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Amaya needs a little more proofing but is penciled in as the full-time starter for 2027. He’ll start more as the season goes on and he is healthy and having success. Miguel Amaya, a 26-year-old Panamanian native (he turns 27 on March 9) was well on his way to winning the job outright when he […]
Marc-Andre ter Stegen has spoken about his decision to leave Barcelona after joining Girona on loan for the rest of the 2025-26 season. The Germany star has moved on after losing his place in the starting XI to Joan Garcia. Ter Stegen says he respects the club’s decision and has a good relationship with Garcia. […]
More than 13,000 fans filed into Madison Square Garden on a frigid night in the twenties outside with an optimism built on St. John’s’ current four-game win streak and some recent struggles by Seton Hall. But the Red Storm’s long-distance shooting in warm-ups seemed erratic. And the Pirates seemed prepped for a battle. First Half […]
It was a good year for Phillies on the Hall of Fame ballot. As expected, Chase Utley did not get elected in this, his third year on the ballot. Neither did Jimmy Rollins, Bobby Abreu, or newcomer Cole Hamels. Again, no surprises there. However, Utley’s stock increased greatly in 2026, seeing a 19.3% increase from […]
Probably most important to say up front that (1) we don’t know Justin Steele’s exact return timeline yet, (2) we will know a ton more by the end of Spring Training, and (3) even if he’s “ahead of schedule” in his rehab right now, that may not actually impact the volume of regular season innings he puts up. It would simply be good and happy news for today. Steele and the Cubs are going to be VERY careful to ensure that his return from elbow surgery is optimally timed for his long-term heal...
Almost exactly four years after trading him to the Padres, the Twins agreed to a one year contract with left-handed reliever Taylor Rogers according to Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic. The pact will pay Rogers $2M in 2026. Rogers has been bouncing around National League contenders since leaving the Twin Cities. He split 2022 between […]
For those who have forgotten, in early December, Canadian Ryan Reynolds posted his now-annual video announcing the yearly fundraiser for Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, which ran until Christmas 2025. The short video featured guest Freddie Freeman, who is also famously Canadian and is generally considered one of the nicest people in baseball. Freeman gets […]
Brian Sorensen has declared his Everton Women squad are confident and hungry ahead of Friday’s WSL encounter against Brighton & Hove Albion at Goodison Park, but knows full well how tough the game against the Seagulls will be. Still searching for the first league win at the Grand Old Lady, the Blues have mounting injury […]
When new owners stepped in to purchase the Rays, one of the lingering questions was how intwined those new owners would make their businesses with the Tampa Bay Rays. Would Tropicana Field become Dream Home Finders Field (named for the managing partner Patrick Zalupski’s company)? Could the next new stadium? Time will tell, but the […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rangers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Yo yo yo…spring training isn’t far away. Pitchers and catchers will be reporting soon. Hope springs […]
Earlier this week, baseball writers voted Carlos Beltrán into the Baseball Hall of Fame. On his fourth year of the ballot, Beltrán garnered 84.2% of the votes cast, well more than the 75% required to gain induction. He finished his career in 2017 as a member of the World Series champion Houston Astros. Of course, […]
Freddy Peralta, one of the Mets’ latest additions in a very busy week, began his professional career in baseball as an international signing with the Mariners out of the Dominican Republic in 2013. Following a solid season in the Dominican Summer League that year, Peralta was promoted to Seattle’s rookie ball affiliate in Arizona for […]
In the winter/offseason of 2006-07, the prized pitcher on the market was Daisuke Matsuzaka. The 26-year-old was posted by the NPB’s Seibu Lions after a decorated career with them that included a 2004 Japan Series championship and a star turn in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic, where he was MVP. Many teams were interested […]
Baseball America announced their preseason Top 100 prospects for 2026 and two Cubs prospects were named to the list. Catcher Moisés Ballesteros was named the 36th-ranked prospect and right-handed pitcher Jaxon Wiggins was named the 78th-best prospect. Recently-traded outfielder Owen Caissie, now of the Marlins, was named the 43rd-best prospect in the game. Additionally. two […]
Well, the first round of voting was a bit of a non-shocker. Shortstop Leo De Vries absolutely ran away with the top spot on this year’s Community Power Rankings, winning over 95% of the vote en route to being named the top prospect in the Athletics’ system by the fans. It comes as no surprise. […]
Taylor Rogers was one of the Cubs’ deadline acquisitions last year, and, although he’s long been an effective reliever, his role always felt pretty marginal with the Cubs. Candidly, as you can see up there, I never even had a good opportunity to retrieve a Rogers-in-Cubs-uniform image during his 17-appearance tenure with the team. Kinda telling. That isn’t to say the trade, which sent outfield prospect Ivan Brethowr to the Pirates, was a dud for the Cubs. It was a fine move on paper, it w...
We’ve known for some time that the Hillsborough College (HC) Dale Mabry site was the leading candidate for a potential Tampa Rays stadium, and on Tuesday the HC board unanimously approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) authorizing the college to pursue a partnership with the Rays. Now, thanks to Neil deMause of Field of Schemes, […]
Getting more Chicago Cubs games on exclusive national broadcasts in the current environment is sometimes a mixed bag. On the one hand, it means the games sometimes get time-shifted, don’t feature our home broadcast crew, and may appear on a streamer that not everyone has. On the other hand, it means the games are available for some folks to watch who might not otherwise have Marquee, and, in theory, it can be some nice additional exposure for the team and the players. That’s especially ni...
As we enter the mock draft season we will likely just focus on one mock draft a week from outside of SB Nation or our own brain, and discuss things. Yet, when the Godfather drops his first mock draft of the 2026 season, we have to talk about it. Check out the first Mel Kiper […]
Robert Eckl Sr. and Robert Eckl Jr., Jack Wenninger’s grandfather and uncle, respectively, both played baseball at the University of Wisconsin, but Jack decided to not follow in their footsteps, instead committing to Murray State University after graduating from Cary-Grove Community High School in 2020. Wenninger’s numbers in his freshman season were only pedestrian, posting […]
Writing a primer on a player who it feels like Mets fans simultaneously don’t know very well but also know intimately well in Luis Robert Jr. is an interesting position to be in. The 28-year-old Cuban-born center fielder defected in 2016 and signed with the White Sox the following year, spending his entire career until […]
Baseball is a young man’s game. And all who play it at the major league level are young; at least compared to the members of other professions. There are doctors in their seventies; there are no shortstops at that age outside of Old Timer’s Day. But age is relative; while none of the boys of […]
With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025. Today we are looking at outfielder Michael Helman. Michael Helman was one of the good, fun […]
Ah prospects. Sometimes they really hurt you. After watching the Detroit Tigers pass on Zach Neto and instead select Jace Jung in the first round of the 2022 amateur draft, there was some hope of redemption in the second round. The Tigers picked up an athletic shortstop with power out of the University of Oklahoma […]
The quest of the Cincinnati Reds to never again be last while feigning interest in actually being first continued over the last week whether they liked it, or not. Off the board came Kyle Tucker, first, whose signature with the Los Angeles Dodgers further solidified their modern Evil Empire status. The New York Mets, meanwhile, […]