Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald and his staff do everything they can to get a sense from their MLB Draft-eligible players on how high they’ll need to get selected in order to leave KU and go pro. They then calibrate their personnel accordingly based on what they learn. But, as ...
The Kansas Jayhawks were just hot enough on a wet night to knock off the 25th-ranked Wichita State Shockers in college baseball action on Wednesday. KU recorded a 7-5 victory in 10 innings of a rain-filled game after redshirt sophomore Michael Brooks delivered a two-run single in the 10th ...
The Kansas baseball team picked up its first sweep in three years over the weekend, knocking off Baylor 12-4 and 13-6 in the first two games and then coming from behind to win 5-4 on Sunday. Sophomore Jake English’s solo home run to lead off the bottom of the eighth put Kansas ahead and ...
If you want to be remembered in sports, generate a buzz, become the center of attention, you have to win. Sometimes, especially in desperate times, that means you must keep on spending money until you get it right.The 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers stand as the greatest example in the history of ...
Break with the crack of the bat, gracefully sprint toward the center-field wall, look over his shoulder and catch a baseball that everyone on hand with a scorebook and pencil already had marked a double? Easy. Same for catching up to a pass thrown by a college quarterback.But write a book? And ...
Former Kansas University pitcher Brett Bochy has joined the San Francisco Giants, where he will become the first pitcher to be coached by his father in the major leagues.The Giants purchased Brett Bochy’s contract, and he joined the big-league team Tuesday in Colorado.“This is what you ...
Hitting guru Charlie Lau devoted his professional life to teaching a baseball swing that could work against just about any style, particularly if the one holding the bat happened to be prize pupil George Brett. But even Lau didn’t claim to have the answer to how to master the strangest, most ...
Five current and former Kansas University baseball players and one future Jayhawk were selected during the third day of the 2013 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft on Saturday.Kansas seniors Alex DeLeon (23rd round, St. Louis Cardinals), Thomas Taylor (26th, Los Angeles Dodgers), Kevin Kuntz ...
