April 12 In Peoria History

Throughout their history the Chiefs have played 32 games (13–19 record) with 4 rain/snow outs on April 12. There have been three season openers on April 12 with the Chiefs going 1–2 in those games.

Chiefs Blog

Peoria Virtual Opening Day, A July Prediction, & A Duel With Quad Cities

The Peoria Chiefs celebrated Opening Day on Thursday, albeit not on the field.

Peoria Journal Star

Shooting Stars

Jake Woodford is rising. The 22-year-old Memphis Redbirds pitcher will pull off a rare trifecta when he takes the mound for the Pacific Coast League in Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game in El Paso. It will be Woodford's third All-Star Game in four seasons, across all three primary levels of minor-league baseball. Woodford first earned All-Star recognition with the Class-A Peoria Chiefs (Midwest League) in 2016. He represented Double-A Springfield in last year's Texas League All-Star Game.

Memphis Flyer

Tyler Skaggs Passes Away

Angels left-hander Tyler Skaggs passed away on Monday in Southlake, Texas, the Angels announced in a statement. Skaggs was 27. The Angels’ scheduled game against the Rangers at Globe Life Park was postponed as a result.

Anaheim Official Site

Adding Madison Bumgarner To The Cardinals Would Improve The Whole Team

I’m starting to wonder if the St. Louis Blues are the best thing that ever happened to the St. Louis Cardinals — or the worst.

Cheap Seats

Clay Buchholz's Scoreless Gem Lifts First Place Diamondbacks

When he was younger and threw harder, success came easy for Clay Buchholz.

Arizona Official Site

Dakota Hudson, Patrick Wisdom, & Daniel Poncedelon Named 2018 Pacific Coast League All-Stars

Memphis Redbirds pitcher Dakota Hudson, infielder Patrick Wisdom, and pitcher Daniel Poncedeleon have been named to the 2018 Pacific Coast League All-Star Team, with the game against the stars of the International League set for Wednesday, July 11 in Columbus, Ohio televised on MLB Network.

Memphis Official Site

Behind-The-Scenes Role Suiting Dan Haren

Dan Haren sits back in his office chair and opens a program on his computer. On the screen is an image of a hitter. Next to him are hot zones and cold zones accompanied by dropdown menus and situational stats. Haren toggles through them quickly. He is in his element.

AZ Cental

The Cardinals Need To Rediscover Their Once-Imposing Home Field Advantage

The Milwaukee Brewers came into Busch Stadium earlier this week and won two of three games from the Cardinals. Flipping the schedule back to last season, it was Milwaukee’s fourth consecutive series victory at Busch Stadium.

The Athletic

Joe Maddon & The Cubs Have Successfully Intimidated Mike Matheny & The Cardinals

The flashpoint, and the turning point, occurred in September 2015.

101 ESPN

Cardinals Pitchers Learning, Exploiting A Pitch That Can Cut Both Ways

Fiddling and shifting his fingers along the seams of the baseball and squishing his thumb at just the right spot, Chris Carpenter sat 15 feet, maybe 20 feet, away from his coach and learned the pitch that would change his career.

Bird Land

The Sharp Decline Of Jordan Zimmermann

The hurler is looking like a $110 million mistake.

Beyond The Boxscore

A Suggestion For The Cardinals...Marcell Ozuna

The trade market could offer an intriguing solution to the Cardinals’ lack of a middle-of-the-lineup force in the post-Albert Pujols, post-Matt Holliday era.

Fox Sports

Dan Haren Helping Diamondbacks Take Scouting Step Further

Dan Haren’s twitter handle, @ithrow88, is a self-deprecating reference to his late-career velocity.

FanRags

Dan Haren Among New Wave In Front Offices

Back when he was still playing, Burke Badenhop didn’t think his interest in pitch data was anything unusual. To him, it was information any pitcher would find useful. Why wouldn’t you want to know exactly how much your fastball moves?

AZ Central

Make-Or-Break Year: Shelby Miller

Relative to expectations, few major leaguers are coming off worse seasons than Diamondbacks right-hander Shelby Miller, whose first year in Arizona couldn’t have gone much worse. Miller had been a quality starter with the Cardinals and Braves over the three prior seasons, but the Diamondbacks’ decision to send a haul to Atlanta for him in December 2015 was universally panned from the get-go.

MLB Trade Rumors

Dan Haren Hopes To Make Diamondbacks Pitchers Better Prepared

From 2005 through 2015, no pitcher in the major leagues made as many starts as Dan Haren. Nobody shouldered that awesome and awful responsibility as often as he did, most successfully for the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team he now works for again.

NY Times

Greg Maddux Pitching To Yadier Molina: It'll Happen On A Peoria Bobblehead In 2017

The Peoria Chiefs have filled out their lineup card of bobbleheads and other giveaways for the 2017 Midwest League season.

Peoria Journal Star

Greg Maddux, Yadier Molina, Alex Reyes Lead 2017 Peoria Bobblehead Giveaways

The Peoria Chiefs have five bobblehead giveaways for the 2017 season with four of them featuring former players and the first ever Chiefs bobblehead to have two players on the same giveaway.

Peoria Official Site

Dan Haren Looks To Help Diamondbacks In Different Role

Since retiring following the 2015 season, Dan Haren had been filling the void by being a must-follow on Twitter with his self-deprecating tweets — his account is @ithrow88 — about his 13-year career as a major-league pitcher.

FanRags