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Dallas Cowboys HOF Troy Aikman drew curiosity from Mets n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"The math checks out. In 1984 (the 12 months Aikman would have been Draft-eligible), Strawberry was one 12 months faraway from successful National League Rookie of the Year honors and, in response to data saved by Baseball-Reference, made $230,000, just under the long run Cowboys star’s asking value.nnIt was nearly actually a ploy by the Henryetta (Okla.) High School star athlete to see what he may extract earlier than going full bore onto the gridiron.nnFor starters, he seemingly must have wanted to alter positions. Like many good ...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Drew Maggi’s main league debut and whether or not there needs to be a method for different journeyman minor leaguers to make the majors extra simply, the story of short-lived Mariners mascot Spacey the Space Needle, the causes of a dramatic uptick in occurrences of catcher’s interference, Shohei Ohtani’s anti-pitch-tipping prowess, Jordan Walker’s demotion to the minors, the sluggish begins of the Cardinals and White Sox, and extra, plus (1:17:03) a Past Blast from 1999 and a query about celebrities on main league rosters. Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to video of Maggi’s debutLink to article about Maggi’s debutLink to Reddit put up about SpaceyLink to 1990 Spacey a...

NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil snapped an eighth-inning tie with an RBI triple and the New York Mets squandered a pair of multi-run leads earlier than recovering to beat the Washington Nationals 9-8 on Thursday night time. The Mets led 4-1 and 6-3 earlier than C.J. Abrams’ grand slam within the prime of the eighth...

CHICAGO -- White Sox basic supervisor Rick Hahn left little doubt as to the place the blame ought to fall for his group’s disappointing 7-19 begin to the 2023 season. “Put it on me. That’s the job. It’s the absolute gig,” mentioned a candid and nonetheless assured Hahn previous to Thursday night time’s series-opening 14-5 loss to the Rays. “Let’s make this actual clear -- it positive as heck isn’t on [first-year manager] Pedro [Grifol] and his teaching employees. “They are doing everything in their power to prepare, focus on what’s controllable, what’s fixable, addressing the problems as they arise. And they are really doing everything in their power to get this thing right. It’s absolutely not on the manager and the coaches.” The White Sox have misplaced eight straight video games for a 3...

Last summer time, we introduced a partnership with BreakingT and a complete lot of shirts. Today, we’re happy to introduced that we’ve launched a brand new run of merchandise, that includes three extra shirts and, for the primary time ever, branded FanGraphs shorts! There are three new FanGraphs shirts, together with the return of the basic “Do You Go To FanGraphs At All?” (as memorably uttered by Daniel Murphy), plus pocket emblem tees in each inexperienced and black, and our cursive script emblem tee, as discovered on our best-selling crewneck sweatshirt. We’ve additionally bought shorts! These Champion-brand athletic mesh shorts, obtainable in black with the FanGraphs emblem on the thigh, have a nine-inch inseam and can be found in 5 sizes. And most significantly, this can be ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani earned one other win on the mound regardless of giving up 5 runs in a nightmare fourth inning, and he additionally tripled, doubled and singled within the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. Ohtani (4-0) had his rockiest begin in latest re...

This story was excerpted from MLB Pipeline's publication. To learn the total publication, click on right here. And subscribe to get it usually in your inbox. The 2023 Minor League season is in full bloom, and as temperatures begin to heat throughout the nation from Portland, Me., to Lake Elsinore, Calif., one thing else is coming again, too – the baseball highway journey! We’ve documented loads of methods you may plan and begin your odyssey via the Minors with the Ballpark Guide collection, and now it’s about time we additionally present you what it’s like on the market on the path to the Majors that's Minor League Baseball. With that in thoughts, the MLB Pipeline Game of the Month is again for 2023. We’re beginning the collection up once more at Double-A Amarillo’s HODGETOWN on Thursday, ...