The Oakland Coliseum is the worst MLB stadium around and also holds the distinction of being the largest ballpark in baseball. Of course, it doesn’t really matter that you have a 63,000-seat stadium capacity when there areplumbing issues in the dugouts, countless faulty seats,dozens of fera...
SCOTTSDALE – With the third overall pick in the 2024 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the Colorado Rockies selected infielder/outfielder Charlie Condon, a redshirt sophomore out of the University of Georgia. This marks the first position player the Rockies have selected in the firs...
1.042 OPS (1st in NL) 179 OPS+ (1st in NL)^ 107 total bases (1st in MLB) 3.1 WAR (1st in MLB, per Baseball Reference)^ ^Entering Saturday's games “He’s the best player I’ve ever seen,” Braves pitcher Spencer Strider recently said of Acuña.“I don’t know what else th...
👀 LOOK AHEAD:D1Baseball projects the 2024 SEC baseball season With all that said, here’s a look at the top 20 catchers in college baseball heading into the 2024 season. Preseason All-Americans Cole Messina (South Carolina), Jacob Cozart (NC State) and Caden Bodine (Coastal Carolina) le...
Bridgewater, New Jersey - Minor League Baseball has named Somerset Patriots OF Spencer Jones as the Eastern League Player of the Week for games played between 8/26 - 9/1. It is the third time this season Jones has been selected for the honor, all in the second half of the View More ...
Keston Hiura’s single extended his on-base streak to 12 games. During the span, Hiura’s hitting .319 (15-for-47) with three doubles, two homers, 14 RBI and a .896 OPS. With two strikeouts today, Caleb Boushley is just one shy of 500 punchouts in his professional baseball career...
Pitcher ERAs are incredibly inconsistent from season to season, though, largely because so much of what causes runs to score is outside a pitcher’s control. More recently, baseball researchers have focused on so-called defense-independent pitching statistics (DIPS) to try to better isolate the ...
Look, I don’t know everything about everything. But, what I do know is that I have been living in NYC for all my life (30+ years). Eventually, I started to run out of things to do. I mean, how many times can you go to the top of the Empire State Building? So, I started...
In the early weeks of spring training, plenty of the non-roster invitees and prospects will get an opportunity for significant at-bats. This is an opportunity for the prospects/non-roster invitees/fringe Opening Day roster candidates to show the Phillies what they can do, as some of the...
The IMF notes that food and energy prices continue to drive the global inflation surge. In the UK, consumer price inflation is at around 10%, highest as it has been for decades, with food price inflation a hefty 14%. The UK Office for National Statistics has shown that a basket of the...