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MLB rumors: Red Sox add another prospect with Yankees bloodlines in 4-player trade with Rays
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom completed a four-player trade with the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.AP
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If you can’t beat them .
Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports the Rays sent “prospect C Ronaldo Hernandez and minor-league INF Nick Sogard to #RedSox for Ps Jeffrey Springs and Chris Mazza.”
WEEI reports “The 23-year-old Sogard was a 12th-round pick of the Rays in the 2019 MLB Draft, and is the nephew of former big leaguers Steve Sax and his brother Dave, who played briefly for the Red Sox. He is also the cousin of current major leaguer Eric Sogard.”
Welcome to the relaunched This Day in
Yankees History. With the offseason well underway, the Pinstripe Alley team is continuing this revived program. These daily posts will highlight two or three key moments in Yankees history on a given date, as well as recognize players born on the day. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us!
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91 Years Ago
The Boston Red Sox sell a former home run king to the New York Yankees no, not Babe Ruth Ken Williams. The let fielder hit 196 home runs in a 14-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Browns, and the Red Sox, briefly snatching the AL home run crown from Ruth while with the Browns in 1922 by leading the league with 39 dingers (Ruth had been suspended for the first six weeks of the season). Although 196 homers might not seem like much now, it was good enough for fourth on the all-time list at the time Williams’s career ended in 1929.
January 12, 2021
On the heels of a year in which a record seven Hall of Famers died, the baseball world couldn’t get a full week into 2021 without losing another. Tommy Lasorda, the charismatic and voluble manager who piloted the Dodgers to four National League pennants and two championships during a run of 19 full seasons (1977-95) and two partial ones, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 7.
The 93-year-old Lasorda had returned home earlier in the week after being hospitalized since mid-November due to a heart condition. He had been the oldest living Hall of Famer since Red Schoendienst passed away on June 6, 2018; that title now belongs to 89-year-old Willie Mays.
LOS ANGELES (AP) Tommy Lasorda, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to two World Series titles and later became an ambassador