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Ask Pinstripe Alley: Yankees mailbag questions request

The offseason marches on, and the Yankees have their first significant commitment of the winter made. Trent Grisham accepted the qualifying offer, meaning they’ll have him back in the outfield on a one-year, $22 million pact following the 29-year-old’s career year in 2024, hitting 34 home runs in a fourth outfielder role that quickly expanded […]

2025 Athletics Season In Review: JJ Bleday

Happy Monday A’s fans! Our Season In Review series continues this morning, and today’s player is outfielder JJ Bleday. It looked like the onetime top prospect had found his forever home with the Athletics but a tough season at the plate and in the field, plus a younger hot-shot prospect shooting through the system, helped […]

The Phil Maton signing by the numbers

The stove is hot and even the normally cautious Cubs front office is getting in on the early moves, signing righthander Phil Maton (first noted by Michael Cerami) to a two-year deal, with an option for at third year, on Friday. Maton will turn 33 before the season starts and has bounced around the league […]

2025 Arizona Diamondbacks Player Reviews: #46 Jorge Barrosa

Overview Not going to lie, I am a bit surprised Barrosa ranks as highly as he does. But, I suppose being a key member of the revitalized team that made a late-season push for the playoffs will help inflate one’s stock somewhat. 2025 Review Jorge Barrosa made his MLB and Arizona debut back on 1 […]

Let’s vote on the top moments of the 2025 season

This was yet another momentous season for the Phillies. It was a season that ended in their getting another earlier than anticipated vacation, but for 162 games, they were entertaining to follow. We can dwell on the ending that halted their march to a title, but instead, let’s think back through the whole season. Using […]

The Marlins Will Face a Potential Roadblock in Any Effort to Trade Sandy Alcantara

Even after Shota Imanaga accepted his one-year, $22M qualifying offer last week, the Chicago Cubs are expected to pursue another front-half-of-the-rotation starting pitcher this offseason. Whether that pitcher is signed out of free agency ( Dylan Cease , Tatsuya Imai , Michael King , Zac Gallen , etc.) or acquired via trade ( Joe Ryan , Kris Bubic , Sandy Alcantara , Edward Cabrera , MacKenzie Gore , etc.) remains to be seen. But the need, willingness to act, and supply of quality options...

Louisville vs. Eastern Michigan preview

Louisville Cardinals (5-0) vs. Eastern Michigan Eagles (3-2) Game Time: 7 p.m. Location: KFC Yum Center: Louisville, Ky. Television: ACC Network Announcers: Cooper Boardman (play-by-play) and Randolph Childress (analysis) Officials: TBA Favorite: Louisville by 33.5 Series: Louisville leads, 1-0 Only Meeting: Louisville won, 86-53, on Dec. 12, 2015 in Louisville Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville Eastern Michigan Statistics: Eastern Michigan’s Season to Date: Relevant […]

Monday Morning Minnesota: The “Welcome to the 40-man” Edition

Once the managerial musical chairs ended, it’s been a relatively normal offseason for the Twins, with a few trades of minor leaguers before the Rule 5 draft deadline to add players to the 40-man roster and tendering contracts to arbitration-eligible players. And now we wait for the winter meetings! The Past Week on Twinkie Town: […]

Cubs walkoff heroes: John Baker, July 29, 2014

The Cubs were in the midst of a pretty dismal season, their third losing year in a row. They were 18 games under .500 at 43-61 and 14.5 games out of first place when they hosted the Rockies in the second of a three-game series under the lights on a Tuesday. This game started out […]

2025 Atlanta Braves prospect review: Eric Hartman

How was he acquired? Hartman was selected with Atlanta’s 20th round pick in the 2024 draft, using the 611th overall selection on the outfielder from Holy Trinity Academy out of Alberta, Canada. He was given a signing bonus $337,500, which was understandably significantly higher than his slot value. What were the expectations in 2025? When […]

Looking back at Dodgers TV & radio broadcasts in 2025

LOS ANGELES — Now that the baseball season is over, we can look back at the various announcer pairings the Dodgers used on both their television and radio English-language broadcasts during the 2025 season. SportsNet LA was in its 12th season of televising Dodgers games locally, the last six of which have been available more […]

Astros Rumors: Donovan, Gray, Contreras, Walker, Paredes

Here is some of the latest chatter regarding the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals I have confirmed these discussions with another source close to the Cardinals organization as well. These discussions match up to conversations I have had on AREA45 on Sportsradio 610 regarding the Astros interest in Brendan Donovan and Sonny Gray, […]

The Phillies vs. Shohei Ohtani, part one

Each year the Phillies have gotten to the playoffs since their surprising run to the World Series in 2022, it has ended in somewhat bitter defeat. The 2023 NLCS is one that feels like it should never be spoken of again, the 2024 exit at the hands of the Mets was disappointing thanks to the […]

Dom can, he must

You can pitch to Dominic Canzone, but you best not miss.  One in five pitches a lefty batter sees is over an interior square of the strike zone that stretches from middle-middle to up-and-in. Here are the three best batters of 2025 by xwOBA on these pitches:  By actual wOBA, no batter was better in […]

2025 Atlanta Braves Player Review: Dylan Dodd

We all got pretty excited about Dylan Dodd a few years ago. Selected in the third round of the 2021 draft, the lefty made a few appearances later in the year before blitzing through the minors in 2022, getting all the way to Triple-A. Due to an injury to Kyle Wright, his Spring Training competition […]

Week 14 Opening Odds: Time for the Battle Line

And there was one. “Demoralizing” is probably too strong of a word to put on this specific Mizzou Football season. After all, there’s still a very real possibility that the Tigers end up winning 9 games, including a bowl, which would’ve been a better-than-average year under Gary Pinkel and would’ve beaten even the best year […]

Yankees 2025 Report Cards: DJ LeMahieu

After a seven-season run that included first-place MVP votes, a batting title, career-highs, sub-replacement-level showings, and an eventual midseason release, DJ LeMahieu’s tenure with the Yankees officially came to a close in 2025. The year prior was the real rock-bottom for the three-time All-Star, but ‘25 marked a second straight season in which LeMahieu was […]