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Toolshed's best of the decade: Offensive players

Reviewing, ranking 2010s MiLBY winners for work with the bat
@SamDykstraMiLB
October 27, 2020

There was no Minor League season in 2020, and unfortunately, that means there will be no MiLBY Awards this year either. In their stead, Toolshed is taking the next couple weeks to look back at MiLBY winners from the major categories in the 2010s. The series will rank all the

Best streams of 2019: Memorable rehabs

Carrasco returns; Springer brings big stick back to Corpus Christi
May 11, 2020

There's always an extra buzz in the ballpark when an established big leaguer heads to the Minor Leagues for a rehab assignment.It's even more special when that player returns to a city that served as one of the rungs on the ladder he climbed on his way to The Show.

Springer leads Hooks' homer barrage

Astros No. 8 prospect Beer goes deep twice, Javier fans 10
June 20, 2019

The Astros' present teamed up with their future Thursday night in the Texas League.Two-time American League All-Star George Springer homered in consecutive at-bats during his first Minor League rehab game and drove in four runs as Double-A Corpus Christi rolled past Springfield, 10-2, at Whataburger Field.Astros No. 8 prospect Seth Beer

JetHawks' Springer has Hamilton-esque night

Astros No. 3 prospect homers in four consecutive at-bats
May 12, 2012

George Springer had a nice game. And than he had the game of his life hours later. The Astros' No. 3 prospect homered in his final at-bat of Lancaster's Game 1 win over Lake Elsinore, then went yard in his first three plate appearances of Friday's nightcap as the JetHawks