By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your minor-league highlights for the week of April 22-28, 2019: Hitter of the Week: Zack Kone (Pirates) SS Zack Kone (Pirates/A/Greensboro Grasshoppers) made the most of his .214 (6-for-28) average, stroking 2 home runs and a double, driving in 9 runs, stealing two bases, and recording a .333 OBP….
By Scott Barancik, Editor So far this season, MLB Jews have had 524 at-bats, similar to a full season for a single player. Their collective power stats have been All-Star impressive: 31 home runs and 83 RBIs. Their batting average? A little thin, at .214. Oddly, the squad has hit just 18 doubles. Here are…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your minor-league highlights for the week of April 15-21, 2019: Hitter of the Week: Rhett Wiseman (Nationals) RF Rhett Wiseman (Nationals/AA/Harrisburg Senators) is our Hitter of the Week for the second consecutive week. He batted .333 (6-for-18) with 2 home runs, 3 doubles, 4 RBIs, a stolen base, a…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your MLB highlights for week of April 15-21, 2019: At the plate LF Joc Pederson (Dodgers) hit .348 (8-for-23) with 4 HRs, 6 RBIs and a .444 on-base percentage. Highlights included a walk-off home run on April 15 and a 4-for-5 performance with 2 HRs on April 21. Pederson’s…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your minor-league highlights for the week of April 8-14, 2019: Hitter of the Week: Rhett Wiseman (Nationals) RF Rhett Wiseman (Nationals/AA/Harrisburg Senators) hit .476 (10-for-21) last week with 4 HRs, 2 doubles, 8 RBIs, a stolen base, a hit-by-pitch, and a .577 on-base percentage. For his efforts, Wiseman was…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your MLB highlights for week of April 8-14, 2019: At the plate LF Joc Pederson (Dodgers) hit a cool .400 (8-for-20) with 3 HRs, 2 triples, 2 hit-by-pitches, and a .478 on-base percentage. Pederson struck out just 3 times, a low number for a player who has struck out…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your MLB highlights for week of April 1-7, 2019: At the plate 3B Alex Bregman (Astros) hit a blistering .550 (11-for-20) last week, with 2 doubles, 2 RBIs, one stolen base and a .615 on-base percentage. His .343 batting average ranks #10 in the American League. RF Ryan Braun…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your minor-league highlights for the week of April 1-7, 2019: Hitter of the Week: Scott Manea (Astros) In his High-A debut, C Scott Manea (Astros/High-A) hit .444 (4-for-9) with 2 HRs, 3 RBIs and just one strikeout. Pitcher of the Week: Max Lazar (Brewers) Max Lazar (Brewers/A) earned a…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Here are your MLB highlights for the opening week of the 2019 season, March 25-31: Power trip Collectively, Jewish batters hit .230 (17-for-74) with 14 RBIs last week. When they did hit, they hit for power. A total of five players homered, with Joc Pederson alone hitting three. That’s one home…
By Scott Barancik, editor It’s Opening Day of the 2019 Major League Baseball season, and Jewish Baseball News wants to welcome you to what we hope will be another great year for Members of the Tribe. One key change you’ll notice at JBN this season is the frequency of posts. In past years, Ron Kaplan…
By Scott Barancik, editor With MLB Spring Training winding down, we thought we’d update you on how Jewish players are doing so far. We’ll start with roster players and non-roster invitees. Stats are for games played through March 19, 2019: P Jeremy Bleich (Phillies): A southpaw who made an inauspicious MLB debut in 2018,…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Every year I tell myself I’m really going to study up on my baseball. I get all the magazines, more out of habit than anything else since the information is somewhat repetitive between them and often outdated by the time the season starts. One year, when I was on jury duty,…
By Scott Barancik, editor When Major League teams begin playing Spring Training games tomorrow (2/21/2019), at least 15 Jewish players will be among them. Some are familiar names, including 3B Alex Bregman (Astros), CF Kevin Pillar (Blue Jays) and 2B Ian Kinsler (Padres), who signed a two-year deal with San Diego during the offseason. Three…
By Scott Barancik, editor What’s new in the world of Jewish baseball? Here are some items recently posted to our Facebook and Twitter pages. Houston Astros 3B Alex Bregman underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow to remove loose bodies. The 2018 All-Star Game MVP expects to be ready by the start of the regular…
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By Ron Kaplan, contributor Ian Kinsler’s two-out RBI single in the second inning put the Boston Red Sox on the board first en route to a 4-2 win over the visiting LA Dodgers on Wednesday night, giving them a 2-0 lead in the Fall Classic. Things didn’t go quite as well when Kinsler then tried…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Unless you’re a Red Sox fan, this one was pretty ho-hum. Boston beat the visiting LA Dodgers, 8-4. Neither of our boys were involved in the highlights. Ian Kinsler started for the home team and went 0-for-4. Click here for an interview he did about Boston’s drive to the World Series. Joc…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Congrats to Joc Pederson and the LA Dodgers. By beating the host Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1, on Saturday, they return to the Fall Classic, where they will take on Ian Kinsler and the Boston Red Sox beginning Tuesday night at famed Fenway Park. Pederson started in left field but came out for a pinch…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Congrats to the Boston Reds Sox. Their 4-1 win over the host Houston Astros on Saturday put them back into the World Series. Ian Kinsler was 2-for-4 as the starting second baseman, including a double and a run scored. Alex Bregman, once again at the top of the Astros’ lineup, was…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor It took a circus catch by Andrew Benintendi on Wednesday to prevent Alex Bregman — who has “buckets of natural talent” — from being a hero once again for the Houston Astros. The home team had the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth and were trailing the visiting Boston…
