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With heavy rain forcing a postponement of ALCS Game 4 in New York on Wednesday evening and the Nationals completing a four-game NLCS sweep against the Cardinals the previous night, there was no postseason baseball yesterday for the first time this October. It'll be Masahiro Tanaka versus Zack Greinke when the ALCS resumes with Game 4 on Thursday night, with the Astros holding a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Obviously, the Yankees benefit tremendously from the postponement, which enables them to hand the ball to Tanaka for Game 4 on his normal four days of rest, instead of their original plan to go with a bullpen game. Continue to Article

October 17, 2019 12:45:am EST

The Los Angeles Angels and Joe Maddon agreed to terms on a contract to make him the team's next manager. In making the official announcement on Wednesday, the Angels did not release contract specifics. The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register, however, both reported it was a three-year deal, with ESPN reporting the value at between $12 million and $15 million. Continue to Article

October 16, 2019 8:59:pm EST

The Los Angeles Angels and Joe Maddon agreed to terms on a contract to make him the team's next manager. In making the official announcement on Wednesday, the Angels did not release contract specifics. The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register, however, both reported it was a three-year deal, with ESPN reporting the value at between $12 million and $15 million. Continue to Article

October 16, 2019 8:31:pm EST

The marriage between Giancarlo Stanton and the New York Yankees has never made much sense to me. The 2017 trade with the Miami Marlins that brought him to the Bronx seemed to go against everything Brian Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner claimed they were trying to do just a year earlier, when they shed the bloated contracts and aging bodies of Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann and replaced them with the youth and economy of Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres. Continue to Article

October 16, 2019 4:05:pm EST