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Alexander: Dodgers great Don Sutton learned well from his elders3h ago ( January 19, 2021 at 9:35 PM )  Tags: Usa, New York, Washington Post, White House, Angels, Sports, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, SEC, Sports Illustrated, Houston, Giants, Yankees, Major League Baseball 59 people like this. Like Don Sutton, Hall of Fame pitcher for Dodgers, dies at 756h ago ( January 19, 2021 at 6:25 PM )  Tags: Washington, Angels, Sports, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, Giants, Yankees, Hall of Fame, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks 138 people like this. Like Angels agree with catcher Kurt Suzuki on busy day for dealsJanuary 15, 2021 at 1:55 PM The Angels reportedly agreed with veteran catcher Kurt Suzuki on a one-year, $1.5-million deal on Friday, providing another option with Max Stassi rehabbing from hip surgery.
The Angels have not announced the deal, which was reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
It was part of a busy day for the Angels, who also settled with three of their arbitration-eligible players and opened the international signing period by inking at least two players.
Suzuki, 37, spent the past two years with the Wa...Tags: Washington, Angels, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Gm, Mlb, Stassi, Cal State Fullerton, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves, Guzman, Braves, Suzuki, Dylan Bundy, Baseball America 25 people like this. Like Free agent left-hander Alex Wood leaves Dodgers for rival GiantsJanuary 14, 2021 at 10:23 PM Left-hander Alex Wood pitched 14 innings in three separate World Series for the Dodgers – including two scoreless innings in the clinching Game 6 last fall – but he will be pitching for their rival next season.
Wood agreed to a one-year contract with the San Francisco Giants on Thursday. The contract guarantees him $3 million in salary but could double through a series of incentives.
Wood joins reliever Pedro Baez as free agents leaving the Dodgers. Baez signed a two-year deal with the Houston A...Tags: Sports, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, San Francisco Giants, Giants, Wood, Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, Tampa Bay Rays, Dodgers, Yasiel Puig, Braves 18 people like this. Like Photos: Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda through the yearsJanuary 8, 2021 at 3:18 PM  Tags: Washington, Sports, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Chicago, Soccer, Mlb, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia, Candlestick Park, Montreal, Seattle, Major League Baseball, Hall of Fame 83 people like this. Like Hoornstra: As MLB seeks a return to normal, why not extend the CBA?January 6, 2021 at 8:17 PM A modest goal for 2021 is a healthy sense of optimism. Call it a resolution, if you will.
There is a sense of optimism around the 2021 baseball season. Schedules for the Cactus League, Grapefruit League, and regular season have been out for months. Major League Baseball has a universal regular-season start date of April 1. That means pitchers and catchers can be invited to spring training as early as Feb. 17 under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Myriad details remain – health a...Tags: Sports, Sport, Soccer, Nba, Mlb, Associated Press, Tbs, Club, NHL, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, CBA, St Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres 42 people like this. Like Influential people who died in 2020December 31, 2020 at 12:27 PM  Tags: News, Business, Obituaries, Top Stories Breeze, Top Stories IVDB, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories LBPT, Top Stories OCR, Top Stories PE, Top Stories PSN, Top Stories RDF, Top Stories SGVT, Top Stories Sun, Top Stories WDN 87 people like this. Like Phil Niekro, Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at the age of 81December 27, 2020 at 3:03 PM Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro has died at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced on Sunday.Tags: Cnn, Atlanta Braves, Baseball Hall of Fame, Phil Niekro, Phil Niekro Hall 15 people like this. Like Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro has diedDecember 27, 2020 at 3:03 PM Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro has died at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced on Sunday.Tags: News, Stories, Hall of Fame, Atlanta Braves, Baseball Hall of Fame, Phil Niekro 9 people like this. Like Baseball Hall of Famer, knuckleballer Phil Niekro dies at 81December 27, 2020 at 1:39 PM ATLANTA — Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, has died after a long fight with cancer, the team announced Sunday. He was 81.
