Tag: Cincinnati Reds
Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season
Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for all 30 teams.
Is the glass half-empty? Half-full? From those at the top of the MLB power rankings to those at the bottom, every team has reasons for hope and concern in 2024.
NL East
Atlanta Braves
Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power
What we learned in MLB’s first month of the season, an unpredictable and electric April
So what do you know. We made it through April. What a bizarre month.
Taylor Ward outhomered a guy who hit 54 homers last year (Matt Olson). Maikel Garcia had more extra-base hits than Vlad Guerrero Jr.
Ronel Blanco has been the best starting pitcher on the Astros. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner (Blake Snell) has been the worst starting pitcher on the Giants.
Josh Hader’s ERA is over 6.00. Brennan Bernardino’s ERA is under 1.00.
Why
MLB offseason grades 2.0 : Which teams passed — and which teams failed
The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0.
By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman
According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several cases). The grading is going to be harsher here.
The best teachers, of course, are kind enough to allow for revision. We first
Der Shohei Ohtani-Wettskandal wird nicht der letzte sein
MMajor League Baseball Die Funktionäre werden jedem, der zuhört, sagen, dass die Integrität des Sports sicherer denn je ist. Trotz der weit verbreiteten Legalisierung des Sportglücksspiels, trotz der lukrativen Partnerschaften der MLB mit den Glücksspielplattformen, trotz der Tatsache, dass die Amerikaner allein im letzten Jahr rund 120 Milliarden US-Dollar legal auf Sportwetten gesetzt haben, und trotz In-Game-Werbung, die Fans dazu ermutigt, jetzt Wetten zu platzieren – trotz alledem ist alles in Ordnung Bußgeld. Baseball-Funktionäre weisen darauf hin, dass externe
Year of the splitter? Once a dark art, the pitch is primed to take over baseball
By Zack Meisel, Cody Stavenhagen and Stephen J. Nesbitt
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A decade ago, on a dusty baseball diamond in Puerto Rico, a veteran pitcher shared with Fernando Cruz the secrets of throwing a splitter, a pitch treated like a black-market product, a dark art best learned in the shadows and deployed at one’s own risk.
Cruz was a converted infielder pitching in winter ball back home and trying to catch on with a major league organization. He couldn’t
2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out
As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?
See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation of my fallible mind. They are borne from a tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias formula borrowed from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to
Wenn Ihr Vermieter den Anfang macht: Die abgeschottete Clan-Welt der Baseball-Immobilien
Kurz nachdem er sich aus dem Fegefeuer der Free Agents herausgefeilscht und sich einen neuen Vertrag bei den Los Angeles Dodgers gesichert hatte, bat Kiké Hernández seine Frau Mariana, einen anderen Markt zu erkunden. Sie kontaktierte Caitlin, die Frau des ehemaligen Dodger Rich Hill, mit der Frage: Könnten die Hernándezes wieder im Haus der Hills wohnen?
The Hills hatte das Anwesen im Viertel Toluca Lake im Jahr 2017 gekauft, kurz nachdem Rich einen Vertrag über 48 Millionen US-Dollar unterzeichnet hatte.
Der Foulball von Elly De La Cruz an Hunter Greene zerbricht während des Reds-Trainings das Fenster von Greenes SUV
Es ist nie eine gute Idee, in einem Bereich zu parken, der anfällig für Fehlwürfe oder Foulbälle sein könnte. Der Pitcher der Cincinnati Reds, Hunter Greene, musste das am Dienstag auf die harte Tour herausfinden.
Während eines Live-Schlagtrainings traf Greene auf Elly De La Cruz, als De La Cruz auf dem Spielerparkplatz ein Feld foulte, das das hintere Fenster auf der Fahrerseite von Greenes Mercedes-Maybach-SUV durchbohrte.
Das ist kaum zu glauben. Dieser Foulball von Elly De La Cruz während eines
What Happened to Baseball Jerseys?
Last week, as American sports fans’ eyes moved from football to baseball, a great cry—or at least a significant grumble—was heard from MLB players arriving at spring training: The new uniforms are bad.
The MLB announced the uniforms, which have been redesigned by Nike for all of the league’s 30 teams, in a press release last Tuesday. It included praise from some of the biggest baseball names on Nike’s endorsement roster. As images of the uniforms began to circulate, however,
Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1
Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system, and notes on prospects who might appear in the majors this year, or who might be breakout prospects for the 2025 rankings, will appear starting