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Breaking Down Frisco’s ‘Break Camp’ Roster
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There will be minor league baseball in 2021. Which, y’know, wasn’t the case in 2020.
That reminder is one of the first things that jumped out to me while reading the “Break Camp” roster released by the Frisco RoughRiders yesterday, the full version of which features a column labeled “last team” that notes when and where each player suited up most recently.
Twenty-two of the 24 names listed haven’t played in a professional game since 2019, with the exceptions being Sherten Apostel, who got into seven games with the big league club last season, and 2017 fifth-round pick Jake Latz, who killed off some pandy time in indy ball with the Sugarland Skeeters.
April 7, 2021
The long Rougned Odor era in Texas has ended. On Tuesday, the Texas Rangers traded their second baseman, the incumbent since 2014, to the New York Yankees for minor league outfielders Antonio Cabello and Josh Stowers. The trade represents the final dismantling of the team’s longtime Odor-Elvis Andrus double play combo, a process that began last September when the cellar-bound team benched both players.
The interests are clear for both sides of this minor trade. The Rangers had already all but moved on from Odor despite the two seasons remaining on the six-year, $49.5 million contract he agreed to before the 2017 season. The second baseman didn’t even make the team’s final roster cuts this spring; he was designated for assignment last week. So getting two players in return for a guy they were willing to let go for free had to be attractive to the Rangers. In 2017, Odor was still just 23 and coming off two very solid seasons as the starter, albeit with some notabl
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Georgia Today, I m Steve Fennessy. It s Friday, Jan. 29th, 2021. Last week, the nation lost not just a titan of Major League Baseball, but an American icon.
Henry Aaron: I had a great career. I played for 23 years. And that s the end of it. You know, I hope that the home run is not the only thing that people or anybody, for that matter, Black or white, look at me and say, that s the only thing that he could do.
Steve Fennessy: That s former Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron in a 2018 interview with 11 Alive News. Aaron died Jan. 22nd. He was 86. It would be difficult to overstate Henry Aaron s impact on not just baseball, but the nation. Yes, he broke Babe Ruth s home run record in 1974, but Aaron s journey from Mobile, Alabama, to baseball s Hall of Fame was a fraught and complicated one. Here to discuss Henry Aaron is ESPN senior writer Howard Bryant, who s also a contributor on NPR s