Saturday, 10/11/2014 @ 11:26am
- Justin Klipp is pitching again after twice breaking his back. He talks to us about Jewish day school, independent ball, Mexican drug cartels, and baseball shrinks (10/11/2014) ***
(9:41am) In the offseason Australian Baseball League, Rays prospect Maxx Tissenbaum is 3rd in OPS (.968) and HRs (6/tie), 7th in OBP (.405), 9th in average (.323) * * * (9:30am) Check out this new video interview with Padres “AAA” prospect Cody Decker * * * (9:14am) Former MLB prospect Eric Berger is 3-2 with a…
(9:08am) Photo: Will Oakland’s Nate Freiman join the 2015 offseason trip to Israel? * * * (9:05am) Photo: Kevin Youkilis with sportswriter Jonathan Mayo, who’s arranging a Jewish player trip to Israel * * * (8:56am) Photo: Cincinnati’s Jon Moscot with comedian Will Ferrell during last week’s fundraising stunt * * * (8:53am) Drafted as a catcher in…
Games played Sunday, 4/19/2015 MLB Batting 7th, Joc Pederson went 2-for-4 with a solo HR and an RBI double as L.A. beat Colorado 7-0, but he was caught stealing for the third straight time *** Joc Pederson was interviewed on MLB Network *** Boston’s Craig Breslow yielded just 2 hits over 3 scoreless innings and struck out 3 against…
Josh Satin now is one of three Jewish players in the Reds’ organization, joining “AAA” pitcher Jon Moscot and “A” pitcher Zack Weiss * * * Happy birthday to Cardinals prospect Robert Stock, who turned 25 yesterday! * * * Josh Satin has signed a minor-league deal with the Cincinnati Reds. The 29-year-old 1B/3B has been with the Mets franchise since being…
By Scott Barancik, editor Israel’s senior national baseball team crushed its “C pool” competition in last year’s European Championship qualifiers. Now it’s cruising through the “B pool” qualifying tournament, which began Monday (7/27/2015) in Vienna and includes national teams from Austria, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. In Game 1, Israel defeated Belarus 13-1 on 13 hits…
Think Mexican League pitchers respect ex-MLB’er Josh Whitesell? Whitesell, who hit .315 this year with 16 HRs and 68 RBIs, was intentionally walked a league-leading 9 times * * * The Reds have assigned former Mets 1B Josh Satin to the “AAA” Louisville Bats, where he’ll join P Jon Moscot * * * Jewish Sports…