Dominican Republic news outlet, Nuria Piera, reports that the Dominican Republic will host Spring Training games in 2020 as translated by Hector Gomez. It is also mentioned that the Dominican Republic will host regular-season games in 2021. Vince Lara-Cinisomo of Baseball America detailed a plan in 2017 that MLB had to have games played across the world back in 2017.
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The Washington Nationals and St.Louis Cardinals prevailed as the winner’s in Wednesday’s pair of Game 5’s after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, respectively. Atlanta, who won the NL East with a 97-65 record, started off the night by giving up 10 runs in the first inning in what ended up being a 13-1 loss. In the second and much more exciting game, the...
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Brian McCann announced his retirement after the Atlanta Braves 13-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLDS. McCann, 35, played in parts of 15 seasons in the game, 10 of which he spent with the Atlanta Braves who he returned to for his final season with a one-year, $2 million contract. In his career split between the Braves, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros, the catcher hit...
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Derrick S. Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Atlanta Braves have decided to remove the foam tomahawks from the seats of SunTrust Park for Game 5 of the NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals. This is in response to comments made by Cardinals’ reliever Ryan Helsley, who is of Cherokee heritage, in which he referred to the ‘Tomahawk Chop’ chant at Braves’...
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Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic reports that the New York Mets will interview both Carlos Beltran and Mike Bell in- person. In addition, he confirms a report made by Jon Heyman of MLB Network earlier that Joe Girardi will also get an in-person interview. Joel Sherman of the New York Post adds that John Gibbons is also among the names being considered, while Buck Showalter has not been contacted....
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