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Yankees make roster move after bullpen strategy backfires in Atlanta
Yankees make roster move after bullpen strategy backfires in Atlanta

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Yankees make roster move after bullpen strategy backfires in Atlanta

Yankees make roster move after bullpen strategy backfires in Atlanta originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Yankees' sketchy pitching plan backfired Friday night, and now they need to scramble again to cover themselves. According to The New York Post's Joel Sherman, the team is designating reliever RIco Garcia for assignment after Thursday night's bullpen scramble in Atlanta. Garcia was one of four relievers used in the 8–1 loss, a self-inflicted mess following the All-Star break. The Yankees chose to open the second half with a bullpen game. After four days off. With a rotation already thinned by injury. J.T. Brubaker handled three innings in his debut. Garcia covered one. Ian Hamilton opened. It didn't work. And now the Yankees are short an arm again. This wasn't a surprise. It was preventable. They could have recalled a lengthened starter from Triple-A. Or gone with Will Warren, who last pitched on Sunday. Or Marcus Stroman, who pitched Friday and was lined up on extra rest. Instead, they used four relievers in Game 1 of a road trip and burned enough innings that someone had to go. Garcia was the odd man out. He'd just been picked up last week from the Mets, who DFA'd him as well. He has thrown 15.2 solid innings this year with a 3.45 ERA, but he was always an emergency arm they could cut if they needed to. So now the Yankees are scrambling again. Max Fried has been pushed back to the Toronto series. Cam Schlittler was scratched Friday with arm discomfort, but the Yankees are hopeful they will get him a start in the Blue Jays series as well. And with two games still to play in Atlanta, then a three-game series in Toronto, the Yankees are down to hoping someone steps up. Or steps in. The trade deadline is less than two weeks away, but the Yankees need to get there. Burning through the bullpen on the first day of the second half of the season wasn't a great start. And now they need another arm. Again This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 19, 2025, where it first appeared.

Luka Doncic Report Emerges After Marcus Smart News
Luka Doncic Report Emerges After Marcus Smart News

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time21 hours ago

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Luka Doncic Report Emerges After Marcus Smart News

Luka Doncic Report Emerges After Marcus Smart News originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Los Angeles Lakers entered the offseason determined to retool their roster following a first-round playoff exit that exposed key weaknesses on both ends of the floor. With pressure mounting to maximize the championship window around Luka Doncic and LeBron James, the front office moved quickly to reshape the team's core. Their first major move came with the signing of Deandre Ayton, who joined on a two-year deal worth $16.2 million. On Saturday, the Lakers followed up with another significant addition: former Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart. Per ESPN's Shams Charania, Smart agreed to a contract buyout with the Washington Wizards and intends to sign a two-year, $11 million deal with Los Angeles once he clears waivers. The deal includes a player option for the 2026-27 season, giving Smart flexibility ahead of what is expected to be a more active free agency period in 2026. According to Charania, Luka Doncic played a direct role in the acquisition. The report revealed that the All-NBA guard personally reached out to Smart and helped recruit him to Los Angeles. 'Lakers All-NBA star Luka Doncic reached out to Smart and made it clear that he wanted to play with the two-way stalwart,' Charania wrote. The Lakers had prioritized a point-of-attack defender this summer, and Smart, a three-time All-Defensive First Team selection, fit that need perfectly. Smart brings toughness and elite defensive ability to a Lakers team that struggled on the perimeter last season. His presence allows Doncic to conserve energy defensively and operate more freely as a scorer and playmaker. Together with Ayton anchoring the paint, Smart's arrival further strengthens a Lakers unit aiming for a deeper postseason run in 2026. This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 19, 2025, where it first appeared.

Bills place TE Knox and OLs Brown, Van Pran-Granger on injury lists day before opening training camp
Bills place TE Knox and OLs Brown, Van Pran-Granger on injury lists day before opening training camp

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timea day ago

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Bills place TE Knox and OLs Brown, Van Pran-Granger on injury lists day before opening training camp

The Buffalo Bills placed veteran tight end Dawson Knox on the non-football injury list on Tuesday in a series of roster moves made the day before the team opens training camp in suburban Rochester, New York. The Bills also placed starting right tackle Spencer Brown and backup offensive lineman Sedrick Van Pran-Granger on the physically unable to perform list. The team did not disclose the nature or severity of the players' injuries, with coach Sean McDermott scheduled to address reporters before the opening practice on Wednesday. The moves were noted on the NFL's daily transaction list, and came on the day Bills veterans reported for camp at St. John Fisher University. All three players are eligible to be activated off their respective lists once they pass their physicals. In separate moves, the Bills activated rookie defensive end Landon Jackson off the physically unable to perform list. The team also signed receiver David White and tight and Matt Sokol, while releasing punter Jake Camrada and receiver Kelly Akharaiyi. Sokol has appeared in eight career NFL games over three seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers and New England Patriots. He spent parts of last season on Pittsburgh's practice squad. Camrada's departure leaves the Bills with Brad Robbins as the team's only punter entering camp. The team has an opening at the position after releasing veteran Sam Martin in March. ___ AP NFL:

Giants demote Hayden Birdsong, Tristan Beck and call up Carson Seymour, Sean Hjelle
Giants demote Hayden Birdsong, Tristan Beck and call up Carson Seymour, Sean Hjelle

New York Times

timea day ago

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Giants demote Hayden Birdsong, Tristan Beck and call up Carson Seymour, Sean Hjelle

