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Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani has six player of the month honors in his career, but on Monday he won his first career pitcher of the month award, taking home top National League honors for his excellent mound work in March and April. Ohtani allowed only four total runs, two of them earned in his […]
The latest news on the Houston Astros and from around MLB: Is Astros Manager Joe Espada’s job hanging by a thread? MLB Insider Bob Nightengale addressed that and more with our Craig Larson Jr. in Four Big Questions: Yordan Alvarez named AL Player of the Month: Astros will go the opener route Monday against the […]
Our Yankees birthday series has covered players from every era of Yankees history, from the legends immortalized in Monument Park to virtually unknown characters of franchise lore. If those are the two extremes of the sliding scale of fame, Miguel Cairo can probably be found directly down the middle. Cairo was your prototypical dependable reserve—a […]
The Dodgers offense reached its nadir to date in 2026 last week, failing to hit a home run in any of their six games, losing four — two each to the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals. It’s the longest home run drought for Los Angeles in a dozen years. Batter of the week The […]
Ez Abde is one of several players who have been linked with a move to Barcelona this summer as the Catalans search for a left winger to bolster their attack. The Morocco international spent a couple of years at Barcelona earlier in his career before heading to Osasuna on loan and then Real Betis on […]
Sorry it wasn't. Moose outside shoulda told ya. This is what the offense looks like when Wood and Abrams aren't hot. Pretty terrible, right? Let's hope neither gets injured. The Nats have a record that looks pretty typical of a blah team. They get beat, but now blown away, by good teams and hold their own against everyone else. But it's still early enough I wouldn't read into that. I mean, they play the Cubs now instead of the first three games when things a...
The Kansas City Royals are putting a terrible losing streak far behind them, and a winning West Coast stint solidifies their positive trajectory. Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco open recapping of the Royals’ series victory against the Seattle Mariners, examining what that win reveals about the team’s trajectory while also putting their West Coast struggles […]
The FCL Braves are the lowest United States based affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, and they opened their 2026 season on Saturday. This is our chance to take a look at their Opening Day roster, which is filled with a bunch of teenagers, as well as some well known injured names. Injured Guys This is […]
Worcester: L, 3-6 (BOX SCORE) Jack Anderson got taken for a ride in that middle relief spot as the Red Wings (Nationals AAA) put this one out of reach for the WooSox. While Worcester didn’t have the same luck the Red Sox did with runners in scoring position, going 3-for-8, the lack of baserunners to […]
Well now, that feels much, much better, doesn’t it? After getting their manager fired with their poor play on the field, the Phillies turned around and swept the inept Giants, then took two of three in Miami before wrapping that series up today. It’s pretty impressive what good play will do for a team. Three […]
Morning everyone! The A’s have an off day today as they head to the East Coast for the third time this year. That’s a lot of miles that the team is running up in the early going. On the bright side they’re getting those games out of the way early. The only other times the […]
Another day of minor league baseball is in the books. See the results below. AAA: Sugar Land Space Cowboys (17-16) lost 9-6 (BOX SCORE) Sugar Land got on the board in the 1st inning scoring 2 runs on a Price 2 run single. They got 2 more runs in the 3rd inning on a Biggio […]
Griffin Canning made his first start as a member of the San Diego Padres AND it came at Petco Park in front of the Friar Faithful. Canning ended with a no-decision, but left the game after five innings, allowing just one run on a solo home run to Drew Romo, with seven strikeouts. Canning did […]
The Royals selected Blake Mitchell with the eighth overall selection in the 2023 Major League Baseball draft, a somewhat surprising pick at the time. High school catchers are an extremely risky demographic with a high failure rate, but the Royals believed in his hitting ability. To Mitchell’s credit, he had an excellent debut in 2024, […]
Coming off a series win in Anaheim over the weekend, the Mets (12-22) still own the worst record in baseball. Weather permitting, they’ll have an opportunity to overtake the Rockies (14-21) in a three-game series against them that’s scheduled to begin this afternoon in Denver. The forecast for the next three days is the biggest […]
The Cincinnati Reds clearly began to put an emphasis on defense at some point over the last year. It was the driving reason behind their acquisition of 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes from Pittsburgh at last season’s trade deadline, a move that locked them into a glove-first (if not glove-only) player for a handful of guaranteed years […]
When the Arizona Cardinals concluded the 2025 season, it was noticeable to everyone in the league that the offensive line needed work. This group ranked #26 in efficiency, and it showed. What contributed to this low number was the fact that both offensive tackles, Paris Johnson and Jonah Williams, ended up on IR at some […]
“I think we have the best talent in all of Minor League baseball”. That is what Nationals 11th round pick Jack Moroknek said about the Low-A Fredericksburg Nationals team he plays on. That is not much of an exaggeration either, with MLB.com ranking them as the 5th most stacked roster in the minors. I got […]
This has been one of the more remarkable stretches in Cub history. Though I often try to put things into the bigger picture context here, I’ll let John and Al write about the historically significant winning streaks and periods in Cub history. Obviously, a team that has 150 years of existence has so much history […]
Good morning! It’s time to put that Kansas City Royals series behind us, as the Mariners prepare to host the Atlanta Braves tonight at 6:40 PM. Logan Gilbert will start off the three-game set against RHP JR Ritchie. In Mariners news… Around the league…
(20-13) Gwinnett Stripers 9, (16-17) Charlotte Knights 10 Box Score A late collapse by the bullpen cost the Stripers a win, as the Knights scored seven of the last three innings of the game, including five in the eighth inning alone, to pick up the win. Lucas Braun got the start for the Stripers and […]
This time a week ago, it felt like the Orioles were treading water and that as long as they could continue doing that, they might avoid a disastrous outcome to the season. It’s harder now to feel like the Orioles are staying afloat after what we’ve watched over the first three games of this series […]
Recaps [AZ Central] Starting pitching tanks again, Diamondbacks swept by the Chicago Cubs – Right-hander Merrill Kelly was hit hard for the third consecutive start, allowing six runs in 4 1/3 innings, and the Diamondbacks lost, 8-4, to the Chicago Cubs, who completed a three-game sweep on Sunday, May 3, at Wrigley Field. The loss […]
One of the clubs normally featured in here, the Baltimore Orioles, found themselves on the receiving end of a late-inning beatdown Sunday as the Yankees turned a close game into a rout in the eighth inning. But all the Yanks’ other rivals were in action with Sundays featuring full slates of games. Sunday’s biggest takeaway […]
There are few journalists more respected in the game than USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. We go around the bases with one of the best in the business. Q: The Hader or Brown injury, which has been more devastating for Houston this season if you had to pick one? A: I think the Brown absence has […]