A Star in Limbo:В Seiya Suzuki is poised to be the next star to come to the United States from Japan, but his posting has been interruptedВ by the major league lockout.Meet the Max:В Max Scherzer was introduced by the Mets as baseballвЂ™s highest-paid playerВ and he discussed the pressure of such a distinction.and its player union unable to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, the league enacted a lockout, freezing all transactions and starting baseballвЂ™s first work stoppage since the 1994-95 strike. was considering formally recognizing several of those leagues as on par with its American and National Leagues. The reason for Baseball ReferenceвЂ™s adjustment dates to August, when Forman said he read an article about how players from the Negro leagues remained uncounted among the official major leagues and that M.L.B. The move comes ahead of Major League BaseballвЂ™s own plans to incorporate the statistics into its historical record, which could happen in the next off-season. вЂњA lot of new books on baseball trivia will be coming out in the next few years,вЂќ Sean Forman, the founder and president of Sports Reference, joked on a video call ahead of his baseball siteвЂ™s announcement on Tuesday that it had drastically changed and expanded its accounting of the Negro leagues. And Oscar Charleston, perhaps the finest all-around player in Negro leagues history, has bumped Bonds for the third-best career mark in adjusted O.P.S. Satchel Paige, a dominant pitcher for more than 20 seasons, has taken over eight of those strikeout titles. Now, Tetelo Vargas of the New York Cubans (.471) and Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays (.466) have both surpassed Musial in 1943. It also would have said numerous pitchers took a turn leading the majors in strikeouts per nine innings between 19, and that the top three batters in career adjusted on-base-plus-slugging percentage were Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Barry Bonds.ДЄ day later, all of that looks much different. On Monday, Baseball Reference, the go-to source on the internet for such matters, would have told you that Stan Musial led the major leagues with a.

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