Happy MLB Opening Week, baseball fans! After a wild offseason, one thing is clear heading into the new season: Everyone is chasing the two superteams that stand alone in the top tier of our initial 2024 rankings. Whether your team is good enough to go toe-to-toe with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves or […]
Continue readingThe deal is pending a physical Taylor, who turns 33 this month, joins a team that is looking for help in right field as the season approaches. He hit .220 with 21 home runs and 53 RBIs last season while playing in Minnesota. Pittsburgh is Taylor’s fourth stop in the majors. He spent his first […]
Continue readingThe deal, which begins this year and ends after the 2028 season, will pay Keller $7.5 million in 2024 — more than $2 million above where he had settled with the team in arbitration, according to sources. In what would’ve been his final year of arbitration in 2025, Keller will receive $15 million. For the […]
Continue reading“I’ll be stoked to get on the field,” Hoskins said Monday in a Zoom news conference after agreeing last week to a $34 million, two-year contract that includes an opt-out after this season. “I’m pretty bored as a competitor in not having played in so long.” Hoskins injured a knee in March 2023 while fielding […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. During a 2016 game vs. Stanford, Oregon State kicker and future MLB catcher Adley Rutschman tackled Christian McCaffrey during a kickoff. (0:21) With the college football season just wrapped up and the NFL playoffs getting started while MLB free agency continues to move slowly, it’s a natural time to start thinking […]
Continue readingTeams had until 8 p.m. ET on Friday to tender contracts to players who remain under their control, a circumstance that prompts clubs to essentially release certain players rather than pay them what they would make through the arbitration process. Power-hitting first baseman Daniel Vogelbach, who amassed 30 home runs as recently as 2019, was […]
Continue readingThe Minnesota Twins included Carlos Correa and rookie Royce Lewis along with right-hander Chris Paddack, who made a pair relief appearances last week in his return from Tommy John surgery. Correa hasn’t played since Sept. 18 because of plantar fasciitis in his left foot, and Lewis has been sidelined since straining his left hamstring Sept. […]
Continue readingMilwaukee Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez didn’t take a swing in the team’s 16-1 win Friday night over the Miami Marlins but still had a performance to be remembered. With the game out of hand, manager Craig Counsell turned to Tellez to finish off the victory, which clinched a postseason trip for the fifth time […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Royals lefty Cole Ragans has been a top starting pitcher since the trade from Texas, and fantasy managers can trust him in a rematch with the Astros. Video by Eric Karabell (0:38) Look for our fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings, hitter upgrades and downgrades daily to help you make smart fantasy […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Alden Gonzalez and Bradford Doolittle break down the top of the AL standings and share which teams they expect to make the playoffs. (2:36) The Braves are in. The Dodgers are in. The Rays and Orioles are in — and the Brewers and Twins aren’t far behind. Welcome to the stretch […]
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