The 2024 HOF has been announced: 3B Adrian Beltre, 1B Todd Helton, and 1B/C Joe Mauer join Manager Jim Leyland for the 2024 Class of Hall of Famers. Closer Billy Wagner fell short of joining the group by five votes on his ninth ballot, and Mauer slid in on his first ballot by only four votes. Adrian Beltre felt like a like for most fans ans writers to get into the Hall on his first ballot, while Joe Mauer's case wasn't so surefire for many...
After signing arguably the second-best Pitcher to come out of the NPB this offseason to a very club friendly deal in Shota Inamaga, the Cubs make more moves soon after to address their gaping 1B hole. Before the Inamaga deal has even been announced officially, they moved 19-year old LHP prospect Jackson Ferris and 18-year old CF Zyhir Hope to the Dodgers in return for their #2 prospect INF Michael Busch who played 72 MLB games in 2023 as well as...
We saw a handful of NPB players come over from the far East in Kodai Senga, Masataka Yoshida, as well as Shintaro Fujinami in the 2022 offseason. Just a year later, we have NPB pitchers in Yoshida Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, Yuki Matsui, Naoyuki Uwasawa, as well as KBO stars in outfielder Jung Hoo Lee and pitcher Go Woo Suk. This is without a doubt one of the largest NPB/KBO free agent classes to be posted in MLB history, and just when teams are in...
After signing Shohei Ohtani officially to a 10-year, $700MM dollar deal on Monday, there was a lot of talk about this move in terms of financials. The main reason for that being the news that Shohei Ohtani will only be making $2MM per season, for a total of $20MM over the decade that he will be playing with the team, from 2024-2033. Then he would receive $68MM payments in deferred money from the $680MM left over on the contract, every year,...
Jeff Fletcher has covered the Angels since 2013. Before that, he spent 11 years covering the Giants and A's and working as a national baseball writer. Jeff is a Hall of Fame voter. In 2015, he was elected chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. And as we learn today, has written a book about Shohei Ohtani called 'Sho-Time', which he'll be soon adding a new chapter to. Randy Nuñez: Thank you Jeff...
You may have heard or watched my episode about the Baseball United League based out of Dubai, and a mention about the leagues' inaugural draft back on October 23rd of 2023. Of the 80 men drafted, one young man, draft pick #79 overall, 22-year old Ernest Ohandza Jr. from the capital and second largest city in Cameroon, Yaoundé, stood out. I quickly looked up videos of him on YouTube, as he had been drafted as a right-handed pitcher for the...
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