The Padres' open competition for two outfield spots has led to some surprising candidates putting up strong numbers early in spring training. Veteran Tim Locastro has five hits in his first nine Cactus League at-bats.
The Padres have signed two players to minor league contracts with invitations to big league spring training.
This season didn’t go like most seasons. The Cardinals were terrible. I stopped writing here very much, with nothing after the blog anniversary. However, some things must go on and that includes the Exit Interview series! Now in its 12th year, it’s our look back at each player that made an appearance in a game ...
The Dodgers have signed outfielder Oscar Mercado to a minor league deal, MLB Trade Rumors’ Steve Adams reports. Mercado will report to the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate.
File this under recent news. Last week, the Padres signed long time big league outfielder Oscar Mercado to a minor league deal and he's gotten off to a
Move over Jose Canseco, you've got company. Kevin Mitchell? You too. The Baseball Bloopers video can add a new clip to its playlist in the form of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Mercado.
Oscar Mercado is surging at just the right time for the Cardinals. Good morning, Cardinals fans! It’s good to be back in the chair today, typing away on an article for a team that I’ll admit I have not gotten to watch much of over the last few weeks.
St. Louis plays 13 of its next 15 games on the road and hopes to continue its climb toward .500 Monday night when it visits the Cincinnati Reds for the opener of a four-game series.
Oscar Mercado and Paul DeJong combined to drive in nine runs as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 10-5 on Sunday. Mercado, batting ninth in the order, went 3-for-5 and tied his single-game career high with five RBIs.
The Los Angeles Dodgers will try to continue their surge during a four-game series against the Cardinals in St. Louis that begins Thursday night.
2:40pm: The Cardinals have announced Mercado’s selection, along with left-hander Matthew Liberatore being recalled from Triple-A Memphis. In corresponding moves, Carlson was placed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to May 15 while righty James Naile was optioned.
MLB fans loved seeing this. While the World Baseball Classic has been all the rage the past few weeks, there still have been MLB spring training games going on, and we’ve been able to see some pretty cool things so far, including one of the most embarrassing swinging strikes of the year. It happened Sunday in a Cardinals-Mets game in Port St.
After being let go by the Cleveland Guardians, Oscar Mercado is heading back to where everything started for him. Today, the St. Louis Cardinals announced that they had reunited with one of their former top prospects.
On Monday, Guardians outfielder Oscar Mercado was designated for assignment. It’s the third time this season that Mercado found himself on the outside of a 40-player roster.
File this one under “inevitable” The Guardians continue to tinker with their outfield while Oscar Gonzalez rides the injured list. Today the team will be promoting 27-year-old outfielder Alex Call, who will be making his MLB debut, to replace 27-year-old Oscar Mercado, who has 941 plate appearances in the majors without much success.
The Guardians have announced that they claimed outfielder Oscar Mercado off waivers from the Phillies.
The Phillies announced that outfielder Oscar Mercado has been designated for assignment in order to open a spot on the roster for southpaw Bailey Falter, who has been recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to start today’s game.
The Philadelphia Phillies claimed outfielder Oscar Mercado off waivers from the Cleveland Guardians on Monday. Mercado, who was designated for assignment on June 21, batted .202 with four homers and 16 RBIs in 49 games this season with Cleveland.
The Guardians will now have a week to trade Mercado or try to run him through outright waivers.
An RBI single from Gleyber Torres gave the Yankees an exciting 5-4 walk-off victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday afternoon. However, instead of a joyous celebration inside Yankee Stadium, mayhem broke out on the field.
The bats have finally woken up for the Guardians! The Guardians finally hit their first home run of the season, in dramatic fashion. In the first inning of Sunday’s contest against the Kansas City Royals, Oscar Mercado hit a monster grand slam which blew the game wide open.
Remember the days when it was Grady Sizemore or Kenny Lofton that played center field for the Cleveland Indians? Well, those days are in the past and this current team is searching for an everyday center fielder to anchor the outfield for the Indians of 2021.
The Cleveland Indians were on the verge of a clean sweep of the Texas Rangers during their doubleheader Wednesday. Indians outfielder Oscar Mercado, who came into the game as a defensive replacement, made sure that happened.
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