Al Leiter’s kid Jack is a chip off the old ‘no-no’ block
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After years of backlash, Curt Schilling says he’s leaving Boston to be with ‘people that are nice’
Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, could be heard hammering nails at his family’s new home in Tennessee during a phone interview Thursday. Schilling said he’s leaving the Boston area, where his anti-transgender comments and other controversial remarks have cost him fans even though he helped the Red Sox win World Series titles in 2004 and 2007. “Outside […]
Continue reading »Marlins Park no longer has fish tanks behind home plate
Perhaps the last remaining tie that the Miami Marlins have to the Jeffrey Loria era has vanished. The millionaire art dealer and then-team owner incorporated some of his unusual design ideas into the construction of Marlins Park, which opened in 2012. Among them, the widely panned "home run sculpture" in left-center field and a pair of fish tanks behind home plate. After […]
Continue reading »Jeff Passan predicts the 2021 MLB season from every possible angle
ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” With a month of spring training in the books, people inside baseball are starting to form their opinions on players. Who’s real; who’s not. Who changed; who didn’t. Who matters; who doesn’t. It felt like the perfect time to survey more than […]
Continue reading »Opinion: LeBron James joining Red Sox ownership is great news for MLB
Dismiss, for a moment, the many times LeBron James proudly donned, or held aloft, a New York Yankees cap in a highly-public setting. Ignore, if you can, the slobbering cries of the many man-babies of Beantown who are beside themselves a longtime tormenter of Boston now owns a chunk of the Olde Towne Team. Forget – and this might be hard […]
Continue reading »A small school in Georgia is channeling the 1986 Mets in all the best ways
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Continue reading »Ban the shift? Angels manager Joe Maddon has another idea – deaden the baseball
Joe Maddon isn’t exactly the godfather of the defensive shift in baseball – even Ted Williams tried hitting through an unbalanced infield alignment – but he played no small role in its current ubiquity. First as bench coach for the Los Angeles Angels and then as manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, Maddon has long been a sultan of the […]
Continue reading »Let's see if we can make baseball better by exploiting loopholes in MLB’s rulebook
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Continue reading »Braves, O’s OF Markakis retires after 15 seasons
Outfielder Nick Markakis is retiring after a 15-year career. A three-time Gold Glove winner, Markakis holds the record for most consecutive games without an error for an outfielder at 398. He was as steady at the plate as he was in the outfield, finishing with 2,388 career hits and a slash line of .288/.357/.423. Markakis played in no fewer than […]
Continue reading »MLB to test rule changes in minors: A look at the good and the bad
MLB on Thursday dropped a list of rule modifications that it will test in the minor leagues this season. The ones that fans know (and hate) the most are banning the shift (in Double-A), robot umpires (in Low-A Southeast, aka the old Florida State League) and pitch clocks (in all of Low Single-A). But baseball will also test modifications to […]
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