Barry Bloom

1 week ago | sportico.com | Barry Bloom

BALTIMORE – Nobody in the Baltimore Orioles organization is happy about how the season opened in the second year of David Rubenstein’s ownership. “We just had an incredibly frustrating and disappointing start,” Mike Elias, the team’s executive vice president and general manager of baseball operations, said in an interview this week. “It was a Murphy’s Law kind of start.” Everything went wrong as the O’s lost 32 of their first 47 games.

1 week ago | sportico.com | Barry Bloom

Shohei Ohtani made his first Major League Baseball pitching start in 663 days and his first ever for the Los Angeles Dodgers Monday night at Dodger Stadium. The outing lasted just an inning; he threw 28 pitches and allowed a run on two hits while throwing a costly wild pitch. After that, Ohtani returned to his usual role as designated hitter, with the Dodgers winning 6-3 against the San Diego Padres.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Barry Bloom

Shohei Ohtani made his first Major League Baseball pitching start in 663 days and his first ever for the Los Angeles Dodgers Monday night at Dodger Stadium. The outing lasted just an inning; he threw 28 pitches and allowed a run on two hits while throwing a costly wild pitch. After that, Ohtani returned to his usual role as designated hitter, with the Dodgers winning 6-3 against the San Diego Padres.

1 week ago | sportico.com | Barry Bloom

When Buster Posey took over as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants late last year, he promised to rely on his playing pedigree as a three-time World Series-winning catcher to make the Giants relevant again. Sunday, Posey followed through on that promise. He obtained Rafael Devers in a mega-trade with the Boston Red Sox, giving the Giants a big left-handed power bat in the lineup for the first time since Barry Bonds finished his career with the team in 2007.

2 weeks ago | sportico.com | Barry Bloom

BALTIMORE—Detroit left-hander Tarik Skubal is everything you can ask for in a starting pitcher, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Thursday night at Camden Yards. What’s so special about the 28-year-old Skubal? “Everything,” Hinch said. “He’s an ace. Everything he brings to the table on any given night is either near or at the top of the league.