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Newsweek
a day ago
- Business
- Newsweek
Rockies All-Star Tagged As Yankees Trade Target By Former MLB Executive
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. The New York Yankees are likely to trade for an infielder at the trade deadline, and with the struggles of DJ LeMahieu and the return of Jazz Chisholm Jr. on Tuesday night, it will likely be a third baseman or a second baseman. Former MLB executive Zack Scott listed Colorado Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon as a potential trade chip come the deadline. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 02: Ryan McMahon #24 of the Colorado Rockies looks on against the Miami Marlins in the eighth inning of the game at loanDepot park on June 02, 2025 in Miami, Florida. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 02: Ryan McMahon #24 of the Colorado Rockies looks on against the Miami Marlins in the eighth inning of the game at loanDepot park on June 02, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Photo byMcMahon was an All-Star last season and is signed through the 2027 season. Being one of the few bright spots on the Rockies over the past few seasons, McMahon has been a consistent 20-homer hitter while playing a consistent third base. The Yankees are in no way in need of more power to their lineup, but would not turn down a left-handed threat at the plate if they can find a place for them. Acquiring McMahon would allow the Yankees to keep Chisholm at his natural second base while solving the issue in their starting lineup. While the Yankees may look for more versatility, McMahon would be a prime candidate for Yankee Stadium and its short porch in right field. Chisholm has taken reps at third base during his rehab stint, which may deter the Yankees from moving for a primary third baseman, but with two additional seasons of control on McMahon if the Rockies start to shop him, the Yankees would be well served to call about him. With the Rockies' abysmal start to the season, the Yankees may be the ideal landing spot for McMahon, filling the holes the team needs while landing on the reigning American League Champions. More MLB: Dodgers Reportedly Add Former Reds All-Star Closer To Injured Relief Corps
New York Times
29-05-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Rockies by the numbers: 9 stats that tell the story of a historically woeful season
The Colorado Rockies lost again on Wednesday. It was their sixth straight loss, 2-1 on the road against the Chicago Cubs, and their 22nd loss since May 2. They've won only three times in that span, continuing a trajectory that has them on pace to far exceed last year's Chicago White Sox for the worst season in modern baseball history. Advertisement At 9-47, the Rockies are easily the worst team in baseball, and there's little to suggest it's a fluke. Based on their runs scored and allowed, Baseball-Reference calculates that they should be slightly better — 12 wins instead of nine — but the Rockies' league-worst run differential is twice as bad as the third-worst Athletics, and both their staff ERA (30th) and runs per game (29th) rank at or near the bottom of the league. Two months into the season, it's difficult to overstate just how awful the Rockies have been, but we've come up with nine numbers — one for each of their wins — that help tell the story of a historically bad team. The Rockies left spring training with some sense of optimism. Their clubhouse was loose and hopeful on Opening Day, and a narrow walk-off loss in the season opener was followed immediately by a good one-run win in Game 2. But those were the only two games in which the Rockies have used their preferred lineup. Brenton Doyle, Ezequiel Tovar, Ryan McMahon and Kris Bryant were the top four hitters on Opening Day, and those four have not played together in that order since April 8. Bryant and Tovar have missed considerable time due to injury, Jordan Beck has supplanted Doyle in the leadoff spot, and McMahon — despite below-average offensive numbers — has become the go-to cleanup hitter. Beck, Tovar and catcher/DH Hunter Goodman are the regular top three hitters these days. They're also the only Rockies hitters with an above-average OPS+. According to FanGraphs, four individual Rockies position players have a positive WAR this season, but the team as a whole has generated a positive WAR at only two positions: third base and left field. Third base has been driven by Rockies mainstay McMahon, who's been a below-average hitter (81 wRC+) but a strong defender. Left field is the product of Beck's second-year breakout (from a minus-1.0 fWAR last year to 0.9 this year). Otherwise, the Rockies are awash in performances that could, in theory, be replicated or even improved by calling up someone from Triple-A. (Though, the fact Tovar is healthy again should push shortstop into positive WAR territory in the relatively near future.) This is a low number by any standard — only the Pirates have scored fewer runs than the Rockies this season — but it's shockingly low for a team that plays half its games at notoriously hitter-friendly Coors Field. In their 33-year history, the Rockies have never scored fewer than 4.21 runs per game, and even that low-water mark is relatively new (set last season). Before 2023, the Rockies had only once