Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/cooper-tanking-didnt-get-orioles-to-101-wins/ Reposted here for testing purposes only. When the Orioles won 101 games in 2023, many viewed them as yet another example of a team succeeding by tanking. The team was awful, it landed top picks in the draft. It hit on those picks and after losing for years, it finally won. It’s […]
Future Projection Episode 81: Should Wyatt Langford & Jackson Holliday Start In The Big Leagues?
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/future-projection-episode-81-should-wyatt-langford-jackson-holliday-start-in-the-big-leagues/ Reposted for testing purposes only. Ben and Carlos chat about spring training standouts in big league camp, headlined by two players in the very elite tier of baseball prospects who have a case to start the year in the majors: Jackson Holliday and Wyatt Langford. Ben and Carlos talk about the cases […]
O, The Places You’ll Go: Here’s How The 2024 Orioles Were Built
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/o-the-places-youll-go-heres-how-the-2024-orioles-were-built/ Reposted here for Testing Purposes. Below, we offer a timeline of how the 2024 Baltimore Orioles—one of baseball’s most intriguing clubs this season—were built over the past several years. 2018 Oct. 3: Orioles fire president of baseball operations Dan Duquette following a 115-loss season. He led Baltimore to three postseason appearances, but trades […]
Evan Carter, Wyatt Langford Give Rangers Bridge From Present To Future
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/evan-carter-wyatt-langford-give-rangers-bridge-from-present-to-future/ Reposted here for Testing Purposes. In 2023, Evan Carter was a revelation. The Rangers outfielder hit his way to the big leagues by September, and then was so impressive in his short stint in the regular year that he was included on the postseason roster. By the time Texas’ run finished, Carter had reached […]
New York Yankees Breakout MLB Prospects Entering 2024
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/new-york-yankees-breakout-mlb-prospects-entering-2024/ Reposted here for Testing Purposes. Entering 2024, we’re examining multiple Yankees prospects on the verge of a breakout season. To qualify as a breakout prospect for this exercise, a player must rank outside the Top 10 Prospects in his organization entering the year. You can find all of our preseason prospect rankings here and […]
MLB Breakout Prospects To Watch In 2024 For Every Team
Original Article:https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-breakout-prospects-to-watch-in-2024-for-every-team/ Reposted here for Testing Purposes. The start of the new season brings renewed promise for every MLB organization and, without fail, a slew of breakout prospects who boost their stock once games get underway. We try to predict those breakouts each year at Baseball America as part of our Preseason Top 30 prospect […]
Spencer Strider’s New Curveball Could Lead To Frightening Results In 2024
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/spencer-striders-new-curveball-could-lead-to-frightening-results-in-2024/Reposted here for Testing Purposes. A meteor hit baseball on Opening Day in 2022. That evening, Spencer Strider came out of the bullpen against the Reds to work two perfect innings while striking out five. The 2020 fourth-round pick out of Clemson had officially debuted the year prior, but many still overlooked the mustachioed […]
Noelvi Marte, Reds’ No. 1 Prospect, Suspended 80 Games For Positive PED Test
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/noelvi-marte-reds-no-1-prospect-suspended-80-games-for-positive-ped-test/Reposted here for Testing Purposes. Noelvi Marte was suspended 80 games by the commissioner’s office after testing positive for Boldenone. Classified as a performance enhancing drug, this was a violation of the league’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The news was announced on Friday, March 8. Marte is the Reds’ No. 1 prospect and […]
Who is driving your decisions?
A lot of our decisions from day to day happen when our brains are on autopilot. This is a feature of evolution that helps us, say, drive to work without having to think about it too hard. But the same human instincts can lead us to make bad decisions. A little extra awareness will help you […]
The Padres Are Set To Field a Lineup Of Shortstops
Original Article: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/the-padres-are-set-to-field-a-lineup-of-shortstops/Reposted here for Testing Purposes. Whenever a team with a quality shortstop drafts a shortstop in the first round, we at Baseball America will get questions asking why a team would pick a player at a spot where they are already set at the big league level. And invariably, we’ll answer that shortstops […]