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Why Does The World Series Not Start Until Friday?
When the Dodgers finished off the Mets in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday, it ensured that the baseball world would have a five-day wait until the start of the World ...
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Arizona Fall League Hot Sheet: Tigers’ Josue Briceno Continues Power Surge In Week 2
As always, the Hot Sheet simply recognizes how the hottest prospects in the AFL did in the past week—it’s not a re-ranking of the B aseball America Top 100 Prospects. We host our weekly Hot ...
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Minor League Hitters To Target Whose 2024 Statcast Data Compares Most Favorably With Top MLB Prospects
With Statcast data for 2024, we can compare specific clusters of metrics for players to find other players who fall within (or near enough to) the same cluster. For example, we can look at a given ...
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Giancarlo Stanton’s Legendary Power Is Unmatched, Both In The Statcast Era And In Tall Tales
When Giancarlo Stanton was coming up through the minor leagues, the stories he spun were more important than the stats. Stanton, who clubbed his MLB postseason-leading fifth home run on Saturday ...
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10 Pitching Prospects With Changeups That Missed The Most Bats In 2024
With the rise and subsequent fanfare of Yankees closer Luke Weaver, the changeup has been front and center. Often synonymous with a deep arsenal and the final puzzle piece of traditional starter ...
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Spectacular Postseason For Mets’ Mark Vientos Shines Light on Breakout 2024 Season
A lot has to go right for a team to climb out of a 24-35 hole on June 2 and make it to the NLCS. The Mets pulled it off through the help of a B-list McDonald’s character, a viral sensation ...
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Orioles’ Creed Willems Shows Off Big-Time Juice
Baltimore backstop prospect Creed Willems is one of his system’s sneakier prospects. The 21-year-old slammed 21 doubles and 17 home runs in 98 games between High-A Aberdeen and Double-A Bowie ...
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Creed Willems Notches a Two-Hit Afternoon In Arizona
The most famous Orioles catching prospect is Samuel Basallo. The sneakiest might be Creed Willems. The 21-year-old eighth-rounder from the 2021 draft hit 17 home runs between High-A and Double-A ...
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Bazzana Hits Grand Slam For First Professional Homer
The No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, Travis Bazzana connected for his first professional home run on Wednesday. Bazzana came to the plate with the bases loaded in the fifth and pulled a 3-2 ...
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Dodgers’ Eriq Swan Dazzles In Second AFL Outing
On Thursday, he showed those same three pitches as well as a hellacious cutter in the high 80s, just a couple of ticks hotter than his slider and with hard, late bite. His four-seam fastball sat ...
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Guardians’ Chase DeLauter Smacks First AFL Home Run
Two things are true about Chase DeLauter: He’s had severe trouble staying healthy, but when he does get on the field … he mashes. Those two facts describe DeLauter’s 2024 season perfectly.