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‘Electric’ d’Arnaud goes deep 3 times for first HRs of ’24 season
Chris Sale (2-1) allowed three runs and five hits in seven innings in the interleague matchup of first-place teams, but the left-hander didn’t want to talk about his pitching. “To be honest, nobody cares,” Sale said. “We’re here to talk about one thing and one thing only. Tonight was about Travis, and that was nothing […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball pitcher rankings, lineup advice for Friday’s MLB games
Note: This file will be updated with any overnight pitching changes or weather-related game postponements, along with the addition of the latest MLB game odds as of the indicated time of publication. Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell will invariably be linked all season, comprising half of the “Boras Four,” winter free agents who had Scott […]
Continue readingBogaerts, Red Sox agree to 6-year extension
The deal is worth $132 million, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, which was first reported Sunday as being close by Boston radio station WEEI, includes the $12 million the 26-year-old Bogaerts was scheduled to make this season, then $120 million over the final six years. The deal, according to sources, will include an […]
Continue readingChris Sale over Pedro Martinez? Lefty has been so good, even Petey’s impressed
The franchise-altering deal was a lopsided win for Boston. In seven seasons, Martinez delivered a World Series championship to the starved franchise and won two American League Cy Young Awards — finishing second in voting two other times. Since then, a host of big-name trades and acquisitions have followed and none have prospered in Boston […]
Continue readingWhy the Braves made Freddie Freeman their new Chipper Jones
Over a span of nine months in 2014, Salt and Pepper received an education in how economics can trump sentiment in the big picture. Here are some of the highlights from ESPN’s MLB coverage. Teams answer nagging questions » The Brewers emerge » Astros rule power rankings » Insider: Why this week matters » Béisbol […]
Continue readingWay-too-early World Series preview: Who can beat the Dodgers?
While the top six are the same, their order has shuffled quite a bit. And no team’s aspirations have been more validated than those of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who currently have about a 1-in-3 shot at winning it all by these figures. That’s about as good as you’re going to do in the random […]
Continue readingDFS Roundtable: When to take the highest-salary pitcher
Derek Carty, Renee Miller, Todd Zola and Joe Kaiser answered those questions and more in our first MLB roundtable discussion. Note: This was conducted before games on Tuesday, August 4. Carty: Let’s start with the basics and go from there. Because pitchers score more points than hitters and because you only get two of them, […]
Continue readingYankees’ Aaron Hicks not in starting lineup for ALDS Game 2
Brett Gardner will be coming off the bench and playing center in Hicks’ place as the Yankees try to even the series after going down 0-1 with Friday night’s 5-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox. He was injured after leaving Friday’s game in the fourth inning. He led off the inning by singling off […]
Continue readingThe All-2017 fantasy team
For a second consecutive season, youngsters have dominated the fantasy baseball landscape. A quick glance at our Player Rater shows that five of the top 18 players are under the age of 25, significant in that the popular belief is that a player’s prime tends to reside somewhere between the ages of 25 and 30. […]
Continue reading2024 MLB predictions: Our hottest hot takes two weeks in
As we do every year at this time, we asked our MLB experts to go all-in on one thing they’ve noticed this season by making a prediction based on the small sample size. They were allowed to pick anything they wanted with two ground rules: It had to be bold, and it had to be […]
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