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April 14, 2021 There’s a kind of depressing infamy that comes with being a player on the losing end of a lopsided trade. Players like Glenn Davis, Ernie Broglio, and Larry Andersen are more famous for the players they were traded for than anything they did in their own careers. It’s an unfair bit of notoriety, too; there’s not much cosmic justice involved when Harvey Kuenn, who played in 10 All-Star games, is remembered more for a decision to trade Rocky Colavito he didn’t make rather than being a .314/.360/.426, 23.5 WAR hitter in seven full seasons with the Detroit Tigers. Jim Freg...

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February 7, 2021 Garrett Richards has an uncanny ability to spin a baseball. Per Statcast, the 32-year-old right-hander — recently signed to a free-agent contract by the Boston Red Sox — was 99th percentile in curveball spin last year, while his four-seam spin ranked in the 97th percentile. Moreover, the most-effective weapon in his arsenal, a 2,746-RPM slider, was topped only by Sergio Romo’s 2,913 RPMs among hurlers who threw the pitch at least 200 times. Richards’s least-effective offering in 2020 was a two-seamer that’s hard to put a positive spin on. The erstwhile San Diego Pad...

Author of the article: Tim Gordanier Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021  •  February 4, 2021  •  4 minute read . Whig-Standard archives Article content Every Thursday, we present in this space a week’s worth of randomly selected single pages from editions of The Kingston Whig-Standard, The Whig-Standard or The Daily British Whig from our vast digital archives, which reach back as far as 1834. It could be the front page or any page from inside any edition, but we will focus mainly on the 20th century as the digital editions of newspapers older than that are often unre...

share-square-610978 There’s nothing quite like a debut season to make a positive first impression for the fans. There have been so many memorable debut seasons for players, whether it’s as a rookie, after a trade or after a signing with a new team. MLB.com is compiling the Top 5 debut seasons for each club, so here are the Top 5 for the Angels: (Only players in their first season with the Angels count in the rankings, so Rookie of the Year Award winners such as Tim Salmon and Mike Trout aren’t eligible because they saw limited action in the year prior to their rookie season.)