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2020 MLB Opening Day lineups for every game
Baseball is back for a very unique 2020 MLB season. Not sure who is starting for your team? We’re tracking batting orders from across the majors, including the first NL games since the universal DH was adapted for the season. Check back for updates as teams announce their Opening Day starting lineups for all of […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball forecaster for Week 1: July 23 – Aug. 2
Hitter matchup ratings for the next 10 days Week 1 hitting ratings Week 1 pitcher rankings Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Everything you need to compete >> The 2020 Major League Baseball season begins Thursday with a pair of games on ESPN: New […]
Continue readingEx-Yankees manager Joe Girardi returns to Bronx ahead of Phillies debut
NEW YORK — Joe Girardi’s new path was evident Monday. And unfamiliar. So was the result. Girardi’s Philadelphia Phillies tied the New York Yankees 2-2 Monday night in a preseason exhibition after Mauricio Llovera allowed a solo home run in the ninth to pinch hitter Mike Ford. A tie was not what Girardi had envisioned […]
Continue readingTwins star Nelson Cruz and the incredible gifts he’s bestowed on his Dominican Republic hometown
A man named Jaimito had lived in that house, and Jaimito’s friend Nelson Cruz — an up-and-coming major league baseball player at the time, barely removed from his breakout 2009 season — couldn’t make sense of how a fire could rage so unchallenged, didn’t know how to make peace with a man losing everything because […]
Continue reading47 things to know about Bartolo Colon on his 47th birthday
(Editor’s note: This story originally ran for Colon’s 45th birthday, but two years later Bartolo is still amazing us all) 1. He pitched in the majors at 45! You can probably guess that it’s pretty unusual for a 45-year-old to be pitching in the majors. Colon became just the 16th MLB pitcher since 1900 age […]
Continue reading2020 MLB Rank preview: How did we do last year, and what will this year’s list look like?
As we prepare to unveil the 2020 MLB Rank top 100 on Tuesday, we first take a look back at our 2019 rankings to see how we did, and make some predictions for what this year’s list of baseball’s top players will look like. We asked ESPN national baseball writers Bradford Doolittle, Sam Miller and […]
Continue readingWho is the team to beat in the NL Central? It just might be the Cincinnati Reds
Earlier this winter, I researched free-agent spending over the past decade and discovered the Cincinnati Reds had committed just $121.1 million in free agency during the 2010s, the lowest total of any team. Less than the Rays. Less than the Marlins. Less than the A’s. The Reds do not spend in free agency. That’s why […]
Continue readingWhere a Mookie Betts, Nolan Arenado or Francisco Lindor trade would rank among winter blockbusters
The initial task here was to arrive at a list of the 10 best players traded during an offseason, but I quickly realized that would be a frustrating assignment — the list of candidates was much deeper than you would think, and how do you rate the player at the time of the trade? Lindor, […]
Continue readingThe player most likely to be traded in 2020 for all 30 MLB teams
Predicting MLB trades is impossible! I believe the surgeon general issues a warning about this on the back of packs of baseball cards. In fact, it wouldn’t be shocking if I went 0-for-30 on the following list of the one player from every team most likely to be traded in 2020. New York Yankees: Clint […]
Continue readingThe best and worst free-agent signing of the decade for all 30 MLB teams
What we can do is check back on the 2010s on how free agency worked — or didn’t work — for all 30 franchises. For each team we’ll list the total dollars committed in free agency (starting with new contracts for the 2010 season, not including money carried over from previous deals), where they ranked […]
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