Day: February 8, 2017

Quick-healing Middleton hopes to gives Bucks a boost (Sports Betting News)Quick-healing Middleton hopes to gives Bucks a boost (Sports Betting News)

Khris Middleton has proven to be a quick healer. One of Milwaukee’s top all-around players plans to make his season debut on Wednesday against the streaking Miami Heat, so long as his surgically-repaired left hamstring feels fine following shoot-around and pregame warmups. The Bucks’ leading scorer last season, Middleton is about a month ahead of the six-month timeline that the Bucks initially thought would be needed for the torn hamstring to heal.

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Chris Carter agrees to $3.5M, 1-year deal with Yankees (Sports Betting News)Chris Carter agrees to $3.5M, 1-year deal with Yankees (Sports Betting News)

Milwaukee Brewers' Chris Carter connects for a single off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Carlos Estevez in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, in Denver. Milwaukee won 6-4 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Chris Carter, who tied for the National League home run lead last season, agreed to a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the New York Yankees. ”I am excited to go play for a bigger market team with more national exposure,” Carter said Tuesday in a telephone interview with Sports Betting News. Carter, whose career-high 41 home runs last season matched Colorado’s Nolan Arenado for tops in the NL, became a free agent in December when Milwaukee failed to offer a 2017 contract.

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