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Yahoo
13 hours ago
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- Yahoo
‘Big fan': Braves legend Chipper Jones lauds Coastal Carolina baseball coach
The Coastal Carolina University baseball team, and its current run toward the College World Series, has caught the eye of an Atlanta Braves legend. Chipper Jones, the switch-hitting third baseman who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018, praised the team and its coach Tuesday in a social media post that was critical of other teams vying for playoff spots. Advertisement 'Spent quite a bit of time watching college baseball this weekend,' Jones wrote on 'I will only watch a select few teams from here on out. Reason? They have coaches that respect the game and their opponents and demand the same of their players. Any team that doesn't wear the uni correctly, taunts the other team, and has a coach that condones this behavior, is a disgrace to the game. 'Big fan of coach Schnall at Coastal Carolina! Him and his team represent what college baseball should be like. Well done, sir! U stand for proper behavior.' Kevin Schnall, in his first year as CCU head coach, made headlines this week criticizing the actions of University of Florida baseball coach Kevin O'Sullivan, who was caught on video berating staff at the NCAA Regionals in Conway this past weekend. Advertisement 'I have to say this, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to or not, but I believe in standing up to for what's right, and what transpired this morning on our field, another coach disrespected our associate AD, who works as hard as anybody in our entire program, he disrespected our field crew, who are the salt of the earth, these guys would do anything for our program, it's not okay,' Schnall said. 'And this needs to be brought up. Absolutely disrespectful.' O'Sullivan has since issued a statement apologizing for his behavior. CCU advanced out of the region that included Florida, East Carolina University and Fairfield University. They will play Auburn University beginning Friday in a best-of-three series to determine which team advances to the College World Series.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Texeira selected to MLB All-Star Futures Game staff
After logging time in the major leagues as a pitcher, Maui native Kanekoa Texeira is once again climbing the professional baseball ladder, this time from the dugout. Texeira, a Kamehameha Schools graduate from Kula, Maui, is in his second season as the Triple-A manager for the Gwinnett Stripers, the Atlanta Braves' top affiliate in the International League. The former big-league reliever, who pitched 67 innings across two seasons with the Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals from 2010 to 2012, has quickly gained respect as a rising managerial talent. That reputation has earned him a new honor, a spot on the coaching staff for the 2025 All-Star Futures Game, set for July 12 at Truist Park in Atlanta. 'Hey, you know, it's fun,' Texeira said. 'It's always been part of my dream to stick in this game as long as I can. Reach out to lots of kids or players that I can share in the knowledge I've learned. I still get shocked sometimes, managing a Triple-A team, one step away from the big leagues. If it happens, it happens. If not, I'm still proud of what I've done and what I'm doing right now.' Texeira's selection to the Futures Game staff came via a text from Braves legend Chipper Jones. 'Chipper texted me and said, 'Hey, you want to coach third base?'' Texeira recalled. 'I said, 'Of course.' Then he said, 'Good, because you're going to be with me in the Futures Game.' I told him, 'I'd be stupid to say no to Chipper Jones, man. I got you.'' Growing up in Hawai'i, Texeira remembers watching the Braves daily on TBS, the only major league team regularly televised in the Islands at that time. '100%, 100%,' he said. 'We only could watch the Braves. Just Chipper, you know… I even got to face him when I played, toward the end of his career. That was big for me. Now you got Tim Hudson and a bunch of studs on the Futures Game staff. It's going to be fun, man.' Texeira is in his seventh year as a professional coach. Just last week, the Stripers celebrated 'Tex Day,' donning Aloha Friday jerseys in his honor, a tribute to his Hawaiian roots, nearly 5,000 miles away from the islands. The All-Star Futures Game showcases the top minor league talent from across baseball and is widely considered a preview of the game's next generation of stars. Texeira is proving he might just be one of the next coaching stars as well. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
MLB All-Quarter Century Team voting: Who got it right — the fans or me?
