Christian Yelich has never been flashy. He just hits. That’s about all the drama you’re going to get out of the former National League Most Valuable Player. While he is a baseball superstar, you wouldn’t know it from his normal low-key behavior in a three-game rehabilitation stay in […]
He’s a catcher, and he can hit. What more needs to be said about the man currently considered the successor to Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina? There’s quite a lot to be said about Andrew Knizner, who is grinding it out behind the plate at AAA Memphis. Knizner (pronounced […]
Hold that little hitting streak. Willie Calhoun has gone to the Texas Rangers. Calhoun, one of the bright spots as an outfielder on a Nashville Sounds team that has struggled this season with a 13-25 record, got the call-up today to report to the major league Texas Rangers. […]
It’s always sad to see a retirement in baseball, even if it is a player who never existed or an old guitar that wasn’t really a guitar. Two iconic figures in Tennessee baseball history are outta here. One was the giant old-time baseball player who splendidly graced the […]
A slew of injuries have beset the St. Louis Cardinals, but it turned into an opportunity for former Knoxville Bearden High School standout Lane Thomas, who made his big-league debut Wednesday. Thomas, ranked the seventh best prospect in the Cardinals’ system by both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline, […]
The wheels are turning on big-league and minor-league rosters, and it’s already busy in Tennessee pro baseball both in terms of minor league rosters and with players with college and high school ties in the state. The Texas Rangers recalled infielder Patrick Wisdom from the AAA Nashville Sounds […]
The Nashville Sounds are promoting the heavy presence of Tennesseans on their roster as a first-year AAA affiliate of the Texas Rangers, and it’s easy to see why. Former Morristown-Hamblen East High School and Walters State Community College pitcher Brett Martin, who is on the Rangers’ 40-man roster, […]
A noteload on the Class AAA Memphis Redbirds, minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Class AAA Nashville Sounds, minor league affiliate of the Texas Rangers: Before the major league season begins, both parent clubs of Tennessee’s AAA franchises will play exhibition games in Tennessee. […]
