MLB Trade Rumors
8:23am CDT
Let’s begin our Monday morning by rounding up some injury news from yesterday’s games…
Edwin Diaz left last night’s game against the Phillies after serving up a two-run double to
Rhys Hoskins. Diaz was dealing with some back pain, but it doesn’t sound like the Mets are overly concerned, per Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News (via Twitter). The Mets held on for the win anyway, pulling ahead of the Phillies into a tie for first place with the Nationals. Diaz has a 4.22 ERA/2.17 FIP in 10 2/3 innings so far with three saves, a slightly-depressed 31.8 percent strikeout rate and 11.4 percent walk rate. His velocity has been good so far this year with an average 98.8 mph fastball. If he misses time,
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Good morning. The Texas Rangers are 9-5 against the AL East and have won four games otherwise. The only East team they have played that they haven’t won a series against is the Baltimore Orioles. So, yeah, baseball.
Daniel Guerrero writes that it was former Red Sock Brock Holt that delivered the game-winning hit against his old team for the Rangers in a 5-3 series-clinching win on Sunday.
Kevin Sherrington is bullish on Willie Calhoun’s bounceback attempt but bearish on Joey Gallo.
Levi Weaver writes that the positive series over the weekend (I’d like to point out that the only time that they lost was when they were wearing those gas-station-with-a-Long-John Silver’s-attached-to-it looking hats on Friday) shows that the rebuild is taking baby steps.
MLB Trade Rumors
1:47pm CDT
Patrick Corbin was the subject of some trade discussions this winter, as ESPN.com’s Buster Olney (subscription required) reports that the
Nationals had talks with other teams about the veteran left-hander. It isn’t clear whether the Nats initiated these talks or if other teams were exploring Corbin’s availability, or if any of these discussions were anything beyond standard offseason “checking-in” types of conversations. It could be that teams were trying to buy low on Corbin in the wake of a down year that saw him post a 4.66 ERA, 20.3% strikeout rate, and a career-low 90.2 mph average fastball velocity over 65 2/3 innings. Between 2020’s shortened season and Corbin’s stint on the COVID-related injury list this April, it makes it hard to gauge whether or not Corbin’s struggles last year and in the early days of the 2021 season are truly due to a decline.
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, we take a look inside the sometimes small, sometimes spacious homes of millennial women and their families. This week, we tour DIY influencer Danielle Guerrero’s 1,800-square foot, self-renovated oasis in Corona, California.
Danielle Guerrero knows her way around a power saw. As far as home influencers go, her clout comes not from pristine curation or an encyclopedic knowledge of deep-cut decor brands; instead, it comes from her handiwork. She’s the queen of at-home DIY and we’re not talking plate storage Pinterest hacks. We’re talking full-on carpentry. “I fell in love with this $5,000 coffee table, but there was no way I was going to pay that kind of money,” she says of her living room’s centerpiece. “So instead, I bought the materials, and built a similar one for $75.”