The Mets future is termed, “bleak,” according to the Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. At least as of this moment. Rosenthal did not hold back claiming the Mets are inclined to test the waters this off-season on Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Japan.
While Shohei Ohtani is the clear target for all 32 MLB teams, realistic signs point to New York again capitalizing on the international market like Kodai Senga and acquire the multi-time NPL Triple Crown winner, Yamamoto. Senga, speaking of which, may not be generating Ohtani headlines, but just a month ago he fanned 12K and in his debut proved to be confident.
The glaring hole rests in the 2023 MLB Trade Deadline. The Mets said see you later to notably Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, and Tommy Pham in an uprise of sorts to presumably respond to the Mets abysmal June of no registered series wins or simply turn the page with prospects such as OF Drew Gilbert, INF LuisAngel Acuna, and several others.
Pat Ragazzo of InsideTheMets.com confirmed on Sports Kingdom the outgoing flood of incoming shortstop prospects. The Mets acquired four and Acuna (Mets No.1 prospect) is expected to significantly bolster the Mets bleak outcome.
It has been said that Luis Angel does not match to Ronald Acuna’s trajectory but one notion is for certain. Luis Angel can play and silence the critics. There is no otherworldly margin for error.
Steve Cohen has seemed to quietly fess for now but wait until the awaited off-season. It is neutrally just begun.
You could hear the late Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas rally a good portion of the crowd left in solidarity after celebrating Michael Lorenzen’s first career no hitter in only his second start with the ball club. It marked the first time a Phillies pitcher recorded a no-hitter since Cole Hamels in 2015 at Wrigley Field. And how ironic, Hamels had retired recently as of five days ago to the day Lorenzen sharpened an unforgettable performance at his debut start in Citizens Bank Park in front of mom, his wife, and child to be in the midst of a humbling experience later described by the right hander.
Lorenzen’s perfect game shall I add was first broken by an inevitable 3-1 count but not the no-no. The defense came alive early with spectacular plays by new MLB’er Weston Wilson ceasing control of a left field defensive play and hitting a towering home run off MacKenzie Gore (4.62). Wilson upheld in his major league debut but the bigger tests will be determined later.
Lorenzen also received support from Alec Bohm, Johan Rojas, Nick Castellanos, and even former Phillie Ryan Howard from the booth. It was a swell performance. Lorenzen tends to use his four-seam fastball but, at times, switched to the sweeper and earned a strike out away in the zone. Almost same happened in an instance to CJ Abrams.
Lorenzen fooled Abrams initially into swinging for a pop out to center high in the zone. Then, next at-bat, the bat got away from Abrams with a deceiving changeup down in the zone.
Lorenzen worked the zone until it sizzled on an August summer night in Philadelphia. The Phillies bats were hot with Wilson, Nick Castellano’s third inning home run, Trea Turner’s hit streak extension. Everything was firing on all cylinders and Lorenzen was displaying a classic.
My Uncle sat next to Jake Alu’s parents in the image above, and let’s just say Alu did not have his best night.
Nobody in turn, could hit off Lorenzen and the damage had been created from the first inning to the ninth. With one pitch to 124 counting, Lorenzen called the ninth inning the coolest moment of his career. Elaborating that he tries to quiet the mind but feel the electricity of the moment. He felt it.
Lorenzen is etched in Phillies history now with the likes of Tommy Greene, Kevin Millwood, Roy Halladay, Cole Hamels and many others. Lorenzen not only broke a curse but harped on a day that will eternalize a fraternal bond like no other in Philadelphia sports.
A good example is when the team celebrated around Lorenzen after the game and proceeded to splash water on his headset with Phillies play-by-play commentator Tom McCarthy. After replacing the headset and conveying a lengthy, righteous speech, the team camaraderie showed for in a swarming huddle of players including Craig Kimbrel, Brandon Marsh and others to name a few and it had not been more than 10 days Lorenzen has found time to settle for a type of housing in Philadelphia other than a hotel with mom, his wife, and baby.
Lorenzen raised his baby in the air like it was his swan song but the Phillies still as the former reliever from Detroit, Anaheim and Cincinnati. Weston, Joey Meneses and Lorenzen all traveled roads, collided, bounced around. Last night was a ceremony of all riches, this season is not over as the Phillies newest acquisition summed it best.
Happy 25th Birthday, Jalen Hurts! Now, go on the Madden Cover! Not too soon.
Hurts is coming off an exceptional NFL year where he led 12th in completion percentage (66.5%), threw a 22:6 touchdown to interception ratio, and nearly led the Philadelphia Eagles to a Super Bowl victory over Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs by a final of 38-35.
