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New York Post
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Justin Verlander, Kate Upton welcome their second child together
Justin Verlander and Kate Upton have welcomed their second child together. A rep for Upton told TMZ that the couple had a son, Bellamy Brooks Verlander, on Thursday. Verlander, 41, was placed on paternity leave by the Giants ahead of Friday's game against the Red Sox. Advertisement 3 Houston Astros starting pitcher Justin Verlander #35 and his wife Kate Upton pose for a photo as they celebrate after the game on October 23, 2022. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Speculation on a possible pregnancy for Upton, 33, first popped up in January when she was seen walking on the beach with Verlander in photos obtained by the Daily Mail. Verlander has been in a relationship with Upton since 2014, with the two tying the knot three years later in Tuscany, Italy. The couple had their first child, Genevieve, in November 2018. Advertisement 3 Kate Upton attends the 37th Annual Footwear News Achievement Awards at Cipriani South Street on November 29, 2023 in New York City. WireImage Verlander, who was drafted by the Tigers with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2004 MLB Draft, is in his 20th major league season and is the oldest active player in the big leagues. Despite starting 11 games so far for the Giants this year, the three-time Cy Young Award winner has yet to pick up his first win of the 2025 season, pitching to a 4.45 ERA with 47 strikeouts in 56⅔ innings. Advertisement Verlander's most recent start came on Wednesday, when he gave up three earned runs in 4⅔ innings against the Guardians after being sidelined for a month with a strained right pectoral muscle. 3 San Francisco Giants pitcher Justin Verlander (35) throws a pitch during the first inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Oracle Park. Bob Kupbens-Imagn Images 'It felt good to be back out there,' Verlander told reporters following his start. 'Obviously, was a bit inconsistent. Wanted to give us a better chance to win, but stuff seemed OK and hopefully the inconsistency can clean up quickly.' Advertisement The 2011 AL MVP signed a one-year deal worth $15 million with the Giants in January, marking the fourth club he's played for in his career. ″This season's been a mental challenge just kind of trying to find my groove,' Verlander added. 'But as far as like the mental hurdle of feeling if I was healthy [tonight], I felt like I was OK.'
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boston Red Sox trade rumors: Jarren Duran of interest to Padres (report)
Could Jarren Duran be on the trade block here in early June with the Red Sox three games under .500 (29-32) and top prospect Roman Anthony knocking on the door? The Padres have interest in Boston's left fielder, according to a report from Dennis Lin, a Padres beat reporter for The Athletic. Advertisement Lin wrote, 'As the Padres face a daunting upcoming schedule and glaring holes at the bottom of their lineup, their list of trade targets again includes Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran, league sources told The Athletic. The Padres expressed interest in Duran ahead of the 2024 season.' Duran, Boston's leadoff hitter, is batting .264 with a .312 on-base percentage, .406 slugging percentage, .718 OPS, four home runs, 13 doubles, six triples, 34 RBIs, 31 runs, 13 steals, 16 walks and 62 strikeouts in 60 games (282 plate appearances). The 28-year-old is under team control through the 2028 season and is earning $3.75 million this year. He finished eighth in the 2024 AL MVP voting when he led the league in triples (14) and doubles (48) while adding 21 homers, 75 RBIs, 34 steals and a .285/.342/.492/.834 slash line. Lin added that 'an underwhelming Red Sox team might consider Duran expendable' and noted Anthony, a left fielder, is 'tantalizingly close to Boston.' Advertisement Anthony has the chance to be promoted any day. As manager Alex Cora told WEEI on Thursday afternoon, 'He's not knocking at the door, he's knocking it down.' Anthony, who just turned 21 on May 13, is ranked the game's No. 1 prospect by both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline. He's batting .303 with a .430 on-base percentage, .492 slugging percentage, .922 OPS, eight homers, nine doubles, two triples, 23 RBIs, 41 runs, 45 walks and 49 strikeouts in 53 games (242 plate appearances) for Triple-A Worcester. 'I don't think there's a perfect answer to that,' chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said Saturday when asked about a timeline for Anthony's big league debut. 'We're trying to balance what's best for Roman and his development with where we are as a team and the way we're prioritizing our 2025 season. We try to lean on the goals and process you think about in the offseason when the noise isn't quite so loud. 'I think you also have to be willing to react to the situation you have right now. It's impossible to ignore the performance he has had in Triple-A and how that's lining up with our struggles here at the big league level, but we're also trying to be mindful of the environment that we put him in, what he still has to work on, and what the pressure and demands would be. We'll try to make the best decision we can for him.' More Red Sox coverage Read the original article on MassLive.
