Basketball has triple-doubles. You could call what Mitch Voit did Friday night a double-triple. The 21-year-old shortstop connected for three hits and stole three bases in High-A Brooklyn’s 4-0 victory over Hudson Valley. Voit is slashing .248/.358/.414 with 11 homers and leads the team in stolen bases with 34, which is tied for second in the South Atlantic League. The 2025 first-round...
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Ron Hunt, a Met infielder from 1963-1966, the first player in team history to start an All-Star Game and the runner-up for the 1963 N.L. Rookie of the Year, has died in his hometown of St. Louis, the team announced Friday on X. He was 85. The team said he had been in hospice care battling several illnesses for the last month. Hunt played the first four of his 12 MLB seasons with the Mets. He hit...
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MLB owners support sending players to the Olympics for the first time in 2028, but it may not happen because of several issues with the players’ union, including a “mandatory participation agreement” sources told Jeff Passan of ESPN in a report posted Tuesday. The 2028 Games will be held in Los Angeles and the league plans to shut down baseball for 11 days to play an All-Star...
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There was a Sports Illustrated cover in 1999 that pictured John Olerud, Edgardo Alfonzo, Rey Ordóñez and Robin Ventura along with the headline “The Best Infield Ever?” Bold prediction: the 2026 infield will not find its way onto a magazine cover. Let’s look at grades for the infielders and catchers so far. Mark Vientos, Grade: D- The player who hit 27 homers in 2024 and added...
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Clay Holmes, SP Position: RHP Age: 33 (3/27/93) 2026 Stats: 4-4, 2.39 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 52 2/3 IP, 45 SO, 18 BB, 3 HR, 9 GS 2026 Advanced Stats: 1.2 fWAR, 3.90 xERA, 174 ERA+, 3.23 FIP, 3.71 xFIP, 20.9 K%, 8.4 BB%, .206 BA Against, .252 BABIP Rundown Clay Holmes was off to an excellent start this year when he was hit by a 111 mph comebacker off the bat of Spencer Jones of the Yankees and fractured...
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