Author: Patrick K. Flowers

The Philadelphia Phillies are the hottest team in baseball, winning 29 of their last 35 games, their best 35-game stretch since Grover Cleveland won the 1982 presidential election—that and more in today’s MLB Notes. The Red-Hot Phillies Continue to Their Historic Stretch The Philadelphia Phillies look unstoppable right now. On Thursday, they beat the Texas […]

It’s clear that Major League Baseball needs to move to an automated balls-and-strikes system, and it’s also clear that it will happen at some point. Unfortunately, it sounds like that system will not arrive in 2025. A report by the Associated Press this afternoon says that MLB commissioner Rob Mandred noted today that there has […]

Yankees’ Hal Steinbrenner is crying broke, the Padres’ depth will be tested without Xander Bogaerts for the foreseeable future, and Keith Law has some strong words for the 2024 MLB Draft class in today’s MLB Notes. Hal Steinbrenner Says Current Yankees payroll is ‘not sustainable for us financially’ The New York Yankees typically have one […]

After the Milwaukee Brewers won an arbitration hearing against Josh Hader in 2019, the reliever decided to protect himself until a team decided to give him a long-term commitment with unprecedented self-imposed usage rules. That and more in today’s MLB Notes. Josh Hader’s Unprecedented Usage Rules with the Brewers Last month, Josh Hader pitched the […]

MLB Notes — Major League Baseball is reportedly investigating former Angels infielder—and current Braves’ minor league player—David Fletcher regarding allegations that he placed illegal sports bets with the same bookie that former teammate Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter Ippei Mizuhara placed bets through … MLB Investigating David Fletcher’s Gambling Allegations MLB initiated an investigation on Monday into […]