averaged fewer than 4.54 runs per game, and in more than half of their seasons, the Rockies have averaged at least 4.8. In their first three decades (from 1993 to 2022), the Rockies scored the most runs in the National League (only the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox scored more in all of baseball), but in the past three seasons, only four teams have scored fewer runs than the Rockies. Advertisement The Rockies have two games remaining in the month of May. They're tough matchups — Friday and Saturday on the road against the New York Mets — but they represent two chances to push their season win total into double digits while accumulating five wins in May. So far, they've won only four in May after winning just four in April. The Rockies became only the third team since 2000 to win fewer than five games in April, and they're so far the only team in the 2000s to win only four games in May. Last year's White Sox set a modern record for losses in a season, but even they managed to win 15 games by the end of May and had at least six wins in four of six months. The Rockies are on pace to be substantially worse. The Rockies are largely homegrown. Their current 26-man roster includes 15 homegrown players — the most in baseball — and only five who came to the team via free agency (it was four before Wednesday's addition of Orlando Arcia, who was signed after being released by the Atlanta Braves earlier this month). It's not the fewest free agents in baseball — and two others, Bryant and reliever Scott Alexander, played for the Rockies earlier this season — but it's near the bottom of the league. The Rockies have been nearly as reliant on their own first-round draft picks (six) as all of free agency to come up with the 41 players they've used this season. They've built from within. They just haven't built enough to win. The Rockies have used eight starting pitchers this season. Six of them — including the four with the most innings on the team — have ERAs higher than 6.00. Kyle Freeland, Anthony Senzatela, and Germán Márquez have been on the Rockies for nearly a decade. All three made their Rockies debuts in either 2016 or 2017, and all three remain in the rotation all these years later. Freeland finished fourth in Cy Young Award voting in 2018, and Márquez was an All-Star in 2021, but the trio are now in the bottom 12 in ERA among the 125 pitchers who have thrown at least 40 innings this season. Touted rookie Chase Dollander was showing signs of turning his season around (4.66 ERA in his last four starts; 2.53 in just the last two) before landing on the IL on May 22 with right forearm inflammation. It's all relative, of course, but the bullpen has been kind of a strength for the Rockies. Almost all of their wins have been close enough to record a save, and four different relievers have at least one (including rookie Zach Agnos, who was called up in late April and has a 1.20 ERA as the primary closer). Setup man Jake Bird has pitched well, hard-throwing Seth Halvorsen has been solid outside of two brutal outings, and Victor Vodnik, coming off a decent rookie season, returned from the IL this week to further fortify the bullpen. The Rockies rank 20th in bullpen ERA, which isn't necessarily good, but on this team, that's considered a bright spot. The shocking thing is not so much that the Rockies have lost eight games in a row — the Athletics lost 11 straight at one point — but that the Rockies have lost eight in a row, three times! They opened the season 3-9, which was bad, but basically on pace to match last year's White Sox or the 1962 Mets. Historically awful, but not unprecedented. Then, from April 11 to the first game of an April 20 doubleheader, the Rockies lost eight straight. They won the second game of the doubleheader, followed by another eight-game losing streak through April 29 (meaning, the Rockies took a loss every game day for two and a half weeks). They finally won two in a row April 30 and May 1, then they lost eight in a row again! Advertisement The Rockies have played 18 series. They've lost all of them and been swept in half of them (including, most recently, a three-game sweep by the Cubs that ended on Wednesday). The Phillies swept the Rockies twice, seven games in all. The first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers have swept the Rockies, but so have the underperforming Texas Rangers and Cincinnati Reds. The Rockies have yet to beat any team more than once. Their only back-to-back wins came in separate series and even separate months (against the Braves on April 30, then the San Francisco Giants on May 1). They've lost by five or more runs 15 times, and even when scoring seven or more runs, they have only a .500 record (4-4). Their most lopsided win (a 12-5 thrashing of the A's on April 6) was followed two days later by a 17-2 blowout loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, which was dwarfed a month later by a 21-0 humiliation at the hands of the San Diego Padres. (Top photo of CF Brenton Doyle after his team gave up a go-ahead home run: Justin Edmonds / Getty Images)
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
‘We can't ever forget that': Onondaga County remembers local veterans at Memorial Day ceremony
