Tag Archives: Baseball

The Head-to-Head categories format, which pits two teams against each other each week while implementing 5×5 scoring rather than points, tends to be most popular on competitor sites like Yahoo but is of course also available through CBS. And it brings its own challenges that allow for distinct approaches. The quirks are worth noting upfront: two utility spots instead of one, four flex pitcher spots in addition to two SPs… Source link

Major League Baseball will not require minor-league players to be vaccinated in the upcoming season, a reversal from plans originally reported by Yahoo Sports in October. Since then, vaccine mandates have come under legal fire across the country. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked a rule introduced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that would have required large companies to mandate vaccines or weekly testing for workers. In response, OSHA withdrew the… Source link

MLB locked out its players just after midnight ET Thursday, triggering the league’s first work stoppage since the 1994 strike that canceled the World Series. It is a long expected, but still significant, escalation of the tense negotiations to craft a new collective bargaining agreement and shape the future of the sport. The existing CBA, an expansive document that governs everything from payroll rules to travel accommodations, expired Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Minutes later, the league… Source link

New Bet & Watch Feature Allows Fans to Watch a Live MLB Game in the DraftKings App BOSTON and NEW YORK, July 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Major League Baseball and DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) today announced a strategic sportsbook expansion and an extension of its existing Daily Fantasy Sports and sports betting relationship which will include expanded promotional rights and content inclusive of the sports betting category. Among the key components of the expanded relationship are rights… Source link

Although many players disappointed this year, a few are driving fantasy managers crazy to a greater degree than all others. I’ve identified three players — Eugenio Suarez, Francisco Lindor, and Brandon Lowe — who deserve a deep dive on their early season struggles. Are these players about to turn things around? Let’s find out. Eugenio Suarez, Cincinnati Reds What has gone right: Suarez continues to hit for power and is on pace for roughly 35 homers, 90 RBIs, and 80 runs scored. What has… Source link

You have roster needs, we have sensible solutions. All players featured here are available in a majority of Yahoo leagues and all can (hopefully) help your fantasy squad. Let’s go prospecting… Jarren Duran, OF, Boston Red Sox (10% rostered) Let’s get ahead of the next buzzy call-up by getting Duran stashed today — right now. Do it. Duran has homered six times in his last 12 games, including a walk-off opposite-field bomb on Sunday: He’s up to 13 homers on the season at Triple-A along with… Source link

(Photo by Rod Mar/MLB Photos via Getty Images) A former sports reporter who covered the Texas Rangers wrote in an essay published Sunday that she was raped by an MLB player in 2002.  Kat O’Brien wrote about the alleged attack in an essay for the New York Times headlined “I am breaking my silence about the baseball player who raped me.” O’Brien declined to name her alleged attacker but clarified that he was not a member of the Rangers.  O’Brien described the attack as taking place in a hotel… Source link

The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. The Rockies were rightly maligned for the Nolan Arenado trade, but it does look like they got a pretty good one back in the deal in Austin Gomber. Gomber twirled a gem on Monday in Colorado against the Padres, hurling a career-high-tying eight shutout innings in the Rockies’ 3-2 victory…. Source link

There’s never a right person to hit in the knee with a baseball bat on an MLB field, but a person you definitely don’t want to hit is the reigning American League MVP. And yet, we got what happened during Wednesday’s Chicago White Sox game, which saw a brief scare when home plate umpire Erich Bacchus attempted to clear away a bat before a play at the plate. Unfortunately, Bacchus tossed the bat without seeing White Sox star Jose Abreu running behind him: Abreu, who had been on deck for the… Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link