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Surging Tampa Bay Rays eye October, secure second straight American League East crown
Reliever Pete Fairbanks retired Lewis Brinson on a foul popup with the bases loaded for the final out, giving the Rays the chance to celebrate on the field. Earlier in the day, Tampa Bay’s magic number was cut to one when the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3. There was a standing […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings Week 18: Where all 30 teams stand as playoff races heat up
Players are settling in with their new teams in the weeks after the trade deadline, and in several circumstances, they could be the difference between making and missing the playoffs. Can the Red Sox hold off long enough for the return of Chris Sale and Kyle Schwarber? Are the Dodgers’ new additions enough to give […]
Continue readingTampa Bay Rays, powered by five pitchers, hold Cleveland Indians hitless in shortened game to cap off dominant doubleheader sweep
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Five Tampa Bay pitchers combined for seven hitless innings, and the Rays beat the Indians 4-0 Wednesday for a doubleheader sweep. Collin McHugh (two perfect innings), Josh Fleming (7-4 after allowing one walk in 2 2/3 innings), Diego Castillo (one out), Matt Wisler (one inning) and Pete Fairbanks (one inning) combined […]
Continue readingNew York Yankees trade 1B Mike Ford to Tampa Bay Rays for $100,000
Ford was designated for assignment Saturday when reliever Zack Britton was activated from the injured list. The money in the trade is payable July 1. Ford, who turns 29 on July 4, had a strong rookie season with the Yankees in 2019, hitting .259 with 12 homers and 25 RBI in 143 at-bats over 50 […]
Continue readingOur hottest hot takes one week into the 2021 MLB season
We asked a group of our MLB experts to go all-in on the early returns by making one bold prediction based entirely on what they’ve seen so far. They were allowed to pick any topic of their choosing with the following conditions: It had to be bold, and it had to be something they believe […]
Continue readingUnwritten rules are made to be broken! How a new generation of players is shifting MLB’s culture
CARLOS GOMEZ KNEW he needed to get Fernando Tatis Jr. on the phone. After Tatis hit a controversial grand slam in the eighth inning of an Aug. 17 game against the Texas Rangers last season, Gomez, a former major league outfielder, called the San Diego Padres shortstop. Tatis’ slam represented a violation of the unwritten […]
Continue readingRight-hander Chris Archer excited about ‘cool dynamic’ his return to Tampa Bay Rays brings to his career
The 32-year-old right-hander is three seasons removed from a being a two-time All-Star and the ace of a rotation the AL champions are revamping after losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series last fall. Archer, who was with Tampa Bay from 2012 to 2018, signed a one-year, $6.5 million contract to rejoin […]
Continue readingZack Britton, Gerrit Cole, Jason Castro, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien join union top panel
They join St. Louis pitcher Andrew Miller, free-agent pitcher James Paxton and Washington pitcher Max Scherzer on the union’s highest-ranking member body. The newcomers replace Elvis Andrus, Cory Gearrin, Chris Iannetta, Collin McHugh and Daniel Murphy on the executive subcommittee. Lindor and Semien were elected alternate association player representatives, Britton a pension committee representative, and […]
Continue readingBoston Red Sox’s J.D. Martinez opts in; Martin Perez’s option declined
The 33-year-old hit a career-low .213 in the pandemic-shortened season with seven homers and 27 RBIs, his lowest output since 2013. His salary was cut from $23.75 million to a prorated $8,796,296. His deal also gives him the ability to opt out after the 2021 World Series. Boston declined a $6.85 million option on left-hander […]
Continue readingFernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto are breaking baseball’s unwritten rules. Isn’t it great?
I thought we were over all this stuff. If Jose Bautista’s home run and bat flip in the 2015 playoffs was the zenith of baseball’s culture wars and “play the game the right way” zealots, it seemed we had come around on the issue. Starting in the 2018 postseason and continuing into 2019, MLB even […]
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