Sports Illustrated - USA (2020 - Spring)

Trout saw Ohtani hitting in the batting cage before one of the final exhibition games. He no longer was lifting his front leg bu ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 22 HOKKAIDO IS home to the Fighters and the Saka- moto Ryo ̄ma Memorial Museum. It is a measure of Ryo ̄ma’s ...

MLB PREVIEW 2020 23 SHORTLY AFTER Ohta ni signed w it h L. A. a nd ret ur ned to Japan, a contingent from the Angels visited and ...

24 “OK. Pitcher: 12 starts, 5–4 with a 3.89 ERA.” He laughs. “If I had a 3.89 ERA with our offense, I’d probably win more than f ...

MLB PREVIEW 2020 25 short-term goal is playing out the year with no setbacks and injuries,” he says. “And whatever the Angels ha ...

toward the bigs, he noticed that the game was controlling his moods. To pitch well was to enjoy a night think- ing about nothing ...

volunteering with D.C.’s public libraries. “I think it makes some of the work that we’ve done more effective when people see tha ...

28 7 Because... YOUR FAVORITE PITCHER’S FAVORITE PITCH ISN’T A FASTBALL After decades as baseball’s most popular pitch, the fast ...

AFTER BASEBALL dumped Dusty Baker, Dusty Baker dumped baseball. The Nationals let him go in 2017 after two straight playoff appe ...

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MLB PREVIEW 2020 31 with a baseball card, and Donaldson observes, “You were here yesterday,” as he scrawls out his name. It’s a ...

officer, Derek Falvey, asked about Donaldson, Hawkins was effusive, particularly on the way he challenged teammates to improve. ...

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34 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED the NL East,” where he played for the Braves, “some of the top starting pitch- ing is over there. Facing t ...

MLB PREVIEW 2020 35 “It looked like an American Legion team,” Snitker says. “What a novel idea: young guys having fun playing ba ...

36 away—mother and father and their only child—wherever he wanted to go. So he dragged them both into his car and took off. At s ...

MLB PREVIEW 2020 37 winter ball, where he grew homesick and lonely. He’d wander the streets, struggling even to order dinner. He ...

in one-run games (85–59) and the league’s greatest overperformance of expected record based on runs scored and allowed (+14 wins ...

now, but it’s also because of how we have constructed our roster and our pitching staff.” Counsell has embraced the mod- ern gam ...

IN DECEMBER the Cardinals announced a new position on their coaching staff: DC9ÊjÓijkÇdXafi league internal player strategist ...