Ken Griffey Jr., Andy Pettitte Headline Team USA Coaching Staff For 2023 World Baseball Classic
USA Baseball announced Team USA’s coaching staff for the 2023 World Baseball Classic on Tuesday afternoon.
Ken Griffey (b. 1969)
-
-
MiLB Top 10 Prospects Flashback: 1987 Northwest League
The Northwest League had a banner season for future talent in 1987, the year the draft was streamlined into one June phase.
-
The Toolsiest MLB Players Of The Past 30 Years
The toolsiest hitters, pitchers and defenders of the past three-plus decades of MLB play, as determined by big league managers, coaches and scouts.
-
Top 20 Most Valuable Fantasy Players Since 1980
The top 20 fantasy players since 1980, the year of fantasy baseball’s invention, in terms of concentrated value in players’ peak seasons.
-
Ranking Top 10 MLB Draft First Rounds Over Last 40 Years
Rarely is the best player in a draft class the No. 1 pick. Yet the best player in that class is almost always a first rounder.
-
Numbers Game: 15 Prospects Who Were Born To Be Stars
It was obvious even when these players were teenagers that they were bound for major league stardom.
-
All-Time Best Tools All-Stars
The biggest tools from the biggest major league stars of the past 30 years, including Ichiro Suzuki.
-
Placing 19-Year-Old Ronald Acuna’s Season In Context
The Braves’ Ronald Acuna joined a select group of hitting phenoms this season.
-
New Era Of Draft Began With Griffey
Following the draft of Griffey, runaway inflation transformed the draft into a new realm
-
Junior’s Date With Cooperstown Always Seemed Like A Foregone Conclusion
Ken Griffey Jr. became the first No. 1 overall draft pick to gain election
-
Journeys For Griffey, Piazza Culminate In Cooperstown
COOPERSTOWN—The Hall of Fame billed induction weekend as a tale of two draft picks. The class of 2016 offered a stark contrast between a No. 1 overall draft selection bearing a familiar name with a 62nd-round pick who had to learn a new position in pro ball, while also convincing people that his selection was more than a favor to a family friend. (Photo by Milo Stewart Jr./National Baseball Hall of Fame) But when Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza stood at the podium to address the estimated 50,000
-
Griffey’s Casual Grace Drives Growing Legend
From the BA Archives comes a story from Ken Griffey Jr.’s rookie season
-
Scout Had Eye On Griffey From Start
DENVER—Tom Mooney was working at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, Calif., in 1981, rubbing shoulders with the wealthy, still wanting to live his…
-
Hall Of Fame Flashback: Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr. got a record 99.3 percent of the Hall of Fame vote on Wednesday, falling three votes shy of a unanimous vote. Here…
