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MLB Power Rankings Week 11 – Did key injuries shake up our top five?
After a shortened 60-game 2020 MLB season, we’re already past that point in baseball’s return to a 162-game schedule with the All-Star break now less than a month away. What does that mean for your favorite team in our Week 11 MLB Power Rankings? The Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago White Sox both suffered significant […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings Week 7: Can anyone catch the Chicago White Sox at the top?
The Chicago White Sox haven’t slowed down one bit since taking over our No. 1 spot in Week 6, but they are hardly the only team playing well heading into this edition of our MLB Power Rankings. How high did strong stretches from the San Diego Padres, Houston Astros and San Francisco Giants move them […]
Continue readingWhy the Chicago White Sox are MLB’s most interesting (and best) team
CHICAGO — Their 28-year-old rookie sensation already has a hamburger named after him. Their No. 5 starter has thrown a no-hitter. Their second baseman makes contact on 99.3% of strikes. They’ve lost both their starting left and center fielders. And their Hall of Fame manager’s head-scratching decisions have lit up sports-radio phone lines. Welcome to […]
Continue readingTigers starter Matthew Boyd leaves in 2nd inning with left knee injury
With the score 0-0, the 30-year-old left-hander walked Yasmani Grandal leading off the second and gave up a double to Andrew Vaughn on his 36th pitch, a drive to the gap in left-center. Boyd signaled to the dugout with a 1-1 count to Leury García, and manager A.J. Hinch and an athletic trainer went to […]
Continue readingYu Chang calls out anti-Asian racist social media messages after error in Cleveland Indians’ loss
Cleveland Indians infielder Yu Chang shared on Twitter that he received racist social media messages after his decisive throwing error in Cleveland’s loss Monday to the White Sox. “Exercise your freedom of speech in a right way, I accept all comments, positive or negative but DEFINITELY NOT RACIST ONES,” Chang, a native of Taiwan, tweeted […]
Continue readingFrom drawing to coffee to jigsaw puzzles — What MLB players picked up with so much free time
Baseball players, like the rest of us, have had lots of spare time during the pandemic and in quarantine. “I’ve learned to be alone,” said Padres pitcher Blake Snell. There has been lots of learning, trapped in a hotel room or sequestered at home. There has been time to think, to experiment, time to develop […]
Continue reading2021 MLB season predictions: From division champs and World Series picks to MVP and Cy Young favorites
After a 60-game season in 2020, MLB is set to begin a complete 162-game schedule Thursday, starting in New York with the Yankees hosting the Blue Jays (1:05 ET, ESPN). Can the Los Angeles Dodgers repeat, or will they be challenged by the upstart San Diego Padres in their own division? Will the Yankees be […]
Continue reading2021 MLB Opening Day: Here’s what we’re watching in every single matchup
It all begins today. Every team was scheduled to begin play on the first day of the MLB season — the way it should be every season — before weather forced a rainout in Boston and the Nationals-Mets opener was postponed due to COVID-19 issues. The Los Angeles Dodgers begin their chase for history. They […]
Continue reading2021 MLB Opening Day lineups for every game
Major League Baseball is back for a full 162-game 2021 season after a very unique 2020. Not sure who is starting for your team on Opening Day? We’re tracking batting orders from across the league as teams start to play in front of their home fans again for the first time since the pandemic began. […]
Continue readingTim Kurkjian’s 30-team MLB excitement guide
It’s the little things in baseball, often the pointless stuff, that excite me. Arcane stats, wild coincidences, names that randomly connect. Here are 30 things, one per team, that excite me about this season, these teams and these players: Baltimore Orioles The first at-bat at Camden Yards, with Orioles fans in the stands, for first […]
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