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Red Sox Catcher Looking To Stay Hot Out Of Spring

Boston Red Sox catcher Connor Wong had himself a red hot spring training hitting .341 with two home runs in 16 games. Wong starts behind the dish tonight with Brayan Bello on the mound to start the season in Seattle. For more, check out the video above from “Red Sox First Pitch,” presented by Rodenhiser […]

Camden Chat

The Orioles will be counting on their loaded Triple-A team as the season goes along

Jackson Holliday won’t be in an Orioles uniform on Opening Day, but hopefully it won’t be long before he’s wearing one for real instead of just in spring training. | Photo by Julio Aguilar/ More than half of prospect-heavy Norfolk lineup could probably have made a bunch of MLB rosters One of the most readily apparent signs of the talent in the Orioles organization is how loaded the Triple-A Norfolk Tides roster is going to be to start the season. More than half of the starting lineup could probably have MLB jobs on multiple teams and three of the starting pitchers...

www.thegoodphight.com

What can we take away from the Phillies’ end to Spring Training?

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Does a rough finish indicate a slow start to the season? The Phillies started Spring Training well enough, with a 4-2-3 record over the first 8 days. Things went downhill from there however, going 5-13-4 the rest of the way, including a particularly uninspiring finish: #Phillies ended Spring Training on a 1-7-4 skid.Since 2006* the only other time they won only 1 of 12 in ST was 1-10-1 from late March 2023 through early March 2014.Never did it in a single Spring over that time.*when records begin#meaninglessbutnoteworthy@thegoodphight—...

Amazin Avenue

2024 Mets King of Spring Training, final poll

Photo by Megan Briggs/ It’s time to decide the 2024 KoST winner! I’m going to be honest here, folks. The bats this spring have looked very bleak. And that makes deciding a KoST winner pretty difficult. Almost universally, our pool of candidates on the offensive side declined since our last update. We do add one more name to the list in Zack Short, who was an unlikely candidate to make the team and managed to do so, which gives him some KoST potential. Other than that, the standout performers this spring have pretty much all been pitchers. There we add one...

Purple Row

Thursday Rockpile: In memory of a disheartening Spring Training

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, March 28, 2024 It’s been a long March. The month is typically reserved for hope and optimism for baseball fans as the air fills the sound of cleats on dirt and the crack of wooden bats as winter thaws into spring in MLB camps around Arizona and Florida. However, this year has been much less satisfying for not just Colorado Rockies fans, but fans of the game of baseball. Colorado’s performance and outlook is not the reason for this pessimism. Expectations are low after an abysmal 2023...

DodgerBlue.com

Dodgers News: Shohei Ohtani Wanted To Avoid ‘Distractions’ With Marriage Announcement

As the Los Angeles Dodgers were going through their final stretch of Spring Training, Shohei Ohtani announced...

Amazin Avenue

J.D. Martinez brings more than just a bat to the Mets

Photo by Norm Hall/ Is Martinez the avatar of the Mets in 2024? Despite what Max Scherzer was told in order to waive his no-trade clause, the Mets always insisted, at least in public, that they were going to attempt to field a playoff team in 2024. This may have seemed like wishful thinking at times, especially without significant signings that act as the most surefire way to hype a fanbase up to expect a winning season. But when J.D. Martinez signed a one-year, $12 million deal late in spring training, the Mets made their most compelling argument for competition this...

Bleed Cubbie Blue

Five things to keep an eye on as the Cubs 2024 season begins

Seiya Suzuki hits a home run in Spring Training | Photo by Chris Coduto/ These factors could be the difference between making the playoffs or not It’s Opening Day, y’all, and hope springs eternal around Wrigley Field. Most projection systems see the Cubs as being competitive in a weak National League Central division, but in shouting distance of first place. Today I want to take a look at the factors that could make or break our October dreams as Cubs fans. Is this the Seiya we’ve been waiting for? Seiya Suzuki has had his ups and downs in a Cubs uniform so far....

MASN: Mark Zuckerman

Game 1 lineups: Nats at Reds

CINCINNATI – And away we go!Forget about anything that happened last season. Forget about anything that happened over the winter. Forget about anything that happened during spring training. It all made for great conversation and debate, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Starting today, we have actual baseball to watch and evaluate.The 20th season of Washington Nationals baseball begins on the road. It’s actually the first time the Nats have opened on the road since 2018, when rookie manager Davey Martinez debuted with a win in … Cincinnati! This is the eighth road opener in club history,...

