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Accidents & Strikes: Dunning returns; Barlow to IL
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Accidents & Strikes: Dunning returns; Barlow to IL

May 30: RHP Dane Dunning reinstated from paternity listing; RHP Joe Barlow positioned on 15-day IL; RHP Spencer Howard despatched to Triple-A on rehab taskDunning final pitched on May 22, and is about to begin Wednesday's sequence finale vs. the Tigers. He's 4-0 with a 1.67 ERA in 4 begins this season. Barlow hits the IL with what the membership described as an sickness. He had a 5.40 ERA over 5 aid outings in his first huge league stint of 2023. The earliest he may return to the lively roster is June 13. RHP Grant Anderson has contract chosen from Triple-A Round Rock; LHP Cody Bradford optioned to Round Rock; RHP Ricky Vanasco designated for taskAnderson will probably be awaiting his Major League debut as he joins the membership. The right-hander has gone 2-0 with one save and a 3.54 ERA ...
How Have the New Guidelines Modified the Game?
Baseball

How Have the New Guidelines Modified the Game?

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports This is an enormous 12 months for the MLB rulebook. After many years of tiny incremental adjustments, the league made three big ones in 2023. They instituted a pitch timer, modified the dimensions of the bases, and restricted defensive positioning for the primary time in trendy historical past. But how have these new guidelines modified how the sport seems to be on the sphere? I broke down every one to seek out out. Games Are Shorter The greatest change to the sport this 12 months was the introduction of a pitch timer, and it’s had a big impact on sport size. Per Baseball Reference, the typical nine-inning sport has lasted two hours and 37 minutes this 12 months, down from three hours and three minutes final 12 months. You have to return to 1985 to dis...
Comfortable To Be Achieved with Filth Season
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Comfortable To Be Achieved with Filth Season

This was Medvedev's fifth opening-round exit in seven French Open appearances and he cited an lack of ability to hit by the sluggish courtroom as a major downside."With this heavy balls to adjust with the wind was not easy. In my opinion, players who have like a wrist game, like my opponent today, like Carlos, I think Stefanos a little bit, have big advantage with these balls, because they can create easy power, which I don't have," Medvedev mentioned. "That was a little bit the case today. He was controlling almost all the points, and I was suffering a lot, especially on the side against the wind."That's why yeah, that is mainly why it was robust and why I misplaced."The silver lining to another Paris storm cloud?Medvedev, who captured his first clay-court crown in Rome this month, said t...
Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 5/30/23
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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 5/30/23

  Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior author for FanGraphs, the creator of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame evaluation. He based the Futility Infielder web site (2001), was a columnist for Baseball Prospectus (2005-2012) and a contributing author for Sports Illustrated (2012-2018). He has been a recurring visitor on MLB Network and a member of the BBWAA since 2011. Follow him on Twitter @jay_jaffe... and Mastodon @jay_jaffe. Content Source: blogs.fangraphs.com
Miller experiences an MLB first of a distinct type
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Miller experiences an MLB first of a distinct type

SEATTLE -- Bryce Miller, sooner or later, was certain to come back all the way down to Earth from the meteoric begin to his Major League profession. It was simply the abruptness by which it unfolded that stood out most when it lastly occurred on Monday night time. Miller was ambushed for 11 hits and eight earned runs, greater than any begin in his professional profession, which put the Mariners in too huge a gap to dig out of in a 10-4 loss to the Yankees at T-Mobile Park. And the culprits to his struggles have been amongst people who he’d averted in a historic five-start stretch since his epic debut on May 2: hard-hit balls and residential runs. “Obviously, my confidence was up,” Miller stated. “I just didn't make the pitches I needed to make, and they put them in play and they fell. It h...
Venus Set for Grass Court Return This Summer
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Venus Set for Grass Court Return This Summer

​​By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Former World No. 1 and 5 time Wimbledon singles champion Venus Williams is about to return to the WTA this summer season after a prolonged hiatus. Wild World: No. 2 Medvedev Falls in Paris   The all-time nice will return on the upcoming grass court docket occasion on the Libéma Open in ’s-Hertogenbosch which begins on June twelfth.     𝘼 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨... ✨We proudly current Venus Williams as a participant in our WTA match! The American receives a wildcard and can debut on the 's-Hertogenbosch grass courts.🎟 Get your tickets now by way of https://t.co/JtWe6TQZFu#LibemaOpen pic.twitter.com/HK1qLhOJ9S — Libéma Open🎾 (@LibemaOpen) May 30, 2023 Currently ranked World No. 701, the 42-year-old Williams has not performed on tour s...