Showing posts with label Nelson Cruz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nelson Cruz. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

2004 Cardinals Taken Down By 1995 Braves In Bracket Two

The quest to crown the best single-season team in MLB history is underway, with the Round of 32 in the Dream Seasons edition of the MLB Dream Bracket ending on Wednesday.

St. Louis Official Site

Saturday, May 16, 2020

David Freese Will Be Back In Cardinals Uniform - In Fantasy Camp

Breaking news: David Freese, one of the Cardinals’ all-time postseason heroes, will be back in a St. Louis uniform next year.

Post-Dispatch

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

MLB Should Experiment With This Rule Twist On The DH In 2020

If there is a 2020 MLB season, it's going to be like nothing we've ever seen before.

KMOX

Sunday, May 10, 2020

A Salute To Mom From A Member Of Every Club

Mother's Day is special everywhere, and in baseball, it takes on an added significance since so many MLB players wouldn't be where they are without the love and sacrifices of their mothers as they were growing up. With the help of all 30 MLB.com beat writers, here are touching Mother's Day memories and messages from a member of each club.

St. Louis Official Site

Saturday, May 2, 2020

May 2 In Peoria History

Throughout our history the Chiefs have played 39 games (14–24–1 record) with three games postponed May 2.

Chiefs Blog

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Happy 37th Birthday To David Freese, Who Gave His Hometown A Helluva Party In 2011

David Freese is the birthday bird today, April 28. He’s 37, still very young. After 11 major-league seasons, he’s enjoying his retirement after 11 major-league seasons. He has more time with young family. And more time to strum a guitar.

101 ESPN

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Predicting The MLB Team Of The 2020s

2020 has been a strange year thus far, but in an ideal world, our lives will eventually return to some sense of normalcy here in the United States. When that happens, hopefully it’ll mean the return of sports—and specifically to my interest, the return of baseball.

KMOV

Friday, March 27, 2020

Game Six Replay Stirs The Emotions Of Cardinals Fans, Restoring The Magic Of A Classic

Thursday was supposed to be Opening Day for the St. Louis Cardinals. What fans got instead was a rekindling of the magic of Game 6 from the 2011 World Series.

KSDK

Monday, March 9, 2020

Kwang-Hyun Kim Is Making Cardinals Rotation Look Like Home

Baseball, sort of like fishing, tends to be more or less the same no matter where you go.

BenFred

Back From Groin Injury, Kwang-Hyun Kim Continues Adapting; Alex Reyes Closes It Out; Cardinals Seek Pitcher Improvement -- At The Plate; Up Next

The drive time from Kwang-Hyun Kim’s home in Incheon, South Korea, to the country’s capital in Seoul is roughly 30 minutes if the roads are clear. But when traffic backs up, the commute can easily be extended upwards of two hours.

St. Louis Official Site

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Why Yasiel Puig Finds Himself Stuck In The Middle

The theory of why the very best free agents in baseball get the money they do can be summed up succinctly by a Bill James quote from the 1988 Baseball Abstract: “Talent in baseball is not normally distributed. It is a pyramid. For every player who is 10 percent above the average player, there are probably twenty players who are 10 percent below average.”

Beyond The Boxscore

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Max Scherzer Named To 2019 All-MLB Team, Jack Flaherty Named To Second-Team

Baseball had never before had an official star squad that salutes a full season's worth of work the way other major professional sports do. But the results of the voting for the first All-MLB Team finally arrived Tuesday at the Winter Meetings.

MLB Official Site

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Nelson Cruz Joins 400-Home Run Club On Swat No.40

Nelson Cruz said to Twins senior director of communications Dustin Morse at the end of Spring Training that he planned to hit his 400th career home run this season -- and to expect playoff baseball in October at Target Field.

Minnesota Official Site

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Matthew Boyd K's 11 On A Big Night For Tigers' Bats

A day before Matthew Boyd took the mound in a rematch against the Twins, the Tigers' left-hander talked about making adjustments and growing as a pitcher in a philosophical sense, step by step.

Detroit Official Site

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Nelson Cruz Defying Father Time With Four Hits In Rout

Father Time has done nothing to slow the production of Twins slugger Nelson Cruz. As it turns out, a ruptured tendon in his left wrist is no match for him, either.

Minnesota Official Site

Friday, August 9, 2019

Twins Placed Nelson Cruz On The Ten-Day Injured List

Minnesota Official Twitter

Chris Carter, The Home Run King Forgotten By MLB, Is Theatening Mexico's Single-Season Homer Record

The scene occurs too often to inventory or romanticize. A batter takes a half-hearted swing on a pitch about knee-high and over the plate. On contact the ball punctures the night sky, zipping away on a steep arc. The outfielder drifts back, taking more steps than required, before conceding defeat on the warning track. Home run. The sum of a skilled hitter, an errant pitch, and a nutty ball.

CBS Sports

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Nelson Cruz Fuels Twins With Third Five-RBI Game Of Season

Getting three games off with the Twins playing in a National League ballpark did nothing to cool off designated hitter Nelson Cruz's red-hot bat.

Minnesota Official Site