With sports cards back on shelves in local Target and Walmart stores across the country, Fanatics is flexing their muscles on a still thriving marketplace. Just a year ago, Fanatics sent shockwaves through the trading card industry by obtaining exclusive licensing rights to manufacture trading cards for three of the four major sports in North America. This caused the $1,300,000,000 dollar SPAC...
Chris Bassitt was placed on the injured list Friday, the Mets announced. They added that right-hander R.J. Alvarez has been selected from Triple-A Syracuse, while Locke St. John was sent outright to Triple-A. Bassitt was placed on the IL for a non-injury issue, Anthony DiComo of MLB reported. This means it’s very likely related to COVID-19. DiComo added that Peterson will pitch Friday in...
Prior to game one of Tuesday’s doubleheader with the San Francisco Giants, the New York Mets announced that they have officially activated center fielder Brandon Nimmo from the COVID-19 injured list. Both Nimmo and Mark Canha have been on the shelf since testing positive for COVID prior to Friday afternoon’s home opener. Mets manager Buck Showalter indicated pregame Tuesday that it was possible...
With the Mets’ home opener less than two hours away, and on the same day the team is revealing the long-awaited Tom Seaver statue unveiling, the Mets are dealing with COVID-19 in their locker room. Hours before the game, Newsday’s Tim Healey reported a Mets staff member tested positive for COVID. Soon after that, he reported both Brandon Nimmo and Mark Canha tested positive for COVID...
New York Mets players not vaccinated against Covid-19 will not be allowed to play in home games this season, reports the NY Daily News. A Mets spokesperson told MLB.com reporter Anthony DiComo that the team is not publicly commenting on the news today. The Yankees say that president Randy Levine is “working with City Hall and all other appropriate officials on this.” Players on the...
Citi Field will become a mega COVID-19 vaccination site on a 24-hour basis from Wednesday’s through Saturday’s according to New York City councilmember Mark D. Levine. According to Levine, the appointments will consist of 50 percent for taxi drivers, delivery drivers and food service workers from anywhere in New York City, and 50 percent for residents of Queens in eligible...
Since 2015, no pitcher has appeared in more games than right-handed reliever Jared Hughes with 372. His 358.1 innings pitched in that span is the third-highest total, while his 61.4 percent ground-ball rate is the 11th-highest mark among qualified relievers. Hughes, 35, was a fourth-round pick by the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the 2006 MLB Draft out of California State University. He has been a...
According to the Washington Nationals, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will throw out the first pitch of the Nats’ — and MLB’s — 2020 season opener versus the New York Yankees in the nation’s capital on Thursday. Per the statement: The Washington Nationals are thrilled to announce that Nats super-fan [Dr....
The early response around baseball to MLB’s initial COVID-19 intake testing results — positive results were generated from 1.2 percent out of 3,185 samples taken from players and staff around the league — was generally positive. Confirmed cases were an inevitability considering the high-powered, highly contagious nature of this virus. Now, as camps have officially been open for...
As reported by Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News, Major League Baseball is “inclined to allow local and municipal governments to take precedence” with regards to fans being allowed in MLB stadiums this season. The COVID-19 pandemic brought MLB operations to a halt in March. Since then, multiple options for how to proceed with a shortened 2020 season have been discussed. As the...
It’s very easy to lose hope right now. Considering everything going on around us, it almost feels wrong to even think about baseball. And, yes, baseball would make these frightening times a bit more palatable. But there’s more at stake right now. Peaceful protesters standing up for the basic human rights of people of color — benefactors of centuries-old, racially-charged,...
Following Major League Baseball’s much-maligned “sliding scale” economic proposal to the MLB Players’ Association on Tuesday, per Andy Martino of SNY, an unspecified portion of players “met virtually on Tuesday” to mull over the league’s initial economic offer. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, MLB operations have been at a standstill since...
