Team News
The Zac Gallen Situation is Getting More Dire By the Day https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/zac-gallen-situation-more-dire-diamondbacks
3 Diamondbacks Players Who Are On Fire This Month
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/3-diamondbacks-players-may-rodriguez-garcia-arenado
Rockies Pose a Much Bigger Threat to Diamondbacks Than You’d Expect https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/rockies-pose-bigger-threat-diamondbacks-expect
Other Baseball
Rays, local officials reach tentative deal
for ballpark in Tampa https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48772516/rays-local-officials-reach-tentative-deal-ballpark-tampa
Tampa Bay Rays and local officials announce a tentative $2.3B deal for a new ballpark https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tampa-bay-rays-local-officials-220919661.html
Mariners’ Cal Raleigh (oblique) lands on IL for first time https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48770453/mariners-cal-raleigh-oblique-lands-il-first
Rivalry Weekend has arrived! Here are the most intriguing clashes
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rivalry-weekend-biggest-series-2026
Previewing this year’s Rivalry Weekend matchups
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rivalry-weekend-preview-2026
The Top 100 Prospects list has been updated, and there’s a new No. 1
https://www.mlb.com/rangers/news/updated-top-100-prospects-list-may-2026?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
We have a new record for most ABS challenges in a game
https://www.mlb.com/athletics/news/athletics-cardinals-set-record-for-most-abs-challenges-in-game
‘Lower the stigma’: Kwan hosts chess tourney for mental health awareness https://www.mlb.com/guardians/news/steven-kwan-hosts-chess-tournament-for-mental-health-awareness
Anything Goes
This day in history:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-15
This day in baseball:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/May_15
300 million cells die on your body every minute.
Don’t worry, though: We also make 10 to 50 trillion cells per day.
Mustache shields were a thing in the Victorian Era.
You’ve heard of post-mortem photo opps and cocaine toothache drops, but another peculiar Victorian Era thing is the mustache shield. Patented in 1876 by Virgil A Gates, the mustache shield was designed to keep facial hair out of the way when eating and drinking.
The thumb nail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Fingernails grow about 3.5 millimeters per month while toenails grow 1.6 mm on average.
