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A Conversation With Colorado Rockies Third Base Prospect Kyle Karros Now in Triple-A, the son of former Dodgers slugger Eric Karros has a 142 wRC+ in 1,000 professional plate appearances.

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If I were to put together a list of covers that are better than the original, Aztec Camera’s “Jump” would be very high, maybe even at the top.

Attention Rockies fans and prospect nerds.

Which MLB Teams Are Winning In The Minors With The Youngest Players? We ranked all 30 MLB organizations by minor league winning percentage and weighted average age to reveal which teams succeed with younger players.

These are the minor league systems winning the most with the youngest players 🤔

1. Brewers
2. Dodgers
3. Marlins
4. Pirates
5. Guardians

The breakdown: buff.ly/aO3misl

I have been saying ever since the rule went into place that if the ghost runner scores the deciding run - and it is the only run that inning - the loss shouldn’t go the pitcher; it should simply be a team loss.

Tyler Glasnow Addresses His 2015 FanGraphs Scouting Report Injury history aside, the 6-foot-8 right-hander has largely lived up to his lofty expectation.

Tyler Glasnow Addresses His 2015 FanGraphs Scouting Report blogs.fangraphs.com/tyler-glasno...

Attendance tonight at Fenway Park: 37,585.

That is the largest announced crowd here since 2019.

Sunday Notes: Dustin May Has Become a Better Person Through Adversity Plus Warren Schaeffer and Nic Wilson on Rockies development needs, James Tibbs III on Cam Smith, Steve Sparks on Ryan Gusto, facts and stats galore, and more.

Sunday Notes: Dustin May Has Become a Better Person Through Adversity blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...

Attempting to write when you’re sick - fever is currently 101.2 - is pretty much just that. Attempting. Ugh.

The Guardians were the only club to spend every penny of their 5% bonus pool overage. The Mets came within $5 of doing so.

Every time I visit Chicago I enjoy Chicago. Tonight’s Everton FC meetup at AJ Hudson’s -a stellar pub - was fab. Wednesday’s friendly versus West Hamm at Soldier Field should be even better.

Job Posting: Boston Red Sox - Sr. Data Engineer, Baseball Systems The Boston Red Sox are hiring.

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Boston Red Sox – Sr. Data Engineer, Baseball Systems blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

Sunday Notes: Austin Hays Is Locking In On His Strengths and Excelling As a Red Plus two former Brewers on the Brewers, the Dodgers’ under-the-radar star, Travis d’Arnaud on catching Rays and Braves, facts and stats galore, and more.

Sunday Notes: Austin Hays Is Locking In On His Strengths and Excelling As a Red blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...

Boston’s top picks in this year’s draft were at Fenway today. Liam Hendriks had words of wisdom for them during BP.

Baseball on the back porch on a summer night is a good thing. Tonight is Padres-Cardinals. Beverage is a Bell’s Amber.

Andrew Abbott Merits More Attention (And He’s Getting It Here) Featured here at FanGraphs in both May and June, the Cincinnati Reds southpaw is worthy of a July article, as well.

Andrew Abbott Merits More Attention (And He’s Getting It Here) blogs.fangraphs.com/andrew-abbot...

The Women’s Euros continue to be fun.

Merrill Kelly Is a Trade Target Who Thrives With Pitchability and Guile Approaching free agency, the Diamondbacks right-hander is a wanted man.

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Agreed. How historians and people who love the game will one day look back at him (or even view him now) doesn’t appear to be among his concerns.

‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals The Minnesota Twins are the first MLB team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada for the national tournament.

The Minnesota Twins are the first Major League Baseball team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada to compete with girls teams across the country and world for the Baseball for All National Championships which starts Monday.

It is very possible that no commissioner has ever cared less about his legacy.

Sunday Notes: Red Sox Prospect Payton Tolle Has a Super-Pretty/Ugly Delivery Plus Nick Lodolo’s comfortable changeup grip, Andy Freed was a Mike Flanagan fan, Ceddanne Rafaela’s hands, a José Ramírez-David Wright comp, facts and stats galore, and more.

Sunday Notes: Red Sox Prospect Payton Tolle Has a Super-Pretty/Ugly Delivery blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...

Dan Shulman just told a story on air that Addison Barger has measured 115mph exit velocities off the Trajekt ... as a right-handed hitter.

Justin Verlander has a 4.99 ERA, and unless the Giants rally he will have an 0-8 record on the season. We are in Steve Carlton post-40-year-old territory here. No pitcher lasts forever.

Two posts and two shots over the net will lose you a penalty shootout most every time.

Good song? That would be a hard no.

One question we had is how the defensively quality of second basemen compares to previous seasons. A player at a given position can be above average, yet not a particularly good defender.

Women’s Euros. Norway outplaying Italy, but the latter has scored late and is likely to win. Earlier in tourney, Finland outplayed Norway, but the latter scored late and won. Sports.

Was talking to another Fenway-regular reporter about some of the club’s defensive metrics a few weeks ago, and we were both scratching our heads on Hamilton’s grading out well.

Red Sox Prospect James Tibbs III Talks Hitting Acquired from the Giants in the Rafael Devers trade, the Red Sox outfield prospect lives and breathes hitting.

Red Sox Prospect James Tibbs III Talks Hitting blogs.fangraphs.com/red-sox-pros...