Baseball Report: Three Recently Traded Cubs Homer In Debut

(CBS Chicago) — The commercialized deadline has travel and gone, and 10 All-Stars present find themselves playing successful caller stadiums. Some teams, similar the Los Angeles Dodgers, stocked up for the agelong tally done August and September. Other teams, similar the Washington Nationals, unloaded productive players (and large salaries) successful favour of what they anticipation volition beryllium occurrence successful aboriginal seasons. Now we get to spot however each the moves shingle out. For the teams that picked up 3 erstwhile Chicago Cubs, the results are already promising.

This week’s Baseball Report looks astatine the 3 erstwhile Cubs who each deed a location tally successful their respective debuts, on with the New York Mets’ nonaccomplishment to motion their 2021 first-round pick, and the denial of Curt Schilling’s petition to beryllium removed from the 2022 Hall of Fame ballot.

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Three Former Cubs Homer

The Cubs were progressive astatine the commercialized deadline, though not successful a mode that signals optimism for their prospects this season. They were 50-54 going into Friday and 11.5 games down the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs had conscionable dropped 3 of 4 to the Cincinnati Reds, 1 of the 3 teams supra them successful the standings. By the deadline, galore of their cardinal players were gone, including the halfway trio that helped them triumph the 2016 World Series.

First baseman Anthony Rizzo was traded tp the New York Yankees. Shortstop Javier Báez is successful the aforesaid metropolis with the Mets. Slugger Kris Bryant present plays for the San Francisco Giants. Two further trades sent relievers Ryan Tepera and Craig Kimbrel crossed municipality to the White Sox. The Cubs received 5 prospects from the assorted trades.

While the Cubs mislaid 2 of 3 to the Washington Nationals implicit the weekend, the 3 departed players each recovered immoderate aboriginal occurrence connected their caller contending teams. Rizzo, Báez, and Bryant each deed location runs successful their debut.

Rizzo is batting 4th for the Yankees, who presently way the Rays by 7 games successful the American League East but stay successful the hunt for a chaotic paper spot. In his Friday debut against the Miami Marlins, helium walked successful his archetypal sheet appearance. The adjacent clip astatine the plate, Rizzo blasted a 449-foot location tally into the precocious deck. He followed that up Saturday with different home run. The caller Yankee is 5-9 with 3 RBI successful his archetypal 3 games for the team.

Báez wasted nary clip successful helping the Mets. The ex-Cubs shortstop debuted for the squad Saturday astatine location against the Reds. Batting 4th arsenic well, helium grounded retired successful his archetypal at-bat successful the 2nd inning. But successful the sixth inning, with a runner connected first, Báez enactment a 1-2 transportation successful the near tract stands for his 23rd location tally of the season. It would beryllium his lone deed of the game, but the blast pulled his caller squad to wrong a tally successful a crippled they would yet win, 5-4. He went 0-4 successful Sunday’s game.

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Bryant started his first game for the Giants connected Sunday. He deed a two-out solo changeable successful the 3rd inning to go the 3rd precocious departed Cub to homer successful his debut for their caller squad successful arsenic galore days. Bryant deposited an 0-1 transportation successful the near tract stands for his 19th location tally of the season. It was his lone deed successful the Giants’ 5-3 triumph implicit the Houston Astros.

The three location runs from Rizzo, Báez, and Bryant was the archetypal clip successful MLB past that 3 players began a play with 1 team, lone to deed a location tally successful their debut with different team.

Mets Fail To Sign Rocker

The Mets selected Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker with the 10th prime successful MLB’s 2021 amateur draft. However, dissimilar the different players selected successful the archetypal round, helium volition not play successful the workplace strategy of the squad that selected him. An introspection of his elbow raised immoderate concerns for the Mets; issues with velocity implicit the collegiate play could person besides been a reddish flag. The squad tried to negociate a amended woody than the archetypal $6 cardinal offer, but Sunday’s deadline came and went without an agreement.

The squad volition person the eleventh prime successful the 2022 draught arsenic compensation. Rocker is allowed to instrumentality to Vanderbilt for his elder season, though that doesn’t look similar an enactment he’ll take. The young pitcher could alternatively opt to play autarkic oregon planetary baseball, oregon nary shot astatine all. His prime volition impact adjacent year’s draft.

Curt Schilling To Remain On 2022 Hall of Fame Ballot

Many players play their full vocation hoping to 1 time beryllium selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s uncommon that a subordinate asks for his sanction to beryllium removed from the ballot. But that’s what Curt Schilling did. Earlier this year, Schilling, on with Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, fell abbreviated of the 75 percent of votes needed to beryllium included successful the 2021 class. (The 2021 people has nary members.) The controversial pitcher was 16 votes abbreviated of the fig needed, coming the closest of the three. Rather than beryllium included connected the 2022 ballot for the 10th and last time, Schilling requested his sanction beryllium removed.

Late past week, the Hall of Fame denied his request. “The Board of Directors besides reviewed Curt Schilling’s petition to beryllium removed from the 2022 Baseball Writers’ Association of America Hall of Fame ballot,” according to the statement. “In a unanimous decision, the petition was denied. Schilling volition stay eligible for the BBWAA ballot for the 10th-and-final clip successful 2022.”

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To beryllium clear, Schilling isn’t saying helium doesn’t privation to beryllium successful the Hall of Fame. He seems to beryllium saying that helium wants to beryllium selected by the veterans committee, alternatively than the writers. Whether helium gets his privation remains to beryllium seen.