new for @yahoosports.bsky.social: on Rickey Henderson, who played big league baseball for a quarter-century (!) and completely redefined one of the fundamental features of the sport
RIP to one of the greatest of all-time
sports.yahoo.com/rickey-hende...
who are some other free agents with minimal buzz that you're curious about?
in addition to these 5 I wrote about, would also add:
Hye-seong Kim
Randal Grichuk
Max Kepler
Spencer Turnbull
Paul Sewald
with no inside info I have a feeling we won't be waiting much longer
big 24 hours for me personally
really fun pod today, especially our MVP ballot guessing game (I already regret my picks)
over the past decade, an average of 22-23 different players in each league have gotten MVP votes (voters select 10 players) -- see breakdown below
can't wait to see the full results tomorrow!
Tarik Skubal became an ace at age-27 and immediately won a Cy Young Award
Chris Sale became an ace at age-23 and it took him more than a decade to finally claim the hardware
wrote about the two southpaws' respective paths to winning pitching's top prize:
sports.yahoo.com/first-time-c...
#176 is in the tracker
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
