Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a real-life MLB game. The first one in four months or so, though the stakes in this one will be considerably lower than the last one. This time, the Dodgers and Cubs ...
Throwing harder is better, especially during the spring, when most pitchers are still rounding up. It's not everything, but you'd rather see higher velocity readings than lower. Here's what stood out ...
View post: Ernie Clement Is Hitting .308 on a Profile That Shouldn’t Work. Enjoy It While It Lasts. A year ago, Juan Soto hit a HR in his first Mets spring training plate appearance. Practically every ...
A year ago, Juan Soto hit a HR in his first Mets spring training plate appearance. Practically every Mets fan took that as a sign that the big contract wasn’t going to slow him down and he’d be ...
LAKELAND, Fla. — Drew Anderson is 29 years old, and the synopsis of his baseball career already reads like a travelogue. There was a trip through the Philadelphia Phillies’ farm system, a year spent ...
Sunday was a split-squad day for the Phillies, one of two during spring training. Half the team stayed in Clearwater with Kyle Schwarber, Nick Castellanos, Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm and J.T. Realmuto in ...
JUPITER, Fla. — A gray, drizzly day in what has otherwise been a sunny, warm spring in Florida wasn’t conducive to high velocity pitches for two veteran Mets pitchers. What Sean Manaea and Craig ...
Spring training is, almost entirely, a bag of lies. A small-sample mirage shrouded in empty hope. Besides the occasional gut-wrenching, catastrophic injury, spring exhibition games provide little in ...
SURPRISE, Ariz. - Here's a kind of sentence you don't often hear in mid-February and on the second day of spring training exhibition games. "It's cool when it feels like you played catch on that one ...
New York Mets on SI’s Troy Brock relayed details from MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo, who reported how Diaz’s velocity has plummeted from last season to now: “Diaz has sat between 93 and 95 MPH this spring, ...
JUPITER, Fla. — After a year marred first by an oblique strain suffered in spring training and an elbow issue in July, it was somewhat eye-opening to see Sean Manaea’s velocity drop by more than 3 mph ...