Jewish journeyman Danny Valencia has played for two of the four remaining playoff teams: the Royals in 2014, and Baltimore in 2013 (10/10/2014) ***
By Scott Barancik, editor The roster of players set to represent Israel in the World Baseball Classic in South Korea this March is taking shape. Team Israel general manager Peter Kurz, whose squad of former Major League and current minor-league athletes guided Israel to a qualifying-round win in September, said Tuesday that 15 ballplayers had already committed to…
Ian Kinsler did his best to soften up Orioles pitching tonight, drawing 7, 14, and 9 pitches in his first three at-bats, but it was Detroit’s pitchers who gave up 8 runs in the 8th en route to a loss (10/2/2014) *** Up tonight: manager Brad Ausmus‘s Detroit Tigers (and 2B Ian Kinsler) face the Baltimore…
(8:10am) Bravo to Baseball for All, which just completed its first 2-day clinic for Jewish and Arab Israeli sixth-graders * * * (8:03am) Joc Pederson‘s sister, high-school junior Jacey Pederson, has been named Santa Clara Valley female soccer player of the year * * * (7:59am) Team Israel star Dean Kremer, a sophomore at San Joaquin Delta…
(4:47pm) Bill James predicts Joc Pederson will hit 26 HRs and get 29 SBs in 2015, something no rookie but Mike Trout has done * * * (4:36pm) Ryan Kalish‘s minor-league contract with the Blue Jays has fallen through for undisclosed reasons, returning him to free agency * * *
Wednesday, 4/1/2015 (8:46am) Check out this new book on the history of the Maccabiah Games by Jewish-sports blogger Ron Kaplan * * * (8:25am) Listen to Padres prospect/cut-up Cody Decker discuss his untimely death on a recent episode of State of Affairs * * * (8:20am) LSU star Alex Bregman doubled, tripled and homered with 4 RBIs on Tuesday,…
