MLB scouts have a tough job. Each year they check out thousands of talented baseball players and have to make a snap judgement on whether or not their team should spend millions of dollars draft the player. Then, when the draft takes place and literally hundreds of players are drafted only a fraction will ever make a MLB club and from that small pool only a fraction will become MLB all-stars.
Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys Derek Jeter has his ankle in a walking boot and hasn’t been able to work out in a while. He’s gotten a bit bloated and there is a meme series called “Fat Derek Jeter” starting to blow up on the web.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter enters Saturday’s game against the Rays with 197 hits this season. He’s 38 years old. When he reaches 200 — and he will, barring some kind of awful slump or an extended injury absence — he’ll become only the fifth player in major-league history to accrue 200 hits in his age-38 season or later.
Derek Jeter is the most popular baseball player on the internet and with 3,256 hits he is EXACTLY 1,000 hits away from Pete Rose’s all-time mark of 4,256. Do you think he can reach Pete Rose? Take a look at this convincing infographic comparing the two MLB greats and vote below.
Fire up Bing.com and you’ll find immediate access breaking news, an interactive approach to gaining insightful search results, and the ability to see what the second most popular trend on the internet is after Justin Beiber. Bing knows what you’re looking for, and they keep track of it, so when the world searches for the MLB these are the Top 10 players they’re looking for. As our Windows Phone Baseball Bucket List visits Kansas City for the 2012 MLB All-Star Game we present to you the 10 Most Popular Major League Baseball Players On The Internet (According To Bing). Some of the people on the list may come as a surprise to you so if you want to stay your opinion sound off on Twitter by using the hash-tag #WPbaseball.
Last week’s Insiders Look at Week 3 of MLB Spring Training 2012 [53 High Quality PHOTOS] showed each team’s race to be prepare for the start of competitive spring training action as players worked harder than ever to compete for a starting position. This week marks the unofficial start of baseball season as teams have been playing inter-squad games and limited inning games against local rivals. We saw big name players rebound from injuries, coaches get throw out of games, incredible plays and even saw a few tie games this week as coaches try not to push players to hard in the beginning of the season. As you prep for your upcoming fantasy draft enjoy this behind the scenes look at spring training 2012.
Last week’s Scenes From Week Two of MLB Spring Training 2012 [52 Photos] marked the first week the full squad practice at camp where players worked on fundamentals, caught up with their co-workers, spoke to the media, signed autographs and shot a surprising amount of video so it can be ready in time for opening day in early April. Now as the initial training phase winds down and full games start it is all business. Teams are in a race to be prepared for opening day and players are working harder than ever to compete for a starting position. As you prep for your upcoming fantasy draft enjoy this behind the scenes look at spring training 2012.
In April we posted a photo of Alex Rodriguez working on his swing in the bathroom of Steinbrenner Stadium in Tampa, FL. As it turns out the bathroom was actually doubling as a studio for Nick Laham, a photographer who was using his iPhone to snap pictures of Yankees’ stars with Instagram. The final portraits are pretty extraordinary.
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