Do you want to know where Andy Reid was coaching a quarter century ago? Quite simple. The home of Lambeau Field and negative Celcius temperatures in the postseason, during which Mike Holmgren and Brett Favre were still present before Reid ventured to have a successful career in Philadelphia.
The only glaring similarity between Hurts and Reid is they never entirely delivered a Super Bowl championship to Philadelphia. In an excerpt, Sarah Scoop explains:
“The number 25 is a very special number in numerology. It is considered to be an angel number, which means that it has great power and potential to lead into a holy year. The number 25 is also associated with the planet Mars, which is the planet of war and aggression.“
War and aggression sounds about the attitude Hurts needs to display after losing his job to Tua Tagovailoa in the 2018 Alabama National Championship and having his shortcomings in the Super Bowl. Great power and potential is on the horizon for a player of Hurts’ stature at only 25 years of age.
She details further:
“Some people believe that the number 25 is unlucky because it can represent chaos and destruction. However, this number can also be a sign of good news and new beginnings. The number 25 is all about change and progress, so it is important to embrace the challenges that come with it.“
No, I, in the team of the Philadelphia Eagles set to embrace obstacles and challenges set forth, whether it is injuries, sideline negotiations, huddle disputes, streaking Vince Papale walk-ons, or Jalen Hurts. Training camp is a sign of good news and new beginnings
What a money grabber. Erik Karlson is a Pittsburgh Penguin. Can you believe that? And he will complement the forces of Kris Letang, last-legged Sidney Crosby, extended-leading Evgeni Malkin, Jake Guentzel and the key of them all, young goalie Tristan Jarry.
Jarry, born in 1995, has quickly amassed recognition as one of the best Penguins goalies by surpassing the recent likes of Marc Andre Fleury (SV%), Matt Murray (GP), and Casey Desmith (W). He has amounted to extreme success with a recent five year contract deal and will have a long shutout streak to speak of more (117:15) when Karlson enters Pittsburgh.
At 33, Karlson has obliterated every obstacle that has entered his way. Check Block A.
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Here Karlson is being Karlson. Looking down the ice and having the common misconception for his size that he closely leads the NHL in hits. Do not be mistaken. According to Stat Muse, Karlson has recorded 711 career hits through 14 seasons with the Ottawa Senators and San Jose Sharks. Nashville Predator Luke Schenn has a whopping 3,158 hits.
Karlson also became, nonetheless, the sixth defenseman ever to record 100 points in a single season since Brian Leetch, who, on a side note, recently became a Hall of Fame inductee in the country of Finland. Take a look at the history achieved last year, in fact.
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Through the honorary pillars of excellence, Karlson exemplifies a winning culture of pride and fortune bestowed upon the faith of a new front office shifting course after the departure of predecessor Ron Hextall and his tumultuous raid in Philadelphia especially.
Will Karlson be finally determined to win a Stanley Cup? Or be a stat-stuffer? Karlson is the prototypical, gifted talent a hockey team wants, but the questions remain without an excellent touch of rejuvenation.
It is an ostensible overcast Thursday afternoon, and the Detroit Tigers are almost seemingly on the mound struggling to oppose designated hitter and starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani starts the game with a powerful fastball, displaying his best velocity after coming off a field day.
The Angels signed their housing rights to Ohtani almost after forgoing an ineligible period of timely status with the Anaheim Angels, and their skyrocketing chances currently of reaching the 2023 MLB Postseason and they underwent the justified parlay. Up high called for strike three and Ohtani’s conveyer belt of 11.93 per 9/K (career-best).
Next was the more upper command of the fastball called for a consecutive strikeout. Ohtani fired on all cylinders and forced Detroit’s respective overrated slugger Riley Greene to disproportionately swing dirty low and down.
Greene has no conceivable time for Ohtani’s splitter, and so does anybody. Ohtani finished his first career shutout predominantly and delivered a clapping for the ages to bolster the Anaheim Angels.
The Angels got their hands tied sitting six games back of the NL West division lead to the rival-leading Texas Rangers who have been in the hunt since demanding attention from the get-go. The Angels have not received the best performance from former MVP Mike Trout but 2016 number one overall pick Mickey Moniak has hit over .300 and better in centerfielder.
Another former Phillie Logan O’Hoppe is out for the season. Still, the infield overall, including Andrew Velasquez’s promising uptick in on-base percentage, has swelled masses into believing the Angels are a feel-good story of reaching at least the Wild Card.
