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Scott Braun: (2012–2022) [5] MLB Tonight, Quick Pitch, MLB Network Strike Zone, and MLB Network Showcase (now co-host of Foul Territory podcast) Eric Byrnes: (2010–2021) MLB Tonight; Tony Clark: (2009) MLB Tonight (now executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association) Joey Cora: (2013) MLB Tonight (now Detroit Tigers ...
The San Diego Padres held "Throwback Thursdays", featuring the uniforms worn in both 1978, when the team recorded their first winning record, and from 1984, when the team won their first pennant in the National League. Several teams – notably the Atlanta Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates – joined in by wearing replicas from that season.
Cy Young [1] [2] [3] holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson [4] is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn [5] has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their careers. [6]
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Following the Yankees' 2009 World Series championship, Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui departed as free agents. On December 8, the New York Yankees acquired center fielder Curtis Granderson from the Detroit Tigers, trading pitcher Ian Kennedy to the Arizona Diamondbacks and pitcher Phil Coke and minor league outfielder Austin Jackson to Detroit.
The Super Bowl comes, the Super Bowl goes. Then pitchers and catchers report, spring blooms, and the baseball cycle begins again. MLB seasons take their own novel tracks, but many a path is ...
The state of starting pitching has the attention of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who said in October the league is considering lowering the maximum of 13 pitchers per team to 12 possibly as soon ...
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since ...