The Braves said Niekro died Saturday night in his sleep. He lived in the Atlanta suburb of Flowery Branch, where a main thoroughfare bears his name.
Niekro won 318 games over his 24-year career, which ended in 1987 at age 48 after he m...Tags: New York, Milwaukee, Sports, Atlanta, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, Joe, National League, Dodgers, Braves, Baseball Hall of Fame, Gaylord, Freddie Freeman 41 people like this. Like Alexander: Scott Boras suggests a baseball CEO – what if MLB offered it to him?December 16, 2020 at 7:08 PM The question is probably moot because Scott Boras is already one of baseball’s most influential people.
But during the agent’s Zoom conversation with national and local baseball writers this week – a substitute for his annual press conference at the Winter Meetings – among his tidbits was a suggestion that the game should hire a CEO to deal with some of the business aspects of the game that the lawyers in Commissioner Rob Manfred’s office don’t handle so well.
If you worked for MLB, wouldn’t thi...Tags: Sports, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, Major League Baseball, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Alexander, Dodgers, Boras, Scott Boras, Rob Manfred, Manfred, Braves 49 people like this. Like The Atlanta Braves want to help preserve the native Cherokee languageDecember 15, 2020 at 1:44 PM It's the latest step from a sports team to address the use of Native American culture in their names and imagery.Tags: Cnn, Atlanta Braves 19 people like this. Like Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue 'adamantly oppose' any effort to rename Atlanta BravesDecember 15, 2020 at 8:17 AM  Tags: News, Georgia, Atlanta Braves, Athens Banner-Herald, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, Kelly Loeffler David Perdue 125 people like this. Like Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue ‘Adamantly Oppose’ Changing Atlanta Braves’ NameDecember 15, 2020 at 5:01 AM The GOP senators insist the name honors Native Americans. They didn't mention the team's "tomahawk chop" chant.Tags: News, Gop, Atlanta Braves, Kelly Loeffler David Perdue 33 people like this. Like Georgia senators defend Atlanta Braves' name after the Cleveland Indians' announce name changeDecember 14, 2020 at 7:37 PM Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, R-Ga., made clear Monday night they oppose any possibility of the Atlanta Braves renaming their...Tags: Georgia, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, David Perdue R Ga, Sens Kelly Loeffler 33 people like this. Like "After years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name..."December 14, 2020 at 5:08 PM "... moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday. The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L. in July to stop using a name long considered a racial slur, and is part of a larger national conversation about race that magnified this year amid protests of systemic racism and police violence.... One option that the team is considering, two of the people said, is moving forward without a replace...Tags: Law, Hosiery, Animals, Birds, Ohio, Native Americans, Tigers, Baseball, Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland, Mascots, Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Trump, Diamondbacks 50 people like this. Like Mookie Betts adds All-MLB selection to list of honors in first season with DodgersDecember 9, 2020 at 8:50 PM The All-Star Game scheduled for Dodger Stadium in 2020 was postponed. But the All-MLB teams were announced on Wednesday, giving baseball’s best players another way to pad their résumés.
In his first season with the Dodgers, right fielder Mookie Betts was named to the All-MLB first team. Shortstop Corey Seager and starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw were named to the All-MLB second team. Justin Turner was a finalist at third base.
The All-MLB awards were started in 2019. Selections were made by a co...Tags: Washington, Angels, Sports, Atlanta, Sport, Soccer, San Diego, Mlb, Oakland, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay 1 people like this. Like Hoornstra: Giving thanks for baseball in 2020November 25, 2020 at 5:34 PM It’s been a strange year. I became a father in February. The seasons changed without sports to tell me which seasons were changing. Then in July, I wrote the most morbid baseball season preview paragraph in the history of baseball season preview paragraphs:
This season will not be normal, and not merely because it’s so short. COVID-19 is thought to attack blood vessels, not hamstrings or rotator cuffs. We can’t be certain how much time any individual player will need to recover from their bout w...Tags: Milwaukee, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Brooklyn, Mlb, Philadelphia, Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Turner, St Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, World Series 11 people like this. Like Angels sign slugging journeyman Scott Schebler to minor-league dealNovember 21, 2020 at 4:38 PM The Angels have signed outfielder Scott Schebler to a minor-league deal, bringing in a player who hit 30 homers for the Cincinnati Reds in 2017, a source confirmed Saturday.
