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 ...
With the NBA Draft, NBA Finals, and, really, this year’s entire thrilling NBA postseason now over, it’s time to roll into the leanest and meanest days of the summer months.Football has not arrived yet and baseball is not quite deep enough into its season to be interesting to the casual fan. ...
It took 69 days and what seemed like hundreds of phone calls for it to become official.But Monday night, just after 9 p.m., former Free State High baseball star Cody Kukuk officially became a member of the Boston Red Sox.Kukuk, a left-handed pitcher who signed with Kansas University earlier ...
The Philadelphia Phillies announced Monday that they have come to terms with former Kansas pitcher Colton Murray on a minor league contract after selecting the junior right-hander in the 13th round of this season’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Murray has been assigned to the ...
Oakland, Calif. ? The Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday that they signed former Kansas University pitcher T.J. Walz to a minor-league contract after selecting the right-hander in the 15th round of last week’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Walz was assigned to the team’s ...
For the second time in his baseball career, Kansas University sophomore Tanner Poppe has been picked in the 37th round of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft.Poppe, a hard-throwing, 6-foot-5, right-handed pitcher from Girard, became the third KU pitcher selected in this year’s draft on ...
As the years have gone by, Kansas University baseball coach Ritch Price has seen more and more former Jayhawks work their way up from the college ranks into minor league and, in some cases, Major League success.That, Price says, can be a helpful tool in recruiting, as he can point to the ...
