Beginning this season, catchers won't be the only ones able to call pitches using PitchCom technology, which was introduced across the Major Leagues in 2022. MLB informed clubs on Friday that pitchers will be able to call their own pitches using a PitchC
There's no official distance that I could find anywhere that shows how many feet it is from Prairie Street Brewing Company to the opposite side of the Rock River in Downtown Rockford, but if it's more than 500 feet, this could be quite a challenge to hit a baseball that far. As you...
Jones isn’t the type of pitcher who backs down from a challenge, though, and he went right after them. Some of his best pitches of the night were changeups to Ohtani. He shook Henry Davis’ original calls to get to more changeups, and it worked splendidly in the third, getting the...
Catching a fast baseball is a real challenge and this guy nailed it using his hands! Bravo! Alamy Stock Photo by REUTERS/Mike Cassese But the guy next to him pulled out his glove, but as you can see there was no need for it. Focus… Focus… Focus! Is this gymnast for real? She...
Texas seems like a strong team looking to become a behemoth. The Rangers won the World Series despite puzzling over their bullpen jigsaw puzzle for the entire regular season, and Chris Young surely has his staff studying the lessons from that incessant challenge. There i...
An aggressive and smart runner that will leg out extra bases and challenge outfield arms. Uses speed well, will bunt for a hit and steal the occasional base. Glove 70 Double-plus defender in center field. Gets outstanding jumps and tracks the ball well. Solid instincts in the field, will ...
And because most of these types of injuries would not be completely debilitating, the disability percentage would not be total (and therefore make such a challenge even less economical to pursue). Now, if a player died or was permanently crippled by, for example, being hit with a pitch, the...
The Beach hit just .248 as a team in those 15 games, but coach Valenzuela states, “I love our offense. The batting average from last year doesn’t show the success we actually had. The pitching and competition we played against obviously had a lot to do with it.” But...
namely because so many were doing it that to challenge an opponent was to risk having your pitchers challenged as well. Also, even hitters were generally in favor of pitchers using something sticky, especially with slick balls in cold weather, to better control them and avoid those hitters bein...
Matt Holidaywas a highly touted quarterback prospect in Oklahoma when the Rockies took him in the seventh round of the MLB draft. As a rookie, Holiday was the Rockies' starting left fielder and I thought he would be with the Rockies forever. As it turned out, the Rockies were only able ...