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The Padres selected Naylor with the 12th overall pick in the 2015 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut with them in 2019. The Padres traded Naylor to Cleveland during the 2020 season. He was an MLB All-Star in 2024 and the Guardians traded him to the Diamondbacks after the 2024 season.
For the 12th straight season, Major League Baseball set a new record for most strikeouts in a single season. [124] For the first time in Major League Baseball history, at least four teams (the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins) recorded 100 or more wins in the same season. [125]
Prior to his MLB debut, he played college baseball for the Mercer Bears. For his 2016 performance at Mercer, Lewis was named an All-American, Baseball America's 2016 College Player of the Year, and won the 2016 Golden Spikes Award. He was selected in the first round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft by the Seattle Mariners.
MLB.com ranked Newman as Pittsburgh's seventh-best prospect going into the 2018 season. [19] He played 102 games for Indianapolis, batting .302, before the Pirates promoted him to the major leagues on August 16. [20] On April 6, 2019, Newman hit his first walk-off, a single to help the Pirates defeat the Cincinnati Reds 6–5 in 10
Bob Horner is the only player to go directly to MLB and win a Rookie of the Year Award. Tim Conroy and Brian Milner are the most recent players to go straight from high school to MLB, having debuted on the same day in 1978. [2] Dave Winfield is the most recent player to jump directly to MLB and subsequently be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The St. Louis Cardinals selected Edman in the sixth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. [10] Edman signed with the Cardinals and was assigned to the State College Spikes , where he spent the whole season, posting a .286 batting average with four home runs, 33 RBIs, and 19 stolen bases in 22 attempts over 66 games. [ 10 ]
On January 5, 1989, Major League Baseball signed a $400 million deal with ESPN, who would show over 175 games beginning in 1990.For the next four years, ESPN would televise six games a week (Sunday Night Baseball, Wednesday Night Baseball and doubleheaders on Tuesdays and Fridays), as well as multiple games on Opening Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.
September 13 – Alex Grammas, 93, who spent more than 40 years in Major League Baseball as a player, coach and manager, playing as an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs during ten seasons from 1954 through 1963, later coaching for the Pirates, Reds, Braves and Tigers over 26 seasons between 1965 and 1991 ...