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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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Bailey Ober allowed one run in six innings, Kyle Farmer homered and drove in three runs, and the Minnesota Twins beat Los Angeles 5-1 on Tuesday night time as Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw took the mound three days after the dying of his mom. ...

We’re now one-quarter of the best way via the 2023 common season, and numerous pitchers are placing collectively sturdy Cy Young Award instances. In our first Cy Young ballot of 2023, we requested MLB.com voters to evaluate the worthy candidates and rank their prime 5 in every league primarily based on what's occurred up to now and what they anticipate will occur the remainder of the best way. Pitchers obtained factors on a 5-4-3-2-1 scale -- 5 factors for a first-place vote, 4 factors for a second-place vote and so forth, with 49 voters collaborating. Here are the outcomes. (All stats are via Monday.) 1) Gerrit Cole, Yankees (23 first-place votes)After a number of shut calls in earlier Cy Young Award races, together with second-place finishes in 2019 and 2021, Cole is as soon as once more...