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New York Times
27-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Bettors like Aaron Judge to do something that hasn't been done since 1941
Aaron Judge chased down one of MLB's most famous numbers three years ago, when he topped Roger Maris' 61 home runs with 62 of his own to break the American League record. Can he achieve another historic milestone this time around, one that hasn't been accomplished in over eight decades? The last MLB player to hit .400 in a single season was Ted Williams, who achieved the feat in 1941. Since then, there have been many players who have raced off to hot starts at the plate, but the closest anyone has come was Tony Gwynn posting a .394 average in 1994. Advertisement Through 52 games (all stats ahead of Monday's slate), Judge leads baseball with a .397 average, which is 40 points higher than the next-closest player, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman at .357. BetMGM first posted a betting market on whether Judge would hit .400 this season back on May 2, with the opening odds coming in at +25000 (bet $100 to win $25,000). Those odds now sit at +15000 (bet $100 to win $15,000) after dipping to +10000. One BetMGM bettor put $2,000 on Judge to hit .400 back when it was priced at +17500, for a potential win of $350,000. Highlighted by that wager, BetMGM told The Athletic that Judge finishing with a .400 average served as the sportsbook's most notable liability among all of its MLB betting markets. 'We get more action on MLB achievement props than any other sport,' said Hal Egeland, Trading Manager at BetMGM. 'MLB's historic numbers seem to have more significance for the public in general, even beyond betting. So these key numbers, like 62 home runs or a .400 batting average, stick in people's minds and draw more interest than, say, LeBron James breaking the points record. If there was ever a case where there's a player bidding for the home run record, I would imagine we would take a massive amount of handle on that.' BetMGM also has a betting market up for whether Judge can capture the American League triple crown (lead in batting average, home runs and runs batted in), a feat last accomplished by Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Judge's 'Yes' odds to win the triple crown are at +135 (bet $100 to win $135), while the 'No' is priced at -200 (bet $200 to win $100). Besides ranking first in batting average, Judge leads the AL in home runs with 18, just edging out Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (17). The Yankees slugger, however, is second in the AL in RBI at 47, just trailing Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers' 48. However, Judge winning the triple crown hasn't attracted nearly the same level of betting action at BetMGM as hitting .400. 'It's not even close,' Egeland said. 'I think it mostly has to do with the price. If you're going to place a bet and have it sit for the remainder of the MLB season, you're going to want a bigger payout than +135. But we haven't gotten much interest on the 'No' either, so I guess people don't love the edge in either direction. There's a lot of casual money for him to hit .400 or higher. If he's still hitting at or close to .400 late in the season, we're going to see even more action on it.' Advertisement Not surprisingly, Judge is also the massive favorite to win AL MVP at BetMGM. He was the +300 co-favorite with Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. ahead of the Yankees' season opener. It took Judge less than one week to become the -110 favorite and about five weeks to emerge as the sizable -1000 chalk for the award. He now sits at -3000 for AL MVP (~97 percent implied probability), with Witt Jr. second at +1400 and nobody else shorter than +9000. So, with Judge getting all of this love in futures markets, is he also the most popular player prop wager daily? Caesars lead baseball trader Eric Biggio told The Athletic that the only player that comes close to daily Judge's prop action is Shohei Ohtani. While Judge typically receives about 25 percent to 50 percent more bets on his props each day compared to Ohtani, it's at least three times the number of bets for any other player. The gap in betting popularity between Judge and Ohtani has only widened as the season continues to progress. 'In the first month of the season, it was as close as you could get for prop bets on Judge and Ohtani,' Egeland said. 'It was actually about 2 percent more on Ohtani compared to Judge. Since then, Judge has taken the top spot by quite a bit, with Ohtani the only one in striking distance — but even then, Judge has like a 20 percent edge on Ohtani. After that, there isn't anyone that's gotten even half the bets or handle of Judge player props in pretty much any offensive category.' (Photo of Aaron Judge: Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images)
Associated Press
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
This Date in Baseball - Gary Carter joins Bob Boone and Carlton Fisk in the 2,000 games caught club
