Skubal passed Mize in Baseball America’s prospect rankings for 2021, but both have the same early struggles that young pitchers often run into in their first MLB action — control and pitch sequencing. Nonetheless, their potential has this scout glowing, and rightly so.
San Diego Padres Face MasksIn November, the Miami Marlins named Kim Ng general manager, making her MLB's first female GM.
Colorado Rockies Face Masks Only two of the consensus top 10 free agents have signed, and both were guys who simply accepted qualifying offers, which means the Giants are in an interesting spot. They have had a quiet offseason, one that has fans grumbling about having to wait another year for a splash. They also have been one of the busier organizations in the league.
Gonzalez: Relative to their revenue streams, I'll go with the Miami Marlins in 2011. They were heading into a new, taxpayer-funded stadium, ownership promised to spend on the rosters, and so Jeffrey Loria, David Samson and Michael Hill patrolled the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas like wannabe mobsters, negotiating with the agents of all the biggest free agents and at times pressuring them into quick decisions. They ultimately signed Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and Heath Bell over a five-day stretch -- and it went about as poorly as you could imagine. Seven months later, the Marlins traded away most of their good players and went into another full-scale rebuild.
Cleveland Indians Face MasksStanton is, to Uni Watch's knowledge, the first MLB player to have a personalized element on his mask. But he's far from the first to wear a face-guard attachment on his helmet, and he's not even the first to wear a football-style mask. With that in mind, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit a few of the ballplayers who've commingled the gridiron and the diamond by putting football-style face masks on their batting helmets:
"I think that's what we need all across the state of Georgia and the South,'' he said.
The Tampa Bay Rays traded Blake Snell to the Padres for Luis Patino, Blake Hunt, Cole Wilcox and Francisco Mejia;
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