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By Tom King   The 1970’s was really the best decade for almost everything….music, tv-shows and movies, fast food…and political scandals. I bring this up to remind you of that night in 1974 when a stripper named Fanne Foxe brought down one of the most powerful men in DC by taking a 2am swim in the Tidal Basin…she died this week……let your mind drift back to when society really cared about stuff like this….   Here is the Washington Post obit for Fan...

Snake Bytes: 02/15 - Spring Cleaning Share this story A must read for every fan that digs the self flagellation of Torey Lovullo. Here are the Diamondbacks non-roster players invited to camp. pic.twitter.com/wp1r5OGvQg— Zach Buchanan (@ZHBuchanan) February 11, 2021 Poll This poll is closed. 9% 2% 16% 65% Around The MLB Zack Godley thought the same thing. Across The Pacific In all honesty, it was hard to get a grip on the 20/21 Australian baseball season...

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January 3, 2021 One of the “Best of 2020” articles that ran here at FanGraphs over the holidays featured an under-the-radar right-hander with a unique backstory and a knee-buckling bender. Titled Rangers Prospect Cole Uvila is a Driveline-Developed Spin Monster, the story chronicled, among things, a curveball that had spun upwards of 3,300 RPM in Arizona Fall League action. Honed with the help of technology, the pitch profiled as his ticket to Texas. He’s no longer throwing it. Instead, U...

Former Milwaukee Brewers slugger Eric Thames will play in Japan next year, joining fellow longtime big leaguer Justin Smoak on the Yomiuri Giants.

With Josh Bell, a complicated Nats puzzle is snapping into place, and it looks mighty fine Thomas Boswell, The Washington Post Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Nationals GM Mike Rizzo during the Washington Nationals summer practice camp at Nationals Stadium in Washington on July 9, 2020.Washington Post photo by John McDonnell As soon as the Washington Nationals traded for durable slugging first baseman Josh Bell on Christmas Eve, many fans started making a (wish) list and checking it twice. ...

Giants announce agreement with slugger Eric Thames Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ The Brewers Eric Thames bats against the Diamondbacks in Phoenix on July 18, 2019. | USA TODAY / VIA REUTERS KYODO Dec 31, 2020 Slugging first baseman and outfielder Eric Thames, who rejuvenated his major league career with three monster seasons in South Korea, is poised to...

Royals Rumblings - News for December 31, 2020 Share this story Royals Rumblings - News for December 31, 2020 First come the eyes — someone like Mariano Rivera, where you simply don’t need to think. Then comes the brain — statistics, comparisons, invaluable resources like the work done by Jay Jaffe and others. Then comes the gut — this part is aided by conversations with people who live this stuff, like scouts and former players and executives and writers. Which is where this year’s pr...

MLB Trade Rumors Slugger Eric Thames is in agreement on a one-year deal with the Yomiuri Giants of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, as first reported by Sports Hochi. Reports out of Japan have pegged the one-year contract’s value in the vicinity of $1.2MM, though the precise number remains unclear. Thames is repped by Apex Baseball. Thames becomes the second former Brewers first baseman to join the Giants in as many days, as Justin Smoak is also reported to be wrapping up a deal to j...

MLB Trade Rumors 8:21pm CDT Christmas Eve isn’t a time to expect blockbuster moves to take place in Major League Baseball, but the Nationals and Pirates came together on a significant trade Thursday. The deal left the Nationals with a new first baseman in Josh Bell, whom they acquired from the Pirates for young right-handers Bell is a potentially huge acquisition for Washington, as he was a 37-home run-hitting All-Star as recently as 2019. Otherwise, the switch-hitting 28-year-old has been c...