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Years from now, the state of the Atlanta Braves rotation during the summer of 2025 will be sure to flummox fans who’d long forgotten the travails of finding five healthy starting pitchers. (Or not.) Among the carousel of starters used by the Braves was Carlos Carrasco, a veteran starter who was one of multiple hurlers […]
Diamondbacks News Catcher Kenny Castillo Embraces ABS, Modern Stance TrendsDiamondbacks catching prospect Kenny Castillo talks about the incoming ABS system and the trend towards one-knee stances. Torey Lovullo Discusses Coaching ChangeTorey Lovullo discusses the somewhat surprise hire of J.R. House to coach the catching crew after it seemed the staff was already settled. Diamondbacks Decline […]
Wide receiver Darius Slayton faces a matchup against the 25th-ranked passing defense in the NFL (237.6 yards conceded per game) in Week 10, when his New York Giants play the Chicago Bears, Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. With his upcoming game versus the Bears this week, should Slayton be considered a lock for your fantasy football lineup? We dissect the stats and trends below. Sign up for Fubo to watch the NFL, live sports and entertainment without cable! Darius Slayton Week 10 Game Info Let’s g...
. Blake Snell was the Dodgers’ No. 1 free-agent target last offseason, and the veteran left-hander made no secret of why he reunited with president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman in Los Angeles. “Being able to pitched in a packed stadium, to make moments for people, this is where you want to play. I don’t […]
This is kind of a stray point or two that was borne out of tweets I saw about Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s impressive postseason performance, and the advent of free agency. Yoshinobu Yamamoto this year was unbelievable and worthy of MVP honors. But before you say his was the best World Series pitching performance ever, just remember that back in 2014, Madison Bumgarner was even better: People need to stop being prisoners of the moment. Madison Bumgarner 2014 WS MVP 21 IP, 2-0, 0.43 ERA, 21 K...
It’s been 11 years since Missouri last beat Texas A&M. Now, to be fair, there has only been two meetings since that time; once in Eli Drinkwitz’s first non-COVID season and then last year’s debacle that we don’t need to relive. In fact, despite sharing a conference for 29 years, the Tigers and the Aggies […]
The headlines write themselves. But, if you had any doubt about the left-handed ace and where he stood with the Atlanta Braves after a tough season, MLB Network insider and baseball columnist Jon Heyward just announced the club’s $18 million option they’ve decided to pick up this morning. Sale started the season off hot, despite […]
Hello friends! We’ve got some offseason activity to report on as you get your Wednesday started. In Mariners news… Around the league…
Morning everyone and happy Wednesday! The regular season for MLB may be over and for most of us that’s all that matters. Wake us up when pitchers and catcher report, you may say. But there is still baseball being played out there! Young position players and pitchers still hard at work refining their tools and […]
It’s easy to criticize the moves a team makes in the offseason, but it’s a lot harder to come up with a better plan yourself. So here’s your chance to play general manager for the Royals. With a team that enjoyed a winning record, but fell short of being a true contender, there is plenty […]
Welcome to the 2025 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2025. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]
Yesterday, Nationals President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni took some questions from local media about his hiring of Blake Butera. This was the first time he shed light on the process and what is next. A lot of interesting stuff came out of the presser, so I wanted to talk about it. It has been […]
You might say: “But the Cubs already have a third baseman!” Yes, they do. Matt Shaw did a credible job at third base, a position that wasn’t his original one. He did well enough with the glove to be a Gold Glove “finalist,” and posted 3.1 bWAR, which is very good for a rookie season […]
Morning, all! On the one hand, most of the Ranger offense is returning in 2026… on the other hand, that probably isn’t a good thing. And that’s about all I’m seeing out there this morning.
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Free agency season is almost upon us, and that means that pending a late-breaking pseudo-extension, Raisel Iglesias and Marcell Ozuna will have free rein to sign with another team and appear in another uniform for the first time in quite a while. Iglesias was last seen in another team’s attire in 2022; for Ozuna, it […]
Wowwww. Bulls. A 24-point comeback win, down to the final seconds . This team has some juice. If you missed Shane Bieber’s stunning option decision and my thoughts on it, see here . I think it’ll take a little while to fully know whether that was just some weird, one-off, super-idiosyncratic decision of Bieber’s, or if it represents some kind of fundamental systemic concern about what this offseason is going to look like. But we’ll get some clues with the Qualifying Offer decisions this...
Fort Cherry’s (PA) Matt Sieg added another feather to his cap in his Rangers’ eleventh win of the season, breaking the school’s all-time rushing record. As a reminder, he plays quarterback in high school. The four-star had two touchdowns and 154 yards in the affair before heading to the bench. He now also sits second […]
The Rangers outplayed Carolina for half the game but still can’t buy a goal — their sixth straight home loss and fourth home shutout of the year.
Trevor Story is opting in to the final two years of his contract with the Red Sox per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. Cotillo went on to add the following: With an infield full of question marks as the front office faces the upcoming winter workload, Story sticking around makes matters much less murky. The Sox’ […]
A World Series parade, a former Cy Young winner out for the season, and a whole new offseason of Alex Bregman speculation. This is what the Ber months are all about, with the hot stove warming (free agency opens up on Thursday!), and awards season rolling on over the next two weeks. In today’s news […]
The Dallas Cowboys are using the trade deadline to try and save themselves in a 2025 season that was already on thin ice going into Monday night against a struggling Arizona Cardinals team, and might have slipped away entirely with a 27-17 primetime loss. Can you even fix a defense that painted Dallas into this […]
For this writer, the lowest point of the 2024 season was hearing the news that Kyle Bradish needed Tommy John surgery and would be out for the rest of the season. It took him 14 months to recover from the elbow surgery, but when he finally toed the rubber again in black and orange, Bradish […]
It’s that time again: The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Era committee will soon be meeting to consider candidates for Cooperstown. The committee votes get less attention than the main voting, but there’s plenty there to interest the baseball devotee: old favorites finally getting their due, interesting edge cases to bicker and banter over. This […]
With Sonny Gray on the mound, the Short Stories could keep the Tall Tales off the scoreboard. With Willians Astudillo at the plate, they could plate run after run of their own. The Stories entered the win column with a 10-3 win keyed by their starting pitcher and catcher. Gray pitched seven shutout innings before […]