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Onondaga County paying tribute to veterans this Memorial Day weekend with a ceremony held at the County's Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Sunday. Over 6,500 American flags were placed on veterans' graves at the cemetery. The county executive addressing the crowd, reminding everyone of the sacrifices our country's veterans have made. 'These men and women were willing to sacrifice their greatest asset so that we all could have more time, so we could live our own lives and meet our own challenges,' Ryan McMahon said during his speech. 'We can't ever forget that and that is what today is all about.' The ceremony ended with a placing of the wreath by the county's gold star families. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hamilton Spectator
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Rockies savor 3-2 win over AL East-leading Yankees in a season that's gone historically sour
DENVER (AP) — The music was cranked up just a little bit louder inside the Colorado Rockies' clubhouse Friday night. The moods were just a little lighter, too. In a season that's quickly barreling toward infamy, the Rockies took advantage of what's been a rare moment to exhale after a 3-2 win over the AL East-leading New York Yankees. It was one of Colorado's finest performances this season, from a solid start on the mound to splendid defense to timely hitting as the Rockies stopped a five-game skid. 'You just want to play good ballgames against good teams,' said third baseman Ryan McMahon, whose two-run double in the fifth proved to be the difference. 'That's what we did tonight, and hopefully we can build off of it.' At 9-42, the Rockies have the most losses through 51 games since 1901. But they now also have a chance at something else — their first series win of the season (they're currently 0-16). That is, if they can beat the Yankees either Saturday or Sunday. 'It was beautiful to see a complete game out there,' said interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who's 2-9 since taking over for Bud Black. 'It's just fun. That's fun baseball.' Tanner Gordon gave up two runs in six innings to earn his first major league win. The defense played a pivotal role by turning in a pair of double plays, including one on Aaron Judge in the eighth. Earlier in the game, second baseman Adael Amador made a nifty play to start a 4-6-3 double play. McMahon also had a bare-handed snare on a roller in the ninth to get Anthony Volpe. 'Pitching ... was good, offense was good, defense was good,' said McMahon, whose team is 6-20 at Coors Field this season and 3-22 on the road. 'So just to play a clean game against a good ball club, it's good for us.' The victory by Colorado (.160) over the Yankees (.612) tied the second-largest winning percentage disparity for a team at least 50 games into the season in the expansion era, according to Elias Sports Bureau. 'They made some plays and had a couple of big at-bats to win the game,' Yankees manager Aaron Boone explained. 'We couldn't put together that big inning.' ___ More AP baseball:
Fox Sports
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Rockies savor 3-2 win over AL East-leading Yankees in a season that's gone historically sour
Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The music was cranked up just a little bit louder inside the Colorado Rockies' clubhouse Friday night. The moods were just a little lighter, too. In a season that's quickly barreling toward infamy, the Rockies took advantage of what's been a rare moment to exhale after a 3-2 win over the AL East-leading New York Yankees. It was one of Colorado's finest performances this season, from a solid start on the mound to splendid defense to timely hitting as the Rockies stopped a five-game skid. 'You just want to play good ballgames against good teams," said third baseman Ryan McMahon, whose two-run double in the fifth proved to be the difference. 'That's what we did tonight, and hopefully we can build off of it.' At 9-42, the Rockies have the most losses through 51 games since 1901. But they now also have a chance at something else — their first series win of the season (they're currently 0-16). That is, if they can beat the Yankees either Saturday or Sunday. 'It was beautiful to see a complete game out there,' said interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who's 2-9 since taking over for Bud Black. 'It's just fun. That's fun baseball.' Tanner Gordon gave up two runs in six innings to earn his first major league win. The defense played a pivotal role by turning in a pair of double plays, including one on Aaron Judge in the eighth. Earlier in the game, second baseman Adael Amador made a nifty play to start a 4-6-3 double play. McMahon also had a bare-handed snare on a roller in the ninth to get Anthony Volpe. 'Pitching ... was good, offense was good, defense was good,' said McMahon, whose team is 6-20 at Coors Field this season and 3-22 on the road. 'So just to play a clean game against a good ball club, it's good for us.' The victory by Colorado (.160) over the Yankees (.612) tied the second-largest winning percentage disparity for a team at least 50 games into the season in the expansion era, according to Elias Sports Bureau. 'They made some plays and had a couple of big at-bats to win the game,' Yankees manager Aaron Boone explained. 'We couldn't put together that big inning.' ___ More AP baseball: recommended
