Mike Piazza has spent the past few years trying to rebuild the foundation of baseball in Italy. What does a challenge that imposing involve for the Hall of Fame catcher? I spoke with him to find out:
Elvis Andrus said the Guardians would eventually crumble.
AJ Pollock - after last night’s loss - said “let’s see what they feel like when you get a little closer and feel us.”
The White Sox just never took Cleveland seriously, and it’s showing in this series.
The White Sox have spent the bulk of the season essentially saying “just wait until we get our act together.” By the time they finally did, they found out they gave the Guardians way too much time to become an extremely confident team.
The umpires just called Myles Straw back to first after ruling that Gabriel Arias interfered with Victor Caratini on the stolen-base attempt. You be the judge.
Last summer, I followed the Kane County Cougars through their first season as an unaffiliated team. Discarded by MLB, they had to self-fund everything one year after losing a season to COVID-19.
Here’s Part 1 of my
@PitcherList
story on how they survived.
Entering today, since the All-Star break:
Steven Kwan: .213 average, . 617 OPS
Josh Naylor: .217 average, .683 OPS
Add in the fact that José Ramírez now has 3 hits in his past 29 at-bats and you have a top-heavy Guardians lineup with a severely underperforming top.
Skip Bayless, responding to Shannon Sharpe saying Fox asked him to clarify his Damar Hamlin tweet: “No they did not.”
Skip Bayless yesterday, word for word: “My boss here at Fox called and said, ‘Hey, people are really reacting strongly to your tweet, maybe you should clarify.’”