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Our team batting average says otherwiseCaptain Canada wrote: ↑25 Jul 2026, 15:54This first season is a different kind of pain. It doesn't seem like you're far and away the worst team in the league though.
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The 19-year-old lefty outfielder out of Edison State Community College in Piqua, Ohio was hardly a highly sought after prospect coming out of high school and went the junior college route to showcase his skills. After a season at Edison where he hit .332 with 14 homeruns and 58 RBIs, the Angels felt he was good enough for them to spend their first round pick on despite draft boards not ranking Scott.
Coming into the draft, there was a lot of talk about the Angels taking first baseman Pablo Castillo or pitcher Phillip Yamamoto at #12, but they opted for Scott. Castillo would go at #24 to the Seattle Mariners and Yamamoto experienced a huge draft slide, being taken in the Competitive Balance Round A at #36 by the St. Louis Cardinals. However, sources close to the club say they were either hoping for outfielder Victor Rivero to drop to them or they were going with Scott, there was no Plan C.
Rivero went fourth to the San Francisco Giants.
The first overall pick in this year's draft was 19-year-old pitcher Howard Andrade, taken by the Chicago White Sox. The righty throws hard with a four-pitch mix that features a curveball that gets up toward 90 miles per hour. He has been known to struggle in crunch situations, but that's more of a function of not pitching in those scenarios because he's so good at getting strikeouts with his velocity.
Third baseman Robert Serna went second to the Tampa Bay Rays. A 22-year-old switch hitter out of New Jersey who played his college ball at Rutgers, Serna is seen as one of the most MLB-ready players in the draft. Some scouting reports believe that he could be up in the Majors as soon as next season depending on the Rays' situation in a year's time.
The Minnesota Twins opted for pitcher Tim Kobayashi at number three. The Japanese-American right-handed pitcher is known for mowing down batters with his fastball and boasted one of the highest K rates in college baseball this past season. However, he really only has one pitch and may struggle if batters are able to catch up to his fastball.
The Angels rounded out the draft with the following selections:
• Round 2, Pick 45 - SS Geraldo Medrano: Geraldo Medrano is already an elite fielder with top tier reactions and the speed to make up for any mistakes. If he makes it to the bigs, he'd likely play at second base, though, as he doesn't quite have the arm strength to zip the ball across the time for those outs at first.
• Round 3, Pick 84 - 2B Ken Doty: Ken Doty, like Geraldo Medrano, has all of the makings of a Golden Glover but he's more of a stereotypical second baseman. In addition to his ability as a fielder, Doty projects to be a solid bat in the future who can hit for contact and power in equal measure.
• Round 4, Pick 114 - 1B Boris Rodriguez: You'll sense a trend here. Los Angeles took a big swing to pick Boris Rodriguez here and it was because he projects to be an elite fielder. If he could improve his arm strength, it might make more sense to move him to third base, that's how talented of a glove he is.
• Round 5, Pick 144 - RP Eddy Matos: Eddy Matos is the usual late round punt on a relief pitcher to just get more of them into the system. He has high upside, but may never reach it.
• Round 6, Pick 174 - SP Jim Griffin: Los Angeles isn't hurting for starting pitcher depth in its farm system, but Jim Griffin could be worthwhile depending where he is in a few years.
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The Phillies left fielder won the 2026 Home Run Derby on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park, edging Baltimore's Jordan Westburg 9-8 in a final round that mirrored the two rounds before it — close, tense, and decided by a single baseball. Schwarber becomes the rare hitter to take the trophy in his own ballpark, in front of a crowd that had spent the night getting louder with every ball into the right-field seats.
He finished with 34 home runs across three rounds, including a 463-foot drive in the semifinals that was the longest ball he hit all night.
Every round came down to one swing, and the bracket bears it out. Schwarber won his quarterfinal over San Diego's Manny Machado 11-10. He won the semifinal 11-10. And he closed it out 9-8 with the Derby's hottest bat standing 60 feet away.
That bat belonged to Westburg, who had been the story of the night to that point. The Orioles infielder led all eight participants in the opening round with 15 home runs, then held off Aaron Judge 11-10 to reach the final. He was the only hitter to reach 15 in a single round and the only finalist who never trailed in the standings until the trophy was handed out.
The opening round produced its own casualties, and the cruelest belonged to José Ramírez.
The Guardians third baseman put up 12 home runs — the same number as Judge — and watched the fourth and final bracket spot go to the Yankees outfielder on the tiebreaker. Ramírez did everything the format asked of him except hit one more. He beat Shohei Ohtani. He beat Yordan Alvarez and Marcell Ozuna by four. He matched a two-time Derby participant swing for swing and still went home before the bracket started.
It is the kind of exit that says more about the format than the hitter. Twelve home runs would have advanced Ramírez in plenty of Derby fields. In this one, with Westburg at 15 and Schwarber and Machado both at 14, the cut line landed exactly on top of him.
