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Trade Rumors Front Office Subscriber Chat Transcript
Steve Adams Good afternoon! I’ll get going at 3pm CT, but as always, feel free to ask questions ahead of time. Hello! Let’s get underway Joel Do you see Skubal as an option for the Cubs this offseason, or will they be shopping in the tier(s) below him? Steve Adams I’d be mildly surprised if […]
How The Rays Turned Bryan Baker Into An All-Star Closer
The Rays entered the 2026 season with an unsettled closer situation for the first time in years. Manager Kevin Cash’s fickle ninth-inning usage ended when Pete Fairbanks emerged. From 2017 through 2022, a different reliever led Tampa Bay in saves each season. Fairbanks became the permanent closer in 2023 and paced the club in saves […]
Marlins To Name Dillon Lawson Hitting Coach
The Marlins have settled on former Yankees hitting coach and former Red Sox assistant hitting coach Dillon Lawson as their next hitting coach, reports Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. Lawson joined the Marlins organization as a roving hitting coach this past summer, following his April dismissal in Boston. Miami moved on from hitting coach […]
Rays, Guardians Announce ALCS Rosters
The Rays and Guardians on Monday announced their rosters for the forthcoming American League Championship Series, which begins tonight when the 98-win Rays host the 85-win Guardians at St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field. Tampa Bay will hand the ball to Cy Young candidate Drew Rasmussen, who pitched 172 innings of 2.67 ERA ball during the regular […]
The Opener: Turang, Misiorowski, Griffin
The Brewers aren’t getting swept this time around. Milwaukee took Game 1 of the NLCS with a tight 2-1 win over the Dodgers. While they didn’t light up the scoreboard, the Brewers did score more runs than they did in any game during last year’s NLCS. 1. Turang takes Skubal deep The biggest swing of […]
Alex Anthopoulos Discusses Braves’ Free Agents, Rotation, Profar
The NL East champion Braves saw their season ended on Wednesday when the Dodgers eliminated Atlanta from the NLDS in four games. The team’s wrap-up press conference took place today, as Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos met with the media (including the Athletic’s Jesus Cano and MLB.com’s Mark Bowman) to touch on several […]
Each Team’s Penalty For Signing A Qualifying Offer-Rejecting Free Agent
Since we just looked at what teams would stand to receive in draft compensation if they lost a free agent who rejected a qualifying offer, now it’s time to explore what each team would have to give up in order to sign a QO-rejecting free agent. To recap the mechanics: if a free agent has […]
Each Team’s Draft Compensation For Losing A Qualifying Offer-Rejecting Free Agent
The qualifying offer is one of the offseason’s key mechanisms, as teams have until five days after the end of the World Series to decide whether or not to issue this specialized one-year contract to eligible free agents. If a player has played with his team throughout the entire 2026 season and hasn’t received a […]
MLBTR Chat Transcript
Mark P Just before Game 1 gets underway, let’s open the floor to the Weekend Chat. The chatter will begin in a minute or two…. Guards Fan Give me the Guardians path to getting past the Rays. Mark P Some key hits in big moments, more hitting in general since the lineup as a whole […]
Poll: Who Will Win The ALCS?
The American League’s top two seeds will face off in the Championship Series. The Rays play host to the Guardians in the seven-game set, which begins tomorrow at 7pm CT. Tampa has tabbed their ace Drew Rasmussen for Game 1. The Guards, who just wrapped up a five-game Division Series with the White Sox, haven’t announced […]
Shane McClanahan Ruled Out For Rest Of Postseason
The Rays had been hoping to get erstwhile ace Shane McClanahan back at some point in the playoffs. That’s no longer a possibility. Per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, McClanahan has been ruled out for the remainder of the postseason. He’ll be unable to join Drew Rasmussen, Freddy Peralta, and Nick Martinez in […]
Brewers, Dodgers Announce NLCS Rosters
The top two teams from the regular season face off tonight in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series in Milwaukee. The 103-win Brewers, having defeated the Padres in four games in the NLDS, will hand the ball to NL Cy Young front-runner Jacob Misiorowski. The 100-win Dodgers, having similarly dispatched the Braves in four […]
Caleb Durbin Undergoes Finger Surgery
Red Sox infielder Caleb Durbin underwent a PIP joint reconstruction procedure on his left pinky last week, according to a team announcement. It’s the same finger that Durbin partially dislocated back in June, although he did not miss any time during the season and played in the Wild Card Series against the Yankees. Durbin played […]
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Undergoes Laser Eye Surgery
Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. recently underwent laser eye surgery, as announced on Instagram by the Laser Eye Center of Miami and confirmed by Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith. It’s unclear exactly when the surgery occurred, as the Center’s post was made during a post-op visit, though in any case it shouldn’t affect Guerrero’s offseason […]
The Opener: Williams, Skubal vs. Miz, Offseason Outlooks
After falling into an 0-2 deficit against the White Sox, the Guardians completed an epic comeback by winning the next three games to clinch the Division Series. By doing so, they became the first team to win a five-game postseason series after losing the first two games since the 2017 Yankees, who did so against […]
Poll: Who Will Win The NLCS?
