cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/5583676

ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, its wild-card round playoff broadcasts and the rest of the partnership remain in place through the 2025 season.

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/5435834

Six-year contract worth $171.5 million (with some deferred money) and an opt-out clause after the 2026 season.

Includes two opt-outs

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25217960

These odds come from FanGraphs

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25195875

"The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home."

That one person who didn't vote for Ichiro better fess up....

That's a lot of money

And the Yankees are in the running for one of the ugliest performances in World Series history, competing with the 2007 Colorado Rockies. The 1919 White Sox put up more of a fight. In the final game, scorekeepers did New York a favor assigning only three errors instead of four. From Judge dropping a routine flyout, to Cole going on vacation instead of covering 1st, to Volpe's throwing error, etc. the Yankees have once again proven that being able to hit isn't worth a damn if you can't also play solid fundamental baseball. I don't know what the future has in store for Boone, but if I'm the owner of the Yankees, watching them piss away a World Series looking bored and defeated and making mistakes that D3 college players never make, I'd have a new manager by November 1st.

The Dodgers played solid, adaptable baseball both in the World Series and in the postseason. They went into every game ready to do the best they could do, and it produced results. Personally, I am a Braves fan, and my own team reminded me of the pennant-winning Yankees: sloppy, confused, and annoyed to still be there. So, while I am in the abstract pleased for Freddie Freeman, and happy that Shohei Ohtani now has a ring, I am now back to hating the Dodgers. I have nothing more to add. Hopefully a Dodgers fan on Lemmy can comment exultation in their victory, as is their due.

On Monday, the mayor marched down Fifth Avenue during the annual Columbus Day Parade wearing a baseball cap supporting BOTH the Yankees and Mets! The hat featured a Mets logo on one side, an "X" in between and a Yankees logo on the other side. ... "No wonder Eric Adams got indicted, that hat is a crime against humanity," one user wrote in a post on X, formally Twitter.

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/4276069

I'm sure this has happened before, but I'm not finding any stats that tell me when. Does anyone know how to look that up?

Edit: Apparently this is the first time! https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-division-series-tied-1-1-for-first-time

LFGM

• 4,256 career hits
• 3,215 career singles
• 3,562 career games played
• 14,053 career at-bats
• 15,890 career plate appearances

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20120691

Baseball in Bhutan [3840 x 2160]

Photo by Matthew Desantis. Upscaled to 4k.

This comes from an interesting article on mlb.com explaining how one of the most remote countries on earth picked up baseball.

This year they were invited to visit New York by the Yankees, and met with the legendary Aaron Judge.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17604055

https://www.mlb.com/

https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-all-star-game-rosters