USA Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
A totally not fake look at the Boston Red Sox AI interview questions
A totally not fake look at the Boston Red Sox AI interview questions Hey all, it's me. The guy who programmed the Boston Red Sox AI bot. You know, the one Joon Lee reported has been conducting interviews on behalf of the team for a baseball operations job role. I can understand why there might be some consternation about the team trusting computers more than humans. Especially after so many one-sided trades over the last few years, but this is getting a little bit blown out of proportion. I only made the AI bot to see if potential candidates align with The Red Sox Way. Like everything else in sports, there's a perfect algorithm to tell us who can do the job better than anyone else and my bot can weed through those who don't fit in with our culture. Many of you are probably still skeptical, so please allow me to provide a sampling of questions our AI bot has been asking during the course of our hiring search. For privacy reasons, you must understand we cannot reveal the answers, but if you adhere to The Red Sox Way, they should be fairly obvious. Fenway Sports Group has many other entities and interests besides the Red Sox. Would you be comfortable trading a superstar to finance something not related to baseball, such as a Broadway play? Your superstar starting pitcher just blew another late-inning lead to the Yankees do you: Throw a tantrum in the clubhouse? Trade your ace for prospects because he can't get the job done Tip you cap and call the Yankees your daddy A beloved first baseman makes a critical error in a World Series game do you: Explain this is a team sport and the series isn't over Chalk it up to the unpredictability of baseball and move on Let the player take all the heat then cut him the following season A beloved starting pitcher who helped the team win two World Series after beating cancer is up for a new contract. Our internal analytics program says to low-ball him on an offer. What's your next move? Reboot the computer because the program is clearly broken Ignore the computer altogether because it can't process sentimental value Side with the computer and trade the pitcher to Oakland for pennies on the dollar after the pitcher finds your compensation offer 'a joke' Our Manager has been found complicit in a scheme to electronically steal signs, compromising the integrity of the game and calling into question the ethics of the entire organization. How long would you wait to re-hire him to the exact same position? In a smashing success for our scouting and player development departments, a 26-year-old homegrown talent has just won AL MVP and guided the team to another World Series title. He has one year left on his contract. What team would you trade him to and why? A beloved third baseman and three-time All-Star is unhappy with the team asking him to only DH going forward. How do you make sure this gets as messy as possible before also trading him for pennies on the dollar? A disheveled Ben Affleck shows up in your office demanding your help. He can't tell you what it is. You can never ask him about it later and you're going to hurt some people. Do you respond: How did you get in here? Can't you ask Matt Damon? Whose car we gonna take? See? These are all just your standard baseball questions here at the Red Sox. I can assure you, had this candidate made it through a sixth round of interviews, they would've spoken to a human representative. Well, it's a hologram of Bill James, but James is technically a human!
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Aaron Judge forces sportsbook to pull AL MVP odds
Aaron Judge forces sportsbook to pull AL MVP odds originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Aaron Judge isn't just running away with the American League MVP race this year. He's already broke it. Took it off the board entirely. Advertisement According to Todd Dewey of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Westgate SuperBook pulled AL MVP odds on May 4, barely a month into the season. The reason? Judge had become too dominant to make betting worth it. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge.© Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images 'Unless he gets hurt, he's going to win,' Westgate oddsmaker Randy Blum told the newspaper. 'So there's no point having it up right now.' Blum added, 'He's not going to hit .400. But you know he's going to have the power. The only way he can lose is by getting injured.' Through Sunday, Judge led the majors in batting average (.378), on-base percentage (.473), and hits (99). Even after a quiet weekend in Boston—just 1-for-12—he still owns one of the most absurd first-half stat lines in decades. Advertisement Before the Fenway series, Judge had the highest batting average in MLB history (.394) by a player with 25 home runs or more through 66 games. That puts him ahead of Mickey Mantle in 1956 (.381), Jimmie Foxx in 1932 (.379), and Babe Ruth in 1930 (.375), according to Sarah Langs. Let that breathe. MVP odds are off the board, but if you're the kind of person who needs to wager on something, Caesars is offering +260 on Judge to win the Triple Crown. That would make him only the second player in the last 58 years to pull it off, joining Miguel Cabrera in 2012. He's already leading in average and home runs. RBIs are close. And health is, as always, the wild card. Advertisement But right now, Aaron Judge isn't just chasing history. He's setting odds-makers on fire and sending Vegas running for cover. And we're not even at the All-Star break. Related: Red Sox Manager's Sons Give a Surprise Scouting Report After Meeting Aaron Judge Related: Yankees Will Have Giancarlo Stanton in Lineup Monday, Insider Reports This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 17, 2025, where it first appeared.