The two top seeds in the National League will meet in the Championship Series. The Brewers host the Dodgers in a series that begins at 7 pm CT on Sunday. Jacob Misiorowski will get the ball for Milwaukee. He’ll face off against two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal. Both clubs should be well-rested. Each wrapped […]
Did The Orioles Extend The Right Pitchers?
The Orioles locked up two starting pitchers this year. The club reached a five-year, $68MM extension with Shane Baz shortly before Opening Day. He’ll be under contract through 2030. Baltimore also agreed to a five-year extension with Kyle Bradish. His $90MM deal came together around the All-Star Break and will keep him with the team […]
Miguel Rojas To Be Available For NLCS After Cortisone Injection
Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas was removed from Game 3 of the NLDS with a back injury. He was unavailable off the bench in Game 4. Manager Dave Roberts told reporters, including Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, that Rojas is expected to be on the NLCS roster. He had a cortisone injection that helped loosen up […]
AL Central Notes: Vargas, Tigers Staff, Royals Ballpark
White Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas has been a major part of the club’s turnaround this season. The former top prospect, along with newcomer Munetaka Murakami, fueled an offense that ranked fifth in scoring during the regular season. Vargas has set career highs in virtually every offensive category. The breakthrough season almost didn’t happen. Vargas […]
Could The Yankees Move On From Giancarlo Stanton?
Aaron Judge and Clarke Schmidt are the only current Yankees who have been in the organization longer than Giancarlo Stanton, who has now logged nine seasons in the Bronx since the slugger was acquired from the Marlins for a three-player trade package in December 2017. To be more accurate, “parts of” nine seasons is probably […]
Braves Weren’t Willing To Include Didier Fuentes In Skubal Trade Offer
The Braves were one of the teams looking to acquire Tarik Skubal from the Tigers at the trade deadline, with The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal writing a few days after the deadline that Atlanta “never got close to a deal for Skubal, even though they made virtually all of their young players available, including right-handers AJ […]
Sam Fuld Declines Offer To Become A’s President Of Baseball Operations
Phillies president of business operations Sam Fuld has declined the Athletics’ offer to become the team’s new president of baseball operations, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Fuld’s name surfaced in connection to the A’s job earlier this week, but Fuld has now taken himself out of the running and will stay in Philadelphia. Nine names have […]
AL East Notes: Rays, Feduccia, Red Sox, Kittredge, Akin
Bryan Baker, Kevin Kelly, Victor Mesa Jr., Liam Hicks, and Nick Martinez all played huge roles in the Rays’ run to the ALCS this season, and The Athletic’s Will Sammon took a look at the process Tampa Bay used in identifying and acquiring these players. Kelly was a Rule 5 Draft pick acquired from the […]
The Opener: ALDS Game 5, Dodgers, Athletics
On this day 100 years ago, the Cardinals won their first championship by defeating the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1926 World Series. In the only time a caught-stealing play has ever ended a Series, Babe Ruth (who stole 123 bases throughout his career) was thrown out by Cardinals catcher Bob O’Farrell when the […]
Sonny Gray Plans To Pitch In 2027
There were some retirement rumblings around Sonny Gray this year but he’ll be back, per Alex Speier of The Boston Globe. “My family and I have talked about it and it’s an easy decision,” Gray said in a text message to the Globe. “I still want to win a World Series, whether that is [with] […]
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