Snake Bytes: 02/15 - Spring Cleaning
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A must read for every fan that digs the self flagellation of Torey Lovullo.
Here are the Diamondbacks non-roster players invited to camp. pic.twitter.com/wp1r5OGvQg Zach Buchanan (@ZHBuchanan) February 11, 2021
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In all honesty, it was hard to get a grip on the 20/21 Australian baseball season. The ABL had to juggle with the schedule because of all COVID-restrictions and two teams deciding to pull out before the season started. So we had teams that started playing in December and other teams that did not play their first game until deep in January.
Cavalry pitcher Justin Erasmus in Melbourne on Thursday night.
CANBERRA Cavalry have been forced to return immediately back to the ACT after having their opportunity to reach the Australian Baseball League championship game in Melbourne dramatically stripped.
The sudden outbreak of the UK strain of coronavirus has caused the Victorian government to call on a five-day state lockdown starting from midnight on Saturday (February 13).
It forced the ABL to cancel Saturday’s preliminary final involving the Cavalry in favour of re-branding Friday night’s qualifying final between both top-ranked teams, Melbourne Aces and Perth Heat, as the new official championship game.
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January 3, 2021
One of the “Best of 2020” articles that ran here at FanGraphs over the holidays featured an under-the-radar right-hander with a unique backstory and a knee-buckling bender. Titled Rangers Prospect Cole Uvila is a Driveline-Developed Spin Monster, the story chronicled, among things, a curveball that had spun upwards of 3,300 RPM in Arizona Fall League action. Honed with the help of technology, the pitch profiled as his ticket to Texas.
He’s no longer throwing it. Instead, Uvila is endeavoring to channel former Cleveland Indians closer Cody Allen.
“In my head, I was going to throw it until my career was over,” Uvila said of his old curveball. “Then the pandemic happened. There was a lot of time to look in the mirror, and you just don’t see big-league relievers throwing 76-mph curveballs. It’s not really a thing.”