May 17 1925 — Cleveland's Tris Speaker got his 3,000th career hit, off Tom Zachary, in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators. 1939 — The first baseball game on television was broadcast by W2XBS, an experimental station run by NBC in New York. Bill Stern handled the play-by-play as Princeton beat Columbia, 2-1, in 10 innings. 1945 — For the fourth time in four days, every American League game in the country was postponed by rain. 1961 — Roger Maris hit his first home run of the season at Yankee Stadium (fourth overall) on his way to a record 61. 1963 — Don Nottebart pitched Houston's first no-hitter as the Colt .45s defeated the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 4-1. 1970 — Hank Aaron scratched out an infield single against Cincinnati's Wayne Simpson to become the ninth player with 3,000 hits. The hit came in the nightcap of the Atlanta Braves' doubleheader loss to the Reds in Cincinnati. 1977 — The Chicago Cubs hit seven home runs in beating the San Diego Padres 23-6 at Wrigley Field. Larry Biittner, Jerry Morales and Bobby Murcer hit consecutive home runs in the fifth for the Cubs. 1979 — Dave Kingman of the Cubs hit three home runs and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies hit two, and Philadelphia beat Chicago 23-22 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field. Bill Buckner had a grand slam and seven RBIs for Chicago. The game included 11 home runs and 50 hits. 1984 — Alan Wiggins of the San Diego Padres tied a National League record by stealing five bases in one game. He joined three others who have performed the feat — Dan McGann in 1904, Davey Lopes in 1974 and Lonnie Smith in 1982. 1992 — Toronto surpassed the 1 million mark in attendance earlier than any team in major league history. It took the Blue Jays 21 dates to draw 1,006,294. The previous record was shared by the 1991 Blue Jays and the 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers. 1992 — Catcher Gary Carter, back with the Montreal Expos, joins Bob Boone and Carlton Fisk in the exclusive 2,000 games caught club. 1998 — David Wells pitched the 13th perfect game in modern major league history as the New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins 4-0. 2002 — Arizona's Erubiel Durazo hit three home runs, a double and drove in nine runs as the Diamondbacks defeated Philadelphia 12-9. 2008 — Barry Zito became the first Giants pitcher to open a season with eight straight losses since 1890 when San Francisco lost 3-1 to the White Sox. Zito (0-8) worked five innings and gave up only two runs in matching Jesse Burkett's record. 2009 — A pregame lineup mistake cost Tampa Bay its designated hitter for the game. The Rays listed both Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria as the third baseman. Longoria was supposed to be DH, but Tampa Bay lost that position because of the mistake and was forced to put pitcher Andy Sonnanstine in the third spot of the lineup. Sonnanstine hit an RBI double and gave up five runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings in a 7-5 victory over Cleveland. 2011 — Harmon Killebrew, one of the great sluggers of the 1960s with 573 career home runs, passes away from cancer at 74 in Scottsdale, AZ. 2012 — Yan Gomes becomes the first Brazilian player in Major League history when he is inserted in the Blue Jays' starting line-up at 3B in today's game against the Yankees, taking over for Brett Lawrie who is beginning a four-game suspension. 2016 — The Braves fire manager Fredi Gonzalez and replace him on an interim basis by Brian Snitker, manager of the AAA Gwinnett Braves. With a record of 9-28, the Braves are off to the worst start in team history. Snitker will stabilize the team to earn the job on a permanent basis. 2019 — Kris Bryant hits three homers in consecutive innings - the 7th, 8th and 9th - to lead the Cubs to a 14-6 win over the Nationals. He is just the 12th player to pull off the rare feat, and the second to do so in those particular innings. He goes 4 for 6 and drives in 5 runs in the game. 2022 — The Astros tie a major league record by homering five times in the 2nd inning of their 13-4 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. All five long balls are hit off Nathan Eovaldi. _____
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Roger Maris' road jersey from 1961 season up for bid
The jersey is matched to five games in which Roger Maris homered in 1961, plus the 1960 World Series. (Credit: Sotheby's) A Yankees road jersey from Roger Maris' historic 1961 season, worn in multiple games, including for his 59th home run, has returned to the auction block at Sotheby's. The same jersey last sold for $244,240 in 2022. Sotheby's has placed an estimated range of $1 million to $2 million on the item. Advertisement While other jerseys from Maris' pursuit of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record have sold — including a home pinstripe uniform matched to 13 different dates from the season that set a record when it sold for $1,586,000 in February — this jersey is the closest to his record-breaking 61st home run. The single-lot auction, dubbed '61' in a nod to Maris' home-run total from that season, has an irrevocable bid, meaning a third-party has agreed to place a bid on the lot guaranteeing it will sell. In return, that bidder will receive a cut of the upside if it exceeds the irrevocable bid. In addition to matches to games in which Maris hit home runs Nos. 10, 11, 50, 57 and 59 during the 1961 season, it was also worn during the previous year's World Series in Game 6. Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
EDITORIAL: What has changed, and what hasn't, in 100 years
