Boston Red Sox send Andrew Benintendi to Kansas City Royals in 3-group bargain
The Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and New York Mets have finished a three-way exchange that sends outfielder Andrew Benintendi from Fenway to K.C., the groups declared Wednesday night.
Royals outfield prospect Khalil Lee goes to the Mets, while Royals outfielder Franchy Cordero goes to the Red Sox.
The Red Sox additionally get right-gave prospect Josh Winckowski and a player to be named later from the Mets, in addition to two players to be named later from the Royals.
The Royals additionally get money contemplations from the Red Sox.
Benintendi, when a piece of the Red Sox’s vaunted outfield center, missed the vast majority of the pandemic-abbreviated 2020 season, arriving on the harmed list Aug. 12 due to a stressed right rib confine, with Boston later decision him out for the year.
He had quite recently a .103 normal with no grand slams and one RBI in 52 plate appearances in 14 games.
Benintendi is a profession .273 hitter and completed second in American League Rookie of the Year casting a ballot in 2017. He drove all Red Sox players with 15 runs scored during their 2018 postseason run that finished with a World Series title.
He has one year staying on a two-year, $10 million arrangement came to in February 2020 preceding he gets qualified for intervention in 2022 and a free specialist in 2023.
Lee was drafted by the Royals in the third round in 2016 and was named a Baseball America Rookie All-Star for his play that year in youngster ball. He arrived at Double-An out of 2018 and ’19, and played in the Puerto Rican Winter League the previous two years. He has a .256 normal in the lower levels with 37 grand slams and 192 RBIs in 1,719 plate appearances.
Cordero was restricted to 16 games in 2020 due to wounds, hitting .211 with two homers and seven RBIs in 38 plate appearances in the wake of being obtained from the San Diego Padres. He is a vocation .236 hitter with control and can play every one of the three outfield positions.
Winckowski was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifteenth round in 2016. He was the Northwest League Pitcher of the Year and a postseason All-Star while with Class A Vancouver in 2018. He arrived at Advanced A ball in 2019 and has a 3.35 ERA and 1.297 WHIP in the minors.
The Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and New York Mets have consented to a three-way exchange that will send outfielder Andrew Benintendi from Fenway to K.C., sources revealed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday night.
Royals outfield prospect Khalil Lee will go to the Mets, while Royals outfielder Franchy Cordero will go to the Red Sox, with different players required too, sources said.
Right-gave prospect Josh Winckowski and a player to be named will be going from the Mets to the Red Sox, sources said.
Benintendi, when a piece of the Red Sox’s vaunted outfield center, missed the vast majority of the pandemic-abbreviated 2020 season, arriving on the harmed list Aug. 12 due to a stressed right rib confine, with Boston later decision him out for the year.
He had quite recently a .103 normal with no homers and one RBI in 52 plate appearances in 14 games.
Benintendi is a profession .273 hitter and completed second in American League Rookie of the Year casting a ballot in 2017. He drove all Red Sox players with 15 runs scored during their 2018 postseason run that finished with a World Series title.
He has one year staying on a two-year, $10 million arrangement came to in February 2020 preceding he gets qualified for assertion in 2022 and a free specialist in 2023.
Lee was drafted by the Royals in the third round in 2016 and was named a Baseball America Rookie All-Star for his play that year in youngster ball. He arrived at Double-An of every 2018 and ’19, and played in the Puerto Rican Winter League the previous two years. He has a .256 normal in the lower levels with 37 homers and 192 RBIs in 1,719 plate appearances.
Cordero was restricted to 16 games in 2020 due to wounds, hitting .211 with two grand slams and seven RBIs in 38 plate appearances in the wake of being obtained from the San Diego Padres. He is a vocation .236 hitter with control and can play every one of the three outfield positions.
Winckowski was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifteenth round in 2016. He was the Northwest League Pitcher of the Year and a postseason All-Star while with Class A Vancouver in 2018. He arrived at Advanced A ball in 2019 and has a 3.35 ERA and 1.297 WHIP in the minors.
A day after Mark Cuban said the public song of praise will at this point don’t be played at the Dallas Mavericks’ home games, the NBA said “all groups will play the public hymn with regards to longstanding association strategy.”
The Mavericks have not played the song of praise before any of its preseason and normal season games this season, ESPN revealed. On Wednesday, the group declared that it would play the song of praise before its coordinate against the Atlanta Hawks.
“We regard and consistently have regarded the energy individuals have for the hymn and our country,” Cuban wrote in a comparing proclamation. “However, we likewise uproariously hear the voices of the individuals who feel that the song of devotion doesn’t address them. We feel that their voices should be regarded and heard, on the grounds that they have not been.”
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Cuban told ESPN in June 2020 that he was “glad” of those taking a knee and said, “Ideally, I’d go along with them.”
Cuban has not shrouded his contemplations about fights of the public song of devotion on Twitter.
“The National Anthem Police in this nation are wild,” he tweeted. “On the off chance that you need to gripe, grumble to your chief and inquire as to why they don’t play the National Anthem consistently before you start work.”
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“I can say Black Lives Matter,” he said in another tweet. “I can say there is fundamental bigotry in this country.”
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Cuban revealed to ESPN he at first settled on the choice to quit playing the public song of devotion subsequent to talking with NBA chief Adam Silver.
NBA rules expect players to remain during the public song of praise, however Silver has not upheld it, particularly as stooping during the hymn turned into a famous type of quiet dissent in the course of recent years, as indicated by ESPN.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says huge New York scenes can resume at 10% limit
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Wednesday that huge games scenes around the state — with a limit of 10,000 individuals or more — can return at 10% limit.
The Brooklyn Nets have been affirmed to permit fans to get back to Barclays Center starting Feb. 23 against the Sacramento Kings, forthcoming endorsement by the NBA.
Cuomo said that as per the New York State Department of Health, any individual who intends to go to should restore a negative COVID-19 test inside 72 hours of the game. At games, face covers will be needed, alongside temperature checks. It is additionally required that socially removed seating is appointed.
The New York Islanders gave an assertion saying the declaration was “energizing” and that they anticipate having fans back at Nassau Coliseum “straightaway.”
Different games scenes influenced by the declaration incorporate Yankee Stadium, Citi Field ( New York Mets), Madison Square Garden ( New York Knicks, New York Rangers), the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, Belmont Park, KeyBank Center in Buffalo ( Buffalo Sabers), and Saratoga Race Course.
Cuomo said that the “unrivaled achievement” of the Buffalo Bills having 7,000 fans at games during the NFL end of the season games incited the choice to return.
The Nets would be the twelfth NBA group to permit fans in fields alongside the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, New Orleans Pelicans, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz.
Cuomo said that some other games association that desires to have fans at games — including baseball, hockey, soccer and football — should initially have its arrangements endorsed by the state. These arenas and fields are additionally qualified to be utilized as show or show scenes, forthcoming state endorsement.
Cuomo tweeted that complete COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York were at 7,593 and that of the 176,750 tests detailed Tuesday, 7,101 were positive (4.02%).
