Day: April 21, 2022

If Grayson Rodriguez keeps dealing like this, he could find himself on the mound at Camden Yards soon. Rodriguez, the top pitching prospect in baseball, continued his season-opening run of dominance on Wednesday with 5 1/3 scoreless innings of one-hit ball, striking out eight and allowing a walk in Norfolk’s 3-0 win over Durham at Harbor Park. He retired 15 consecutive batters after the Bulls' lone hit with one out in the first, registering 13 swings-and-misses on 75 pitches, perfectly hitting his pitch count for the night. “Every inning the emphasis is to go out and attack the strike zone," said Rodriguez. “Not altering my mentality, keep attacking the zone, attacking the hitters and not trying to make them swing and miss necessarily, just trying to make th...

The 2022 MLB regular season is less than two weeks old and, to be completely honest with you, this is the worst time of year to analyze baseball. The sample sizes are so small and it is damn near impossible to differentiate what's meaningful from what's nothing more than baseball being weird. But, we soldier on. With that in mind, our weekly series breaking down various trends across the league continues Wednesday with a look one rookie's tough luck strike zone, another's unique pitch, and the league-wide home run rate. Last week we examined Steven Kwan's historic start, Julio Urías' missing velocity, and the decline in stolen bases. Rodríguez's rookie strike zone By all accounts Mariners outfielder Julio Rodríguez is one of the best prospects and most talented young p...

When the dust settled on one of the weirdest and most contentious offseasons in MLB history, plenty of familiar faces were headed to new destinations — all of which are still taking some time to get used to. Trevor Story is with the Red Sox? Max Scherzer is a Met? Freddie Freeman is a Dodger?? Many of the biggest hauls went to teams on the cusp of contending for a World Series (or to the Mets). But two of the teams most active in adding new talent were not competitive last season: the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs.1 Between free agent signings and extensions, Chicago and Texas collectively spent more than $800 million in total contract value Baltimore Ravens Jersey  during the offseason. Among the bigger names hauled in were Marcus Semien, Corey Seager, Mitch Garver and Jon Gray (for t...

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ENID, Okla. — Registration is open for YWCA of Enid’s annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes has been occurring in Enid since 2014 as a way to help bring awareness to and to show support for people experiencing domestic abuse and sexual assault. Courtney Strzinek, executive director of YWCA Enid, said Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is based on the old adage that “you can’t really understand what someone Hey Dudes Shoes has been through until you’ve ‘walked a mile in their shoes.’” One-in-three women and one-in-six men will experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime, according to YWCA, and in 2020, law enforcement agencies investigated 2,245 rapes across Oklahoma. “This is a way to really engage everyone in our mission,” Strzinek said, “bec...