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Memorial Day MLB standings check: Which teams are the biggest surprises and letdowns so far?
It’s Memorial Day, MLB fans! And you know what that means: You can now officially look at the MLB standings. The saying goes, among baseball fans, that you should avoid checking the standings until Memorial Day, which puts us two months into the season. That gives teams time to play enough games to add meaning […]
Continue readingFantasy Baseball mock draft H2H points: Trevor Bauer ascends to the first round
Hitters score a point for every base on hits (total bases), walk, run, RBI and stolen base, and lose a point when they strike out. Pitchers earn a point for every out they record (3 per inning) and an extra point for a strikeout, as well as 5 points for a win or a save. […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball mock draft, 10-team head-to-head each category: Mookie Betts is the top pick
This draft was held on Tuesday, March 2 and included fantasy analysts Eric Karabell, Tristan H. Cockcroft, AJ Mass, Todd Zola, Derek Carty and Mike Sheets, researcher Kyle Soppe and ESPN editors Pierre Becquey, Joe Kaiser and Dan Mullen. If you’d like to conduct your own mock drafts, check out the Mock Draft Lobby, select […]
Continue readingBaseball needs to figure out what it wants the game to be
On the field, we certainly will remember the action; the Los Angeles Dodgers — always dominant yet curiously, at the worst possible moments, just human enough to lose — were finally champions of a season that began bitterly in the wake of the Houston Astros cheating scandal and with commissioner Rob Manfred calling the World […]
Continue readingHow baseball made it through its best, worst, smartest, stupidest and scariest season ever
The weirdest, strangest, wackiest, smartest, stupidest, best, worst season in baseball history is finally over — and it’s not clear if we should be happy or sad. Major League Baseball brought us so much pleasure, but also such a large measure of pain. So all we can hope, for so many reasons well beyond the […]
Continue readingWorld Series 2020: What Tampa Bay Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers need to do from here
If the Los Angeles Dodgers go on to win this World Series, remember that 1 inch — the 1 inch that Manuel Margot needed to complete the first steal of home in the World Series since 2002. Instead, he was the third out of the bottom of the fourth inning as Clayton Kershaw escaped a […]
Continue readingWorld Series 2020: Tampa Bay Rays revel, Los Angeles Dodgers despair as Game 4 delivers baseball bliss
ARLINGTON, Texas — It happened just past midnight on the East Coast, 34 years to the day the last time a World Series game concluded like this. There are so many possible outcomes for the final play of a baseball game. Home run. Strikeout. Single. Groundout. It’s a testament to how good players are that […]
Continue readingCody Bellinger back in center field for Los Angeles Dodgers in World Series Game 5
The roof will be closed Sunday night because of dreary conditions and an increasing chance of rain into the night. Bellinger, a National League Gold Glove finalist, was listed in center field for Game 5 after he was a late switch to designated hitter a night earlier because of back stiffness. The wild game-ending play […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger to DH in Game 4 due to back stiffness
A.J. Pollock replaced Bellinger in center field against the Tampa Bay Rays. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, speaking to local reporters, said Bellinger received treatment at the ballpark and tried to move around but his back did not cooperate. Roberts called Bellinger’s back issue “a day-to-day thing” and said Bellinger would return to the […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Dodgers shuffle lineup vs. Tampa Bay Rays for Game 3 of World Series
Will Smith moves from catcher to designated hitter in place of A.J. Pollock, who is out of the lineup. Joc Pederson has been inserted in left field, Chris Taylor shifts from left field to second base and Kike Hernandez is out of the lineup. Right fielder Mookie Betts hits leadoff, followed by shortstop Corey Seager, […]
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