The people have spoken. Great to hear from you. Now I get to speak. A week and a half ago, I threw out the first pitch in our MLB All-Quarter Century Team project. I did that by presenting my (cough, cough) inarguable selections for who belongs on this team — our collection of the best players at every position since the 2000 season. Advertisement About 9 billion reader comments later, I was starting to get the impression that you didn't feel like my picks ended this debate. So I've been holding my breath as I awaited the results of the most important election of the 21st century — the All-Quarter Century Team fan voting. Well, the voting booths are shuttered. Your votes are in, more than 12,000 of them. (Thank you!) And today we get to discuss the question that's on everyone's mind: Who's right — me or The People? Ha. I don't know if we settled that raging debate, actually. But I've pored over your votes. And boy, do I have questions — most notably … What's up with all the love for A-Rod? So let's discuss the voting — and by that I mean, let's discuss the part of that voting in which your thinking and my thinking were (shockingly) not the same. TOP 3 IN READERS' VOTE: Beltré (29.95 percent), Alex Rodriguez (29.78), Chipper Jones (17.9) Exit polls aren't a real thing in votes like this. But I'll admit I was well aware that right up until the final day, it looked as if A-Rod was going to beat out my top two picks, Beltré and Chipper. So … that was interesting. I took a deep breath and read through hundreds of your thoughtful reader comments on my original column. It was a heartwarming experience. But I think it's safe to say that the general theme was: Stark, you spineless loser, anybody who would put 'a cheater' on this team has no credibility. So take a hike. And then thousands of you still voted for Alex Freaking Rodriguez! Yes, I put Barry Bonds on my team … and David Ortiz … and Jose Altuve … but not A-Rod. Is it OK if I point out that one of those guys served two more 'cheating' suspensions (two) than the other three combined? (You know which one!) So yeah, I deducted points for that. Advertisement Is it OK if I also point out that I had three Hall of Fame alternatives to putting A-Rod on my team — in Beltré, Chipper and Scott Rolen — not to mention three likely future Hall of Famers, in Nolan Arenado, Manny Machado and José Ramírez? So I did what I thought I had to do. But even after all these years, I'm still trying to figure out why America hates 'cheaters' yet still has a soft spot for A-Rod. Feel free to explain it to me! TOP 3 IN READERS' VOTE: Posey (29.81 percent), Molina (27.41), Joe Mauer (26.0) I have a brilliant idea for Netflix: How 'bout we lock 100 Yadi fans and 100 Buster fans in an auditorium for three hours, roll the cameras and watch them yell at each other until the blood drains out of their cheeks. I'd watch. I had a feeling I might strike a nerve by picking Yadi as my All-Quarter Century Team catcher — but wow. When the very first reader comment on my column, from Cory S., pronounced Molina as 'seriously overrated' … and then the next 72 comments were from fans who felt the need to weigh in on that hot take … I said to myself: I can't wait to see how this vote turns out. So now here we are. I'd like to convince myself this was practically a dead heat, with Posey eking out this duel, 3,673 votes to 3,616. But the truth is, I made my case for why it's cool to pick Yadi even though it's hard to find any set of numbers or metrics that supports that … and then nearly 73 percent of you said: Nope! Not buying that. OK, listen up: I think Buster Posey is an easy Hall of Famer and probably the greatest catcher of his generation. But he played 11 seasons in the big leagues — and Molina played 19! So there are no wrong answers here. I just needed to make a point, that we still don't have any metric that truly measures everything that catchers do. And you know who the No. 1 poster boy is for all that? Right you are. Yadi! Advertisement TOP 3 IN READERS' VOTE: Ichiro (39.3 percent), Judge (37.4), Mookie Betts (11.4) I knew this would go well. Really enjoyed this comment from loyal reader Mark S.: 'Arson Judge over Ichiro in right field should get your Hall of Fame vote revoked' Thanks, Mark. Should I forward that to my friends in Cooperstown or just resign? Let's review: Back in January, I wrote these words about Ichiro: 'Are we really going to find some excuse not to make this man the first unanimous position player in the history of Hall of Fame voting? Yikes. It's embarrassing.' So