Joe Musgrove

When you are a Major League Baseball play-by-play announcer/analyst, at times you are paid for your opinion. Ex-players and managers stack broadcast booths across the country to provide key insight. Mets play-by-play star, Gary Cohen grew up a New York Mets fan, not too far from Shea Stadium. Cohen along with former 1986 Mets Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez combine for one of the most popular broadcast booth trios in the game. On Sunday night, Cohen was part of the SNY postgame crew, as the game was on ESPN. The ever-popular Queens native got roundly booed by the live audience for his comments regarding Mets manager Buck Showalter.

A big day yesterday for another former Tri-City ValleyCat: Joe Musgrove (2014) made his major league debut for the Houston Astros, tossing 4.1 innings in relief. He allowed just one hit and struck out eight. Those eight strikeouts are the most by a reliever in his major league debut since 1900 and the most strikeouts for any Astro in his debut...

The Tri-City ValleyCats forced a deciding Game 3 in the New York-Penn League Championship Series after beating the State College Spikes in Game 2 on Monday night at Joe Bruno Stadium. One night after being shut out in State College, Tri-City ace Joe Musgrove was dominant, throwing seven scoreless innings in the 3-0 ValleyCats win...

After falling to the State College Spikes in Game 1 of the New York-Penn League Championship Series on Sunday, the Tri-CIty ValleyCats will look to ace Joe Musgrove when they take the field in Game 2, tonight, at Joe Bruno Stadium (7 p.m.). Musgrove is 7-1 with a 2...