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Top prospects Estevan Florial, Luis Gil send message to Yankees in Somerset Patriots’ Opening Day win Updated May 05, 2021; Posted May 05, 2021 New York Yankees prospect Luis Gil threw 3.2 shutout innings in the Somerset Patriots Opening Day 6-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at TD Bank Ballpark. Facebook Share While Hicks struggles with the New York Yankees, Florial, the club’s No. 10 prospect, began his season with a leadoff home run in the Somerset Patriots’...

Why Yankees’ Estevan Florial debate leads to Double-A Somerset, not Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Updated May 04, 2021; Facebook Share The more Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks struggles, the more fans will be pleading for something better, even though Hicks isn’t yet halfway through a seven-year, $70-million contract. As 18-year-old phenom Jasson Dominguez starts moving up the ladder — the $5.1 million signee has a long way to go with no professional at-bats on his resume — the Yan...

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Last week the Texas Rangers announced their “Break Camp” rosters for their Low-A, High-A, and AA teams. The RoughRiders and Crawdads have been touched on already, so now we’ll take a look at the newly Low-A Down East Wood Ducks. What with the Down East/Hickory level swap, this is a roster full of Ranger ducklings. 27 of their expanded 30-player roster are guys 23 or younger, and of course they all were without a season in 2020. First and foremost is probably ...

April 28, 2021 Heading into the season, the Milwaukee Brewers were a popular pick to win the NL Central, with half of the writers here at FanGraphs expecting them to emerge victorious. The strength of the team is its pitching, with a rotation spearheaded by Brandon Woodruff and Corbin Burnes as well as an excellent bullpen anchored by Josh Hader and 2020 NL Rookie of the Year Devin Williams. But there was a good deal of uncertainty about where the offense would come from and how much run suppor...

Lesky’s Notes: The schedule finally relents Share this story Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The Royals opened the season with the Texas Rangers, expected to be one of the three worst teams in baseball. And they handled their business just fine winning that series. It’s been a gauntlet since then for them, facing the Indians, White Sox, Angels, Blue Jays and Rays. Four of those five teams went to the postseason last year and the one that didn’t has the best player in the game and Shohei ...

MLB Draft 2021: N.J.’s Jack Leiter, son of ex-Yankees, Mets pitcher Al Leiter, projected as No. 1 pick in latest mock Updated 6:15 AM; Today 5:59 AM Facebook Share Another day, another reason to believe Vanderbilt right-hander Jack Leiter is the real deal. It feels like a four-man race to go No. 1 right now, but give me the guy who’s dominating the Southeastern Conference and can pitch off his fastball like few can. Last week, The Athletic’s Keith Law released his latest list of the top...

Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images In July of 2017, a 16-year-old Everson Pereira was thrilling baseball fans across one of the northernmost regions of South America. The teenager already possessed physical gifts that projected him to be an above-average defender in center field, an above-average baserunner, and a hard line-drive hitter on the highest of baseball levels. When combined with the good instincts and a love for the game that was on display as well, the Yankees were impressed enough ...

Good morning. Kennedi Landry writes that the pitching got it done for the Texas Rangers until they were finally able to plate a run in extras to beat the Orioles 1-0 on Sunday. Stefan Stevenson writes that the Rangers needed all eight shutout innings from Kyle Gibson as the bats continue to struggle at The Shed. Sam Blum notes that Gibson’s outing was the longest in Shed history but he wasn’t the winning pitcher with Baltimore holding Texas to four runs over the weekend. Landry writes that ...

April 12, 2021 To begin, I want you to take a look at this screenshot from Saturday’s game between the Mets and Marlins at Citi Field. What do you think happened? What might have been the outcome? First things first: That’s Jacob deGrom on the mound. He’s the best pitcher on Earth, as well as other inhabited worlds we have yet to discover. And as expected, he’s been mowing down the Marlins. In the first inning, he dismantled Corey Dickerson on four fastballs that went 99.9, 99.8, 100.4,...

Beat the Streak. The game challenged baseball fans to hypothetically beat one of the greatest records of all time. The idea was to pick one player each day to get a hit and to do that 57 consecutive times, beating Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hit streak record. Way back in preseason 2020 I wrote about my ambitions of becoming a millionaire by using predictive, machine learning models to aid in winning the competition. The game’s 2020 cancellation gave me time to think, time to read, time to lea...