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One key takeaway from MLB’s Opening Day games
We dipped our toes into the waters of the 2020 baseball season with two games on Thursday. On Friday, we dove in headfirst with 14 contests — the first time since the regular season ended on Sept. 29, 2019, that we had coast-to-coast baseball. That was 299 days ago, and it feels like much longer. […]
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 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 readingJoey Votto among Reds players to kneel during national anthem
Cincinnati Reds players Joey Votto, Amir Garrett, Phillip Ervin and Alex Blandino knelt during the national anthem before Tuesday’s exhibition game against the Detroit Tigers at Great American Ball Park. The four players lined up together along the first-base line as other teammates stood beside them and showed their support. Mike Moustakas put his hand […]
Continue readingThe most exciting themes, teams and players for MLB’s 60-game season
There is baseball in just over four days. Real, live major league baseball, with standings and statistics and strikeouts. Max Scherzer will throw the first pitch of the abbreviated 2020 season when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees on Thursday night on ESPN. It’s going to look weird, with no fans in the […]
Continue readingOlney: Rob Manfred, Tony Clark should be front and center to answer coronavirus concerns
There is a beachhead of hope and a mountain of uncertainty among teams these days as they attempt to play baseball amid the surge of coronavirus infections around the country. After the sport’s first waves of testing results, just about everybody in the game has no more than one degree of separation from COVID-19 as […]
Continue readingCincinnati Reds’ Amir Garrett opens up to teammates about racial injustice
He wouldn’t speak of the time in high school in California when he and another Black classmate were on their way to basketball practice, playing their music in the car. Police pulled them over, shoved them against the car, frisked them aggressively, emptied the car while claiming to look for drugs, then them go. They […]
Continue readingJoey Votto, Reds resume with unsettled feelings as workouts start
Looked and sounded like baseball, all right. Felt very different in many other ways. “It’s weird,” Reds first baseman Joey Votto said. The city that produced baseball’s first professional team started getting ready for its first 60-game season Friday amid new precautions and fresh concerns about how the experiment would work. The Cincinnati Reds held […]
Continue reading60-game MVPs for every recent MLB season and big 2020 names to watch
Major League Baseball is aiming for a 60-game 2020 MLB season as training camps begin in ballparks across the country this week. If they do play, that means we’ll have pennant races and a postseason and MVP awards to hand out. I thought it would be fun to go over the past decade and see […]
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