PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks got their season started with an offensive flourish, scoring 14 runs in the third inning of their 16-1 Opening Day win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night. The 14 runs were the most in an inning on Opening Day for any team since 1900. Arizona, the defending National League […]
Continue readingHappy 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 […]
Continue readingAndrus, 35, signed a minor league deal with the Diamondbacks earlier this month. He batted .118 in six spring training games. The D-backs also optioned infielder/outfielder Pavin Smith and left-hander Andrew Saalfrank to Triple-A Reno and reassigned LHP Jose Castillo to minor league camp. Andrus is a two-time All-Star with 2,091 career hits over 15 […]
Continue reading“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 […]
Continue readingSome of our bold predictions from last season hit the goal or came close, which makes us smile. Cody Bellinger and Jose Berrios indeed bounced back nicely with the Cubs and Blue Jays, respectively. The Dodgers’ James Outman and Tigers’ Kerry Carpenter won starting roles and hit for power. Oakland’s Esteury Ruiz stole 50-plus bases, […]
Continue reading“There’s nothing that’s been promised to him,” Torey Lovullo said. “I told him to go out and play your game and let it fall where it may. What he will get are some opportunities to show us what he can do. That excites us.” Andrus, a two-time All-Star, has played in the majors for 15 […]
Continue readingMore 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 […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Take a dive into the ups and down of the Rangers’ journey to becoming the 2023 World Series Champions. (2:25) PHOENIX — AROUND 1 A.M., just hours after he managed the Texas Rangers to their first World Series championship in 63 years of existence, Bruce Bochy hoisted himself from a chair […]
Continue readingNow 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 […]
Continue readingAfter a Game 4 romping of the Arizona Diamondbacks — in which Texas was ahead 10-0 at the end of the third inning — the Rangers hold a commanding 3-1 lead in the 2023 Fall Classic entering Game 5 at Phoenix’s Chase Field on Wednesday night. We’ll have all the action from the potential Series-clinching […]
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