Schebler, 30, has otherwise bounced around throughout parts of six years in the majors, with the Dodgers, Reds and Atlanta Braves. He had just one big league at-bat in 2020, with the Braves. Schebler has a career .239/.318/.442 slash line, for a .760 OPS.
A left-handed hitter, Schebler could become a candidate to provide som...Tags: Angels, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Gm, Mlb, Cincinnati Reds, Los-angeles-angels, Atlanta Braves, Alexander, Dodgers, Scott Schebler, Chris Rodriguez, Perry Minasian, Brandon Marsh, Taylor Ward 18 people like this. Like Perry Minasian’s path to Angels’ GM office provides a unique perspective on the gameNovember 20, 2020 at 11:30 AM  Tags: Utah, Texas, White House, Angels, Sports, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Sport, Chicago, Blue Jays, Soccer, Gm, Rangers, Mlb, Ncaa 74 people like this. Like Angels GM Perry Minasian ready to focus on upgrading pitchingNovember 17, 2020 at 6:46 PM  Tags: Japan, Angels, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Gm, Mlb, Hall of Fame, Young, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves, Torii Hunter, Moreno, Braves, Anibal Sanchez, Trevor Bauer 102 people like this. Like New Angels GM Perry Minasian gets endorsement from former boss Alex AnthopoulosNovember 13, 2020 at 3:40 PM Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos was thrilled that Perry Minasian, his longtime colleague and friend, got a job running a major league team.
Selfishly, Anthopoulos is also happy it’s not with a team the Braves have to worry about.
“I’m glad it’s in the AL West and not the NL East,” Anthopoulos said by phone Friday.
The Angels hired Minasian to be their general manager Thursday, the culmination of a six-week process that followed a streak of five consecutive losing seasons that cos...Tags: Angels, Sports, Toronto, Atlanta, Sport, Blue Jays, Soccer, Gm, Mlb, Los-angeles-angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Perry, Braves 20 people like this. Like Marlins hire former Dodgers exec Kim Ng as MLB’s first female GMNovember 13, 2020 at 11:35 AM MIAMI — Kim Ng became the highest-ranking woman in baseball operations in the major leagues when she was hired Friday as general manager of the Miami Marlins.
Ng is believed to be the first female general manager for a men’s team in a major professional sport in North America, the Marlins said.
She broke into Major League Baseball as an intern and has 21 years of experience in the front offices of the Chicago White Sox (1990-96), New York Yankees (1998-2001) and Los Angeles Dodgers (2002-11). Sh...Tags: Sports, Los Angeles, Sport, NG, Soccer, Mlb, Miami, University Of Chicago, Kim, Marlins, North America, Yankees, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees 7 people like this. Like Alexander: There was a case for Mookie Betts as NL MVPNovember 12, 2020 at 9:42 PM The numbers made the strongest case, obviously.
The voting for the National League Most Valuable Player award, announced Thursday afternoon, went about the way most people expected, and it was pretty much a runaway. Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, the pride of El Modena High in Orange, received 28 of the 30 first-place votes and won easily, denying Mookie Betts the opportunity to be the only player besides Frank Robinson to win the MVP in both leagues.
And while we hate to keep goi...Tags: Colorado, Boston, Sports, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Arizona, San Diego, Mlb, Tigers, Montreal, Cleveland, Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Alexander 15 people like this. Like Freddie Freeman wins NL MVP; Dodgers’ Mookie Betts finishes secondNovember 12, 2020 at 7:12 PM With the coronavirus impacting everyone in the country on one level or another, anyone who can overcome it deserves an award.
