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2024 MLB predictions: Playoffs, World Series, MVPs and more

Opening Day is tomorrow, so you know what that means — it’s time for season predictions! There are lots of questions going into the 2024 season: What does Year 3 of MLB’s expanded playoffs have to offer? Will we continue to see top teams knocked out early? And is this the year your favorite team […]

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MLB 2024 season preview: Rankings, every team’s playoff odds

Happy MLB Opening Week, baseball fans! After a wild offseason, one thing is clear heading into the new season: Everyone is chasing the two superteams that stand alone in the top tier of our initial 2024 rankings. Whether your team is good enough to go toe-to-toe with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves or […]

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Tyler Glasnow looking to combine athleticism and ability in L.A.

“It’s no big deal, really,” he said. (Yes, it is. There aren’t many people that big and tall who can do a backflip.) “Oh, I’m sure there are a lot of people bigger than me that can,” he said. (No, there aren’t.) Glasnow, 30, is a new member of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation, acquired […]

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Fantasy baseball: Vlad, Correa and 18 other sleeper picks

I’ve got opinions, just as you should, and here’s the place where I share my strongest ones. The 20 names listed below represent my preferred draft targets — the players I feel the most passionately about for the upcoming season. It’s me effectively showing my hand, sharing with you the names of players I most […]

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Sources: Cody Bellinger, Cubs agree on 3-year, $80M deal

More Teams. More Games. Gary Striewski breaks down Cody Bellinger‘s agreement with the Cubs for a three-year, $80 million contract. (0:40) Center fielder Cody Bellinger and the Cubs are in agreement on a three-year, $80 million contract, sources told ESPN, ending a prolonged free agency with a return engagement after his excellent 2023 season with […]

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Faceless of the Game: Where have all the MLB superstars gone?

We raise this question because, as a new baseball season begins this week, there is no answer to the once-simple question: Who is the Face of Baseball? The NBA is the LeBron and Steph Show. The NFL has Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and an army of rock-star quarterbacks. But baseball? On one level, it seems […]

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Best fits for the top 2023 MLB free agents

More Teams. More Games. John Smoltz believes Shohei Ohtani is likely to end up with a team on the West Coast in free agency. (1:21) The day after the Texas Rangers won their first World Series title in franchise history, 130 players became free agents as baseball’s offseason season began. While this year’s free-agent class […]

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Way-too-early 2024 MLB power rankings

Now that the Fall Classic is over, it’s time to turn our attention to 2024 — and we’re kicking that off with some way-WAY-too-early power rankings. Where do Texas and Arizona rank after their exhilarating World Series runs? Were the Braves and Dodgers hurt by their division-round knockouts? And where did the Orioles and Astros […]

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MLB Playoffs 2023: Complicated legacy of Astros’ Jose Altuve

More Teams. More Games. Jose Altuve comes up with a massive 3-run go-ahead homer in the 9th to put the Astros up 5-4. (0:36) HOUSTON — HERE, JOSE ALTUVE is safe. From the boos and hisses, the anger and loathing, the emotion his mere existence conjures. This man, baseball’s smallest player and yet one of […]

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Jose Altuve, in 100th playoff game, sparks Astros in Game 4 win

More Teams. More Games. Jose Altuve makes an acrobatic out to end the seventh inning for the Astros. (0:35) ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Altuve became the seventh player in baseball history to play in 100 career postseason games Thursday night, a product of additional rounds but also, mostly, an indication of the Houston Astros’ prolonged […]

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