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Team Israel to play in Connecticut before heading to Tokyo Summer Olympics
HARTFORD The Hartford Yard Goats Baseball Club, the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, announced that Team Israel will play two exhibition games on Wednesday, July 14 and Thursday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m. at Dunkin’ Donuts Park.
Team Israel won the 2019 European Baseball Championship and earned the right to participate in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Team Israel, led by four-time MLB All-Star
Ian Kinsler, will play a pair of exhibition games against the Bristol Blues and Ocean State Waves of the NECL (New England Collegiate Baseball League) as part of its Northeast United States tour.
How Blue Jays Manoah took accountability and realized big-league dreams
Alek Manoah explains how he found out he was getting called up to the Toronto Blue Jays to make his MLB debut. | May 26, 2021, 9:56 AM
May 26, 2021, 9:56 AM
TORONTO – During his college days with the West Virginia Mountaineers, Alek Manoah met often with head coach Randy Mazey. Sometimes, they talked about the way he was pitching. Other times, the way he was acting on the mound would come up. They’d discuss the future a fair bit, too.
“I would always tell him that, ‘Hey, man, one day when you re starting against the Yankees, you re not going to be able to do this, this and this. And one day when you’re starting against the Yankees, you re going to have to do this, this and this,’” Mazey recalled Tuesday. “When we talked (Monday), he said, ‘Hey, you remember all those talks we had about you saying one day when you re starting against the Yankees? Well, guess what? I’m starting against t
Connor Prielipp to Undergo Tommy John Surgery
The sophomore ace for the Crimson Tide will miss the remainder of the 2021 season
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May 26, 2021
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Alabama baseball sophomore pitcher Connor Prielipp will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the remainder of the 2021 season. The surgery will take place on Thursday and will be conducted by Dr. Lyle Cain of Andrews Sports Medicine.
The news was first reported by Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball.
Prielipp, a 2021 Preseason First Team All-American, was highly regarded as the top MLB prospect for the 2022 class. He will now not be able to pitch in the spring of his draft year.
2021 Arizona Diamondbacks Draft Preview: Ty Madden
Previewing one of two college arms that the Diamondbacks could select with the sixth pick in the draft.
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In some season, Tyler “Ty” Madden would be a much-heralded pitching prospect. Unfortunately for Madden, this is the year of the Boys form Vandy. While Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker have hogged the spotlight, Madden has quietly, methodically, moved his way up prospect boards since coming back from shoulder injury in early-2019. Madden entered the 2018 draft ranked 240/500 on Baseball America’s prospect rankings with a 90-92 fastball, a good slider with control issues, and a developing curve. Surprising absolutely no one, Madden elected to take his talents to the University of Texas rather than turn pro. At Texas, Madden made an immediate, palpable impact of the Longhorns’ pitching staff. Only 19, Madden held his own against stiff competition as a key member of the powerhouse’s pit
Camden Scheidt broke Highland s record for triples in a season with his seventh of the year in a 7-1 win over Portage in the Trojans regular-season finale.