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Get To Know the Diamondbacks’ Farm System
Each MLB team has its own minor league baseball system to develop their prospects. This includes a complex league team at the rookie level, a Low-A team, a High-A team, a Double-A team, and a Triple-A team. Each of those teams plays a full season, with teams at the Triple-A and Double-A levels playing 138 […]
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Nationals Roster Basically Set
In Davey Martinez’s pre-game press conference, he announced a series of moves for the Nationals, which has the 26-man roster for Opening Day pretty much set. Roster Changes Jeter Downs and Paolo Espino have been optioned to AAA. Alex Colomé, Andrés Machado, and Wily Peralta have been reassigned to the minor-league camp. It’s not official […]
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The Giants Will Have a Trio of Young Players on Their Opening Day Roster
Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi made an appearance on the NBC Sports broadcast during the Giants’ loss to the Guardians last night, and he talked about four young players that have been performing well in camp. Blake Sabol was a Rule-5 draft pick who was selected by the Reds and then immediately traded […]
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Padres Name Blake Snell as the Opening Day Starter
The San Diego Padres have officially named left-handed pitcher Blake Snell as the team’s opening-day starter. The Padres will open up the season at Petco Park in San Diego as the friars host the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, March 30th. Last season for the San Diego Padres’ Blake Snell had an extremely promising season. After […]
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2023: The Year of the Oblique Injury
About a week ago, I was listening to my daily dose of the Just Baseball podcast, which you can find all their information on their website here. During one of their episodes, they prompted a question about Oblique Injuries and that there seemed to be more of them during this year’s spring training. Aram Leighton […]
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Josiah Gray Impresses vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Washington Nationals’ 24-year-old starting pitcher Josiah Gray threw six scoreless innings, with five strikeouts and no walks surrendered, improving to a 0.73 ERA this Spring. The right-hander totaled 85 pitches, his highest pitch count in four games pitched. The Cardinals collected four hits off Gray, including one extra-base hit off the bat of third baseman […]
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The Braves Curious Shortstop Decision
Entering spring training, the Braves have exactly one position that wasn’t filled by an incumbent player… shortstop. After seven seasons in Atlanta, shortstop Dansby Swanson signed with the Chicago Cubs this offseason for a whopping seven years and $177 million. Although the Braves would have loved to keep Swanson, Swanson was never going to accept […]
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Hillsboro Hops Set to Build New Ballpark
The Hillsboro Hops, the High-A affiliate for the Diamondbacks, are set to build a new ballpark to meet the new standards set by MLB when they realigned the minor leagues. In a press conference, Hops President and General Manager K.L. Wombacher said that when they signed the new professional development league contract with MLB in […]
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Should Andrew Painter Get Tommy John Surgery?
Coming into Spring Training, optimism was incredibly high in the Philadelphia Phillies camp in Clearwater, Florida. The team had just come off an unexpected trip to the World Series. They signed arguably the best shortstop in the game in Trea Turner over the winter and boasted the top pitching prospect in all of baseball. Andrew […]
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