His fastball zips across the plate with impressive velocity, while his changeup keeps opposing hitters off-balance. Throw in a deceptively tricky slider, and Brash can keep hitters guessing throughout an at-bat. His methodical approach to each pitch, assessing the hitter’s tendencies before ...
and weakened pitching in the wake of the expansion of the number of teams in the league. The slugging explosion was also attributed to the increased muscularity of hitters, though the matter of how hitters had gone about becoming stronger became increasingly controversial. In the mid-1990s, rumou...
D.J. Short’s Bold Prediction: The A’s will have three top-100 hitters in fantasy leagues The Athletics might not win a lot of games this season, but they’ll have three top-100 hitters in fantasy by season’s end in Zack Gelof, Esteury Ruiz, and, drumroll, Lawrence Butler. Gel...
he gave up six hits, three runs, two walks and he recorded two strikeouts. Their leading hitters were Caleb Chance, he went 2-for-4 for two RBIs and he scored a run. Alex Gomez went 1-for-4 for two RBIs and he scored two runs. Evan Steinberger went 2-for-4 for two ...
The case for Sheffield:One of the most devastating hitters of his time, Sheffield mashed 509 career homers and never struck out more than 83 times in a season, a number he reached twice, and only after turning 35. He reached base 4,299 times during a 22-year career, ranking 30th...
Mitchell White | Santa Clara | So. | 70 strikeouts White's first start came this year, and he's still getting used to the DI game. He may be sitting on a 2-4 record with a 3.04 ERA, but his remarkable 70 strikeouts show he'll be a force to be reckoned with soon enough. ...
Top 30 DI college prospects for the 2024 MLB draft * player is soph-eligible 🎧 College baseball's top 50 impact JUCO transfer hitters As the 2025 college spring season nears, here are 50 impact JUCO transfers that D1baseball.com will be closely watching. ...
2024. Falco, Gendi and Kovach will all be part of the everyday lineup, with Gendi playing third base, Kovach in rightfield and Falco slotting in at designated hitter when he doesn’t pitch. Falco was one of Matawan’s top hitters on a per-at-bat basis a year ago and Gendi was ...
A 13th-round draft pick in 1999 by the Cardinals, Albert Pujols has become one of the best hitters in the game. In 2009, Pujols once again put up dominant offensive numbers with a .327 average, 47 home runs and 135 RBI, earning him National League MVP honors. Pujols was the leading ...
Scott Swanay (FantasyBaseballSherpa, @fantasy_sherpa):I noticed some strange relationships between 2023 auction prices and final stats, both for Hitters & for Pitchers; I’ll be curious to look at the final 2024 stats and see if those relationships held true this year as well or not. ...