The White Sox youth movement is starting in earnest.
Hello everyone! We’ve got a day game today as the M’s look for a win in the rubber match against the Reds. In the meantime, let’s check out what you may have missed in baseball yesterday.
In Mariners news…
- Right-hander Casey Lawrence has elected free agency after clearing waivers with the Mariners.
- However, the M’s did bring back righty Jesse Hahn on a minor league deal.
Around the league…
- The White Sox are promoting top catching prospect Edgar Quero, who was acquired from the Angels in the 2023 mid-summer panic buy that got Anaheim Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López for a couple of weeks.
- The Rangers have released former Mariners reliever JT Chargois.
- Former Marlins GM Kim Ng is being promoted to commissioner of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League as the league makes major plans to grow and expand in the coming years.
- The Giants are trying to combat pitching injuries by making their pitchers throw more, reports Jared Diamond at the Wall Street Journal. ($)
- Davy Andrews at Fangraphs explains how some players can accumulate lots of positive or negative fielding WAR this early in the season.
- Tyler Kepner at The Athletic revealed how baseball industry insiders rate all 30 MLB front offices. ($)
- Mike Vorkunov at The Athleltic wrote about how the rise in sports gambling is literally tarnishing the purity of the game. ($)
- Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus wonders what on earth is going on with the Pirates. ($)
- What the hell?
THE ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES SCORED THREE RUNS ON A BASES-LOADED WALK AND THERE IS VIDEO
— Codify Baseball (@codifybaseball.bsky.social) 2025-04-16T02:56:57.454Z
Anders’ picks…
- In wholesome animal news, a pair of zoo elephants scrambled to protect a group of calves during a minor earth quake in San Diego earlier this week.