News about Adley Rutschman

Major League Baseball said on Thursday that the two-time World Series champion will rest his left hand, which has been sore since he was hit by a 94.3 mph slider from a Twins pitcher on July 5. 'Obviously, we have a very important second half of the season that I really want to be healthy (for),' the star slugger before the All-Star game.

Retired All-Star Matt Holliday's son Jackson is making his Major League debut for the Baltimore Orioles today at age 20 - just six years after his father retired as a member of the Colorado Rockies. The first pick of the 2022 MLB Draft, Jackson now ranks as baseball's top prospect according to ESPN, MLB.com and The Athletic. And as seen in some recently surfaced footage from his father's early days in the Majors, Jackson has been destined for the big leagues for some time. The clip from Denver's ABC affiliate shows Jackson as a toddler playing toss with his father at Coors Field before showing off his budding left-handed swing.

Former MLB picks Jackson Holliday and Adley Rutschman, Olivia Dunne's boyfriend, and Pirates prospect Paul Skenes were ruled out on Thursday. Skenes is one of Major League Baseball's top prospects, and he is hoping to be a part of the Pirates Opening Day rotation. He's never appeared in a MLB game to date. However, Skenes made it as far as the Pirates' Double-A affiliate, the Altoona Curve, last season.

We've arrived halfway through the 2023 Major League Baseball season, and the old rules haven't been followed. The Cardinals and Padres are a mess, the Marlins and Orioles are raging into the playoffs, and anyone who made a pre-season forecast of the Mets or Yankees is rubbing their eyes in disbelief. Two and a half months remain for teams to sort themselves out for the pennant chase, and as the regular season hits pause and MLB heads to Seattle for the All-Star Break, Mail Sport grades all 30 teams on their 2023 campaign so far:

After Orioles reliever Bryan Baker appeared to make a hand signal toward the Blue Jays' dugout during Baltimore's seventh inning of the game against Toronto on Tuesday night, Benches cleared during Baltimore's seventh innings of the game against Toronto on Tuesday night. Baker knocked out Matt Chapman at the top of the seventh, then appeared to give a 'chirping' signal with his hand. Players from both benches were eager to get to the field, and bullpens followed them in a matter of seconds.