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Your guide to the most unusual MLB Opening Day ever
Baseball is back. The home runs are back. The blazing fastballs blurring across our TV screens are back. The bat flips, the doubles in the gap, the “how did he do that?” defensive plays, the box scores, the exit velocities, the hot takes, the debates, the hopeful late-game rallies, the walk-off hits, the beautiful background […]
Continue reading2020 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 reading2020 MLB season preview: Power Rankings and everything you need to know for 60-game sprint
The 2020 major league baseball season will be like none that has ever come before it. MLB’s 30 teams will have just 60 games to try to streak into the postseason. Players and coaches will need to focus on the field while maintaining strict health and safety protocols off of it. There will be limited […]
Continue readingTim Kurkjian’s Baseball Fix – A bat boy, a writer and ‘Rudy’ with talent: The life of Craig Counsell
You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 2015, Craig Counsell was named manager of the Brewers. He has become a template for managers today. He is smart, he […]
Continue readingThe biggest one-hit wonders for every National League team
One of the beautiful aspects about Major League Baseball: Great seasons can come from nowhere. The line between great and mediocre is smaller in baseball than other sports. A few extra strikes a game. A couple of extra swing-and-misses. A few more hits each month or a couple extra home runs and you’re an All-Star […]
Continue readingOne stat that will shape 2020 for each National League team
Last week, we looked at one key statistic for each American League team. Let’s do the same now for the National League — a key number from the 2019 MLB season and how that will shape what happens in 2020. NL East | Central | West The number: 4.18. The Braves finished 11th in the […]
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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