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Add “get short dudes” to the incomplete list of Moneyball type edges the Brewers & Rays (and Guardians really) have benefited from in the past decade-plus (free article) https://t.co/RrUlgbwuAu
Only Gerrit Cole in 2019 and Pedro Martinez in 1999 had better K-BB% as qualified starters (outside 2020) than Jacob Misiorowski this year. Legendary year.
Shout out to Dylan Cease, who finished second in the AL Cy Young with the tenth-best strikeout rate for a qualified starter in the history of baseball (2020 excluded).
Sources: The San Francisco Giants are in talks to hire James Rowson to the major-league coaching staff. Rowson has been the New York Yankees’ hitting coach since Nov. 2023. https://t.co/f8zCDuOEey
News: In what appears to be a first for a major sports league in the U.S., a group of workers inside the commissioner’s office at Major League Baseball has unionized.
https://t.co/35hDQpgLUN
With a slim supply of right-handed hitting outfielders, Nationals outfielder Dylan Crews has emerged as a popular trade target around the league, per sources.
More on this from the GM meetings in Vegas, free to read:
https://t.co/ypGJLSvoAE
Best Stuff+ in the Arizona Fall League, with no minimums:
1) Jarlin Susana (AFL All-Star, nasty)
2) Randy Rodriguez (SF closer next year?)
3) Jose Meneses (Brewer MiLBer with 32% K%)
A bit of news from the GM Meetings: Why Randy Rodríguez likely won't make another appearance in the Arizona Fall League.
“Everything went great. ... Kind of saw what we needed to see.”
https://t.co/wPatAgQ3BQ