Mar. 29—On Jan. 30, a handful of Post Bulletin employees attended the Minnesota Newspaper Association awards banquet in Brooklyn Park. This event recognizes the efforts of newspaper reporters, sports writers, editors, photographers, graphic artists and advertising designers across the state. The PB claimed 16 first-place awards that night, as well as 15 second-places and 10 thirds across a wide array of categories. Each award carried a point value, and when the final numbers were tallied, the Post Bulletin claimed the 2024 Vance Trophy, awarded annually to the state's best multi-day newspaper. It was a fun Thursday evening for the PB staffers who claimed the hardware, but they had little opportunity to bask in glory or rest on laurels. On Friday morning they were back in the office or out and about in southeastern Minnesota, working hard to produce new content for the Post Bulletin. That's the nature of the newspaper business. There's little time for reflection or celebration. When one story has been told, another requires attention. One news cycle immediately follows (and indeed overlaps with) another, and each new day comes with a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Journalists know all too well the truth of the saying, "You can't step into the same river twice." This weekend, the Post Bulletin commemorates 100 years of stepping into new waters every day. On March 30, 1925, the first edition of the Rochester Post Bulletin landed on newsstands and doorsteps. It represented a merger of two competing papers, the Rochester Daily Bulletin and the Rochester Post and Record. The front page of that first edition featured more than a dozen headlines, but no photos. Datelines included Berlin, San Francisco, Manilla, Chicago, Tulsa, Washington and Long Beach, Calif. — where the headline declared, "Man reports lost leg to California police." (It was an artificial leg, soon recovered.) In 1925, and for decades to follow, the Post Bulletin was the region's best source for national and international news. Television news programs didn't reach wide audiences until the 1950s, and even then a half-hour broadcast couldn't touch the breadth of information to be found in a daily newspaper. The Great Depression. Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima. Korea. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. JFK. The moon landing. Vietnam. The first Super Bowl. Watergate. The Berlin Wall. The Gulf War. For all of these eras, events and celebrities, and others too numerous to name, the Post Bulletin was an invaluable source of news and analysis. But the Post Bulletin also offered much more. From the newspaper's inception, its reporters attended meetings of city and county leaders, chronicled the rise and fall of local business tycoons and enterprises, and bore witness to the inevitable growing pains of an expanding city. The Post Bulletin told the ever-evolving story of Mayo Clinic's ascension to international fame — and the newspaper experienced firsthand the devastation when floodwaters swept through downtown Rochester. But nowhere was the Post Bulletin more valuable than in its documention of daily life in Rochester and southeast Minnesota. The newspaper was the official record of local marriages, births, deaths — and everything in between. Graduations. Anniversaries. Retirements. Military honors. Athletic achievements. For generations of our readers, life events weren't "real" until they were documented in the Post Bulletin's printed pages. Times have changed. During the past 30 years, the advent of the Internet, the smartphone and 24-hour cable news dramatically altered the ways in which people get their news. Print journalism paid a heavy price for this shift. Since 2005, more than 3,200 newspapers nationwide have closed or been absorbed by other publications. The Post Bulletin was not immune to these pressures, and the resulting changes have not been easy. Jobs were eliminated. The company's physical footprint shrank. Six printed editions per week became just two, and those print editions aren't as thick as they were 30 years ago. Such developments led more than a few naysayers to predict the imminent demise of the Post Bulletin. We proved the naysayers wrong, and what didn't kill us has made us stronger. The Post Bulletin isn't just surviving — it's thriving. As we begin our second century in Rochester, we can report that during the past two years, our circulation has actually grown — due in large part to the public's growing awareness that our product is worth paying for, even for readers who never touch a physical newspaper. Our website gets more than 2 million views per month, and last year, our reporters produced more than 4,000 local news stories. This growth isn't an accident. The Post Bulletin didn't resist change: It embraced it. Our team has never been more agile, adaptable and better positioned to identify and meet the needs of its readers than it is right now. Every day we get real-time data about which stories are bringing people to our website, and which advertisements are getting "clicks." Readers can contact us instantly, whether in an emailed letter to the editor or simply an online comment. When a story is best told through a video or a series of photographs, that's what we do. Our journalists are agile multitaskers, ready and willing to use whatever medium is appropriate, and our level of dedication to local news has never been higher. Does this mean the future will be smooth sailing? Not at all. Nationally, the level of distrust in the media is at an all-time high, and the Post Bulletin isn't immune to such cynicism. The constitutional guarantee of press freedom is under attack, and as respect for our profession has waned, so too have legal protections for journalists. Social media platforms routinely republish our content without our permission and without payment. Artificial intelligence is making it increasingly difficult for reporters and readers alike to distinguish between fact and fiction. As the Post Bulletin begins its second century serving Rochester and southeast Minnesota, it will not ignore these new challenges — but it won't fear them, either. It will speak the truth to power. It will celebrate courage. It will give a voice to the weak. That first edition of the Rochester Post Bulletin included a statement of goals for the new enterprise, including this phrase: "The policy of the Rochester Post-Bulletin will be to serve the public. ... to interpret through its news columns Olmsted County and southern Minnesota's developments without bias and without prejudice." That policy hasn't changed in 100 years, and it won't change in the next 100, either.