Pinstripe Alley

Presenting the 2024 Yankees Roster Season Preview

Dan Brink Will this be the year for Aaron Judge and company? Maybe it was the unusual postseason that did not feature the Yankees at all. Maybe it’s the sheer excitement of Juan Soto being a Yankee. Maybe it’s just the pure, baseball-loving genes that reemerge near the outset of every spring training, no matter how irritating the previous year ended. But boy, am I ready for Yankees baseball. So with that, we are starting our 2024 season preview series even earlier than normal. We’re just ready to write about the guys who will almost definitely be on the Opening...

Amazin Avenue

An updated vibe check on the 2024 Mets

Rich Storry-USA TODAY Sports How are we feeling about the 2024 Mets now that the season is about to start? Back in mid-February, we collected our feelings about the 2024 Mets and put them in a post. But with spring training in the books, Opening Day just about upon us, Kodai Senga starting the year on the injured list, and J.D. Martinez signed and coming soon as the team’s regular DH, we thought we’d take our collective baseball temperature again. Allison McCague In the February vibe check, I lamented how many free agents who could help the Mets remained unsigned...

South Side Sox

Bird App Recap: Losing slightly less ugly?

Ah, Opening Day. The only day of the baseball calendar the White Sox will be .500 ... Happy Opening Day, Sox fans!! Rise and shine! We play baseball at Guaranteed Rate Field today. pic.twitter.com/ptVwu4lt1H— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 28, 2024 Here’s your starting lineup: Game 1. pic.twitter.com/iAcJwP7jqn— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) March 28, 2024 And the faithful react: Absolute garbage. pic.twitter.com/13xzhUK7Ud— Ross Evan (@REC21) March 28, 2024 He’s not wrong ... Spring training is finished guys you can play some major leaguers...

Royals Review

Welcome to Royals Review in 2024!

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals advances to second base in the sixth inning during a spring training game against the Chicago Cubs at Surprise Stadium on March 05, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Aaron Doster/ Hello, welcome! We hope you stay. Hello there, you. Yes, you, the reader! My name is Matthew LaMar; I’m a writer and editor for this here website, and I’m pleased to welcome you to Royals Review, a website by Kansas City Royals fans for Kansas City Royals fans. There’s a lot of stuff happening in the Royals baseball world right now. The...

DodgerBlue.com

Dodgers Spring Training: Camelback Ranch Average Attendance In 2024 Sets New Record

The Los Angeles Dodgers played a truncated Spring Training schedule because of starting the 2024 season early...

The Seattle Times

Analysis: 4 thoughts about the Mariners as spring training ends

With an off-day to endure before the 2024 season officially opens Thursday night at T-Mobile Park, here are four thoughts about the Mariners as spring training ends.

The Seattle Times

Mariners rally in ninth, end spring training with winning record

Seattle scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning then held off the the Padres in San Diego to finish the spring with a 15-13-3 record.

Bleed Cubbie Blue

Today in 1984 Cubs history: The Gary Matthews/Bob Dernier trade changed everything

The Cubs struggled through a painful spring training, and then Dallas Green made a deal that defined the 1984 team. The Cubs lost 91 games in 1983, two more than they had in 1982, the first year of “Building A New Tradition” under Tribune Co. and general manager Dallas Green. In fact, they had hovered around .500 as late as June 19, when they were 30-32, but went 41-59 the rest of the way, the worst record in the National League. That got manager Lee Elia fired. When spring training began in 1984, the Cubs had made just two significant player moves since the end of...

Brew Crew Ball

Brewers finish spring slate with 6-1 loss to Rockies

Photo by Chris Coduto/ Aaron Ashby allowed five runs in the loss. Box Score The spring training schedule came to an end for the Brewers on Tuesday afternoon. With a lineup filled with minor league players, they finished up the spring with a 6-1 loss to the Rockies. Aaron Ashby got the start for the Brewers in a final tune up before the regular season. It was a rough day for him, as he allowed five runs and ten hits in 5 1⁄3 innings of work. He also struck out four and walked one. The Brewers bullpen was solid from there, covering the remaining 3 2⁄3 innings with...

Amazin Avenue

We’re all rooting for Zack Short

Photo by Rich Storry/ The feel good story of late spring has arrived. On Sunday morning, Zack Short got a phone call that many of us have experienced: his grandmother had passed away. Short, in his first spring training with the Mets, could not join his family in the Kingston area to be with his grandmother as she died. As much fun as it seems like being a pro ballplayer is, this is the downside: you’re a thousand miles away for moments that don’t get a do-over. You miss a lot. But just a few hours later, Short was told that he made the Opening Day roster for the...

