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Olney: Buyers or sellers? These five teams need to decide now

The Twins promptly went on a mini-losing streak and by July 30 — just six days later — Minnesota was seven games out of first place. Immediately, the Twins became sellers, flipping Garcia to the Yankees after only one start. But down the stretch, the Twins’ offense exploded, and Minnesota boat-raced its way into a […]

Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena named American League Rookie of the Year

Last year’s breakout postseason star is this year’s American League Rookie of the Year as Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena took home the honors on Monday while beating out teammate Wander Franco and right-handed starter Luis Garcia of the Houston Astros. Arozarena received 124 points in balloting by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association […]

World Series 2020: Randy Arozarena shines brightest in Tampa Bay Rays’ no-star approach to owning October

Let us all, as fans of America’s game, mull over the ramifications of what we have just seen: The Tampa Bay Rays are going to the World Series. And Randy Arozarena was the MVP of an American League Championship Series that featured Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa, Jose Altuve, George Springer and Zack Greinke. Even as […]

MLB playoffs 2020: Ranking 35 trades that shaped the Rays, Astros, Dodgers and Braves

You can sign a great player, but that’s just about writing a bigger check than anybody else. You can draft a great player, but that’s just about your pick coming before somebody else’s pick. The true connoisseurs know that the fun is in trades. In a trade, it isn’t enough to spot the talent or […]

Where MLB breakout postseason star Randy Arozarena came from

SAN DIEGO — It was a year ago that Randy Arozarena made news for all the wrong reasons. It was Arozarena who live-streamed Cardinals manager Mike Shildt’s profanity-laced postgame talk after St. Louis eliminated the Braves in the National League Division Series. It went viral, and Arozarena was ashamed. Fast-forward to the present, and Arozarena […]

New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. What’s going on?

Look, the New York Yankees have plenty of issues, and Cole is hardly the biggest of them, but when you sign the most lucrative contract for a pitcher in baseball history, the expectations are skyscraping, especially in New York and for a storied franchise that has not been to the World Series since 2009. Cole […]

Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Thursday’s games

Here’s a look at Thursday’s top streaming options, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues Create or join a league today >> Cheat Sheet Central >> Zach Eflin (R), rostered in 16% of ESPN leagues, Philadelphia Phillies vs. Washington Nationals: Eflin turned some heads against Atlanta over the weekend, spinning seven […]

MLB Power Rankings: Where all 30 teams stand coming out of trade deadline

With the 2020 MLB trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, what you see on big league rosters is what you’ll get as baseball takes its turn into the stretch drive. As Major League Baseball clubs shook up their squads, we saw considerable moves up and down this week’s rankings. The biggest moves up were […]

MLB trade deadline day preview: What big names could move, who will be buying and selling

It’s MLB trade deadline day, usually a day of anticipation and hopefully much wheeling and dealing before the 4 p.m. ET deadline arrives. After a weekend of interesting but unspectacular trades, did the Padres’ deal for Mike Clevinger set the tone for a blockbuster-filled day? We’ll see. There are some major issues affecting this year’s […]

Trying to ‘address things we haven’t done particularly well,’ Cubs GM Jed Hoyer adds lefty relievers, righty hitters at deadline

Lefties Andrew Chafin and Josh Osich were brought in from Arizona and Boston, respectively, on Monday, for two players to be named later or cash considerations. Outfielder Cameron Maybin was acquired from Detroit for prospect Zach Short and designated hitter Jose Martinez was a Sunday addition from Tampa Bay. “Left-handed relief and right-handed hitters that […]

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