Ohtani finished with 10. Alvarez and Ozuna were eliminated at eight apiece.
Schwarber's route through the bracket was the least dramatic of the four semifinalists on paper. He posted 14 in the first round, 11 in the second, and nine in the final, a descending line that would normally suggest a hitter running out of gas. Instead, it just kept being enough.
For a hitter whose entire offensive profile is built on the swing that either clears the wall or doesn't, winning a Derby by a total of three home runs across three rounds — at home, in a park he has spent years making look small — is a fitting way to take the trophy.
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The AL beat the National League 5-0 on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park, riding a three-run sixth and a two-homer eighth to a three-hit shutout in front of 41,515 — 97 percent of capacity on a clear 72-degree evening with the wind drifting out to right.
Chase Meidroth was named Player of the Game after one swing. The White Sox infielder entered as a pinch-hitter for Jeremy Peña in the eighth and drove a 108-mph ball 382 feet into the left-field seats, one batter after Ceddanne Rafaela — pinch-hitting for Aaron Judge — had done nearly the same thing 363 feet away.
Both came off Edwin Díaz, who recorded two outs and gave up two home runs.
"Perfect contact" was the theme of the night for the AL, which piled up 11 hits without ever needing much sequencing. Corey Seager went 2-for-3 with a run and hit the hardest ball of the game at 116 mph. Yandy Díaz added two hits. Cal Raleigh doubled and drove in a run.
The go-ahead rally was less a barrage than a slow leak.
Duran hit Steven Kwan to open the inning. Seager grounded a single to center. Judge walked. Yordan Alvarez was called out looking on a splitter, and for a moment Duran had a way out.
Then Raleigh's grounder turned into a throwing error by Duran, the game's only error, and Kwan came home. Seager scored on a Peña fielder's choice. Josh Naylor singled to center to bring in Judge. Three runs, two hits, one error, and 37 pitches later, the AL had all the margin it needed.
Duran was charged with three runs, one earned, and took the loss. Jeff Hoffman, who worked a perfect seventh, got the win.
The AL staff never gave the National League a foothold. Eight pitchers combined on a three-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and not a single walk.
Hunter Brown opened with two scoreless innings. Spencer Miles, Kenley Jansen, Hoffman, Seranthony Domínguez and Cade Smith followed with a scoreless inning apiece. Andrés Muñoz struck out the side in the eighth. Josh Hader closed it, striking out Iván Herrera and getting Marcell Ozuna — pinch-hitting for Ronald Acuña Jr. — swinging at a high fastball to end it.
The NL's three hits came from Acuña, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Herrera, and none of them produced much. Herrera was thrown out stealing in the third. Shohei Ohtani grounded into a double play in the first and finished 0-for-2 before Trea Turner pinch-ran the offense out of the middle of the order in the seventh. Luis Arraez went 0-for-3. Kyle Tucker struck out twice.
No National League runner reached third base.
Brandon Woodruff was the NL's most effective arm, throwing two scoreless innings to open and finishing with the game's best game score at 50, one better than Brown. José Ramírez had a rough night at the plate — 0-for-3 with three strikeouts — but was hit by a pitch and stole second in the fifth.
Mike Fillmore worked the plate. First pitch was 8:00 p.m.
For Philadelphia, the ending was awkward. Two Phillies relievers combined to allow all five runs in a ballpark that spent the last three days celebrating its own.
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Detroit Tigers (54-44)1
Los Angeles Angels (40-58)6Los Angeles finally got the version of themselves they've been waiting on, running Detroit out of the building 6-1 behind a Jo Adell showcase and six efficient innings from Grayson Rodriguez.
Adell opened the scoring in the bottom of the second, turning on a pitch and depositing it 433 feet into the left field seats to bring Addison Barger home ahead of him. Ben Williamson followed with a double to right, but Denzer Guzman was caught looking to end the threat and leave the lead at two.
Detroit clawed one back in the fourth after Gleyber Torres and Spencer Torkelson strung together singles, with Javier Báez lifting a sacrifice fly to Mike Trout deep enough to bring Torres in. That was as close as the Tigers would get.
Jack Flaherty's night unraveled an inning later. Adell doubled to center, Guzman drew a walk, and Detroit went to Connor Seabold, who watched Trout drive the first real mistake 402 feet to straightaway center for a three-run shot and a 5-1 cushion. Zach Neto tacked on a solo blast to center of his own in the seventh, this one measured at 401 feet.
Rodriguez was in control throughout, finishing six innings on five hits, five strikeouts and no walks with a single earned run. Pomeranz, Romano, Hurter and Saucedo handled the rest, allowing just two baserunners over the final three frames.
Adell took Player of the Game honors going 2-for-4 with the homer, a double, two RBI and two runs scored. Parker Meadows was the lone bright spot for Detroit at 2-for-4 with a double.