Matt McBride

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Apr 28, 2016

The Yokohama BayStars have given up on their bid to acquire Matt McBride from the Oakland Athletics' Triple-A affiliate, it was learned Thursday. The BayStars had reached a broad agreement with McBride, according to club officials, but the deal was scuppered when the 30-year-old infielder/outfielder ...

Baseball Nov 19, 2015

USA Baseball juggled scheduling challenges, built solid squad from scratch

by Jason Coskrey and Kaz Nagatsuka

For the United States, the journey to the semifinal round of the inaugural Premier 12 began in August. That was when the committee in charge of putting together the U.S. roster sat down to figure out what the U.S. presence in Japan and Taiwan would ...