Hamilton Spectator
4 days ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Angels rookie Christian Moore, a NYC native, gets 1st MLB hit in 1st visit to Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK (AP) — Christian Moore's first visit to Yankee Stadium came as the Los Angeles Angels' second baseman, even though he grew up a fan of the pinstripes just 20 miles from the ballpark. 'My dad's a huge Met fan,' he explained. 'We argued about it all the time when I was a kid. My brother and I were both Yankees fans growing up so we definitely had a lot of smack talk going on in the house, but it was all friendly. It was all good.' Three days after his major league debut , Moore tripled past right fielder Aaron Judge for his first big league hit, then threw out Paul Goldschmidt at the plate in the 11th inning to help the Angels beat the Yankees 1-0 on Monday night. Moore grew up in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, near the Queens border. The 22-year-old had a group of about 40 family members and friends at the game Monday, including dad Charles, mom Lazette, sisters Tysheena and Cynnamon, and brother CJ. Christian was a two-way player at Suffield Academy in Suffield, Connecticut, and played three seasons at the University of Tennessee, helping the Vols win their first College World Series title with a leadoff homer in the decisive third game of the championship series against Texas A&M. He was selected eighth overall in last July's amateur draft and signed for a $4,997,500 bonus. He started at Class-A Inland Empire and after two games was moved up to Double-A Rocket City last Aug. 2. Moore hit .234 in 34 games with the Trash Pandas this year, was promoted to to Triple-A Salt Lake on May 20, then batted .350 with four homers, 18 RBIs and a .999 OPS in 20 games. Last Thursday, he woke up after hitting a two-run homer and an RBI single during an 8-7 loss at Las Vegas and saw a couple of missed calls from Bees manager Keith Johnson. 'I said, `Hey, man. Sorry. I was sleeping,'' Moore recalled. 'He said: `Don't sleep through calls in Baltimore.' And I was like, `Oh, what? What do you mean Baltimore?' And he was like: `You're going to the show.'' Moore flew from Las Vegas to Baltimore. His parents drove there from New York and he debuted Friday night, going 0 for 3 in a 2-0 loss. He said he attended 15-20 Mets games growing up, but Yankee Stadium was a new experience. Batting ninth, he flied out in the third and sixth. Then with two outs in the eighth, he sliced an opposite-field liner to right. Judge tried for a sprawling backhand catch, but the ball landed in front of the two-time AL MVP and rolled to the wall. Moore slid headfirst into third. 'His at-bat was much, much better tonight,' Angels manager Ron Washington said. 'And I think from this day forward they'll get better because of the fact he got his first base hit out the way.' Moore hit an inning-ending flyout in the 10th, then scored in the 11th as the automatic runner when Nolan Schanuel doubled off Jonathan Loáisiga. New York had runners at the corners in the bottom half and the infield was in when Jasson Domínguez hit a broken-bat, one-hopper to Moore, who charged in a bit and made a perfect sidearm throw to Travis d'Arnaud. The catcher nabbed the ball just to the third-base side of the plate in time to tag a sliding Goldschmidt on the left foot. Moore had the ball from the triple in his locker and planned to give it to his parents. He hadn't worried about how long it would take to reach the big leagues. 'I just try to put in the work and trust the process,' he said. ___ AP MLB:
