here. And subscribe to get it often in your inbox. CHICAGO -- The psychological facet of pitching is part that Michael Kopech wants to overcome as a lot because the bodily mechanical points he works on between begins for the White Sox. With that focus in thoughts, let’s transfer to an essential second of Kopech’s newest outing. In the second inning of an eventual 9-0 loss to the Orioles on Monday night time at Camden Yards, Ryan O'Hearn singled and Cedric Mullins doubled. Kopech then retired Ramón Urías on a grounder to second baseman Lenyn Sosa and struck out Adam Frazier and Ryan McKenna. That second-inning zero was the purpose of success for Kopech. But it was the...

Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports While Bryce Harper made the quickest return from Tommy John surgical procedure of any place participant on report, it got here with a price. Not surprisingly, he didn’t hit the ball as onerous as typical within the early months of his return, or do as a lot harm as a result of he wasn’t elevating it with consistency. At one level, he went 166 plate appearances and not using a dwelling run, the longest drought of his profession, however even then, he remained a fairly productive hitter. Lately he’s been heating up, crushing the ball whereas serving to the Phillies climb to the highest of the NL Wild Card race. In the fourth inning of Monday evening’s sport in opposition to the Angels in Philadelphia, Harper demolished a Lucas Giolito fastball that was en...

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers pitcher Tony Gonsolin will bear Tommy John surgical procedure on his proper elbow Friday, the most recent in a season-long run of accidents to Los Angeles’ rotation. ...

The tales of Josh Gibson, Mamie “Peanut” Johnson and different Negro League legends have come into higher focus lately. But there’s nonetheless a deep, wealthy historical past of Negro League baseball that's largely untold and almost misplaced to time. “The Other Boys of Summer,” a 42-minute documentary narrated by the late Cicely Tyson, goals to protect a few of that historical past by permitting the gamers who navigated life within the Negro Leagues to inform their very own tales. Lauren Meyer, the movie’s director, started interviewing Negro League gamers in 2007 earlier than placing the complete documentary collectively for launch a decade later. As a manner to offer followers with a singular alternative to absorb the historical past and classes inside the documentary, Meyer has adopte...

Sam Greene-USA TODAY NETWORK Some of probably the most irritating arguments involving baseball statistics revolve round the usage of anticipated stats. Perhaps probably the most continuously cited of those metrics are Statcast’s xStats, which use Statcast information for hitters to estimate the batting common, on-base share, slugging share, and wOBA you’d “expect” a hitter to realize. Investigating how predictive xStats are in comparison with their corresponding precise stats has been a standard analysis train over the previous couple of years. While it will depend on the precise dataset used, xStats by themselves typically aren’t significantly better than the precise stats at predicting the following 12 months’s precise stats. But that doesn’t imply we should always merely discard an...

Atlanta Braves star proper fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. was confronted by a pair of followers who ran onto Denver’s Coors Field throughout Monday’s sport. ...

For months, it appeared all however sure that Ronald Acuña Jr. would win the National League Most Valuable Player Award in a rout – probably unanimously. Maybe he nonetheless will, as a result of he’s definitely accomplished nothing to injure his case; he’s merely hitting .343/.427/.565 this month because the Braves coast to a sixth consecutive division title. But, by no fault of his personal, it’s not fairly so clear anymore, is it? That’s as a result of Mookie Betts is ending off the very best month of what’s more and more wanting like a Hall of Fame profession. Entering Monday, he led Acuña in house runs, OPS, and each main variations of Wins Above Replacement. While award ballots aren’t – and shouldn’t be – a easy “rank the WAR” train, particularly with regards to tiny fractions of a w...

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports It’s been a month of upheaval within the AL West. As Jay Jaffe detailed, the Mariners are enjoying their finest baseball of the season proper now. A 9-1 stretch has carried them to the highest of the division, turning what had been a two-team race all yr right into a three-way showdown. It’s essentially the most aggressive division race remaining, so lots of people trying to find a jolt of pleasure down the stretch shall be trying west. Of course, Seattle’s climb to the highest of the division didn’t occur in a vacuum. For each motion, there’s an equal and reverse response, and for the time being, that response is going on in Texas. The Astros spent the final week treading water, which allowed the Mariners to roar previous them. The Rangers did them one w...