RELATED: MLB The Show 22: Hitting Settings Guide Of course, this doesn’t mean there isn’t upgrading to do as players amass a pile of stubs quickly. But once the best piece of gear is in place, it can be a trusty piece that never needs to be revisited in Road to the Show. This is a map for players to make a plan for their gear hunt in MLB The Show 22....
This year’s installment comes with a few advantages, one being that MLB The Show 22 will be purchasable upon the official launch on April 5. The other is an offer for Game Pass members to pick up the game while in its early access stage at a reduced price compared to purchasing the game at full cost. RELATED: MLB The Show 22 Adds New All-Star Pitcher To Legends Roster...
This season, there is already a sizeable number of rookie pitchers who are projected to win rotation spots. Right behind them are several dozen others who could see significant big league time this year. DOMINATE YOUR DRAFT: Ultimate 2019 cheat sheet MLB Top Prospects: Pitcher Atlanta’s Touki Toussaint (No. 34 in our prospect rankings) started slowly this spring but was dominant when I saw him in Florida last week and looks set to win a rotation spot in Atlanta....
On one hand, those cost-controlled stars play a huge role in the continued success of a franchise, which is why folks in the front office hate trading them away. On the other hand, the best way to acquire immediate help for a World Series push is to trade away those prospects for established stars. MORE: Worst in-season trade for every AL team | And every NL team It’s the great dilemma, and there are no certain answers....
According to MLB insider Ken Rosenthal, Chicago might be willing to go out and add a starting pitcher at the trade deadline. Now, the key part of this report is the White Sox are looking to add a controllable starter. That means they aren’t looking for a rental like Madison Bumgarner or maybe even a Marcus Stroman who has one year of arbitration left after this. Because they are looking for someone they can keep for a few years, that could mean some of their top prospects could be available and the White Sox have some very good prospects in Dylan Cease, Luis Robert and Nick Madrigal....
Baseball, long stuck in its blowhard, traditionalist ways, is doing something cool alongside Nike in 2021 and in the coming years: All 30 MLB squads are getting really sick alternate uniforms, dubbed the “City Connect” line, which are supposed to capture the essence and reputation of the cities the teams represent. Seven teams’ uniforms have been unveiled in 2021, which is all we’re getting this season: The Red Sox, Marlins, White Sox, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Giants and Dodgers all got new alternate looks....
Fernandez was a tremendous talent on the mound with a bright future, but he was also a charismatic figure loved and respected by coaches, players and fans. Several MLB players shared their feelings about Hernandez on social media after learning of his death. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016
AL EAST (Westgate World Series odds: TOR 12/1, BOS 12/1, BAL 12/1, NYY 100/1, TB 1,000/1) The opening odds to win division at MGM Resorts showed the AL East was expected to be the most competitive division and at the halfway point it’s the only division with its second-place team being less than 5.5 games back. Baltimore has a two-game lead over the Red Sox and Blue Jays and 7....
Using various mock drafts and prospect ratings, we came up with this list of 10 Super Regional participants who could be selected in the first round (in alphabetical order): MLB DRAFT 2015: TV schedule | Top 10 prospects | Grading ever team’s last 10 years Andrew Benintendi, OF, Arkansas Prospect rank: No. 8 (MLB.com’s Prospect Watch); No. 11 (Baseball America). Where will he be drafted?: No. 11 to Reds (Baseball America); No....
According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, MLB is considering playing in a bubble-type situation come the postseason, should the season make it that far. The idea wouldn’t be to house teams in one location — that would just be logistically impossible given the structure of baseball, manpower and schedule — but to have multiple hubs a la the NHL. It certainly makes sense from MLB’s standpoint, considering that playoff time is when most of these teams will be making the most money from TV deals; Passan reports roughly a billion dollars would be at stake for the MLB postseason....
MLB odds: Current betting lines from Las Vegas Tonight, Houston plays the second of a four-game series at Detroit, and even after a tough 6-5 loss in 11-innings yesterday, the Astros still have the best road record in baseball (12-5). Alfredo Simon (4-2, 3.04 ERA) takes the mound for Detroit, and he’s a +102 dog vs. Houston’s Collin McHugh (5-1, 4.09), behind whom the Astros are 7-1 this season. McHugh’s +5....
The 2017 MLB season is officially underway and brings with it a host of story lines to follow, including: Can the Cubs repeat? Will the Indians finally go all the way? How will the Braves’ new stadium play? Is Gary Sanchez really this good? Which players and teams will surprise us? There’s no shortage of predictions for how things will play out, but we’re going to give you more anyway....
Now, April 7 is here, and so is baseball. Now, gamblers will be able to bet on the sport almost every day for the duration of the summer and through September. That’s the beauty of betting MLB contests. Once the season starts, there are always games on which to bet, though it can be tricky to do so early in the season. Why? Part of it is the unpredictable nature of baseball....
Not without its speed bumps, the 60-game MLB regular season has officially concluded, giving way to the debut of the Wild Card Series this upcoming Tuesday. And wild it shall be. With expanded playoffs arriving in a big way this postseason, Tuesday debuts a new playoff structure that may be here to stay: Eight teams from each league will engage in a best-of-three series hosted in the higher-seeded team’s ballpark....
Major League Baseball on Monday announced the assignments for the early-round matchups. Davis has worked 122 postseason games, more than any other umpire. He’ll handle the Oakland at Kansas City game Tuesday night, along with James Hoye, Dan Iassogna, Bill Miller, Todd Tichenor and Bill Welke. West tops all active umpires with 37 years in the majors. He’ll work San Francisco at Pittsburgh on Wednesday night with Doug Eddings, Paul Emmel, Andy Fletcher, Brian Gorman and Mark Wegner....
The 21-year-old outfielder failed to run out a fly ball he believed to be a home run during the Braves’ 7-6 loss in Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the Cardinals on Thursday. Acuna’s fly ball bounced off the wall and because he didn’t run the ball out it resulted in a single. Teammate Ozzie Albies then grounded out to second which moved Acuna to second base, but had he run out the play he would have moved to third on Albies’ groundout and Freddie Freeman would have had an opportunity to hit a sac fly to score a run....
They may be the wildcards in the American League, but the Athletics have as many wins as every National League playoff team but the Los Angeles Dodgers (97) and the Rays (96) have more than the St Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers. Both of these teams are good, they just happen to have been unlucky and were stuck in divisions with the Houston Astros and New York Yankees....
The center fielder took away a sure home run from the Dodgers’ David Freese in the first inning of Game 2 of the NLCS on Saturday, leaping to snatch the ball from the top of the wall. MORE: Ranking final four teams by World Series chances Cain made up for a ninth-inning miscue that went in and out of his glove on Friday night and nearly led to a Dodgers comeback....
Baseball officials have had talks with the operators of the Olympic Stadium in London about holding games there as soon as 2017, The Telegraph reported over the weekend. The centerpiece venue of the 2012 Summer Olympics will be the home of the Premier League’s West Ham United beginning next summer, with capacity reduced to about 54,000 seats from the 80,000 it held three years ago. It’s no surprise MLB wants to get in on the European market, but finding a suitable venue has been a challenge....
Had the Dodgers and Nationals made different hiring decisions over the winter, and not gone with Dave Roberts and Dusty Baker as their new skippers, the majors could have been completely without minority representation among the leaders of its teams. “There definitely should be more, because isn’t baseball 40 percent Latino?” Baker said, citing the percentage of Latino players in the minor leagues —– the major league number is 29 percent, but the argument is the same....
