The Boston Red Sox agreed to terms with 7th overall pick in this year’s MLB First Year Player Draft, Trey Ball. I am assuming he will be heading to the Lowell Spinners for short season ball, and I will be running to my computer to watch him on MLB.TV. Ball also played outfield in high [...]
In baseball, and really in any sport, the most attention is always going to be directed towards players who have been drafted high or given lots of guaranteed money. They’re going to be expected to be the most talented, and therefore put up the best results. Somehow, that does not seem to limit San Francisco [...]
The Chicago White Sox, like many other MLB teams, usually have a certain motto or phrase each season that’s supposed to represent their team for that year. This year’s White Sox motto is “Make An Impact”. Although the Whit Sox have struggled to “Make An Impact” on the field so far in 2013, their front [...]
Before May 15, the Houston Astros‘ starting pitchers were having a rough go of it in 2013. While they were struggling at the major league level, the Astros were holding their top pitching prospect, Jarred Cosart, in Triple-A. It looked like Astros fans would get a glimpse of the future in Cosart sooner rather than [...]
The Colorado Rockies have reached an agreement on a contract with their first-round pick, Jonathan Gray. Gray was the third pick overall in the 2013 MLB Draft, after Mark Appel and Kris Bryant went to the Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs respectively. Jim Callis of Baseball America sent out this tweet earlier tonight confirming the signing: #Rockies sign 1st-rder Jonathan [...]
If you had asked any San Francisco Giants personnel expert coming into spring training who they thought would be leading the Giants organization in home runs on June 11, you likely would have gotten a few different answers. Maybe it would have been Pablo Sandoval or Hunter Pence. Perhaps they would have told you that [...]
It is not everyday that you see a performance like this. On Monday night, Chicago Cubs shortstop prospect Javier Baez slugged four home runs in a game for the Daytona Cubs, the Class-A affiliate of the Cubs. Before the season, Baez was ranked the 16th best prospect in all of baseball according to Baseball America. While he [...]
Don’t let it fool you. Javier Baez is by no means ready to take over Starlin Castro‘s job at shortstop for the Chicago Cubs, but a four-homer night is about as rare as is gets. Baez helped lead the Class-A Daytona Cubs to a 9-6 win over the Fort Myers Miracle Monday. His seven RBI would [...]
The Colorado Rockies made some changes to their MLB roster before they were defeated 4-2 by the San Diego Padres on Saturday. The Rockies reactivated LHP Jeff Francis from the 15 day DL and he was thrown back into the fire immediately as he took the bump for the Rockies. However, his return was a rough one, as the Padres got all [...]
New York Mets star prospect pitcher Zack Wheeler was expected to get called up to the big league roster this week, but it looks like the highly anticipated debut will have to wait another weekend as Wheeler is expected to get one more start before joining the team. Now, it looks like Wheeler will join [...]