Hold the applause. Kylian Mbappe, the second most expensive player in soccer, is about to undergo a series of life changes. It has been reported by CBS Sports that Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia is willing to offer the same percentage or add-up of euros from his Barcelona to Paris St. Germain’s leading prowess scorer (29) and useful penetration through Friday with one goal out of three shots on sizable net and plural rectangular targets. As for Mbappe, the job is not done.
He lost in the brooding 2022 FIFA Qatar World Cup, and France executed the outstanding spacing and opportunities for Mbappe to possibly scream more money and more problems.
Whispers from a hill. It is night time or dawn should add. It is a 1960’s-1970’s day in California and the wood is chirping clay of backfire and boisterous noise. Paramount Pictures, “Once Upon a Time in HollyWood,” is unfathomably playing and the current scene could not describe Hollywood then and now. Laid-back hippies, incorporate shoe offs or a fixture of light and bells ready to scream the ladders of H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O=D.
It could be Christmas for all joyous caring aside. The antagonist always loses except for in U.U.A.T.I.H., beloved Scarface role model Al Pacino plays a mini role and plays a genie in a time machine so to speak. Call it director Quentin Tarantino in the ninth inning with little superiority options except Shohei Ohtani.
Director’s cut edits a film that displays a tale of nonfiction habits and its prey baptizing on the one true common enemy, Disney World. Not too far apart, Hollywood rivals Disney World and together form a cohesive alliance throughout Southern California and its well known schools of USC and UCLA.
True Hard Fact: USC Head Coach Lincoln Riley is not relocating anywhere.
Ohtani has to be exquisitely convinced by the Hollywood front row value or petite marksmanship of Orange County, CA in Anaheim. Since Ohtani’s arrival from Japan to MLB in 2018, the Angels soaring attendance ranked six and five until plummeting and eventually recovering. What is the basis and reason behind Ohtani’s early and outreach success? It is quite simple.
Ohtani is a determined, focused, hard-nosed player and if he re-signs with the LA Angels. Expect Hollywood, California to come sitting in the cool front row of Sho-Time and classic looks!
Silence. Silence erupts in Seattle’s ballpark for merely decades as Julio Rodriguez stands and lulls. Ball four. The umpire says. Multi-time all-star Craig Kimbrel stacked the veteran advantage and dealt another unforeseen walk. Until drawing the first National League victory since 2012 last night.
Tom Verducci caught up with @Phillies closer Craig Kimbrel just moments after securing the save for the National League! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/nAe3HGEQ5W
The umpire calls time. That is the Seattle series and the whole Sho-hang. Look at me handsomely Seattle, because Ohtani’s value accentuates patented figures. He is intellectual in the extensive branch of marketing and competing for years in Japan and Anaheim. He understands the game and how to draw a hungered, yet real loud reaction by Seattle.
So loud, they chanted joined Seattle and spread chatter amongst the oft-restrictive, dugout players on imaginatively private social media touting the surmountable success of an Angels outfield disposition crop and fandom for Ohtani.
If Shohei receives all-time praise with Babe Ruth from former CY Young and long-time New York Yankee C.C. Sabathia along with a FOX Sports tap of worthy hypnotization from the best Black successor to “Mr. October,” Reggie Jackson, and righteous captain Derek Jeter. How come Roger Clemens gained traction? Yanked suspicions are telling that New York will embrace the first Japanese leading born player and graciously should from a New Jersian with their current assets of Anthony Volpe, George Lombard Jr, Luis Severino, Domingo German.
One of those two primed shortstops for example and selectively international propped signings. This is a really positive, synergetic scenario and if the Yankees can acquire a one-two punch since Rodger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. Hallujuah!
Gerrit Cole graciously starred alongside former CY Young and greatly emotion invested winner Justin Verlander with the financial Steve Cohen shenanigans ensuing currently.
The New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and other AL teams have been rumored to Sho-hei the money but what is stirringly fascinating is that Mike Trout misguides back to Millstone here. Is he on Pluto? The platonic size of the Athletic’s rocket ship?
Not the Astrodome. Talking beloved Mike Trout who is hitting a career low line but All-Star ballot .263/.369/.493 at the break. Honestly, Trout, should have reclined in a fancy designed chair and relax during Seattle and the MLB Draft which was not as buzz worthy to believe with a first round infield corner selection.
In a foreign country such as the London Series or Japan, fans look left or right in an encompassed angle and until north or south directs. All Shohei can say is Sho me weigh out.
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