New York Mets reliever Huascar Brazobán threw four dominant hitless innings in the World Baseball Classic, striking out seven batters and walking only one. This included striking out Will Smith, Roman Anthony, and Brice Turang of Team USA. Additionally, he has thrown three scoreless innings so far in spring training, allowing just a hit and a walk. So is this just a nice seven-inning stretch, or...
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Per Eric Logenhagen of FanGraphs, Major League Baseball will be testing several potential future rule changes in the minors this year, including one that fans may recognize from spring training: starting pitcher reentry. Starting Pitcher Re-Entry This new rule would allow a pitcher to re-enter the game after being removed. There are three important caveats to this rule: Only the starting pitcher...
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February 10, 2025, the New York Mets released their spring training roster. Two absent names that may surprise readers were starting pitcher Nolan McLean and outfielder Carson Benge. Benge did get into one spring training game on March 7, 2025, where he played four innings in center field and was struck out by Evan Reifert in his sole at-bat. McLean did not make it into a spring training game....
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Updated Post – March 13 at 4:27 p.m. ET MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo stated that Francisco Lindor completed a full round of batting practice on the field today for the first time this spring since undergoing hamate surgery in February. Lindor proceeded to take living batting practice against A.J. Minter, who is on the mend after undergoing left lat surgery last May, and hit a ground-rule...
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As of March 13, 2026, Tobias Myers has thrown 8 1/3 innings across three spring training games to a 1.08 ERA and 0.96 WHIP. He has a 28.1% strikeout rate to a 6.8% walk rate with a 28.8% whiff rate, 34.4% chase rate, and has yet to give up a barrel. It is a small sample size, so why dive into this? The reason is that Myers has made legitimate changes this spring that could signal a step forward...
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