Zack Greinke is not, shockingly, a member of the Baltimore Orioles.

Gleyber Torres’ career can be split into two, respective seasons. One of those seasons can be considered to be against teams better than .500, comprising 125 games, where he hit a collective .264/.325/.473 with 24 home runs. That’s about the same as, say, Avisail Garcia, who hit to a 112 wRC+ and hit 20 home runs in the exact same number of games.

The other season, which people consider the major caveat of his career thus far, is against teams who are worse than .500. In those 142 games, he hit a whopping .285/.349/.543 while swatting 38 home runs. That would be the equivalent of DJ LeMahieu in OPS, and he led his same team in WAR. Of those 38 home runs, 16 came against the Orioles alone, hit in just 29 games, where he had a 1.314 OPS (více...)

Roberto Osuna has loaded the bases with none out in the ninth and the Astros ahead 3-0. Avisail Garcia, Brandon Lowe and Travis d'Arnaud are due up. Will Harris is warming in the bullpen. (více...)

Avisail Garcia is not in the Rays' lineup Friday.

Garcia homered in the Wild Card win over the A's but finds himself on the bench for Game 1 against the Astros. Austin Meadows is in right field, Ji-Man Choi is at first base and Yandy Diaz is in the designated hitter spot.

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss the AL and NL wild card games (touching on Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, Nick Anderson, Oliver Drake, Yandy Diaz, Avisail Garcia, Josh Hader, Trent Grisham, and others), bid farewell to the Brewers and A’s, and analyze the Rays’ and Nationals’ division series prospects, then answer listener emails about the […] (více...)

Avisail Garcia crushed a two-run homer to help the Rays to a win over the Athletics on Wednesday in the American League Wild Card Game.

Garcia absolutely obliterated a homer to center off of Sean Manaea -- one of three homers he'd allow in just two-plus innings pitched -- and it gave the Rays a 3-0 lead. It was the only hit of the evening for the outfielder and he struck out twice, but the homer was really all the offense the Rays would need with Charlie Morton and the bullpen dominating.

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