yes, I noticed that Ichiro was good at baseball. But why can't more than one thing be true? Why can't I acknowledge Ichiro's greatness and still make a point that Aaron Judge is Babe Ruth, that he's the best right-handed hitter of the last 100 years and that he should be the right fielder on this team? And the answer is: I can. And I did. I didn't expect this vote to be even this close. And I'm not renouncing my Hall of Fame vote. But thanks for the kind words! TOP 3 IN READERS' VOTE: Ohtani (45.6 percent), Ortiz (37.6), Jim Thome (6.2) I made it clear in my first column that it pained me to leave Ohtani off my team — and that if it were up to me, we should really just invent a position for him. I believe 'DH/ace/superhero/international man of mystery' was the working title. A lot of goodwill that bought me. Timothy N. called that logic 'pure baloney.' Then there were the sympathetic words of 'Anonymous U.,' who told me: 'You are nuts.' Now, I've said and written a gazillion times that Ohtani is the most talented human ever to play baseball. If you think there was any shot he wouldn't be on the final, complete roster of this team when we release it, I have a private, totally empty freeway in Los Angeles that I'd like to sell you. Advertisement I was always going to find some way to get Shohei onto this team. But he's still a spectacular work in progress — and 'only' eight years into his career. Whereas Ortiz already has a plaque in Cooperstown, after a 14-year career spent redefining the arc of the Red Sox, one of the most storied franchises in the sport. Also, since it came up in the comments, let's mention this: The commissioner himself, Rob Manfred, instructed us, as Hall of Fame voters, to disregard the infamous Sports Illustrated reports that said Ortiz had shown up on the positive list in MLB's 2003 survey testing. So you can shower all the love you have inside you on Shohei. And you can rant about Ortiz all day long. But I made my pick, and I'm not 'covering up' anything. I'm just a guy who wrote a column, to entertain the masses. How'd that work out? TOP 3 IN READERS' VOTE (FOR FIFTH SPOT): Martinez (47.64 percent), Halladay (46.68), Zack Greinke 22.3) Pedro! Can you ever go wrong picking Pedro Martinez for any team? Of course not. Peak Pedro was as awesome as awesome gets. Um, however … Peak Pedro was not 2000s Pedro. Peak Pedro was 1997-2003. So what do we, as All-Quarter Century Team voters, do about that, huh? Timing wasn't quite everything on this team. But it was helpful if you were one of those lucky dudes whose entire period of dominance came in years that started with a '2.' So what were we supposed to do with the unlucky legends who split their best seasons over the 1900s and 2000s? That was hard — for me, anyway. It became pretty clear that most of the readers who accused me of 'blasphemy' and 'insanity' for not picking Pedro spent zero time worrying about inconvenient facts like that. But you know who did worry about it? I did. Advertisement So is there really a case for including Pedro on this team over Halladay? I'm not seeing it. Counting the postseason, Halladay made 150 more starts than Martinez in the 2000s, threw a postseason no-hitter, spun a regular-season perfect game, won two Cy Young Awards, had three more top-three finishes and was the ultimate ace for a decade. But I only got one vote for this team. And 12,000 readers had other ideas. So who am I to tell them they were wrong to vote with their hearts, as opposed to that minor technicality that we were voting on performance in this century? Whatever. That's why we vote! I'd like to thank baseball fans everywhere for their resounding support of literally all of my other picks — at first base, second base, shortstop, left field, center field and closer. I knew you'd see the light, even if you weren't always sure that I saw it. I still absorbed a bunch of body slams over not picking Miguel Cabrera — at first, at third, at DH, you didn't even care where! … and showering too many accolades on Derek Jeter — not even the best shortstop on his own team! … and covering for Jose Altuve — no Astros allowed, and hey, as a Philly guy, how could I not vote for Chase Utley! But you know what? Even after all the flak I took, I loved this whole project. I wasn't shocked to learn that thousands of you don't think like I think. That's the point! You know what I'd like to say to all of you who disagree with me? You're supposed to! And you're welcome. (Top image: Ichiro Suzuki: Otto Greule Jr. / Getty Images; Aaron Judge: Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
MLB Reveals Exciting Chipper Jones News on Monday
With All-Star Week fast approaching, baseball fans are already buzzing about the 26th edition of the All-Star Futures Game. Set for July 12 at Truist Park in Atlanta, this seven-inning showcase highlights the game's brightest minor-league prospects. Advertisement However, this year's matchup carries extra significance for Braves Country. On Monday, Major League Baseball confirmed that two of Atlanta's most celebrated alumni will take the reins in the dugouts. Hall of Famer Chipper Jones has been appointed manager of the National League Futures squad, while two-time All-Star Marquis Grissom will helm the American League team. The announcement was shared via MLB's official X account. Drafted first overall by the Braves in 1990, Jones spent his entire 19-year career in Atlanta. He slashed .303/.401/.529 across 2,499 games, amassing 468 home runs and 1,623 RBIs. Advertisement An eight-time All-Star, Jones won the National League MVP in 1999 and helped lead the Braves to the 1995 World Series championship. Grissom, meanwhile, was a two-time National League stolen base leader (1991-92) and four-time consecutive Gold Glove winner (1993-96). He spent 17 seasons in the majors with six clubs, posted a .272 career batting average, swiped 429 bases, and drove in 967 runs. A two-time All-Star, Grissom also earned the 1997 ALCS MVP and played a key role in the Braves' 1995 World Series win. Former Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones (10).Brett Davis-Imagn Images As part of All-Star Saturday, the Futures Game offers a first look at tomorrow's stars before the Midsummer Classic on July 15, also in Atlanta. Advertisement With the Futures Game returning to Truist Park, the home field of the 2021 World Series champions, the hometown crowd will get to witness both emerging talent and franchise legends in action. Related: Alex Bregman Makes Major Personal Announcement Amid MLB Season
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
MLB announces Hall of Famer Chipper Jones and former All-Star Marquis Grissom as All-Star Future games managers
MLB announces Hall of Famer Chipper Jones and former All-Star Marquis Grissom as All-Star Future games managers (Image Source: Getty) MLB announced the managers for the All-Star Futures games that are set to take place on 12 July, 2025, in Truist Park, Atlanta. The new managers will be Hall of Famer Chipper Jones who will lead the NL team, and All-Star title holder Marquis Grissom , who is set to manage the AL team. Both managers have years of experience in the field of baseball, and will be joined by other legendary players in the dugouts. Chipper Jones and Marquis Grissom to lead NL and AL teams The All-Star Futures games are a baseball match that takes place every year, and prospects from the American League (AL) and National League (NL) take part in. The game is played in the NL vs AL perspective, and gives the prospects a chance to showcase their talent in the field that will further impact their selection in various clubs. Jones and Grissom have been given the responsibility of handling both teams, and it is a big responsibility. Both the players were formerly in the Atlanta Braves, even though Grissom only joined for one season, they did share the same field. Besides, both players have left a lasting legacy of their achievements, which makes it all the more special. Other legendary players joining the AL and NL teams Apart from Chipper Jones and Marquis Grissom, MLB has also announced a list of players who will be joining both managers in their respective dugouts. As per reports, players like Fred McGriff, Dale Murphy, Andruw Jones, Tim Hudson, and Ryan Klesko will appear in the staff list of both teams. But which former player is joining which dugout? As per reports, the NL team will have Mark DeRosa as their bench coach and Andruw Jones as hitting coach. Tim Hudson is said to join the NL team as their pitching coach, whereas Tyler Flowers will be the team's 1B coach. For 3B, the team has appointed Kanekoa Texeira as the coach. The AL team has also appointed some pretty good coaches for the team. Joining Grissom will be Jerry Manuel as the bench coach, Fred McGriff as hitting coach, and Marvin Freeman as pitching coach. For the bases, there's Dale Murphy as 1B coach, and Brian Hunter as 3B coach. Also Read: MLB brings never before seen swing rule experiment to Florida League in major shift Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
