By Scott Barancik, Editor It was a pretty amazing week for MLB Jews from April 29-May 5, 2019. Here are your highlights: At the plate LF Ryan Braun (Brewers) added 54 points to his batting average by hitting .462 (12-for-26) with 2 home runs, 2 doubles, a stolen base and a .481 on-base percentage. But…
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 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 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 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…
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By Sam Brief, correspondent Some observers scoffed when Team Israel competed in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, noting that all but a handful of its players were American citizens. Now, Israel’s baseball dreams are about to get a bit more authentic. This fall, 10 Jewish-American ballplayers will acquire Israeli passports, making them dual American-Israeli citizens…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Nearly 148 seasons after Lip Pike hit the first Jewish home run, a new milestone was set last night. Ryan Braun’s 428-foot, 1st-inning bomb tied the record established in 2016, when six Jewish players combined for a total of 115 home runs. Later Friday evening, rookie Rowdy Tellez’s 396-foot moonshot set…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor More home runs. Ryan Braun clouted a pair – a solo shot in the top of the first (#17) and a two-run bomb in the eighth (#18) — to help the Milwaukee Brewers (91-67) to a 12-4 win over the host St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday. Braun is hot lately, going 5-for-13…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Alex Bregman stroked his 51st double of the year Tuesday, driving in one run, as the Houston Astros (99-57) beat the host Toronto Blue Jays, 5-3. Kevin Pillar had a win-some, lose-some game. He hit his 15th homer, a two-run, two-out job to put his team (71-86) on the board in the fourth,…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Now that the minor-league season has ended, we can ask: who were the top Jewish players? Jewish Baseball News sought input from half a dozen Jewish Insiders, including professional ballplayers, scouts, reporters and front-office staff. The result of their collective wisdom is our 2018 Minor-League Awards. To our 11 winners: Mazel…