Pinstripe Alley

Yankees 2024 Season Preview: Jahmai Jones

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports A former top prospect who wasn’t in camp to start the spring looks to open the season on the bench. Every year, a player that nobody had on the Yankees’ radar finds themselves on the roster. Having made the team out of spring training, acquired via a trade for cash considerations or through the waiver wire, or signed off the couch, these players often find themselves playing a much larger role that anyone could have dreamed. Sometimes, like Matt Carpenter in 2022 or Mike Tauchman in 2019, they are pleasant surprises who provide a...

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Twins spring is clouded by lack of pitching depth, Jhoan Duran's injury

Closer Jhoan Duran's injury is just the poster for a horrible spring training for a Twins pitching staff that already suffered from a lack of depth.

DodgerBlue.com

Jared Karros Had ‘Good Experience’ Pitching For Dodgers While Father Eric Karros Called Game

The Los Angeles Dodgers concluded their 2024 Spring Training slate with a final exhibition Freeway...

NESN.com

Red Sox Aren’t Running From Last-Place Finishes, 2024 Expectations

The Boston Red Sox are looking to avoid their third consecutive last-place finish, and though the front-office chose not to make any overtures to the roster, the on-field contributors plan on finding success in 2024. It’s what Red Sox manager Alex Cora expects, anyway. Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic spent spring training speaking with members […]

NESN.com

What Latest Jordan Montgomery Update Says About Red Sox Pitching Belief

The Boston Red Sox are entering the season without an external addition to the starting rotation, which seemed to be the biggest need of the offseason. Lucas Giolito had been the lone addition before he suffered a season-ending elbow injury during spring training. Tuesday night seemingly signaled the end of any more additions for the […]

AZ Snake Pit

Arizona Diamondbacks: April confidence poll

Photo by Steve Boyle/MLB Photos via On the eve of the season, how are we feeling? March results Last time we checked in, spring training was kinda sorta beginning to get under way, with the early stages of the position battles just warming up. But there was still not very much actual data to go on, with barely a week’s worth of games, and as usual, anyone you know was typically gone by the end of the fifth inning. Unsurprisingly therefore, we did not have a great deal of change in the numbers between the beginning of February and the start of March. Here’s what we...

Amazin Avenue

José Quintana is an unlikely Opening Day starter

Photo by Rich Storry/ The veteran lefty hopes to build on his successful, but limited, 2023 season. This wasn’t how Opening Day was supposed to go. Depending on when you were projecting the Mets’ Opening Day starter, you either had optimism that Yoshinobu Yamamoto was going to be the newest Met and would take the hill on March 28th. If it was on the first day of Spring Training, you likely thought Kodai Senga would be introduced from the bullpen at Citi Field. Or, if a few weeks ago, after Yamamoto signed with Los Angeles and Senga injured his shoulder, you maybe...

MASN: School of Roch

Orioles eager to play games that count

The Orioles won 23 exhibition games, the most in club history. Their .793 winning percentage also ranked first. And it meant roughly the same as crap.The real stuff begins Thursday or Friday, depending on the weather.Winning is always better than losing unless your goal is to tank. However, spring training games don’t feature the best players for nine innings. Bullpen moves aren’t usually strategic except to provide innings and work. And the results include split-squads with some of the opponents in Sarasota bringing unrecognizable names on the travel roster.At least the Orioles’ minor...

Purple Row

Wednesday Rockpile: Breaking down the Rockies Opening Day roster

Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, March 27, 2024 After roughly six weeks of rigorous spring training action and evaluation, the Opening Day roster has finally become clear after lots of speculation and theorizing, Now, as we wait for the regular season to begin tomorrow in Arizona, how will the Colorado Rockies initially set up for the 162 game marathon? Catcher (2): Elias Díaz, Jacob Stalling Entering the final year of the three-year extension he signed after the 2021 season, Elias Díaz will once again be tasked with catching the bulk of the 2024 season....

Alex Cora ahead of Red Sox spring training game vs. Yankees

Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora addresses the media before the Red Sox-Yankees spring training matchup. First pitch is at 1 p.m. ET.

Alex Rodriguez "Meets the Mets" at spring training in Port St. Lucie

Baseball legend Alex Rodriguez stops by New York Mets spring training in Port St. Lucie and catches up with players and coaches, and becomes the biggest star in camp.

Dustin Pedroia Focused On Getting Better Every Day, No Target Date

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia chats 1-on-1 with NESN's Kacie McDonnell about his rehab, spring training and his ultimate return to the Sox lineup. For more: https://nesn.com/boston-red-sox/