The Oakland Athletics have made their desire to move to Las Vegas well-known. Major League Baseball’s owners have to vote on the move for it to be approved, and that vote may take place at an owners’ meeting set for mid-June in New York. Before that vote can occur, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Lindsay Adler, the state of Nevada has to approve a...
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As of May 31, Major League Baseball is producing and marketing television coverage of San Diego Padres’ games. This is not an unexpected development, as Diamond Sports Network, the parent company of Bally’s Sports Network (a series of Regional Sports Networks, RSNs), including the one that had produced Padres’ games on television, recently filed for bankruptcy and was in...
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The 2023 season began with several rule changes in place, all of which were designed to quicken the pace of play and add certain elements of offense back into the game. According to an article in The Athletic by Jayson Stark, the rule changes are hitting their respective marks to a degree that even commissioner Rob Manfred may not have been able to imagine. Base Runners Per Game The 2022...
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The baseball world lost a former pitcher and dynamic personality on May 6, when former Oakland Athletic, San Francisco Giant, and Kansas City Royal Vida Blue passed away in the East Bay Area of Northern California. He was 73 years old. Blue made his major league debut in July of 1969, making 12 appearances. He returned in 1970 to make six starts. In his first, he one-hit the Kansas City Royals...
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The 2023 Major League Baseball season features some new looks. There are pitch clocks, larger bases, shift restrictions, and pitcher disengagement from the rubber limits. The idea behind all of these innovations is to decrease “dead air” during games, and encourage more in-game action, with more hits, greater numbers of stolen bases, and an increase in balls put in play. We know that...
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