The San Francisco Giants shook up their roster and rotation on Tuesday, sending Hayden Birdsong and Tristan Beck to Sacramento and replacing them with Carson Seymour and Sean Hjelle. The Beck-Hjelle swap isn't particularly notable, as it would appear to be a way to get a fresh long reliever on the roster after Monday's accidental bullpen game. Birdsong pitching his way out of the rotation and back into the minor leagues, most certainly is. Advertisement For years, my touchstone for an 'unexpectedly and irrevocably disastrous start' was Madison Bumgarner's 2011 start against the Twins. Ten batters came to the plate, and only one of them made an out, with the others banging out hit after hit — four singles, five doubles — to score eight earned runs. It was an all-time meltdown, but in his next start, he allowed just one run in seven strong innings. Birdsong's start on Tuesday is the new champ, though. It was an absolute catastrophe that shouldn't be topped for years, if not decades. He faced six batters and walked four of them. Another batter hit a line-drive double, and he hit the final batter he faced, but it wasn't just the outcome that was disastrous. It was also how the batters walked. Some of the pitches didn't even appear on MLB's Gameday app, as they were too far away from the plate for the lasers to catch. He threw a curveball that curved less than any curveball you'll ever see again. It was as concerning a start as possible, at least without a player's health being involved. And it's a good excuse to recall just how strange Birdsong's professional career has been. When he was a 19-year-old sophomore at Eastern Illinois, he had a 9.76 ERA and a 0-5 record. About 1,000 days later, he was pitching against Shohei Ohtani. Now, a lot happened in those thousand days to make the journey seem more plausible at every step, but it's still been an extremely compressed timeline for him. Considering that command and control have never been a strength for him, the ingredients for a hiccup like this were always there. The hiccup happened to be more of a belch that set off car alarms, but Birdsong's season had been trending in the wrong direction because of an inability to throw strikes, and it wasn't getting better. Advertisement Carson Seymour would be the logical replacement for Birdsong in the rotation, and while he's already made his major-league debut, he's yet to make his first career start in the majors. He's appeared in one game since the Giants sent him to Sacramento, throwing three innings in relief, allowing a run and striking out seven. That was his first relief appearance in Triple A this season after 15 starts, which suggests the Giants were preparing him for a bullpen role. It might not be a given, then, that he'll be even a short-term solution in the rotation, especially with the trade deadline just over a week away. The problem with the Giants looking outside the organization, though, is that it's impossible to tell if they're buyers or sellers right now. The simplest solution is probably the likeliest one: Let Seymour take the starts, even if he'll need a couple to get stretched back out. When the Giants were relevant in the NL West this season, they were doing so because of their superior pitching. Along with just about everything else on the team, though, the pitching has been a disaster in recent days, even affecting the most consistent performers on the staff. Birdsong's demotion now leaves the rotation as Logan Webb, Robbie Ray, Justin Verlander, Landen Roupp and others. Webb and Ray were both All-Stars, but they're both coming off nightmare starts, and they've struggled more recently than they previously had all season. Verlander is 42 and winless in 16 starts with a 4.99 ERA. There's context that can make the previous sentence seem a little less scary and depressing, but there sure isn't nearly enough of it. Considering all of this, let's take a moment to appreciate that Roupp has temporarily become the rock of the rotation, right when the team was starting to get desperate for quality starts. Advertisement As for the others, we'll see if he's just one pitcher (likely Seymour) or if they'll settle for a steady diet of bullpen games until they can find a permanent replacement. And it's not unreasonable to hope that Birdsong adjusts and dominates in a couple of Sacramento outings and rejoins the rotation like nothing ever happened. Until then, though, the rotation is in flux. What seemed like a mighty surplus of starting pitching just a couple of months ago has turned into an area of acute need, and Birdsong's demotion is just the latest development in the saga. (Photo of Hayden Birdsong: Lachlan Cunningham / Getty Images)

2025 Arizona Cardinals training camp roster preview: WR Trishton Jackson
2025 Arizona Cardinals training camp roster preview: WR Trishton Jackson

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2025 Arizona Cardinals training camp roster preview: WR Trishton Jackson

The Arizona Cardinals report to training camp on July 22 and begin the process of preparing for the regular season, forming the roster and determining starting jobs and roles on the team. Leading up to the start of camp, we will take a look at every player on the offseason roster, their background, their contract, their play in 2024, questions they face and their roster outlook. Advertisement This focuses on receiver Trishton Jackson. Trishton Jackson background, 2024 season Jackson has been in the NFL since 2020 when he signed with the Los Angeles Rams as a rookie free agent out of Syracuse. After a year on the practice squad of the Rams, he spent the last four years with the Minnesota Vikings, mostly on the practice squad. He finally got some NFL action beginning in 2023. Over the last two seasons, he had played in nine games with two career receptions for nine yards on 90 offensive snaps, also playing 16 on special teams. In 2024, he appeared in two games without a catch. He played 10 offensive snaps and two on special teams. Advertisement Trishton Jackson 2025 contract details, cap hit Jackson signed a futures deal with the Cardinals in January. It was for the 2025 season. He will make $1.1 million in salary if he makes the roster, and that will be his cap hit. Questions he faces, roster outlook Now 27 years old with nine career appearances, how many more chances will Jackson get? Is there something he can show Cardinals coaches that he wasn't able to do in Minnesota? As things stand with the receiver room, Jackson might be the most unlikely receiver on the roster to make the 53-man roster, so he will battle for the practice squad, if possible. Advertisement Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts. This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Arizona Cardinals training camp roster preview: WR Trishton Jackson

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