Baseball

4/23/2024 |  Baseball Bettors Buoyantly Backing Baltimore’s Baby Birds (Sports Handle) Despite the fact that the Houston Astros are off to a woeful 7-16 start this season, Ariel Epstein isn’t too concerned about their fortunes.
“I actually got a lot of heat for putting them in the top 10 of my power rankings,” said Epstein, a betting analyst for both Fanatics Sportsbook and the MLB Network. “They’re still a top five offense and their pitching has had a lot of injury problems. I compare them to LeBron James and the Lakers. The Astros know they don’t need to turn it on in April, just like LeBron James knows he doesn’t need to turn it on in November.”

4/22/2024 |  MLB players’ union asks court to confirm arbitration decision against Bad Bunny firm (Associated Press (AP)) NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball players’ association asked a federal court to confirm an arbitrator’s decision denying an attempt by a baseball agent at Bad Bunny’s Rimas Sports firm to block the agent’s decertification by the union.
In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Major League Baseball Players Association asked that a federal judge issue an order to confirm what the union said was a decision by arbitrator Michael Gottesman to deny a request for a temporary restraining order requested by William Arroyo of Rimas Sports and Noah Assad and Jonathan Miranda, two executives of the company.

4/19/2024 |  New York Mets release 'City Connect' jersey with new color scheme (Fox Sports) The New York Mets released their "City Connect" jersey on Friday morning. It's a base gray uniform with "NYC" stitched on the front and the Queensboro Bridge on the hat. The jersey also has a black patch on the arm with the Mets logo in pink lettering.

4/19/2024 |  USA Baseball Opens National Training Complex in North Carolina (SportsTravel) USA Baseball and Cary leadership gathered on-site for the ribbon cutting earlier this month. USA Baseball Board of Directors President John Gall joined six town council members, including Mayor Harold Weinbrecht, who was a part of a first pitch ceremony prior to the championship game of the National High School Invitational presented by the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance.

4/18/2024 |  How Shohei Ohtani can grow — as a Dodger and personally — from the gambling saga (Fox Sports) A curious occurrence happened after Shohei Ohtani appeared in front of the media on Opening Day. There was Ohtani, answering a few questions in front of a sponsored backdrop in the middle of the Dodgers clubhouse at Chavez Ravine, surrounded by a throng of reporters that congested the room. And there was Will Ireton, a Dodgers employee since 2016 and Ohtani's current interpreter, standing to the right of Ohtani. Ireton translated the slugger's responses throughout a brief interview, and then he did the unimaginable.