Team News
Adrian Del Castillo Named to MLB Pipeline’s All-Rookie Second Team
D-backs’ Yu-Min Lin Grateful to be Pitching in the Fall League
“The cutter is kind of my new pitch for this year. I try to work on it every outing now. It was working pretty well that day. Lin had been working on a cutter as far back as two years ago, but he didn’t really throw it in games very often last year. “This year in spring training, my pitching coach and all the video guys, they just showed me all the data on my cutter and how it works in my pitching plan, so I just started using it this season.”
Arizona Diamondbacks 2024 Player Review: Miguel Castro
Castro remains unsigned. It’s not impossible to see him return to the D-backs, perhaps on a minor league deal for depth purposes, but it doesn’t seem likely that Arizona will return to that well anytime soon.
Jordan Lawlar homers in his Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League debut
Jordan Lawlar shows some pop in his @LIDOMRD debut!
The @Dbacks‘ No. 1 prospect (MLB No. 9) tees off on a solo homer: pic.twitter.com/fsxW3BK5wt
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) October 17, 2024
RHP Humberto Castellanos opts for free agency
https://burncitysports.com/2024/10/16/rhp-humberto-castellanos-opts-for-free-agency/
Other Baseball
Every organization’s Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year
Adrian Del Castillo, C (No. 14)
The 2021 67th overall pick was named the Pacific Coast League MVP after being the only Minor League full-season qualifier to slug above .600 (.603 in his case). He also led the Minors with a 1.002 OPS and placed fourth with 65 total extra-base hits in 105 games for Reno.
Spencer Giesting, LHP (No. 27)
Giesting led the system with 154 strikeouts in 141 1/3 innings as a workhorse at High-A Hillsboro and Double-A Amarillo and finished with a 3.31 ERA in his 25 starts. The most dominant run of his career came in the Northwest League, where he sported a 1.50 ERA in 10 outings.
https://www.mlb.com/news/prospects-of-the-year-for-every-org-2024?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
Dodgers silence Mets, seize 2-1 lead behind Buehler, big HRs
https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-nlcs-game-3-2024
Walker Buehler delivers vintage performance as Shohei Ohtani leads Dodgers offense in NLCS Game 3 rout
Why the Yankees have the most dominant closer in the playoffs
https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/luke-weaver-2024-postseason-success-breakdown
Gleyber Torres has been the Yankees catalyst
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/gleyber-torres-has-been-the-yankees-catalyst/
Jerry Reinsdorf Reportedly Discussing Sale Of White Sox
Stewart is well-known in the baseball world for his playing career and also his post-playing ventures as a coach, executive, agent and stint as general manager of the Diamondbacks. In recent years, he has been involved with a group that has been trying to get an MLB franchise in Nashville, Tennessee. Stewart parted ways with Music City Baseball/the Nashville Stars but told Paul Skrbina of the Nashville Tennessean in May that he still had designs on getting a team to Nashville someday. Per today’s report from Ghiroli, he is now part of a group called Smoke34, a reference to his nickname and jersey number from his playing days.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/jerry-reinsdorf-reportedly-discussing-sale-of-white-sox.html
Latest On Tropicana Field
“The Rays have to get a sense on whether they are looking for a temporary home for a few months, for a full season or for all three years,” Topkin writes. “Plus, Major League Baseball will have a say, and the players union is sure to be involved.”
Topkin goes on to mention a number of possible backup plans, which are all imperfect in various ways. A nearby minor league stadium would be convenient in some ways, as the location wouldn’t be drastically different, but each would likely require investment of some kind to get it closer to major league standards.
The minor league stadiums also don’t have roofs, which means frequent weather delays and postponements could become an ongoing problem. That’s on top of the logistical hurdles of sharing with the team that normally plays its home games there or moving that club elsewhere. Each venue would also come with concerns in terms of capacity, amenities, accessibility and so on.
There are also more extreme suggestions put forth, such as playing in a city like Durham or Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Montreal, Quebec; or even San Juan, Puerto Rico.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/10/latest-on-tropicana-field.html
Anything Goes
This day in history:
The A’s-Giants World Series in 1989 earthquake and a resulutino creating the Texas Rangers was approved in 1835. He wasn’t a Ranger but, look up Bass Reeves if you are interested… supposedly the inspiration for The Lone Ranger.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/october-17
This day in baseball:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/October_17
One year ago today, was game 2 of the NLCS, the Phillies drubbed the Dbacks 10-0.
97% of the earth’s water is undrinkable.
About 98% of all water on Earth is salt water. Fresh water is only 3% of all water on earth, and nearly 65% of this water is in glaciers.
New parents lose around 750 hours of sleep in the first year of their firstborn’s birth.
On average, new parents will only get an average of 4-5 hours of sleep a day due to the newborn’s many needs. During the first year of a newborn’s life, new parents will lose about 59% of their resting time to cater to their newborns.
England and Portugal still maintain their alliance until today.
This is also known as the longest unbroken alliance in world history. This treaty began in 1386 between the two countries and they still remain strong allies until today.
Winston Churchill typically smoked eight to ten cigars a day, sometimes as much as fifteen. During the American prohibition, he would get a doctor’s note saying he needed to drink “indefinite” amounts of alcohol when he would come and visit the states.
(A picture my uncle in CT took, castle Craig in New Haven)