Freddie Freeman got his.
The Atlanta Braves first baseman was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player for 2020 on Thursday, receiving 28 of the 30 first-place votes from members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts, who was the 2018 AL MVP while with the Boston Red Sox, got the other two first-place votes plus 21 second...Tags: Sports, Sport, Soccer, Mlb, Boston Red Sox, Orange County, Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, Freeman, National League, Dodgers, Padres, Braves 29 people like this. Like MLB MVP 2020: Jose Abreu Wins AL MVP, Freddie Freeman Captures NL HonorsNovember 12, 2020 at 7:08 PM Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman was named the Most Valuable Player in the National League during the 2020 season Thursday,...Tags: Mlb, Atlanta Braves, National League, Jose Abreu, Freddie Freeman, AL MVP Freddie Freeman Captures NL 38 people like this. Like Angels hire Perry Minasian as new general managerNovember 12, 2020 at 1:06 PM The Angels on Thursday hired Perry Minasian, who spent the past three years as the Atlanta Braves assistant general manager, to be their new general manager, according to a source.
Minasian replaces Billy Eppler, who was fired as GM after the Angels’ fifth consecutive losing season. The team then opened up a wide-ranging search that saw them interview at least 16 candidates before deciding on Minasian.
Minasian, 40, began his life in baseball helping his father, who was the Texas Rangers clubhou...Tags: Angels, Sports, Atlanta, Sport, Blue Jays, Soccer, Gm, Rangers, Mlb, Los-angeles-angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Dodgers 15 people like this. Like Source: Braves assistant GM Perry Minasian is ‘front-runner’ to be named Angels GMNovember 12, 2020 at 12:45 AM Atlanta Braves assistant general manager Perry Minasian is the “front-runner” to be named the Angels’ next general manager, perhaps as soon as Thursday, a source said on Wednesday night.
The search is down to Minasian and Seattle Mariners assistant GM Justin Hollander, who spent nine previous years working in the Angels’ front office.
Either Minasian or Hollander will replace Billy Eppler, who was fired just after the Angels completed their fifth consecutive losing season.
The new GM will be the...Tags: Angels, Sports, Toronto, Sport, Soccer, Gm, Rangers, Mlb, Ohio, Seattle, Ohio State, Los Angeles Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Mariners, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers 33 people like this. Like With five finalists set, Angels appear set to hire a first-time GMNovember 11, 2020 at 12:09 PM Atlanta Braves assistant general manager Perry Minasian, who had not previously been identified as a candidate, is the fifth finalist for the Angels vacant GM job, a source confirmed Wednesday morning.
Minasian joins Seattle Mariners assistant GM Justin Hollander, Arizona Diamondbacks assistant GM’s Jared Porter and Amiel Sawdaye, and Chicago Cubs vice president of player personnel Jason McLeod.
None of the five has led a team’s baseball operations department before.
Minasian grew up around the ...Tags: Angels, Sports, Sport, Soccer, Gm, Rangers, Mlb, Marlins, Los-angeles-angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Miami Marlins, Seattle Mariners 11 people like this. Like Mookie Betts wins fifth consecutive Gold Glove in first season with DodgersNovember 3, 2020 at 9:10 PM Mookie Betts changed teams and leagues. But his glove stayed golden.
Betts was named the National League’s Gold Glove award winner for right field following his first season with the Dodgers. It was Betts’ fifth consecutive Gold Glove award, a streak that started in 2016 with the Boston Red Sox (his second full season in the majors).
Cody Bellinger was also a finalist for the Gold Glove Award in center field, but that award went to San Diego’s Trent Grisham. Bellinger won a Gold Glove as a right...Tags: Sports, Sport, Soccer, San Diego, Mlb, Boston Red Sox, Seattle, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Southern California, NL, Dodgers, Crawford, Alex Gordon 21 people like this. Like |
